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The 2020 congressional insider trading scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving allegations that several members of the United States Senate violated the STOCK Act by selling stock at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and just before a stock market crash on February 20, 2020, using knowledge given to them at a closed Senate meeting.
William Lorimer (R-IL) US Senator, also known as the "blond boss of Chicago", was expelled from the U.S. Senate in 1912 for accepting bribes. [112] Ralph Cameron (R-AZ) US Senator, attempted to control access to the Grand Canyon by buying mining rights to adjacent lands. (1912) [113]
Compensated representation in a proceeding in which the United States is interested (Rev. Stat. § 1782) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. § 203) Oregon land fraud scandal [46] Republican: John M. Murphy: House of Representatives: New York 1980: Federal official gratuity, federal official conflict-of interest, and conspiracy to defraud the ...
The U.S. Postal Service was the top impersonated organization ... And while scams that start with a phone call are going down, the FTC says fraud in the form of email and text messages are going up.
Republicans had invited a Google executive to explain allegations that the company had disproportionately targeted GOP emails as spam. GOP senators' private meeting with Google turns tense over ...
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress . Party affiliation
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) pressed a select group of domain registrars in the U.S. to address alleged abuse of their services by Russian influence operations during ...
In the aftermath of the House Bank overdraft scandal, two federal credit unions, one for the House and one for the Senate, now provide banking services to Members of Congress and the general public, with no special treatment for Members of Congress. [citation needed] The credit unions existed long before the scandal.