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Warren Planning Anti-Corruption Bill to Bar Top Politicians From Stock Trading
Sen. Elizabeth Warren conducts a news conference in the Capitol on March 1, 2021.
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Insider in an article published on Monday.
The senator plans to introduce the legislation sometime during this congressional session, which ends in 2023. It would be based on previous legislation to bar high-ranking government officials from stock trading, called the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. Warren has introduced the legislation twice before, in 2018 and 2020, but it never made it out of then-Republican-controlled Senate Finance Committee.
“It is a no-brainer,” Warren told Dave Levinthal and Warren Rojas of
Former President Donald Trump is at the center of four major investigations, either criminal or civil. As investigators shore up more information on their probes, an expert says that Secret Service agents may also be asked to testify against the former president.
Secret Service agents may be called in by prosecutors to testify against the former president, according to Dave Levinthal, the senior Washington correspondent for Business Insider. Speaking with SiriusXM host Julie Mason Monday, Levinthal said that this would harken to the days of the Clinton administration and Ken Starr investigation. At that time, Secret Service agents were subpoenaed to testify against a grand jury.
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Students for Trump founder @RyanAFournier created a fake law firm with his friend to dupe unsuspecting clients, then ratted him out to the feds to avoid being prosecuted himself, according to new courthouse revelations. https://t.co/LVwHrjZ2Lb
The younglings discover an ancient legal rule:
First to rat out his co-conspirators gets the best deal:
Students for Trump co-founder and pugnacious MAGA Twitter star Ryan Fournier allegedly helped his friend create a fake law firm to bilk innocent clients, only to turn against his one-time partner to help federal law enforcement, according to records and statements made Tuesday by a lawyer involved in the case.