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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.
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–105 (text), S. 2038, 126 Stat. 291, enacted April 4, 2012) is an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading. It was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012.
The stock sales made by various lawmakers from both parties during the March banking turmoil are renewing calls for an outright ban of Congressional trading. Congress hasn't banned lawmakers from ...
Porter’s bill, which expands on the existing disclosure rules in the STOCK Act, would also require members of Congress, their senior staff, and the Oval Office to disclose any time that they, a ...
Congressional stock trading is back in the limelight following a New York Times analysis that found 97 members of Congress engaged in stock market transactions that could potentially be seen as ...
Insider Trading Prohibition Act: To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit certain securities trading and related communications by those who possess material, nonpublic information. H.R. 2662: April 19, 2021: IG Independence and Empowerment Act: To amend the Inspector General Act of 1978, and for other purposes. H.R. 2668: April ...
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The government watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee, alleging possible violations of the STOCK Act and insider trading laws in the matter of stock sales by Loeffler and three other senators, Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, and Dianne Feinstein ...