Insider Trading Scandals

secretly sold up to $50,000 of Boeing shares mere days before a House committee he was on released a highly critical report about the company and then failed to disclose the sale for more than two months and only reported it after he won reelection in a rrace he won by a mere 333 votes

illegally profited more than $223,000 by acting on insider information to purchase shares of Navigant Consulting stock shortly before it was acquired by another consulting firm

illegally made more than $126,000 in profit after receiving confidential information about T-Mobile's intention to acquire Sprint from a T-Mobile executive at a golf outing

Cashed in between $628,000 and $1.72 million in stocks from companies seen as vulnerable to the burgeoning COVID-19 outbreak over a series of 33 separate transactions after receiving confidential briefings as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee

promoted a new cryptocurrency he had secret information on one day before it was released to the public without disclosing his investment as required by law

illegally raked in a $35k profit after selling 100,000 shares of "penny stock" COPsync after receiving confidential information that it was about to crash

illegally gave insider information to his son and others to help them avoid more than $700k in losses by selling their stock in a biotech company before news of a multiple sclerosis drug trial failing FDA authorization went public causing the stock to drop 90%