Fox's Carlson Calls Out Sen. Burr For Selling $1.6 Million In Stock After Coronavirus Briefing

Great, throw everyone of them out of office.

 

Yeah, those "alternative facts".

We know.

 

well the media got access to them, it's reported, let's hope it's investigated

 

you're seriously gonna go with that defense of this senators bad acts

 

when they investigate, they will know if that is true or not, she is not under oath right now

 

I think he understand them just fine. Eight years ago Mitt was a right-wing hero. Today he's a commie.

 

Insider trading by Congress used to be legal. It is no longer legal and arrests should be made.

 

If this proves true, jail every one of them.

 

Well then... we also get to throw out or go after: John Kerry, Spencer Bachus, Jim Moran, Shelley Capito, Nancy Pelosi, because they have all been caught in the past for the exact same thing.

 

Throw them out too if they are still in office.

BTW, a defense of "they did it too", isn't much of a defense.

 

True the STOCK Act was created specifically because 60 Mins uncovered what Nancy P was doing

 

Fair enough.

 

How about applying insider trading laws that apply to the rest of us to Congress.

 

Why only congress and not the executive branch also?

 

Geez can you get anything right? It's not insider trading that is something entirely different. The Obama law has more loopholes and exceptions than my spaghetti strainer. It will be a matter for the ethics committee and Burr has ready called for a transparent investigation. Martha Stewert went to jail for lying to investigators not insider trading.

 

They do apply. If a member of Congress gets insider information FROM A COMPANY and they trade on it it applies to them just like anyone else. Those laws do not apply to government information. Obama tried to change that but from the discussions I am hearing in that law is that is is full of gaps and loopholes and won't come into play here.

Let's wait for the ethics investigation these may be perfectly normal actions by the people themselves or their blind trust brokers. As I have noted I was doing the same thing with my brokerage accounts and while it still hurts I am following that plan.

 

Wrong data point. Go back to when the Democrats took back the Congress.

 

That is Obama's weak hole filled attempt to apply a trading law to government employees and actually had chunks of it repealed a year later. And it is "government information" not "insider information". There's a big difference. What is actual insider trading is using inside confidential corporate information.

Put out the fire in your head and wait for the ethics investigation.

 

No the actuals not the specious claims some are making like saying they should all go to jail like Martha Stewart.

How about everyone calm down and wait for all the facts.

 

I'm going to go with an actual ethics investigation and not all the conjecture and suppositions as being posted here.
I would have thought you would have learned to do the same by now.

 

So why don't you hold your horses so you don't end up like with others the last three years.

 

Interesting set of the "Nay" voters, good find !!!!

 

False. True insider trading was illegal for everyone. Trading on "government information" was legal. Obama tried to rectify with his anti-government information act but chunks of that had to be repealed, some of that drive by the government employee unions, and is filled with loopholes and caveats.

 

If you are suspected of insider trading, and knew about internal details of the company, I would expect the SEC to launch an investigation, that is their mission !!!!!

Your scenario has nothing to do with insider trading.

 

Again wait for the ethics investigation before setting your hair on fire. This was government information about a general health emergency not individual company insider information.