Who was the insider who sold bonds May 23,2012?

On May 23 , 2012 a "customer " sold  $1 million face value or  $1.22 million dollars worth of 38 studio bonds . The following day, May 24,2012 38 Studios announced it was laying off all its employees . This lowered the price of 38 Studios bonds in their  very illiquid and limited  marketplace by 10 points or $100,000 overnight. Some might say "great timing" or "coincidence". I have decades of experience in trading markets and have been wronged by front runners and inside traders  dozens of times . I have turned them in to authorities many times as well and have had some success. This trade "stinks" of an insider trade for the following reasons:

            This trade "stinks" of an insider trade for the following reasons:
 

1) these bonds  hardly ever trade only 39 trades in 3years.

2)  all the owners were all  "accredited " investors  and all but $7.2 million were identified to be held by insurance companies

3) its extremely likely the accredited investor who sold so presciently  is a Rhode Island Resident.(can you imagine how hard it would be to convince someone outside of RI in such a short time frame to invest)

4) This resident is extremely likely to be connected to those involved in the 38 studios scheme which now has an estimated 100 subpoenas floating around related to the failed entity.

5) Since the owners of this $7.2 million worth of Private placement bonds are almost certainly very wealthy Rhode Islanders they are connected for sure to the statehouse and politicians and could have easily  received a tip in May about 38 studios shutting down.

6) It definitely looks like it  was one trade representing a sale of one wealthy investor. The last trade prior to May 23 sale was on April 3,2012. There were only 4 trades in all 2012 prior to the May23 sale.!! the last trade prior was March 2011.


So while we wait for this to be investigated or further covered up.My opinion  is that there is better than a 50/50 chance  it will result in  Insider trading Charges and  both the criminal tippee and the criminal insider trader will be revealed as very well known Rhode Islanders. After all how many Rhode Islanders have that financial wherewithal. and savvy?If they obfuscate or give false testimony felony jail time is likely.

Criminal Insider Trading in 38 Studios bonds? SEC to investigate?

         I have been combing through 2 years of limited  trade data on 38 studios bonds. It hasn't been easy to find because  these bonds were "privately placed" to accredited investors only (multimillionaires) but I found a very suspicious trade of $1million dollars(face value) in 38 Studios 7.75% tranche due 11/01/2020. These bonds were issued at 100 (par) yielding 7.75%. A total of  $42,455,000 were placed with these millionaires. These were not auctioned to the general public.

RHODE ISLAND ST ECONOMIC DEV CORP REV TAXABLE-JOB CREATION GTY PROG (RI)*

CUSIP:

Dated Date: 11/02/2010
Maturity Date: 11/01/2020
Interest Rate: 7.75 % 
Principal Amount At Issuance: $42,455,000
Initial Offering Price/Yield: 100



On  May 23 , 2012 a trade of $1,000,000 (face  value) took place at a price of  $121.75, representing a huge profit to the insider who sold. Not only was he collecting $77,500 a year in interest on his $1 million invested in just 18 months he had made an additional $210,000 in the market repricing  the suspicious initial  pricing of the insured bonds .  The investor made approximately 25% annualized. Nice trade right?  Or was this actually  an insider getting out because he got more inside info.? On  May 24 , 2012   38 Studios announced it was laying off all its employees. WOW !! That was a heck of a coincidence !!  may 23 sold bonds , may 24 layoffs , may 26 bonds drop 9% in one day. The next trade reported in those bonds took place at $111.39 on May 26 th 2012.  The yield popped from 4.67% to 5.82% literally overnight. 
   So  who got the tip to sell? Where did they get it from?  Just who was this  inside privately placed investor who had such immaculate timing? I think the SEC should find out. I am surprised no investigative body in Rhode Island found this. The securities exchange commission investigates insider trading cases and it does most certainly apply to municipal bonds. In 1992 a case in Kentucky was brought against a state official.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-06-24/business/9202250847_1_insider-sec-complaint-trading

                                           So whats going on?

     How do we really know whether or not Mr Lincoln Chafee or his advisor bought those bonds on the private placement and  then later sold on a tip? Someone did for sure. Was it Fox, Carcieri, Corso , Weed or just some wealthy RI donor? Who was it? Why don't we know? Why hasn't this been looked at? 
      This is exactly why we need investigations and subpoenas. This is further evidence  why we cant let Mattiello and Chafee and Fox and Murphy et al  bury this investigation  by paying bond holders off.  How do we know that insiders are not getting info from Moodys' and S&P ? Why should we let the ratings agencies off the hook? Frank Caprio reports begging them not to rate the bonds?. Were there bribes involved?  Looks like someone clearly  got inside  info and its very disturbing. The people of Rhode Island cannot let this go on. Demand an SEC investigation? Demand subpoena power for the oversight committee. Subpoena Standard& Poors and Moody's officials who worked on this offering.