• okamiueru@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Wasn’t she also jailed in the US? I never understood why politicians there are allowed to do insider trading. Then again, previous prime minister where im from basically did the same, but said “sorry”, so it’s cool.

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      9 months ago

      It is explicitly not illegal for Congress to do what Martha did. There was an article yesterday that Pelosi just made like 500k doing it?

      One of the actual “both sides are shitty” examples is insider trading. It seems like a no-brainer that it should be illegal for our politicians to do it, but they refuse to vote on a bill to make it so.

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      9 months ago

      It seems Martha’s mistake wasn’t the Insider trading, it was not running for office before she did it.