Not leaping on this one unless clo's article is erroneous.
“Well, Congressman Chris Collins, who sits on President-elect Trump’s transition team, is both an investor and a board member of the company,” Murray said.
This might explain why we see things differently. It's more plausible that there's insider information floating around if there's a tempest-generating insider in the conversation. The article said he himself was claiming to be the tipster.
There's an insider tipster and a beneficiary investor. It's not so far-fetched.