Posted on 11/04/2015 10:33:38 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee made profitable short-term trades in a Chattanooga real estate firm, but didn't properly disclose the deals until challenged by the Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper reports Corker, a former Chattanooga mayor who is now chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, bought between $1 million and $5 million in shares of CBL & Associates Properties Inc. 2011, and sold them again five months later at a 42 percent gain.
Earlier purchases in the names of his daughters in 2009 likely netted more than $1 million, though the paper says the exact gain isn't possible to calculate.
Corker in a written statement to the Wall Street Journal blamed the lack of disclosure required by congressional ethics rules on "filing errors" by his accounting firm.
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He must’ve used Hillary’s! ‘How To Make a Quick Buck in the Market’ Handbook.
See, there are ways to get rid of Rino Senators.
Will this embarrass Corker to the point where he retires? I hope so.
Tennessee ping
Does anything embarrass RINOs into leaving office voluntarily ?
Corkhole will run for president in 2020 or try for gov. mansion in Nashville. I detest this smarmy little douche bag as much as I do Alexander.
I hope Burchett of Knoxville runs for gov. next time around. Haslam is flaming liberal screw up.
Yes, and if only the KKK outing of Cornyn and Isakson are true, then we can get rid of a mess of the RINOs in short order.
Corker will have to commit fully to running for Governor in 2018, since his Senate seat is up the same year. I never voted for Haslam, not in either the primary or general, who has been as big a fiasco as I predicted he would be in 2010.
Minor financial scandal? I doubt it.
Corker, Sharpton, Hastert. Tell me the truth, I’m the last sucker paying taxes, aren’t I?
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