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Richard Burr Demands Assurance That Senators Working from Home Will Still Get Stock Tips
WASHINGTON —Amid speculation that United States senators might soon be working remotely,
Senator Richard Burr on Friday demanded guarantees that senators working from home will still have access to insider-trading tips.
Speaking from the well of the Senate, an impassioned Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, said that
a “system needs to be put in place—
not tomorrow, not next week, but today—
to insure that senators receive the insider-trading information that is both our lifeblood and our birthright.”
Burr blasted the Obama Administration for not establishing contingency plans to safeguard the steady flow of stock tips to U.S. senators in the event of a pandemic, nuclear war, or asteroid strike.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/richard-burr-demands-assurance-that-senators-working-from-home-will-still-get-stock-tips
bouts, angel puss,,,your Feinsten is on-the-spot as well here.
New financial disclosure shows
Sen. Kelly Loeffler invested in firm that makes personal protective equipment
https://theweek.com/speedreads/906327/new-financial-disclosure-shows-sen-kelly-loeffler-invested-firm-that-makes-personal-protective-equipment
GOP’s Kelly Loeffler says it’s ‘socialist’ to criticize her alleged COVID-19 insider trading
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/gops-kelly-loeffler-says-its-socialist-to-criticize-her-alleged-covid-19-insider-trading/
On the Same Day Sen. Richard Burr Dumped Stock,
So Did His Brother-in-Law.
Then the Market Crashed.
The brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of stock.
Burr is under federal investigation over whether he traded on non-public information gathered through his work in the Senate.
https://www.propublica.org/article/burr-family-stock?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campa ign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
Republican accused of pandemic profiteering defends herself with ... her private jet
Wealthy Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler is launching a $4 million TV ad buy with three different spots (here, here, and here) defending herself amid her scandal over her pandemic-related stock transactions.
The spots may be the first-ever ads to find a politician defending themselves amid a scandal by touting the use of their own private jet instead of being attacked over owning one;
Loeffler's ads contend that she donated away her Senate salary and gave a couple million to charitable coronavirus relief efforts.
However,
the ads don't note how her net worth is at least several hundred millions of dollars, and
tens of millions of dollars worth of her stocks were sold earlier this year
after she had received briefings on the coronavirus threat but before the markets dropped.
Loeffler's Senate salary is only $174,000, and
she has pledged to spend at least $20 million of her own fortune on her election,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/5/1942591/-Morning-Digest-Republican-accused-of-pandemic-profiteering-defends-herself-with-her-private-jet?detail=emaildkre
The other shoe falls
https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...5ws3kEZmGu0IUY
GA gets off scott free.
Senate Ethics Committee.
Senate Ethics Committee drops insider trading probe into Loeffler
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-ethics-committee-drops-insider-trading-probe-into-loeffler/ar-BB15BUgD?ocid=spartanntp
lol there's no way cocaine Mitch loses a senator for any reason...
Responsibility free GOP, same as it ever was
wow. That is some craven right there, but about what one might expect from a morally bankrupt party.
As someone outside the conservative movement, that particular truth is plain, but it always astonishes me that those inside can't see it, or worse, make excuses for it.
Last edited by RandomGuy; 06-18-2020 at 09:22 AM.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-ke...-public-reportSen. Loeffler’s Husband Traded Big Before CARES Act Went Public: Report
highly analogous blast from the past:
So connected people make money from shady stock deals? No way.
Your jadedness doesn't make it not newsworthy.
Ask Martha Stewart if that is legal.
Federal Reserve version:
Reminder: the Federal Reserve isn't part of the federal government, it's essentially a cartel of private banks.
Richard Burr may have to pay a fine, only Martha Stewart goes to jail for like this.
The law is for little people.
Another blast from the past, Clinton impeachment manager and 9-time Indiana Congressman Steve Buyer.
(It's pronounced boo-yer.)
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/...g/70902017007/Former U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer of Indiana was sentenced Tuesday to 22 months in prison for his conviction on charges of insider trading.
After sentencing in New York was postponed for over a month due to a conflict-of-interest issue with his lawyers, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman rejected a defense bid to spare Buyer incarceration. In addition to the prison term, he sentenced the Republican to three years of supervised release and imposed a $10,000 fine. He also ordered Buyer to forfeit his ill-gotten gains, $354,000. Buyer won't be responsible for $17,000 of that because his former mistress and ex-wife are covering that amount after some of the stock purchases were made using their accounts.
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