2/ In January'21 GameStops stock price ran up dramatically as retail found out it was 140%+ sold short.
On 1/28/21, RobinHood and some other brokers decided to take away the buy-button for retail on $GME, amongst a few other tickers.
This action was unprecedented & unlawful.
3/ On February 18th, there was a congressional hearing on the GameStop events.
Ken Griffin was asked if anyone in his organization had contact with RH about restricting or doing anything to prevent people from buying.
He replied: "Let me be perfectly clear, absolutely not"
4/ Near the end of sept'21, court case documents leaked out. The documents clearly showed that there were communications between RH and Citadel.
5/ On sept 28th, Citadel then took to twitter to respond, accusing retail of making up conspiracy stories. Their twitter account had not tweeted since the January'21 GameStop events.
They broke their public silence after 8 months to blame retail for being conspiracy theorists.
6/ As part of their twitter response, they included an image of alleged communications.
The internet quickly found out this image was in fact forged as it included different font, fontsizes and colors. Why would a company lie about this if they did not have anything to hide?
7/ Now the SEC and DOJ are investigating several big banks and short selling firms regarding insider trading and block trades.
As of 2/18/22, Citadel is officially mentioned as being one of the companies that is investigated.