{"id":12017,"date":"2015-10-28T20:27:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=12017"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:27:41","slug":"congress-cashes-in-on-insider-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=12017","title":{"rendered":"Congress Cashes in on Insider Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, a CBS investigation blew the lid off of one of Washington\u2019s most poorly-kept secrets: members of Congress were routinely exploiting legal loopholes to engage in insider trading and line their own pockets \u2014 a criminal offense for regular citizens. In the ensuing public outrage, Congress passed a law called the STOCK Act, and took a loud victory lap for supposedly putting an end to their own unscrupulous behavior.<br \/>\nNow that they think nobody\u2019s watching, Congress has gutted a key disclosure provision of the STOCK Act. Worse still, the House Counsel\u2019s Office, led by Speaker John Boehner\u2019s handpicked lawyer, is actively stonewalling the first ever investigation into Congressional insider trading by claiming \u201cimmunity\u201d from the very law they bragged about passing just a few years earlier.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/represent.us\/action\/insider-trading-list\/?akid=8522.491315.-LTaLg&#038;rd=1&#038;share=&#038;t=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/represent.us\/action\/insider-trading-list\/?akid=8522.491315.-LTaLg&#038;rd=1&#038;share=&#038;t=3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, a CBS investigation blew the lid off of one of Washington\u2019s most poorly-kept secrets: members of Congress were routinely exploiting legal loopholes to engage in insider trading and line their own pockets \u2014 a criminal offense for regular citizens. In the ensuing public outrage, Congress passed a law called the STOCK Act, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=12017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congress Cashes in on Insider Trading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}