Innerworld@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMarkwayne Mullin, who will now lead the DHS, bought Chevron, Raytheon stock days before Maduro capturewww.snopes.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up1321arrow-down10
arrow-up1321arrow-down1external-linkMarkwayne Mullin, who will now lead the DHS, bought Chevron, Raytheon stock days before Maduro capturewww.snopes.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square21linkfedilink
minus-squareDJKJuicy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up27·edit-22 months agoTo my surprise this is actually illegal for members of Congress per the STOCK Act of 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act I was going to reply that this is totally legal but decided to fact check myself. They all do it. There’s no other way to earn millions and millions of dollars making $174k a year…
minus-squareanon_8675309@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoThere’s no way to make millions and millions from stock purchases on $174k in any short period of time. They’re using other funds.
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months ago“To my surprise this is actually illegal”
To my surprise this is actually illegal for members of Congress per the STOCK Act of 2012:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
I was going to reply that this is totally legal but decided to fact check myself.
They all do it. There’s no other way to earn millions and millions of dollars making $174k a year…
There’s no way to make millions and millions from stock purchases on $174k in any short period of time. They’re using other funds.
“To my surprise this is actually illegal”