Stock trades reported by nearly a fifth of Congress show possible conflicts..
A New York Times analysis found that 97 lawmakers or their family members bought or sold financial assets over a three-year span in industries that could be affected by their legislative committee work...
(www.twincities.com)
AUDIT EVERYTHING
I’m old enough to remember when this was a big scandal if one member of Congress did this and if they were caught, they were censured and didn’t run in the next election cycle. Now if close to all 535 do this, it’s business as usual.
He probably also owns stock in The NY Times.
Spoiler alert:
This is a limited hangout bullshit story. You know that because the New York Times is reporting it and it's been out in the open for the better part of 20 years.
Exactly! Well said Ian.
Reminiscent of the Pandora Papers.
..panama?
Where’s Pelosi’s name? We heard her hubby, Paul has been doing this for years. BS story. Many ARE guilty but just report the story.
We used to think that (s)elected officials wanted to serve America and the Constitution. Well, it has been very apparent that their first and foremost objective was to get involved in insider trading and lobbyists to fill their off-shore bank accounts. Once that has been accomplished, the daily massive greed took over and that is priority of their term in office. And everyone wonders how so many "instant" millionaires are government (s)elected officials.
Members of the fed have also recently been busted for insider trading. Where is that in the news?
Went to check if the one-eyed wonder pirate from Texas was there. Wasn't disappointed.
Death penalty for all of them.
Public servants need to be held to the highest standard with the most extreme form of punishment.
Now do NYT political reporters.
These people have rigged and controlled practically everything, the stock market, the banks and Usury, the media, porn, the elections, our government, the Social Security account that we have contributed to our entire lives, they have made it their slush fund they can raid anytime they want, property taxes, income taxes, registration to drive our own vehicles down our roads and on and on.
i see ol eyepatch mccain
I'm shocked that it is only 1/5 of Congress! Did the investigation really include everybody?
No kidding?????
Worse than that, how have their laws hurt the rest of us while helping them?
At least Ol' Billy Long is outta there in 23!! Hopefully Eric isn't a snake for the 7th district of MO!
Of course they do, and nothing will be done. I am convinced these people serve in every branch of government to get rich.