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Mr. Nancy Pelosi’s Insider Trading – Corruption in Plain View

&NewLine;<p>You may have seen the recent news that the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi invested between &dollar;1 million and &dollar;5 million in chip manufacturers just as Nancy was about to call a vote on a relief bill providing &dollar;52 billion to chip manufacturers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>To most people&comma; this is insider trading&period; The &&num;8220&semi;insider&&num;8221&semi; in this case is wife Nancy Pelosi who&comma; in preparation for this bill&comma; would have access to extraordinary information about the semiconductor industry&comma; the plans&comma; intentions&comma; effects and projections of that industry as a whole and semiconductor companies individually&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>I wonder if husband Paul would have access to this information&quest; Maybe it was lying around the house&comma; maybe he has a logon to her computer system&comma; perhaps they just talked about it&comma; a harmless conversation&period; It seems pretty suspicious that an investment this size with this kind of timing would occur in a vacuum&period; Putting two and two together&comma; we have a possible&comma; severe misdemeanor&comma; that in other cases has caused the guilty investor to go to jail and pay multi-million dollar fines&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Do I have access to the plans&comma; intentions&comma; affects and projections of semiconductors&quest; Does the general public&quest; No&period; Maybe I could be as rich as the Pelosis if I did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Pelosi&&num;8217&semi;s office responded to the charge&period; &&num;8220&semi;The Speaker does not own any stocks&period; As you can see from the required disclosures&comma; with which the Speaker fully cooperates&comma; these transactions are marked &OpenCurlyQuote;SP’ for Spouse&period; The Speaker has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>What&quest; Nancy doesn&&num;8217&semi;t own any stocks&quest; Did she forget she was married&quest; She had no prior knowledge of multimillion-dollar family transactions&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Well&comma; the Pelosis appear to be worth about &dollar;115 million&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s pretty wealthy&period; Maybe &dollar;5 million is insignificant&period; Maybe they just don&&num;8217&semi;t talk about it&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Or maybe&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This isn&&num;8217&semi;t the first time Paul has been accused of insider trading&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Last January the New York Post reported &&num;8220&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nypost&period;com&sol;2022&sol;01&sol;07&sol;nancy-pelosi-makes-30-million-from-tech-stocks-scoffs-at-push-to-ban-congressional-trades&sol;">Nancy Pelosi makes millions off tech stocks – and scoffs at push to ban congressional trades&period;<&sol;a>&&num;8221&semi; They claim she made &dollar;30 million in illegal trading&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Just before Nancy presided over an anti-trust bill that involved big tech&comma; Forbes reported &lpar;July 2021&rpar;&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;On Wednesday evening&comma; <em>Bloomberg News<&sol;em> published a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;bloomberg&period;com&sol;news&sol;articles&sol;2021-07-07&sol;pelosi-s-husband-locked-in-5-3-million-from-alphabet-options&quest;srnd&equals;premium" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">report<&sol;a> titled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pelosi’s Husband Locked In &dollar;5&period;3 Million From Alphabet Options&comma;” which carried the subheadlines&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Action was week before House panel considered antitrust bills&comma;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Antitrust bills target Alphabet’s Google&comma; Apple&comma; Amazon&period;”&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This was all disclosed in the proper forms&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>What this means is that either Paul is a freakin&&num;8217&semi; genius with a gift for coincidence&comma; or Nancy Pelosi thinks the American public is too stupid to connect the dots&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She may be right&period; Will Republicans call for an investigation&quest; I doubt it &&num;8211&semi; this could well be a perk of the job&comma; no telling who else is doing it&period; I love my conservative brethren but there are bad apples everywhere and Washington is full of temptations&period; An investigation would set precedents that nobody wants&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As we have written before&period; To date&comma; at least 52 lawmakers are guilty of violating the <em>Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act<&sol;em>&comma; which allows lawmakers to trade based on insider knowledge as long as they reveal those trades within 45 days&period; The penalty for violating this rule is a laughable &dollar;200 fine that can be waived by a congressional committee&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As Speaker of the House&comma; she is pretty much untouchable&period; An investigation would be fruitless and would be a loser politically even if they could pin something on her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She&&num;8217&semi;s 82&comma; and ready to retire&period; Once she retires no one will bother to go after her&period; And her five children and her grandchildren will have generational wealth&period; Corruption pays&period; High level corruption pays very well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>How great is this country&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;marketwatch&period;com&sol;story&sol;nancy-pelosis-husband-buys-millions-worth-of-nvidia-stock-ahead-of-chip-manufacturing-bill-vote-11658179117">Nancy Pelosi’s husband buys millions worth of Nvidia stock ahead of chip-manufacturing bill vote<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;foxbusiness&period;com&sol;politics&sol;nancy-pelosis-office-responds-husbands-controversial-computer-chip-stock-purchase-ahead-congress-vote">Nancy Pelosi’s office responds to husband’s controversial computer chip stock purchase ahead of Congress vote<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;foxbusiness&period;com&sol;markets&sol;paul-pelosi-big-tech-stocks-antitrust-bills-house-judiciary">Paul Pelosi bets up to &dollar;6M on Big Tech before powerful House committee passes sweeping antitrust measures<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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