Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions.
Well that’s just peachy.
He’s the scum that grows on scum.
This is my shocked face…
Is this illegal or just entirely unethical?
Well what good is a crisis if you can’t save your ass
Yes
This is bad. Really, really bad. Burr was one of the few that I actually had respect for. Looked like he was trying to run a real Russia investigation. But with no re-election (he is retiring) his going along with MAGA was showing his true colors, and now it is clear he is a crook, just like the rest of them.
Trading on inside information is a serious crime, and he should be criminally charged if true.
Well, I can tell you as someone that works in financial services that trading on material non public information is a big time no-no that the SEC has been enforcing aggressively for quite some time. Whether or not that pertains to Congress? Dunno. Seems to me that it certainly should. I can’t really see why it wouldn’t.
Not only that. This is not just 1% mischief.
People are dying as a result of the actions of Richard Burr.
Come now, it’s a no-no for Democrats, not Republicans.
Lock Burr up and confiscate his illegally obtained monies.
NoT illeGal. SmaRt businEssman. JusT like trump.
You tell 'em, Eustace!
You can be assured that the Trumps and Kushners did as much. Mnuchin and Pompeo for sure.
The media can stop pretending Burr is a good actor. He is no different than the rest of the Rethugs. Let his excuses and whining begin.
If that’s not insider trading, nothing is.
Here comes the SEC…
Or not…
Congress has some exemptions. That (and marriage) is how Putin’s Mitch got his fortune.
And the chances of charges being brought from Barr’s DOJ are infinitesimally small
You must be jesting…