If these vultures received a confidential briefing and did not put the information into the public domain then it is a criminal act isn't it?

Thinskin

 

No. Congress has actually exempted themselves from most insider trading laws. The only way they can be charged with a crime is if they get inside information about a specific company and/or stock and then use that information to buy or sell that specific stock.

And they also have a pocket full of handy excuses. Most of them claim they turned their stock portfolio over to a manager and they did the stock trades without their knowledge. That is rarely true but impossible to prove otherwise. In Dianne Feinstein's, who is a Democrat case she is claiming her husband dumped their stocks with no input from her and without her knowledge. And again in order to believe these excuses we also have to believe managers and husbands are the most fucking genius stock traders in the country and saw it coming when no one else did.

 

Attaboys!!
Yes, lets roast all of them, no matter their party, if they're using inside information to profit then we ought to not only let the press roast them, we need to toss their scurvy asses out of office, cause its clear they're taking care of their business and not ours.

And that law change Pelosi pushed through? The one that basically took the teeth out of the insider trading law? It should be changed. If Congress is serious it ought to pass laws making it illegal for any member Congress, their staffs, and Federal employees to take advantage of insider information to profit. In fact, Shooter would support a law prohibiting any Federal employee or elected official from any outside profit that they receive because of their office.

 

As Dr Bandy X Lee has documented several times now Trump supporters are actually cult followers with a shared psychosis with Trump. But how do we know that is true. Because we can see some of them like @shootersa mimicking Trump.

Like this.

@shootersa

Notice how @shootersa instantly deflects to a Democrat while giving the Republican a free pass?

Now look at this.

Trump Defends Senators Under Fire for Pre-Corona Stock Dumps: They’re ‘Very Honorable People’

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-d...ona-stock-dumps-theyre-very-honorable-people/

 

Trump Taps Former Attorney Of Trophy Hunting Group For Key Wildlife Job
Chris D'Angelo
HuffPostMarch 20, 2020, 9:21 AM CDT



The Trump administration has hired Anna Seidman, formerly a longtime lawyer at the trophy hunting advocacy group Safari Club International, to lead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s international affairs program.

A Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson confirmed Seidman’s appointment in a statement to HuffPost on Friday, calling her “an effective, innovative leader with 20 years of legal and policy experience, including expertise in international environment and natural resource management.”

The Safari Club has close ties to the administration ― its political action committee donated $11,000 to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign ― and is one of several groups that successfully lobbied Trump’s Interior Department to roll back prohibitions on importing the trophies of lions and elephants killed for sport in certain African countries.

Seidman was Safari Club’s top litigator for two decades and most recently served as director of its legal advocacy and international affairs arm, according to the organization’s website. In that role, she led several lawsuits against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other federal agencies, including challenging a 2015 Obama-era regulation that prohibited aggressive predator control tactics in national preserves and refuges in Alaska.

Seidman left Safari Club last year, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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Founded in 1972 and based in Washington, SCI is an advocacy group with more than 50,000 members that focuses on “protecting hunters’ rights and promoting wildlife conservation.” It has been criticized for giving out awards — with names like “Grand Slam African 29,” “African Big Five” and “Bears of the World” — to hunters who kill exotic and sometimes threatened species, including elephants, rhinos and polar bears.

SCI’s sister organization, Safari Club International Foundation, is a former client of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s. Bernhardt worked as a lobbyist for oil, gas and other special interests before joining the Trump administration.

As assistant director of FWS’s international affairs program, Seidman will lead a team responsible for implementing international conservation treaties and protecting at-risk wildlife populations and their habitats around the globe. She replaces Eric Alvarez, who has served as acting chief for two years.

SCI did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment Thursday.


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SCI has been a major supporter of the Trump administration and its pro-hunting agenda. And under former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the department made quick work of fulfilling trophy hunting groups’ wish list, as HuffPost previously reported.

