A U.S. judge on Friday directed the House Ways and Means Committee and a staffer to appear at a July 1 hearing to address their alleged refusal to respond to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenas as part of an insider trading probe.
The order by U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe in New York covers both the committee and Brian Sutter, staff director for its healthcare subcommittee and came at the SEC’s request…
According to the SEC, the House committee has resisted the subpoenas, in part by arguing that the U.S. Constitution shields lawmakers from having to testify or turn over documents…
In court papers on Friday, the SEC said it was looking into an email that a lobbyist at the law firm Greenberg Traurig sent to broker-dealer Height Securities regarding a deal struck in Congress about the Medicare rates.
It said that email was 70 minutes before CMS announced the rates after U.S. markets closed, and about 30 minutes before Height issued a report suggesting that the change could help companies such as Humana and Health Net.
The SEC said the share prices of both companies jumped after the report, with Humana’s rising 7 percent in the last 15 minutes of trading.
Sutter, meanwhile, had on the day of the announcement been emailing the Greenberg Traurig lobbyist about the termination of a client from the Medicare program, the SEC said. Both then spoke on the phone for three minutes, which was 10 minutes before the lobbyist emailed Height, the SEC said.
Congress-creeps always think they are above the law.
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“Congress-creeps always think they are above the law.”
Why not?. They’re just following the examples that have been made by the “most honest and transparent” White House that’s ever squatted at 1600 Pennsylvania.
Not a smidgeon of corruption, there is, he said.
Maybe they should just delete the emails like Obama does.
Other than being written poorly, shouldn’t the article demonstrate some example of insider trading? They issued the report and the stocks went up. The stocks were going up with or without their report. Who made the money?
So they are merely engaged in a fishing expedition to see if anyone made money.
May I borrow your words ” , ..money…, … money, …,”
I just want to remind you that it is not worth one giveadamn unless it chops up birds.
MikeN, you’re definitely a committed diehard teepeeRepukaton, always asking for proof upfront and defaming any investigation to get at the truth, when one of your ilks may have committed high crimes!
“The case could prompt a courtroom showdown between the SEC’s authority to enforce U.S. securities laws against Congress’ power to manage its own affairs.”
“The House committee has resisted the subpoenas, in part by arguing that the U.S. Constitution shields lawmakers from having to testify or turn over documents.”
Basically Dave Camp (R-MI) argues he is constitutionally “above the law” and can give insider information all he wants because in true “Nixonian doctrine”, he is “above the law” and offers a defense at the apogee of governmental arrogance!
MikeN, all you and your fellow teepeeRepukaton ilk here can do is, deflecting and pointing fingers to Obama. All you and teepeeRepukaton ever offer is pointy fingers at Obama!
Your ilk, for your benefit, is desperately trying to kill parts of the American Dream like equality of justice, if not the whole thing entirely!
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut, “The Gunner’s Dream (Waters)”::
And hold on to the dream.
A place to stay
“Oi! A real one …”
Enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And what’s more no-one ever disappears
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
You can relax on both sides of the tracks
And maniacs don’t blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no-one kills the children anymore.
Talk about “high crimes” with Obama involved with former USSR dictators. Anyone catch the latest on that one?
How about the middle east and how Obama ramped UP the war and ordered more U.S. soldiers to go over there and die for nothing (now that ISIS is on the move). Sure, we’re getting out of Iraq now — that’s just good P.R.! But even Obama himself seems to think that trading one American solder for 5 top level criminals is a good deal. Or haven’t you kept up with things?
I suppose these things wouldn’t be so surprising once you remember how Obama is a scum sucking LAWYER by profession.
But hey! Obama is only one guy. So tell us. How do you feel about about the OTHER dumb-asses and their absolute failures with with things like the IRS scandals (notice the PLURAL in that word), the national security scams (NSA, FBI, TSA, etc.) or even the healthcare debacles and how they got the jerk to say crap like “if you like your plan, you can keep it”? Maybe you forgot about Hillary and her mild mannered Whitewater mismanagement which was only a prelude to her outright bungling in Libya. I bet you and a majority of idiots even want to vote for the bitch.
