One of the colleagues forwarded the e-mail to Cohen’s personal research trader, who forwarded it to Cohen—and then telephoned him. Two minutes after the call, Cohen began liquidating his position in Dell, which was worth ten million dollars. Yet when this trade became a focus in the Steinberg trial Cohen’s lawyers argued that Cohen’s decision to sell Dell was independent: although the “2nd hand read” e-mail was sent to his inbox, Cohen “likely never read” it. He received a thousand e-mails each day, the lawyers elaborated; he sat at a desk with seven monitors, and it was on the far left monitor that his Outlook inbox appeared. Moreover, the Outlook window was behind two other programs, and the window was minimized, allowing Cohen to see only five e-mails at a time: “Cohen would have had to turn to the far left of his seven screens, minimize one or two computer programs, scroll down his e-mails, double-click into the ‘second-hand read’ e-mail to open it, read down three chains of forwards, and digest the information.”