Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute, joined Kristine Frazao on Sinclair Broadcasting’s The National Desk to discuss the bipartisan effort to ban members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks. Schweizer traced the issue back to his original exposé on insider trading in Washington, a book called Throw Them All Out,…
GAI President, Peter Schweizer, discusses congressional corruption through insider trading, highlighting how lawmakers routinely evade the STOCK Act and exploit privileged information for financial gain. Appearing on Chanel Rion’s program on OANN, Schweizer explains that while corporate executives face SEC investigations and prison for trading on inside information, members of Congress—who write their own rules—are…
“… The latest example is the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, which explicitly bars lawmakers and staffers from spreading or trading on inside information. The law passed in 2012 only after CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a scathing report, based on a book by Peter Schweizer, exposing the way members of Congress profit from their…