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    The only people who can stop politicians from being able to participate in the stock market is politicians and well…

    Some of the founding fathers were even benefiting from stock and bond trading and selling.

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    Visa has been under intense scrutiny since for at least several months. We wouldn’t up and sue Visa out of nowhere so you know Visa was being discussed for awhile. I’m curious how much of this was just paying attention, like with a surprisingly high number of “corrupt insider trades,” or if it’s actually corrupt.

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    Those ghouls are at it again. Though that implies it is anything other than business as usual.

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    So he sold them 3 months ago, at a loss, and it was well after the lawsuit was announced?

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    We need to know who says the trade should be allowed and fire them/vote them out.

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    Nancy Pelosi’s husband dumped 2,000 Visa (V) shares in July — just weeks before the payments giant was sued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for monopolizing the debit markets.

    The timely trade — which documents show was worth at least $500,000 — has once again set the rumor mill running about the former House speaker and her venture capitalist husband’s investing strategies, which have netted them an impressive nine-figure net worth over the years.

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      While 12 weeks is technically weeks I think it’s very intellectually dishonest to refer to it as weeks before when months before is more accurate.

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    By far she is the biggest crook up there. None of these trash talking republicans have done as much harm in the name of greed as she has. Most republicans in DC are lower than Whale shit. She is at least six to seven feet lower than that. Not that she is unique in that cesspool of trash floating on top of the swamp.

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      Not for nothing but she’s not the one that killed the law that would have regulated this, that was the Republicans. Who are in no less apt to engage in insider trading than anybody if you look at the actual numbers. She just gets more publicity for it, and as you can see from reading the article in this case it’s false publicity.