A empresa associada da BlackRock, Austin Private Wealth, vendeu a descoberto 12 milhões de ações da Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT.O) um dia antes do atentado contra Trump, e foi posteriormente investigada pela SEC.

Austin Private Wealth manages around $1 billion in assets, with major shareholders including BlackRock and Vanguard. The coincidence of short selling time has raised suspicions of insider trading. If the attempt to assassinate Trump is successful, the stock price of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) will plummet. Austin Private Wealth stands to make huge profits, estimated between $696 billion and $1 trillion. However, the company claims that the transaction was a registration error and had no intention of profiting from the tragedy. Austin Private Wealth explains that due to a technical malfunction in the trading system, the short selling order was placed incorrectly. The transaction took place on June 28th, was made public on July 12th, and was corrected after the error was discovered on July 16th.
De acordo com relatos, a SEC está revisando a comunicação interna e os registros de transações da Austin Private Wealth para determinar se há alguma conduta imprópria. Se houver evidências de atividades ilegais, a investigação pode resultar em punições severas (decripto).