Exposed: Congress Secretly Told To Sell Stocks Before 2008 Crash

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Congress were told about the stock market crash of 2008 before it happened

Reports have emerged that less than two weeks before the economic collapse of 2008, several members of Congress were pre-warned to take their money out of the stock market. 

High ranking government officials were given a heads-up about the impending stock market crash in secret meetings with the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, and what followed in the weeks leading up to the crash amounted to insider trading.

Activistpost.com reports:

It was revealed that Senator Shelley Capito and her husband sold $350,000 worth of Citigroup stock at $83 per share, just one day before the stock dropped to $64 per share. Another shady trader was Congressman Jim Moran, who had his biggest trading day of the year days after the secret meeting, sellings stock in nearly 100 different companies.

These actions would be illegal for any American in any other circumstance, but members of Congress and high-ranking government officials are actually exempt from insider trading laws.

Years later, a 60 Minutes investigation aired on television which highlighted the government’s deep history of insider trading. The investigation sparked outrage, prompting Congress to pass “the STOCK Act” which was said to hold members of the government to the same standards as any American when it came to insider trading.

However, Congress watered down the bill and changed key elements that would hold them accountable, allowing them to return to business as usual, and escape any consequences for their prior crimes.

In an interview during the 60 Minutes investigation, Peter Schweizer of the Hoover Institute told Steve Kroft that “It’s really the way the rules have been defined. And the people who make the rules are the political class in Washington and they’ve conveniently written them in such a way that they don’t apply to themselves.”

“These meetings were so sensitive– that they would actually confiscate cell phones and Blackberries going into those meetings. What we know is that those meetings were held one day and literally the next day Congressman Bachus would engage in buying stock options based on apocalyptic briefings he had the day before from the Fed chairman and treasury secretary. I mean, talk about a stock tip,” he added.

Since it was passed, the STOCK Act has been more or less worthless. Whenever a politician is accused of anything, they are defended by other politicians and the investigation is immediately stonewalled. For example, a former staffer for the House Ways and Means Committee, Brian Stutter was guilty of insider trading. However, he avoided charges because House Speaker John Boehner refused to hand over the evidence, and claimed that Sutter had legal immunity.

It seems that America operates on two different sets of laws – one set for those who claim to rule us, and another for everyone else.

2 Comments

  1. Our elected representative are getting rich by OWNING wealth-creating, income-producing capital assets in the form of corporate stocks and are privilege to insider information in which to “play” (gamble) on the stock exchanges.

  2. Our elected representative are getting rich by OWNING wealth-creating, income-producing capital assets in the form of corporate stocks and are privilege to insider information in which to “play” (gamble) on the stock exchanges.

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