a minute agoHe used internal information about the Coronavirus to do business. The U.S. Senator resigns.
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)A republican senator in the United States has resigned from the position of chairman of the important committee in Congress after his phone was confiscated by investigators who had an arrest warrant to investigate allegations that he had confidential information for coronavisur to sell shares before the market fell due to the health crisis. Senator [...]
Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina will leave his post as head of the Senate's Committee for Intelligence, the Republican majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, announced.
“Senator Burr contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step down as head of the intelligence committee during the time of the investigation. We agreed that this decision would be in the interest of the committee and will enter into force tomorrow morning,” read in a statement McConnell.
Burr's phone was confiscated by the FBI on Wednesday evening, when investigators showed him the arrest warrant at his Washington house amid an ongoing investigation into allegations of whether he was involved in internal information trading, writes The Guardian.
