As COVID Hit, Leftist and RINO Elites Traded Stocks ‘With Exquisite Timing’

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Why is America standing for this banana republic corruption? These cosseted elitists would have us believe that they just guessed right and were incredibly lucky. Obviously they exploited the inside information to which they were privy and benefited immensely from doing so.Everyone who made money on COVID ought to be barred from public office forever. That will never happen, however, because the people who oversee the government’s law enforcement apparatus are even more corrupt than these stock traders. The rot has gone very deep. Washington needs a thorough housecleaning.

“As COVID Hit, Lawmakers Traded Stocks ‘With Exquisite Timing’: WSJ,” by Lee Barney, Newsmax, October 19, 2022:

At least 400 officials at 50 leading government agencies, including the Pentagon and the Treasury, bought and sold stocks of major U.S. companies that were the most impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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The timing was “exquisite,” particularly with respect to top-level information about the origin of the pandemic, its spread and the government response in the form of trillions of dollars in COVID-19 relief and the stabilization of the financial markets. That’s the conclusion of the Journal’s analysis, based on a timeline of official COVID-19 events, financial disclosure forms and emails obtained through public record requests.

“Federal officials working on the government response to COVID-19 made well-timed trades when the pandemic began — both as the markets plunged and as they rallied,” WSJ writes. “In January 2020, the U.S. public was largely unaware of the threat posed by the virus spreading in China, but health officials were on high alert and girding for a crisis.”

WSJ delved into the investment trades of a number of high-profile Washington officials, including former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; Hugh Auchincloss, the principal deputy director at a division of the National Institutes of Health, whose boss was Dr. Anthony Fauci; and Stephen Redd, deputy director for public health service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As information about the extent of COVID-19’s danger to the public health and economy became known, along with the massive relief measures the government took to prevent the U.S. from slipping into a depression, these and other officials bought and sold out of companies and stock sectors, via equities and mutual funds, that were the most impacted.

In March 2020 when numerous government agencies were working furiously to prevent COVID-19 deaths and prop up the economy and the markets, Chao purchased more than $600,000 in two stock funds. Meanwhile, her husband, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was the Senate Majority Leader overseeing negotiations over the COVID-19 stimulus bill.

A Treasury Department official bought shares in Boeing and General Electric, which were helped by a government loan package, and which were two of the major suppliers of ventilators.

Even though former President Donald Trump did not sign the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, until March 27, 2020, nine days prior, the Treasury Department made public the details that it wanted to see in the bill, including $50 billion in loans for airlines and $450 billion for “severely distressed sectors” and small businesses.

Two days later, Treasury domestic finance counselor Jeff Goettman bought 15 stocks, including Boeing and GE for between $29,015 and $260,000 — before the ratification of CARES.

On Jan. 24, 2020, when the CDC reported the first COVID-19 case in the U.S., Auchincloss sold between $15,000 and $50,000 of a stock mutual fund. A few days later, Auchincloss sold two more mutual funds and shares in Chevron.

Each holding Auchincloss sold fell sharply in the steep market downturn of Feb. 20, 2020. On that day and over the next week, equity markets suffered their biggest single-week decline since the global financial crisis of 2008.

Redd learned of the approaching danger of COVID at the end of January and sold between $195,005 and $500,000 in stocks and bonds.

As WSJ puts it, “that was just the beginning.”

About 240 officials at health agencies and the Pentagon, which was in charge of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, owned stock in the drug, manufacturing and biotechnology companies that won COVID-19 contracts in 2020 and 2021. Filing disclosures show the value of their holdings between $9 million and $28 million….

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Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

The liberal commie demos and RINOs are exempt from prosecution for insider trading. Joseph Kennedy made money on insider trading and then came up with the laws to make it illegal to do so. Anyone other than the corrupt politicians who get caught for insider trading will be prosecuted to the Max.

Nefarious420D
Nefarious420
1 year ago

Insider Trading is the American Way if you are an Elite Politician who is above the law.

Lavrentiy Beria's GhostD
Lavrentiy Beria's Ghost
1 year ago

How does a Kentucky hill billy end up married to a woman from China?
In 2005 when I had been out of work for 3 years, Chao withheld 50,000 high tech jobs while American companies applied for H1-B visas. Over course, she was Secretary of Labor under George W Democrat-Lite Bush.
Of course, McConnell, from a family of slave owners, loves cheap labor.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Bush was not demo lite. He was a full blown liberal commie demo like his father.

Marc
Marc
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

At least 3 generations of stinky Bush sold out America and Europe – to Nazis, mafiosos, Commies and cultists, etc. All for person profit. Scumbags.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

The liberal commie demos and RINOs are exempt from prosecution for insider trading. Joseph Kennedy made money on insider trading and then came up with the laws to make it illegal to do so. Anyone other than the corrupt politicians who get caught for insider trading will be prosecuted to the Max.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Another one of my posts is awaiting approval but was not approved. what is wrong with this comment section? Seems that heavy handed liberals are monitoring it. I have better luck on yahoo FAKE news.

Ed Cohen
Ed Cohen
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

Perhaps the have noticed the hundreds of times you stupidly label decent people “liberal commie demos because they do not share your nasty hate filled political views

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago
Reply to  Ed Cohen

That is what the liberals are is commie demos. They are far from decent. If they were decent the country would not be in the shape it is in.

Sir Turkeychoker
Sir Turkeychoker
1 year ago

hold your hat in your hands,bow your head, keep gaze toward ground, as they pass by. they are smarter,better,more important to society than any of us. So, know your place. Do not dare to question, just obey.

jerry snaper
jerry snaper
1 year ago

ITS MUCH WORSE THAN THIS ARTICLE IMPLIES! By trading options $ Billions can be transferred with out the results being published. Officials who traded on their inside information should be prosecuted. The Obama has so corrupted America and the world at every level. Unless we see him and others at the end of a rope Western Civilization is doomed to be under sharia slavery. Have you noticed the huge, hyper cities being constructed in the Arab countries with Americas wealth?

Michael Arp
Michael Arp
1 year ago

Well, 20,000 gun laws don’t stop crooks, why should insider trading laws stop crooks??

Jim M
Jim M
1 year ago

This kind of corruption goes on and on while the same elites regulate stock trading for the general public. You and I would be completely ruined by the DOJ if we did the same! Wake Up America!

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