Research showing politicians made trades worth more than $1 billion in 2023 has bolstered a campaign to ban congressional leaders from stock trading, a practice that has long been criticized.
Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman (NY) sold up to $15,000 worth of stock in PacWest Bancorp just two days before the bank’s stock took a significant plunge, according to his financial disclosures.
Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman (NY) has made nearly 500 stock trades since entering office in January, despite previously pledging to form a “blind trust” to shield himself from financial conflicts of interest, Raw Story reported.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney called for investigations by Congress and the SEC into suspicious trading around the release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers and how people could have possibly gotten
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) called for new leadership among House Democrats after a vote to ban congressional lawmakers from trading stocks was delayed in the lower chamber.
Paul Pelosi, husband to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), sold up to $5 million in semiconductor shares that he recently purchased before the Senate voted on a major computer chip subsidy bill on Wednesday.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) urged Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) to hold a hearing calling for legislation to ban lawmakers and their spouses from stock trading, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.
Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection Chairman Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) voted for legislation that gave Intel billions in subsidies shortly after his family purchased over $250,000 worth of the company’s stock.
As the November elections get closer vulnerable Democrats whose elections can decide the outcome of the House majority, such as Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), continue to be put in the spotlight where their contradictions are coming back to haunt them.
Jesse Jensen, a former Army Ranger and president of Task Force Argo looking to unseat Rep. Kim Schrier (D-WA) in the midterms, slammed her corruption and voting record in Congress during his appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday this past weekend.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) denies owning individual stocks despite disclosing multimillion-dollar stock purchases to the Senate Ethics Committee.
An ethics watchdog organization called for an investigation into Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection Chairman Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) for allegedly violating federal conflict of interest law.
The SEC has reportedly launched an insider trading investigation into Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk following their recent stock sales.
The White House refused to take a stance on the ethical considerations of members of Congress trading stock while a proposed ban is gaining steam in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says lawmakers must “stop turning a blind eye to Washington profiteering” and finally ban members of Congress from holding or trading individual stocks.
Congress beat the market, on average, with its millions of dollars of trades in 2021, according to watchdog organization Unusual Whales.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said members of Congress and their spouses should not be barred from trading individual stocks.
Walter Shaub, an Obama-era director of the Office of Government Ethics, called out Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) after she said members of Congress “should be allowed to participate” in stock trading while in office.
Fed officials will be banned from owning individual stocks and bonds under the new rules. Nancy Pelosi and others in Congress remain free to trade.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged three former Netflix software engineers with running an insider trading ring that generated $3 million in profits.
Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who campaigned on “reforms to limit the role of money in politics,” failed to publicly disclose dozens of personal stock trades in violation of the federal STOCK Act, according to a report.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly closed its investigation into Sen. Richard Burr’s (R-SC) sale of upwards of $1.72 million in stock ahead of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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.”
