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The Greatest Grifters in the Coronavirus Epidemic Are Our Own Congress People
The greatest grifters in the coronavirus epidemic are our own Congress people. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, a Republican Senator from North Carolina had unloaded his holdings in dozens of stocks that lost a huge amount of their value. He and his wife sold between six hundred and twenty eight thousand and one point seven million dollars in publicly traded stocks on February 13th and bought no new position. So they just straight up cashed out. Most of the companies he cashed out on were major corporations that were hit hard by the collapse of the stock market. It's literally like a scene from VEEP. Just like getting off stage from reassuring people and then like calling and be like, dump