The Justice Department has closed investigations into stock trading by Senators Dianne Feinstein of California, Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, according to people familiar with notifications sent to the senators. The senators came under scrutiny for transactions made in the weeks before the coronavirus sent markets tumbling.
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Senator Richard Burr stepped down from his role as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, a day after the FBI served the North Carolina Republican with a search warrant as part of a probe into his recent stock sales.
Read moreThe FBI served North Carolina Senator Richard Burr with a search warrant Wednesday evening and seized his cellphone as part of an investigation of possible insider trading.
Read moreA federal judge granted former New York Representative Chris Collins’ request to delay the start of his prison sentence because of Covid-19. Collins, who pleaded guilty to participating in an insider trading scheme, was scheduled to report to prison on April 21 to begin serving his 26-month sentence, which will now begin on June 2.
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Senator Richard Burr, one of several senators who dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, is being sued by a member of the public for allegedly violating securities laws.
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Records showing that U.S. lawmakers with early reports on the coronavirus pandemic dumped private stock holdings before markets posted recordbreaking losses has roiled the nation, but criminal fallout is unlikely.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., sold as much as $1.7 million in stocks just before the market dropped in February amid fears about the coronavirus epidemic — while he was publicly downplaying the severity of the pandemic.
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A week after former Congressman Christopher Collins received a two-year sentence for insider trading, the son Collins tipped to an expected stock plunge was sentenced Thursday to probation.
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A federal judge gave a two-year prison sentence Friday to former Congressman Christopher Collins, three months after the New York Republican pleaded guilty to an inside-trading scheme involving his son.
Read moreFormer U.S. Rep. Chris Collins, R-NY, his son Cameron Collins and Stephen Zarksy pleaded guilty Monday to insider trading and related criminal charges, the SEC said.
Read moreThe SEC claims in federal court that London investment bankers Benjamin Taylor and Darina Windsor illegally tipped Joseph Abdul Noor El-Khouri to inside information about six public companies, from which he made more than $2 million in illicit profits.
Read moreThe SEC claims in federal court that bank employee Bryan Cohen, 33, of New York City, tipped “Trader A” to inside information which he passed along to George Nikas, 54, of New York City, from which Nikas and Trader A made at least $2.6 million in illicit profits.
Read moreHis political future is far from certain, but the son of ex-Congressman Chris Collins followed in his father’s footsteps Thursday by pleading guilty to securities fraud.
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The first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s candidate for president pleaded guilty Tuesday in an insider trading case.
Read moreRepresentative Chris Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for president, is expected to plead guilty to insider trading Tuesday, averting a trial where his private emails would be disclosed.
Read moreJust more than three years after his original conviction, former JPMorgan Chase banker Sean Stewart was found guilty Monday of participating in a father-son insider-trading conspiracy.
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Doug DeCinces, the former Major League Baseball star convicted two years ago of making a $1 million profit from insider stock trading, must spend eight months on home confinement but will serve no time in prison, a federal judge declared Monday.
Read moreThe SEC brought a federal complaint saying Martha Patricia Bustos, 31, and Donald G. Blakstad, 60, both of San Diego, made $6.2 million from illegal insider trading on information about (nonparty) Illumina.
Read moreThe first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump found himself immersed in his own private-email controversy Friday as he prepares for an election-year trial on insider-trading charges.
Read morePaul B. Powers, the former associate general counsel of SeaWorld Entertainment, pleaded guilty Tuesday to making $64,645 on inside trading in company stock.
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