Plague trading? Privately, Sen. Richard Burr warned constituents weeks ago that coronavirus was "Akin to the 1918 pandemic," NPR reports.
Worse still, ProPublica reports that Burr sold off between $600,000 and $1.7 million in stocks on February 13, suggesting that he used his private knowledge about the coming economic impact of the pandemic to prevent personal financial losses.
Burr chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and is a member of the Health Committee.
I asked Sen. Burr spokesperson Caitlin Carroll if her office had a comment re: the reports about the senator's stock sales amid the Coronavirus crisis.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that Burr appears to have "Betrayed your country in a time of crisis."
Tucker Carlson calls for Senator Burr to resign and await prosecution for insider trading if he cannot provide a reasonable explanation for his actions.
The reason it's such a scandal in this case is that Burr and Loeffler appear to have been worried enough about the coronavirus to look out for their own finances but did almost nothing to alert the broader public.
https://reason.com/2020/03/20/richard-burr-kelly-loeffler-coronavirus-insider-trading/
Worse still, ProPublica reports that Burr sold off between $600,000 and $1.7 million in stocks on February 13, suggesting that he used his private knowledge about the coming economic impact of the pandemic to prevent personal financial losses.
Burr chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and is a member of the Health Committee.
I asked Sen. Burr spokesperson Caitlin Carroll if her office had a comment re: the reports about the senator's stock sales amid the Coronavirus crisis.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that Burr appears to have "Betrayed your country in a time of crisis."
Tucker Carlson calls for Senator Burr to resign and await prosecution for insider trading if he cannot provide a reasonable explanation for his actions.
The reason it's such a scandal in this case is that Burr and Loeffler appear to have been worried enough about the coronavirus to look out for their own finances but did almost nothing to alert the broader public.
https://reason.com/2020/03/20/richard-burr-kelly-loeffler-coronavirus-insider-trading/
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