In late 2017, the Interior Department came under fire when it lifted Obama-era bans on importing elephant and lion trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia ― a decision first made public by Safari Club. Facing public backlash, Trump suspended the department’s decision and condemned big-game trophy hunting as a “horror show.” A day later, SCI sent out a “call to arms,” in which the group encouraged hunters to complain to Trump and Zinke and blasted “hysterical anti-hunters and news media outlets.”

FWS subsequently issued a memo in March 2018 indicating it would consider permits to import trophies taken from elephants, lions and bontebok, a species of antelope, hunted in several African countries on a “case-by-case” basis. Later that year, Steven Chancellor, an Indiana coal executive who raised more than $1 million for Trump’s 2016 campaign and was then a member of the Department of the Interior’s advisory hunting council, obtained permits to import the heads and hides of at least three male lions from Africa.

Safari Club has been part of the revolving door at Trump’s Interior. Last July, Ben Cassidy, a former lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, left a high-ranking Interior post to to become Safari Club’s new director of government affairs. His departure from the Trump administration came less than three months he got wrapped up in a formal Interior Department ethics investigation.

 

President Reagan pioneered the practice of appointing someone who opposes the purpose of a government agency to be in charge of the agency.

 

Yes he did, and it makes a certain amount of sense.
Trump seems to be following the same practice and its working, even if the only outcome is pissing off despicables.

Safe space on the left.

 

Come on now Trump supporters he needs your help right now so lets hear it:

DRAIN THAT SWAMP
DRAIN THAT SWAMP
GIVE ANOTHER $500 BILLION TO AN UNELECTED BUREAUCRAT TO HAND OUT IN SECRET!!!
THAT'S WHAT CALL DRAINING THE SWAMP!!!!

Virus relief bill would let Steve Mnuchin hand out $500 billion ‘slush fund’ to secret recipients: report

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/vi...llion-slush-fund-to-secret-recipients-report/

 

Good. Shooter wants all of the "stimulus" bills to fail.

 

It figures.

‘This is a massive scandal’: Trump FDA grants drug company exclusive claim on promising coronavirus drug

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/th...xclusive-claim-on-promising-coronavirus-drug/

 

Walmart was almost charged criminally over opioids — but Trump appointees killed the indictment

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/wa...s-but-trump-appointees-killed-the-indictment/

 

For whom is it working? Appointing someone who does not care about the environment to an environmental agency makes it difficult for the environmentalists in that agency to function well in their important work of cleaning up the environment.

 

OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot. Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness. Elite universities are selling admission spots to the highest Hollywood bidder. Silicon Valley unicorns have revealed themselves as long cons (Theranos), venture-capital cremation devices (Uber, WeWork) or straightforward comic book supervillains (Facebook). Every week unearths a cabinet-level political scandal that would have defined any other presidency. From the blackouts in California to the bloated bonuses on Wall Street to the entire biography of Jeffrey Epstein, it is impossible to look around the country and not get the feeling that elites are slowly looting it.

And why wouldn’t they? The criminal justice system has given up all pretense that the crimes of the wealthy are worth taking seriously. In January 2019, white-collar prosecutions fell to their lowest level since researchers started tracking them in 1998. Even within the dwindling number of prosecutions, most are cases against low-level con artists and small-fry financial schemes. Since 2015, criminal penalties levied by the Justice Department have fallen from $3.6 billion to roughly $110 million. Illicit profits seized by the Securities and Exchange Commission have reportedly dropped by more than half. In 2018, a year when nearly 19,000 people were sentenced in federal court for drug crimes alone, prosecutors convicted just 37 corporate criminals who worked at firms with more than 50 employees.

With few exceptions, the only rich people America prosecutes anymore are those who victimize their fellow elites. Pharma frat boy Martin Shkreli, to pick just one example, wasn’t prosecuted for hiking the price of a drug used to treat HIV from $13.50 to $750 per pill. He went to prison for scamming investors in a hedge fund scheme years before. Meanwhile, in 2016, the CEO whose company experienced the deadliest mining disaster since 1970 served less than one year in prison and paid a fine of 1.4 percent of his salary and stock bonuses the previous year. Why? Because overseeing a company that ignores warnings and causes the deaths of workers, even 29 of them, is a misdemeanor.

