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As the pandemic raged, at least 75 lawmakers bought and sold stock in companies that make COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests
Business Insider ^ | 13 December 2021 | Camila DeChalus,Kimberly Leonard,Warren Rojas,Madison Hal

Posted on 12/13/2021 3:19:59 AM PST by Erik Latranyi

At least 75 federal lawmakers held shares of Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, or Pfizer in 2020. Lawmakers' holding stock in these companies has prompted ethical concerns.

Several other lawmakers traded shares of companies with a direct stake in the pandemic.

Dozens of Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill have invested in companies that have a direct stake in the nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Insider analysis of federal financial records.

In 2020, at least 13 senators and 35 US representatives held shares of Johnson & Johnson, the medical behemoth that produced the single-shot COVID-19 vaccine that more than 15 million Americans have received.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: aces

America first.


21 posted on 12/13/2021 5:03:13 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Pollard
and a dozen FReepers

Not sure what would be unethical about that since they don't dictate policy nor represent anyone in any public capacity.

22 posted on 12/13/2021 5:10:03 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Erik Latranyi

yeah... so did I, and I have made 100’s of thousands. It was a no brainer, sorry you didn’t think of it.

But it EVERY crisis there is opportunity, if you only can step back a bit from the trees to see the forest.


23 posted on 12/13/2021 5:10:15 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Pollard

There’s more blue collars on here than you think I started out enlisted, and Blue Collar but through the sheer number of years on the job I became of the middle management, but still on pulling a lot of time on the road. Middle mgmt with a laptop and a tech team.

I only had savings bonds until I was mid 30s and had a few conversations and started a basic plan... the market was booming, The Reagan years...

I remember when Money Markets were at 13% and Vanguard’s were running hot. Hell, it was only beer and movie money I was putting away... MY OLD MAN WAS RIGHT!!! and might have been the first time in my life I realized it.

It grew and continues, fluctuates, and as we both realize... if you’re not hands on and use brokerages instead, you won’t realize where the money is being worked.


24 posted on 12/13/2021 5:16:29 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Bratch

“And Donald Trump.”

GREAT POINT, although the Left thinks, rather ‘claims’, he made money on it. Not even close...and the Left knows that full well.


25 posted on 12/13/2021 5:24:11 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: BobL

“And Donald Trump.”

GREAT POINT, although the Left thinks, rather ‘claims’, he made money on it. Not even close...and the Left knows that full well.

Pres. Trump even donated his president salary. Don’t see Biden doing that, even though he is a multi-millionaire.


26 posted on 12/13/2021 5:29:30 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Erik Latranyi

Surprise! This IS the deep state, hard at work lining their own pockets...including RINOs.

This is also why i will never join the republican party even though I have no choice but to vote for them.


27 posted on 12/13/2021 5:35:36 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Pollard

If you were paying attention…..


28 posted on 12/13/2021 5:43:33 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Erik Latranyi

Moderna in particular was a big opportunity. The stock jumped by over 2000% in a mere 18 months. They had nothing on the ball prior to Covid and profited enormously from collaboration with the NIH.


29 posted on 12/13/2021 5:47:46 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Erik Latranyi

yep, our “leaders” investing in our misery, economic destruction and death ... you don’t suppose they’d have an incentive to keep The Terror going, do you?


30 posted on 12/13/2021 5:48:56 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Pollard

“Meh, msn doesn’t like that I use a VPN so they give me a blank page.”

the problem might be your browser ...


31 posted on 12/13/2021 5:49:53 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Why?

Capitalism involves investing, taking risks and making money.

The fact you have no money to invest in a perceived gain should have no bearing


32 posted on 12/13/2021 5:50:06 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) California needs Zorro to destroy the neoNobility corruption)
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To: Angelino97
Crony capitalism, insider trading, market manipulation. There’s no honest free market in the U.S.

And yet that expect US to be honest. Otherwise we go to jail. Those parasites? Not so much.

33 posted on 12/13/2021 6:00:01 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: RFEngineer
These are all evil people....our elected leaders. Maybe a few are clean, but I’d have to see definite proof.

Most have committed at least one felony to get where they are. If not, they will while in office.

34 posted on 12/13/2021 6:02:22 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Pollard
There’s a group of people that just invest in whatever she and her husband invest in and they do quite well.

I'm surprised if the legislators can't claim ignorance. "My fund manager makes these decisions, not me!" The strategy is not only to make money but to make ignorance a virtue; to stay clean and above board, the lawmaker says he has inside information, ergo he should not know what his manager's doing and vice versa.

Maybe I have to bone up on Crony Cap!

35 posted on 12/13/2021 6:06:02 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Erik Latranyi

Mo’s wife sold pharmaceutical stocks and was late in reporting.

I think this report is designed to tarnish Mo Brooks so the Mitch McConnell can get Katie Britt (Shelby’s hand-picked successor) elected to the Senate.


36 posted on 12/13/2021 6:10:16 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: bert
Why? Capitalism involves investing, taking risks and making money. The fact you have no money to invest in a perceived gain should have no bearing

The fact that this is insider trading negates your argument that it is capitalism.

When the regulators invest, it is criminality. The fact that you cannot see that is quite telling.

37 posted on 12/13/2021 6:13:37 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Erik Latranyi
When the regulators invest, it is criminality.

I take your point, but these lawmakers decide what is criminality.

38 posted on 12/13/2021 6:18:51 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Pollard

Um, I think there’s a HUGE difference between a few private citizens buying a stock and politicians buying stock then making policy that would directly affect their financial holdings. Your comment was silly, imho.


39 posted on 12/13/2021 6:24:47 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: Pollard

Yes. :)

For this I shall gladly buy you a beverage, alcoholic or non. At least one! Yours for the asking! Don’t be shy!


40 posted on 12/13/2021 6:31:45 AM PST by Scarlett156 (I have a new broom. I feel like a queen! Get outta my way, losers! *sweeps* )
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