When I read this a long way back in the thread it seemed odd to me. He sold stock and stock options and put some in trusts for the children. What's up with that?
This is actually pretty usual activity of corporate insiders "feeding at the trough", issuing themselves shares through compensation plans and then selling, partly for tax reasons that are incurred by the options grants, but also scoring tons and tons of dough thereby. It's his company, so how can one begrudge him that? Here's his feeding pattern over the last 18 months:
http://holdings.nasdaq.com/asp/Insi...rporation&market=NYSE&selected=MRX&symbol=MRX
Also the various trusts are methods of transferring wealth without tax consequences and not necessarily suspicious in regards to what befell him last week. imo