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Re:SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring by sngz on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:13PM (#28229246)
congressmen and women have been caught doing it yet nothing is ever done.
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Re:SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring by hermitdev on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:33PM (#28229346)
Congress critters are exempt from insider trading laws. Insider trading by congress (and their staffers and family) was briefly made illegal by the STOCK Act of 2012 [0] and quietly neutered a year later.

[0] "STOCK Act - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act

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