that's geoffrey berman, the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york outlaying in riffeting detail insider trading charges against a sitting member of the united states congress. paul our legal analyst is with us. the congressman says he is innocent. he says this did not happen. when you watch geoffrey berman go through those charts and the tick tock of the timing and to hear the fbi agent in charge talk about the electronic records they have, what does that tell you about this case? >> well, that presentation, i think, demonstrated a very clear-cut case against the congressman and members of his family and also the czarsky family. these cases sometimes are dry and difficult to understand because of their complexity, but those charts demonstrated how a classic insider trade iing case works. one, you have the congressman on the board of directors of the company innate. he gets inside information. and he has an obligation, they call it a fiduciary obligation, not to reveal confidential information. it may aff

attorney geoffrey berman and his prosecutors, as well as the fbi, who worked on this matter. filed securities fraud charges against congressman christopher collins, his son, candace smith -- cameron collins, and three others. thats complaint allege christopher collins learned of the negative news incapacity -- -- of innate.s in addition to cameron collins is selling his own innate shares, he is alleged to have tipped his girlfriend, her mother, and her father. thatec further alleges after trading in his own account, cameron collins' fiancee's father tipped others. this bars christopher collins from serving as a director of a public company. being the director of a public company comes with responsibilities and is a privilege. christopher collins is accused of breaching his responsibilities. the defendants, on the sec alleges each avoided losses by selling all of their innate shares in advance of the company's negative announcement, have each agreed to settle the charges against them by consenting to injunctions, giving up their own guy gains -- ill-gotten gains. accountants w