Craig, I will give you the mild compliment of sayi

Craig, I will give you the mild compliment of saying “you know better than that.”

You flat-out stated that Nader was guilty of doing something illegal.This is NOT PROVEN and therefore his conduct should be referred to as “alleged.”

YOU are not privy to all of the evidence against him, nor to his possible defense.

To say that because YOU have decided, without all the facts, that he is guilty, does not mean that the ALLEGATIONS of criminal behavior have been proven.

Any attorney knows this.

I feel certain that you know that you wrote in haste and should indeed have used the wording that even the greenest cub reporter would have used.

Just, for once, admit it when you are wrong. People will respect you a lot more if you ‘fess up when you have typed in haste and you erred, instead of you claiming that it’s okay to assert that someone has definitely committed a crime, just because YOU think so on the basis of only partial evidence, presented only by the prosecution.

And before you obfuscate by saying that I am “excusing” this alleged behavior, I am in no way defending the many mistakes that Nader made, and if he indeed is guilty of insider trading, that is even worse.
But I can’t prove that he is guilty of a crime yet, and neither can you.