(March 8, 2024, 2:19 PM EST) -- HOUSTON — A federal judge in Texas on March 7 granted the Securities and Exchange Commission’s motion to enter a bifurcated judgment against a man the commission says committed insider trading using information he gleaned about BP p.l.c.’s upcoming purchase of an American truck stop company from overhearing his wife’s work conversations while both were working in a home office, barring the man from further violations of securities laws....