Here are the FACTS about the stock story:
Associated Press blows smoke, pretends it's a fire
and here:
Interesting that you post directly from Felix's "Full of Falsity" website instead of an independent one (same as someone from the alcohol industry posting from Ted Kennedy's site, IMHO!)
"Then, as a senator, Mr. Allen--except for his first year in office--failed to report those holdings, in evident violation of Senate ethics rules. (That some of the stocks were losers, as Mr. Allen argues in defense, is irrelevant.) More troubling, an Allen aide admits that the senator went to bat for one of the companies in business it had with the Army. Why was this manifestly wrong? Because any sunshine the Army splashed on the company might well have boosted the value of the 110,000 of its stock shares Mr. Allen then held."