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FBI recently obtained iCloud data access from Apple for Senator Richard Burr, as part of an on-going investigation regarding stock sales.
Richard Burr is under investigation for selling his stock portfolio while he was receiving updates from government health officials regarding coronavirus pandemic. The timing of his stock sales preceded the sharp decline in the stock market, just a week later. He had heavily invested in businesses that suffered the most due to the pandemic.
[...] Burr sold between $628,000 and $1.72 million worth of stocks. He was not the only senator to do so, as a few others are also under investigation. His brother in law also sold his shares worth between $97,000 and $280,000, on the same day as Burr's sell-off.
It is against the law for lawmakers to make trading decisions based on classified intelligence briefings that they receive due to their position in the government.
Also at 9to5Mac.
Previously: US Rep Chris Collins Resigns Ahead of Insider Trading Plea Involving Australian Biotech Company
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:42AM (14 children)
If you want more *viable* parties involved in elections, then do what my neighbors and I did: Pass a ballot measure requiring Ranked Choice Voting [wikipedia.org].
Whinging about it online won't make any difference whatever. Go out in your area and do as at least 20 other jurisdictions in the US have already done.
Don't like first-past-the-post elections? Fine. Use your political will and those of your neighbors to implement something better. But you won't do that because you really don't care about electing different folks, all you care about is trashing the system we have.
You're a troll, a hack and dyed-in-the-wool "Forever Trumper." And not very good at any of those things.
Go ahead and complain, but since you're not making an effort to create something better, *you* are supporting the the system you claim to hate. Which gives the lie to, well, just about *everything* you say.
Fuck off jackass.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @01:11PM (8 children)
You're just a spammer. Not worth the time.
Have a nice day!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:08PM (7 children)
Found the Trumper! Not surprised it got upset about the idea of fair elections, it knows Trump already lost the popular vote to Hillary Goddamn Clinton of all people. Exains why they kept harping about her after their rapist moved into the WH.
The one nice thing about Trump is that he has made it so much easier to sort out who is worth talking to. It used to require more lengthy discussions to find out if someone wss simply an idealogue that would just wsste your time with bullshit, now you can tell straight away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:01PM (6 children)
:-) You are a caricature of the stereotypical sore loser democrat!
She lost. Get over it, and find somebody better while there's still time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:41AM (1 child)
Using AC as a sock puppet is pretty lame Fusty.
But it is you, so I'm not surprised.
Carry on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:34AM
Wrong again. You're just an idiot
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:49AM (3 children)
Woopsie, didn't vote for her, try again ;-)
Got anything better than the typical diarrhea?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:16PM (2 children)
Oh, didn't your democrats tell you? If you didn't vote for Hillary, you voted for Trump. That's how life works in their minds. Maybe you should talk with them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @06:31PM (1 child)
That makes you a Democrat for spouting the same line.
CHECKMATE!
Gotta love arguing with idiots, makes me feel like I live in a fancy tower with a library built into the entire staircase.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @12:20AM
Just quoting you people. Clearly you're still the Party's fool.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday May 19 2020, @01:24PM (4 children)
:-) What we have is fine. People just have to make better choices if they want a better government. Time will tell if your way produces a better class of politician on the long run
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:12PM (3 children)
Interesting, you suddenly change your tune as soon as someone promotes really valuable advice on how to reform elections. Your biggest mistake yet you shill. Truly loathsome how you lie through your teeth to create the centrist person that is fustycrack, but as we've found out some people have no morals and simply want to be on the "winning" team.
I blame the fall of religion, it was the one thing keeping immoral power hungry dociopaths at bay. At the very least you had to keep up the pretense of being a decent person, but with Teump you can all be as shitty as you want and blame the democrats/leftists/progressives/voters for all the problems you demon spawn cause.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by fustakrakich on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:29PM (2 children)
I changed nothing. You're just fucking around, just doing your regular gossipy bullshit, projecting your own foibles, providing some amusement...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:52AM (1 child)
You've *repeatedly* claimed (for as long as you've been sliming SN, including in the current discussion [soylentnews.org]) that if only folks would vote for third parties and vote out the corrupt scum, all our problems would be solved.
Ranked Choice Voting gives third parties a much better opportunity to get votes -- and elect their candidates. Yet you're against that.
Which forces me to assume that either you are as big a moron as you seem to be, or you're just a disingenuous prick. Perhaps both.
Jackass.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by fustakrakich on Wednesday May 20 2020, @07:21AM
:-) Once again you have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe when you read correctly what was written we can talk.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..