UK Daily Mail
Nearly 100 members of Congress bought or sold financial assets that intersected with the work of the committees they sit on, according to a New York Times report.
Of the 435 House members, 183 traded stocks through themselves or their immediate family members from 2019 to 2021. At least 97 bought or sold stocks, bonds or other financial assets through themselves or their spouses that directly intersected with their congressional work.
US lawmakers are not yet banned from making any stock trades, though insider trading is illegal for everyone. More
DUH!
Politics is now the epicenter of corrupt riches.
A mode of enrichment – the constituency be damned.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
On Fox today they talked about a democrat who’s wife sold 3 million in Boeing stocks the day before a damning report came out from a committee her husband chaired.
The assholes are so brazen they don’t even give a fuck what taxpayers think.
Then they interviewed another dem about cracking down on insider trading who basically said that “if you can’t get rich in congress, then good, qualified people will never run.”
UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!
“Nearly 100 members of Congress bought or sold financial assets that intersected with the work of the committees they sit on, according to a New York Times report.”
No shit.
I’ll bet they’re mostly Dems
I’m shocked I tell ya!
^^^^ I’ll bet it’s a 50/50 split.
ONE OF THE MANY REASONS I LOVE TRUMP
HE LOVES HIS COUNTRY
HE IS AN IMMENSELY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN
HE’S WORTH BILLIONS AND NEEDS NOTHING, DONATED HIS POTUS SALARY
HE HATES THE SWAMP AND THE COMPLICIT SO-CALLED MEDIA
HE DEMANDS LOYALTY
“There ought to be a law.”
There ought to be law enforcement.
Of law.
Those in power act like the end is near….
Perhaps it is.
ALL their investments need to go into a blind trust the minute they’re elected.
There WAS a law. It was called the STOCK Act, championed by Senator Scott Brown (R-MA, elected to replace Ted Kennedy). Congress passed it nearly unanimously in 2011 and Obama signed it into law. Brown lost re-election, and Congress started dismantling the law immediately.
The economy is booming for our politicians, thank God.
General Malaise
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 AT 8:04 PM
‘“There ought to be a law.”
There ought to be law enforcement.
Of law.’
There is.
But only against non-Democrats.
The law’s only purpose now is to be used as a weapon against the enemies of the Party.
Those in the Party are above it.
“There ought to be a law.”
No, there ought to be hangings.