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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.
Grant Cardone: ‘Math’ on Nancy Pelosi’s mega wealth doesn’t add up — why he’d ban lawmakers from trading stocks Bethan Moorcraft May 22, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Gary J. Aguirre is an American lawyer, former investigator with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and whistleblower.. After working in a law firm briefly, he became a public defender, then worked as a trial lawyer in California.
The Texas Gulf Sulphur decision represented the first time a federal court held that insider trading violated federal securities laws. [2] The SEC in Cady, Roberts & Co. (1961) had extensively treated insider trading and set out the "disclose or abstain rule", but as an agency opinion, it did not have precedential value in federal courts. [35]
Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), [2] and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. [3]
Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company. [1] In various countries, some kinds of trading based on insider information is illegal. The rationale for this prohibition of insider trading differs between countries/regions.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently sat down with PBS NewsHour to discuss a range of issues, including potential changes to U.S. tax policy.. Don't miss. Commercial real estate has beaten the ...
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 law prohibits the use of non-public information for private profit, including ...