Posted on 10/11/2020 7:02:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike rose to global prominence in mid-June 2016 when it publicly accused Russia of hacking the Democratic National Committee and stealing its data. The previously unknown company's explosive allegation set off a seismic chain of events that engulfs U.S. national politics to this day. The Hillary Clinton campaign seized on CrowdStrike's claim by accusing Russia of meddling in the election to help Donald Trump. U.S. intelligence officials would soon also endorse CrowdStrike's allegation and pursue what amounted to a multi-year, all-consuming investigation of Russian interference and Trump's potential complicity.
With the next presidential election now in its final weeks, the Democrats' national leader, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and her husband, Paul Pelosi, are endorsing the publicly traded firm in a different way. Recent financial disclosure filings show the couple have invested up to $1 million in CrowdStrike Holdings. The Pelosis purchased the stock at a share price of $129.25 on Sept. 3. At the time of this article's publication, the price has risen to $142.97.
Drew Hammill, spokesman for Pelosi, said: “Speaker Pelosi is not involved in her husband’s investments and was not aware of the investment until the required filing was made. Mr. Pelosi is a private investor and has investments in a number of publicly traded companies. The Speaker fully complies with House Rules and the relevant statutory requirements.”
The Pelosis' sizeable investment in CrowdStrike could revive scrutiny of the company's involvement in the Trump-Russia saga since the Democrats' 2016 election loss.
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Pelosi's recent investment in CrowdStrike also adds a new partisan entanglement for a company with significant connections to Democratic Party and intelligence officials that drove Russiagate.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
Getting ready to “investigate” how Russia hacked voting machines to make Trump the winner?
She thinks Kamala will win and the US Government will contract with them?
This is a LIE!
Nobody plunks down $1M on Crowdstrike because it looks like a great investment.
I heard Soros was an early investor as well.
Three California surgeons were playing golf this Saturday, and they started to brag on their accomplishments -—
The first one said “ I had a patient that cut off four fingers on a table saw, and I reattached them so well he now is playing the guitar in a band!”
The second doctor said “ I had a patient who was in a bad motorcycle accident and lost his leg and arm. I reattached them, and now he’s training for the Olympic gymnast team!”
The third said “ That’s pretty good, but I had a patient who was riding her horse down a railroad track and was hit by a rare high speed train , actually running on time.
All they could find was the horse’s ass and her hair.
I put them together, and now she’s the Speaker of the House!
LS :Eye on Politics: Nancy’s Gambit!
Is it possible that Pelosi is privy to the internal DNC polling that is showing a looming disaster on the horizon—a Trump electoral college and popular vote victory, a Senate hold, and even, possibly, a retaking of the House? Certainly the warning signs are out there for everyone but the pollsters.
Uncoverdc.com ^ | October 9, 2020 | Larry Schweikart
Since Labor Day, the President has entertained more than 250,000 supporters at his events compared to Biden with a little over 300 supporters at his events.
This is despite President Trump’s recent illness!
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Democrats are notorious for going back to strategies that they think will work. I wonder, just wonder, that there is evidence in all of the unclassified but unreleased documents and emails that Pelosi, Schiff, Schummer, and others were involved in the coup. If so, build the gallows on the National Mall in DC and hang them one after another for treason.
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Thanks for the h/u.
Thanks for the h/u.
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Speaker Pelosi is not involved in her husband’s investments and was not aware of the investment until the required filing was made.
And a bridge in NY city is still for sale call Nancy at ...
ROTFLOL......good one, Dave.
CIRCA 2014--PELOSI’S HUSBAND SNARED IN INSIDER STOCK DEAL
Paul Pelosi Invested in SunEdison Weeks Before First Wind Purchase
WASHINGTON-- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s husband bought up to a quarter million dollars of stock in SunEdison, a now financially troubled green energy company just weeks before it announced a major 2014 acquisition that sent its stock price soaring. SunE's 2014 purchase of wind energy company First Wind “further bolstered the reputation of the company,” wrote one market-watcher at the time. “Perhaps unsurprisingly, SunEdison’s stock soared 29% on news of this acquisition alone.”
Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, had invested just in time. He bought between $100,000 and $250,000 in SunEdison stock on Oct. 24, 2014, according to congressional financial disclosures. The company announced its First Wind acquisition on Nov. 17.
Pelosi has previously been accused of trading stock based on information gleaned through her official duties. A law passed in the wake of that controversy prohibits members of Congress from using nonpublic information for personal gain. Language in that measure was informally dubbed the 'Pelosi Provision.'
Pelosi’s office did not respond to questions about the timing of the purchase and whether she or her husband had any advance knowledge of the deal.
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Congress Quickly And Quietly Rolls Back Insider Trading Rules For Itself (exempted from insider-trading laws)
TechDirt.com ^ | Tue, Apr 16th 2013 11:11am | Mike Masnick / FR Posted on 3/21/2020 by E. Pluribus Unum
In November of 2011, the TV show 60 Minutes did a big expose on insider trading within Congress. While everyone else is subject to basic insider trading rules, it turned out that members of Congress were exempt from the rules.
And, as you would imagine, many in Congress have access to market-moving, non-public information. And they made use of it. To make lots and lots of money.
Of course, after that report came out and got lots of attention, Congress had to act, and within months they had passed the STOCK Act with overwhelming support in Congress to make insider trading laws that apply to everyone else finally apply to Congress and Congressional staffers as well. As that link notes:
The lopsided votes showed lawmakers desperate to regain public trust in an election year, when the public approval rating of Congress has sunk below 15 percent.
Of course, here we are in 2013 and, lo and behold, it is no longer an election year. And apparently some of the details of the ban on insider trading were beginning to chafe Congressional staffers, who found it hard to pad their income with some friendly trades on insider knowledge.
So... with very little fanfare, Congress quietly rolled back a big part of the law late last week. Specifically the part that required staffers to post disclosures about their financial transactions, so that the public could make sure there was no insider trading going on.
Congress tried to cover up this fairly significant change because they, themselves, claimed that it would pose a "national risk" to have this information public. A national risk to their bank accounts. (Excerpt) Read more at techdirt.com ...
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Nancy Pelosi's Husband Snared In SunEdison Stock Scandal
The Daily Bail ^ | 04-10-2019 / FR Posted on 4/10/2019, 10:02:56 PM by Kevin in California
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s husband bought up to a quarter million dollars of stock in SunEdison, a now financially troubled green energy company just weeks before it announced a major 2014 acquisition that sent its stock price soaring. SunE's 2014 purchase of wind energy company First Wind “further bolstered the reputation of the company,” wrote one market-watcher at the time. “Perhaps unsurprisingly, SunEdison’s stock soared 29% on news of this acquisition alone.”
Pelosi has a well-earned reputation for shady stock purchases herself, getting shares in lucrative IPOs and
trading on inside information gleaned through Congressional meetings. Martha Stewart jailed 5 months for similar insider trading.
What happens when a Democratic speaker of the House — second in line to the presidency, according to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 — is suddenly thrust into the Oval Office, succeeding a Republican president and vice president who resign, embroiled in scandal? Such a scenario is attracting attention — #PresidentPelosi was trending on social media this morning. When I woke up with this news I couldn’t believe my eyes, but after a while, I realized that it’s impossible for a politician with a record like Nancy to get such an important position. This is just another distraction of the real problems the Democrats have.
Some things the Dems didn’t want to come out to the public, that’s why they hate President Trump.
Prominent Democrat’s child was implicated in a different form of corporate corruption, in 2014, and was later tied to Ukraine, in 2017. That was the son of the House Minority Leader and current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
BOL!
Great revealing about the Pelosi family of elected robber barons.
Payoff to these criminals, or plans for the future? I say BOTH.
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