It's easy to see why Rodgers would squawk about the proposal to expense options.

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The defendants were convicted in 2009 of one count of conspiracy for selling day traders access to the information that came from the internal squawk boxes, allowing the traders to beat larger firms to orders on securities.

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Armed with open lines to their best customers, the brokers bark prices into squawk boxes all day, hoping to entice traders into doing a deal.

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