Innerworld@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoMarkwayne Mullin, who will now lead the DHS, bought Chevron, Raytheon stock days before Maduro capturewww.snopes.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up1321 found this helpful
arrow-up1321 found this helpfulexternal-linkMarkwayne Mullin, who will now lead the DHS, bought Chevron, Raytheon stock days before Maduro capturewww.snopes.comInnerworld@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square21linkfedilink
minus-squareDJKJuicy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up27 found this helpful·16 days 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-up7 found this helpful·16 days 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 found this helpful·16 days 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”