Members of Congress should be required to place their investments into blind trusts to avoid conflicts of interest, insider trading, and other forms of corruption related to their appropriations of taxpayer funds, said Peter Schweizer.
The Stock Act is meaningless if Richard Burr isn’t prosecuted for insider trading, said Peter Schweizer, author of “Profiles in Corruption.”
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer stated that Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) being investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee is comparable
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated that he doesn’t believe Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), James Inhofe (R-OK), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) “would intentionally trade on inside information” and
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said Friday his Republican colleague in the Senate, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), “owes North Carolinians an explanation” for allegations he engaged in insider training after receiving classified briefings on the Coronavirus.
“The STOCK Act makes it clear that if members of Congress use nonpublic information to gain an unfair advantage in the market, then they are breaking the law.”
Warren wants a federal probe into whether President Trump provided advance notice of the strike to people who then traded stocks.
Federal authorities announced Wednesday that Cleveland Browns linebacker Mychal Kendricks and Blackish writer Damilare Sonoiki have been indicted.
Charges of insider trading drove Rep. Chris Collins to suspend his campaign and announce on Saturday that he will “fill out the remaining few months of [his] term.”
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), described the Department of Justice’s laying of charges against Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) as a “very positive development” during a Wednesday interview with Breitbart News Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Judge Roy Moore mocked Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) on Wednesday for not dropping out of his re-election race after being charged with insider trading.
Rep. Chris Collins vowed to stay on the ballot for re-election despite being indicted on insider trading charges — but said last year that Roy Moore should drop out of the U.S. Senate race in Alabama despite never having been charged with any crime.
During a statement on Wednesday, Representative Chris Collins (R-NY) stated that he “followed all rules and all ethical guidelines when it comes to my personal investments,” including those with Innate Immunotherapeutics and dismissed the charges brought against him as “meritless.”
