I don't know the full the history of this story, but I honestly wonder if type of scandal is still possible in the United States. After Enron and Worldcomm, the US introduced Sarbanes-Oxley reporting regulations. Additionally, after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, there was a dramatic increase in regulations for banks (of all kinds) and insurance companies.
lol yes.
The POTUS kids are players in Polymarket and Kalshi, and are running crypto grifts.
The SEC fired most of their investigators, hasn’t appointed members to key boards, and cancelled most of their contracts with FINRA. (Which has laid off a ton of people) Nobody is watching.
So there’s an open season for normal corporate bullshit, and if you’re personally committing felonies attributable to you, you make sure you do it in Florida, and pay a vig to the library fund for a pardon.
We’ll have a fun run, then everything starts exploding in mid 2027-2029.
.. yet today we have Kalshi, Polymarket, et al.
Those are private gambling businesses akin to a casino, not publicly listed businesses subject to the aforementioned regulations.