Agents of Behemoth

Rep. Kathy Manning violated the STOCK Act by failing to report a stock purchase from more than a year ago.

Lawmakers are actively weighing a ban on lawmakers trading stocks at all.

On Feb. 21, 2018, August Troendle, an Ohio billionaire, made a remarkably well-timed stock trade. He sold $1.1 million worth of shares of Syneos Health the day before a management shake-up caused the company’s stock to plunge 16%. It was the largest one-day drop that year for Syneos’ share price.

WASHINGTON — Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) revealed in his financial disclosure report for December 2022 that he's been trading stocks for some of the companies that he's supposed to be regulating. 

As long as lawmakers are allowed to trade individual stocks, disaster profiteering is always a risk.

Three men in Florida were arrested on Thursday morning on insider trading charged after they allegedly scored $22 million ahead of Donald Trump's media company being taken public, the Associated Press reported. 

WASHINGTON – A new measure released this week to bar sitting federal lawmakers from trading stocks has more support than ever in the Senate. 

Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Former Coinbase Insider Pleads Guilty In First-Ever Cryptocurrency Insider Trading Case

Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, August 22, 2022 California Executive Compensation Consultant Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud For Committing Insider Trading 

Former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney sold up to $550,000 in securities the same day that his boss declared that the “economy is doing fantastically.”