As the pandemic raged, at least 75 lawmakers bought and sold stock in companies that make COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests – IOTW Report

As the pandemic raged, at least 75 lawmakers bought and sold stock in companies that make COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests

Friday, 17 December 2021, 21:54 MJA Uncategorized 13

Everyone shows their ass, eventually.

Business Insiders: Dozens of Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill have invested in companies that have a direct stake in the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Insider analysis of federal financial records. 

In 2020, at least 13 senators and 35 US representatives held shares of Johnson & Johnson, the medical behemoth that produced the single-shot COVID-19 vaccine that more than 15 million Americans have received.  

At least 11 senators and 34 representatives also held shares in 2020 of another COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer, Pfizer. Two representatives or their spouses held shares of Moderna during the same year that the world went on lockdown in response to the pandemic.

Lawmakers held these investments in COVID-19-minded companies as Congress was at the center of pandemic relief efforts. In 2020 and 2021, members of Congress voted on six relief bills together worth nearly $6 trillion. Congress also authorized more than $10 billion to help drug companies develop and distribute vaccines and forced health insurers to cover the cost of getting the shot.  more

13 Comments on As the pandemic raged, at least 75 lawmakers bought and sold stock in companies that make COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests

  2. LOL, right?
    Granted, some of them may have had people outside the family auto buying stocks, but the ones who themselves invested in a completely obvious way AND got massive donations from pharma… dirty.

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  7. I guess we are supposed to feel reassured when they tell us it wasn’t THEY who made the investments, but their spouses. As if they would NEVER discuss investments with their husband/wife. Corruption is one thing, but please don’t insult my intelligence.

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  10. Sounds like Speaker John 12 years ago turning $500,000 into $10,000,000 in 2 year with “SHREWD” RomneyCare investments. Politicians are great “investers”!

    So. — How come America is up to our eyes in debt?

  11. Obola did it with the Avian Flu – $5,000 to $5 Million.
    THIS is why these maggots go to DC!
    All that “public service” bullshit is … well … BULLSHIT!

    I was working in an office one night where a staffer was explaining to someone over the phone how to skim $100/day (7 days a week) tax-exempt off of campaign funds – and all perfectly legal.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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