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| Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness |
| 2020-03-20 |
| DeepStaters gonna self-protect. Burn him. [ProPublica] Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat. Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions. As the head of the intelligence committee, Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government's most highly classified information about threats to America's security. His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time, according to a Reuters story. A week after Burr's sales, the stock market began a sharp decline and has lost about 30% since. On Thursday, Burr came under fire after NPR obtained a secret recording from Feb. 27, in which the lawmaker gave a VIP group at an exclusive social club a much more dire preview of the economic impact of the coronavirus than what he had told the public. Related: Richard Burr: 2020-02-07 ‘Frozen by paralysis of analysis': Obama administration botched response to election meddling from Russia, senators say Richard Burr: 2019-02-13 Senate Intel Panel to Conclude No Evidence of Trump-Russia Conspiracy Richard Burr: 2018-12-12 Clapper asks for leniency for Senate Intel Committee source Related: Senate Intelligence Committee: 2020-02-07 ‘Frozen by paralysis of analysis': Obama administration botched response to election meddling from Russia, senators say Senate Intelligence Committee: 2019-12-15 Who Apologizes to Carter Page? Senate Intelligence Committee: 2019-11-29 FBI Diagnosed With CIA Disease |
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