"CNN: Cantor’s office wrote loophole into insider trading bill" By Arturo Garcia

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CNN: Cantor’s office wrote loophole into insider trading bill

By Arturo Garcia at CNN

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/20/cnn-cantors-office-wrote-loophole-into-insider-trading-bill/#.UAn0B4L2Lf4.reddit

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) office wrote a loophole into the House version of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK) exempting Congress members’ spouses and children from having to report stock market transactions over $1,000 in a timely manner.

The Senate version of the bill requires these transactions be reported within 45 days by both its members and their families. But a memo from the Office of Government Ethics, which oversees all federal executive branch employees, used the House version, telling them spouses and children were not subject to the rule.

Neither of the bill’s Senate co-sponsors, Scott Brown (R-MA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), knew about the discrepancy.

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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I put this in LBN a few hours ago - lots of comments - link below FYI

so you can see how others have responded earlier today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014172365

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3. Thanks.

[LonePirate]

2. I see that's more of that ethical transparency from those right wing crooks