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by metabagel 1798 days ago
This is mostly her husband's trading, which probably constitutes somewhat of a loophole in the legislation controlling stock purchases by members of congress. Still, the transactions were reported as required, and trading based on insider knowledge is illegal, so he would be subject to prosecution if that's what he was doing.

The optics are bad, for sure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-10/pelosi-hu...

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"he would be subject to prosecution if that's what he was doing"

You would, so would I but history has shown he won't have to worry about that.