Citizen watchdogs eye Congress' 'killing it' approach to stock trading - eviltoast

Lawmakers could vote for infrastructure bill, then buy stock in a concrete firm.

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    1 year ago

    The article says it is illegal for them to trade on nonpublic information. Isn’t that the definition of insider trading?

    In 2012, President Barack Obama signed the STOCK Act, banning members of Congress from trading with nonpublic information, meaning details they glean in their work that are not available to the general public.

    Not saying it doesn’t still happen, but it is illegal.