Tyler Loudon eavesdropped on phone calls made at home by his wife, who was a mergers and acquisitions manager at BP.
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Tyler Loudon eavesdropped on phone calls made at home by his wife, who was a mergers and acquisitions manager at BP.
Mandatory Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty Images/FILE via CNN Newsource

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Texas man eavesdropping on wife’s phone calls faces criminal charges/divorce — plots for $1.76 million insider trading

A Texas man is facing insider trading charges and jail time after he used information gleaned from eavesdropping on his wife’s work-from-home calls, netting him $1.76 million from an upcoming oil industry acquisition.