This and BlackWater to protect my business. ***Blackwater/ some type of former SEAL owned Protection Agency.
Can Internet Tobacco Orders Be Banned In A Spending Bill?
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Actually that one has ended as the SEC just did a couple of politico's for insider trading recently!
Do you have a link? I can’t find a story anywhere talking about how Congress members are no longer immune from insider trading laws.
This is almost definitely not true. To underscore the issue: members of Congress are immune from insider trading laws. There is no way that changed. You may have heard about some staffer or some other connected individuals caught up in something but not members of Congress caught under those laws.
Can Members of Congress Engage in Insider Trading?
Members of Congress come across a lot of information in the course of their official duties. Can they use “insider information” to make a quick buck by buying and selling stock at opportune times? The answer to this question is a resounding and unequivocal no. Statutory law forbids it, and even...
www.congressionalinstitute.org
Where there's a will, there's a way, and also relatives...
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Why Congressional Insider Trading Is Legal - and Potentially Profitable
Nobody is above the stock act law... except our lawmakers. This chart exposes the technically legal world of congressional insider trading.
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And insider trading is A? Moment? Damn, I knew we had our issues. Boy! ?
I think it rates right up there with finding out that you and your siblings weren't delivered by stork.
An executive order would be the closest United States equivalent, except that executive orders are made by the president acting alone, rather than by a council.
Candidly saying, I can't believe this law bill is going to go through and get accepted in such a vast country like the U.S,
It appears from the article that his legal troubles were the result of informing his son. My guess is had he used the info only for himself it would have been allowed.
But I would venture a further guess that it's not uncommon for family and friends of congress-critters to benefit from such info. The "rules" regarding this issue are probably intentionally convoluted to allow for selective enforcement.
He probably displeased his masters in some way.
Or that your mother's not a virgin.
@brian64 actually it was on the SEC website where they were trumpeting the fact that they had 'done' the fellow. I tend to agree with you that he had probably pissed off his masters in someway and was tossed under the bus to keep the rubes from asking too many questions about that government departments budget! People who work at the 'Commission' tend to be cut from the same sort of cloth as Beria.
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