Congress’s Insider-Trading Racket
(short from the Daily Beast, ie Newsweek condensed)
Did Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, John Kerry, and several other lawmakers benefit from something similar to insider trading during the financial crisis? Hoover Institute research fellow Brian Schweizer analyzed financial disclosures and found that it often appeared they did. Pelosi, for example, was one of the select investors invited to buy Visa stock at a lower rate—about the same time she blocked a bill that would adversely affect Visa’s business. (Her office dismisses Schweizer as a “right-wing hack.”) In Newsweek, Peter J. Boyer reports on the explosive corruption allegations.
The money many stand to make on dismantling Medicare is sickening as they hurriedly scramble to invest in private health insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, etc.
Congress is exempt from insider trading tips--the kind that sent Leona Helmsley and Martha Stewart to jail and are off limits to the public. Schweizer's book is called: GET THEM ALL OUT!
To which I add my SLOGAN---- LET US IN!
A collection of facts and information supporting my opinion that grassroots power is the only way to deconstruct the stranglehold of big money, media, and Congress that is ruining our country's basic values.
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