Armed with insider information about problems with a merger with Walgreens, a Rite Aid compliance executive who oversaw its corporate code of conduct sold company stock to save himself and his family over $150,000, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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