That’s a good one, “tea-pee-pee-publicans” (or maybe your some other ASS-hole). Not that the re-pukes didn’t have a hand in the flushing of America too. But they ARE the minority who only oppose things.
Still… The ASSES won the elections and are continuing their never-ending reformation crusades. It’s all good and getting better every day if you “believe” (the rhetoric). Though you might want to examine WHO it’s better for and maybe, just maybe try and look at just WHO is in power.
With your pinheaded partisan help we can now bitch about the turds we’re forced to swim with. I suppose once the banks start to fail you’re going to blame that on George W. Bush and the tooth fairy for browning up the water. Right? GROW UP!
Poor little repukaton, reality hurts doesn’t it; face it, repukaton are instinctually criminals!
Sad, you can’t face the truth so all you can do is deny reality and deflect! HaHa!
And you probably believe yourself not to be a far, far DEM leftist?
Take a deep breath,look in the mirror and read your posts aloud.
You treat politics like a team sport. What a silly fan you are.
What does your favorite tee-shirt say?
Classic teepeeRepukatin, accuse others of what you are obviously guilty of! I guess having no conscience makes that so easy and fun!
What does my favorite Tee-Shirt say, the one that doesn’t fit anymore:
“EAST COAST SAR WET CREWMAN”
Like George Washington, I don’t adhere to any party.
Washington made the case “the alternate domination” of one party over another and coinciding efforts to exact revenge upon their opponents have led to horrible atrocities, and “is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.”
I think his description very much describes or current state of affairs; the teepeeRupukatons have certainly done their best to enshrine formal and permanent despotism by Wall Street & the 1% and strongly acted out of revenge against President Obama for winning!!
Not that President Obama is our best president; but most of the country knows he is a magnitude better then McCain/Palin, Romney/Ryan and worlds better than Bush/Cheney, who trashed this country in every why they could!
At least Obama did what Bush started a war for, but never wanted to do, get Bin-Laden!
“”…scum sucking LAWYER
Jesus is a lawyer {advocate}. You’d not mind Him in the pool with you and your kids, would you?
So, noname says all “teepeeRepukaton”‘s here do when republicans seem to have done something wrong is point your fingers at Obama, and your reply is “Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Point, Point, Point, Point, Point! Seems like you proved his point with your reply. None of Washington pukes should be above the law, I don’t care what party they’re from. If they’re potentially engaged in insider trading then they need to be investigated. If guilty, punished.
“I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place”
– Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, 2 April
Live from the Superpower of Al Capone it’s the food court at the mall with Judge Fatso and a jury of pears here in fruit and nut land. Make like a banana and split.
*grins*
http://welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
http://theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/baghdad-bob-and-his-ridiculous-true-predictions/274241/
Didn’t we have a thread here a few months back that revealed Congress Memebers (not their staff, contributors, constituents, or family members) are EXEMPT from insider trading law restrictions?
Thats one main reason they go to Congress—to get rich—by insider trading if not direct pay offs.
Who made the $$$? The guys on the other end of the conversation.
THE STOCK MARKET: a rigged game played by suckers as the only game in town. Its why the Pukes CONSTANTLY want to privatize it. Break up the mutual funds and get more idiots playing.
Stupid Hoomans…… roasting on a spit.
No, noname, this is deliberate politicization of another bureaucracy.
the contents of Lois Lerner’s hard drive were wiped out by forces unknown “about 10 days after the Camp letter arrived,” that is to say, a letter from House Ways and Means Chairman DAVE CAMP inquiring into targeting of conservative groups. (Lerner then replied to Camp denying targeting and subsequently pleaded the Fifth before Congress.)
Poor little repukaton, reality hurts doesn’t it; face it, repukaton are instinctually criminals!
Sad, you can’t face the truth so all you can do is deny reality and deflect! HaHa!
Anyone think a banker or Wall Street person is going to go to jail here?
…Ya. Me neither.
Rarely does anyone go to jail for corruption.
It is the American way.