• doctorcrimson@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    What is your solution, that she resign or that she divorces her husband whom she married in college? Her husband’s primary income is from the investment firm he owns, so basically she cannot be a legislator while married to him if those are the rules.

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        10 months ago

        I would sooner reform shared finances of married couples, at least that of congress, or better yet bar shareholders from running for office, than end Nancy’s marriage of 60 years over her supposed insider trading (which I’ve never even seen a decent argument about, if anything Paul’s trades are kind of shit given her position of power).

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      10 months ago

      Carter sold his family’s peanut farm.

      Legislators, members of governments and their households should either be forbidden from doing insider trading, with regular detailed audits to ensure it, or should be forced to use blind trusts for investments.

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        10 months ago

        I wish more people could have been like Carter. He wasn’t perfect, far from it, but he was a legend given the time period and how he spent his later years.

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        10 months ago

        Minor nitpick, he didn’t sell it, he put it in a blind trust. He still owned it, just didn’t control it.

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      10 months ago

      Her husband’s not a lawmaker. Once again: lawmakers should be banned from trading stocks.

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        10 months ago

        That’s exactly the issue, in the USA marriage gives joint ownership of assets barring anything outlined in prenuptial agreements. So while Nancy Pelosi has never traded any stocks she still reports all of her husbands stock trades as per the transparency legislation that she helped pass into law. Paul Pelosi would also be banned from trading stocks, his lifelong primary employment, as a result of the ban.

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      10 months ago

      Insider trading is theoretically illegal in all other contexts, why are congress creeps special?

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        10 months ago

        Former Congressman Stephen Buyer went to prison for 2 years for insider trading.

        What is Nancy Pelosi’s insider trade? I recommend submitting a tip to the SEC, you could get payed a pretty penny for it if it leads to evidence and a conviction.