Construction magnate Bruce Karatz provides an infuriating case study of how the criminal justice system treats wealthy defendants. In 2010, Karatz was convicted of failing to disclose in a financial statement that he had secretly “backdated” his stock options (think Biff with the Sports Almanac in “Back to the Future II”) to boost his pay by more than $6 million. Prior to his sentencing hearing, his lawyer submitted letters of support from former mayor of Los Angeles Richard Riordan and billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad. Prosecutors recommended six-and-a-half-years in prison; the judge gave Karatz five years’ probation and eight months of house arrest in his Bel Air mansion. After two years, the judge terminated the remainder of the sentence. Karatz later received a civic award from The Malibu Times for volunteer work he did to make a good impression for his sentencing hearing.

Elite deviance has become the dark matter of American life, the invisible force around which the country’s most powerful legal and political systems have set their orbit. Four members of the Sackler family, the owners of Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma, have retained the services of former SEC head Mary Jo White as their personal lawyer. Epstein’s dinner party guest lists included Harvard professors, billionaire philanthropists and members of political dynasties in at least two countries. In 2017, the pharmaceutical company Novartis spent about 14 percent of its annual lobbying budget on payments to a shell company controlled by ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.

Tax evasion siphons10,000times more money out of the U.S. economy every year than bank robberies.SOURCE: FBI; IRS.
And this clubbiness has human costs. Tax evasion, to pick just one crime concentrated among the wealthy, already siphons up to 10,000 times more money out of the U.S. economy every year than bank robberies. In 2017, researchers estimated that fraud by America’s largest corporations cost Americans up to $360 billion annually between 1996 and 2004. That’s roughly two decades’ worth of street crime every single year. As the links between corporations and regulators become increasingly incestuous, the future will bring more crude-soaked coastlines, price-gouging corporate behemoths and Madoff-style Ponzi schemes. More hurdles to suing companies for poisoning their customers or letting bosses harass their employees. And more uniquely American catastrophes like the opioid crisis and the price of insulin.

Perhaps the greatest myth about white-collar crime is that Americans struggle to understand it—as if chemical companies toxifying rivers or insurance executives gouging their customers fail to stimulate our moral intuitions. In fact, surveys consistently show that the vast majority of the population considers white-collar crime more harmful than street crime and powerful offenders more odious than common criminals.

Those intuitions are correct: An entrenched, unfettered class of superpredators is wreaking havoc on American society. And in the process, they've broken the only systems capable of stopping them.
https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/

 

It would be really cool if all the people who caused this pandemic in Washington DC ,Got real sick and Couldn’t return to work . . I would laugh my ass off .
God bless the common people though , and keep them safe . Stay away from politicians

 

That would be Trump and his entire administration which even now continues to do things to help spread the virus and get people killed.


Ethics Watchdog: Jared Kushner’s ‘Shadow’ COVID-19 Task Force Appears to Violate at Least Two Laws

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profil...rs-shadow-taskforce-may-violate-several-laws/

 

What are Kusher's virology credentials again?

Thinskin

 

Kushner is also involved with health care companies trying to cash in on the virus. And at the same time they are trying to evict renters from his properties while he runs to the government to get bailed out.

 

which health care companies would that be, rear admiral butt nugget?
And which renters is he evicting?
And you do know, it's right in the legislation Trump signed, that neither Trump nor any of his family (that would include Kushner) nor any company Trump owned, can get Federal money in the $2.2 TRILLION bail out scam.

OF course you already knew that, you old fraud, but what the hell, honesty never was one of your traits.

 

REVEALED: Jared Kushner firm built coronavirus website Trump promised Google was building

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/re...s-website-trump-promised-google-was-building/

 

Here is another article about idiot son-in-law of idiot President!

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/jared-kushner-coronavirus-fake-news

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