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2021-07-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul made nearly $6 million on Alphabet stock and placed bets to make more cash on Amazon and Apple as House moves to break companies up

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-09 00:19|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Perfectly legal since Congress exempted themselves from insider trading laws.

Posted by Mercutio 2021-07-09 07:57|| 2021-07-09 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Congressional insider trading has been illegal since 2012 per Obama's 'Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act.' Somehow the law does not seem to matter.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-07-09 10:23|| 2021-07-09 10:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Glen, laws are for us little people, not the exalted, like Pelosi.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-07-09 11:33|| 2021-07-09 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Who's gonna prosecute? The SEC? The FBI?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-07-09 11:36|| 2021-07-09 11:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Laws don't matter any more. Only prosecution and persecution matters, bigly.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-07-09 13:10|| 2021-07-09 13:10|| Front Page Top

#6 We are the new Rome with all the perversion, graft, lies, deceit and selective abuse of the public treasury... it feels like the Barbarians are approaching the gates and half the citizens think that's just fine to leave them open....

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-07-09 16:53|| 2021-07-09 16:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Sorry guys and gals, there was nothing improper about this gain. He bought Google options one year ago, just like anyone else could have. If you buy “at the money” call options, like he did, on a stock, and it doubles, like Google did, you make huge money.

He had NO idea Google would double when he bought the options. No one did.

As they say Timing is everything.

Posted by Croque Fliting8030 2021-07-09 17:47|| 2021-07-09 17:47|| Front Page Top

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