"Investigators found that Cardlytics’ chief executive at the time, Scott Grimes, sent Mr. Perdue a personal email two days before the senator’s stock sale that made a vague mention of “upcoming changes.”" nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/…
"The timing of the message prompted additional scrutiny from investigators in both Washington and Atlanta. But ultimately they concluded the exchange contained no meaningful nonpublic information and declined to pursue charges, closing the case this summer."
hunh. 
We can argue about exactly how suspicious the email exchange is, but the NYT story confirms that Perdue had operational control of his portfolio and ordered the suspect trades executed himself. He said he didn’t and hadn’t.
May 2020: “Perdue and Loeffler denied wrong-doing and said that their stock trades were handled by advisers who operated independently and without their input.” ajc.com/news/state--re…
False exculpatory statements are admissible evidence of consciousness of guilt.
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