Dan Crenshaw In Hiding
Teas Republican Congresssquirt Dan Crenshaw, has taken his sanctimonious self to the stock market in double violation of congressional rules.
Crenshaw showed no interest in the stock market his first year in congress, but all that changed when his fellow Republicans showed him how to do a little insider trading. He up and made six stock purchases.
Five of those purchases came in the three days between March 25 and 27, as the Senate and House voted on the CARES Act and former President Trump signed it into law. Crenshaw, who supported the bill, did not initially disclose the transactions, in violation of the STOCK Act, a law that requires members of Congress to tell the public when they engage in securities trades. Months later he amended his records to reflect the purchases.
Crenshaw’s buys didn’t fall into the monetary field of Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue, but it just looked odd since there was no record of him buying stock before, coupled with the fact that it was during a crisis when he should have been paying attention to the crisis and not his stock portfolio, and – here’s the biggie – he failed to report the buys on two separate occasions and all that is what made the whole thing look hinkey.
As to the STOCK Act: Crenshaw bought the stock in March and did not report it until August. He had two opportunities to disclose it before then, but you’ll recall that’s when other congresspeople reported their stock buying and selling and got chastised for it.
Ole brave Dan just laid low. He thought we’d forget because he thinks we’re all dumb. Y’all, I admit it – this guy is a jerk and I don’t like him and always will. I’d rather share a night in a burlap bag with a bobcat than spend an hour in the same room with Cringeshaw.
‘Crenshaw showed no interest in the stock market his first year in congress, but all that changed when his fellow Republicans showed him how to do a little insider trading.’
So a mentoring process inculcating the newbie to the world of insider trading and the path of selling out one’s ethics and values to embracing the club’s secrecy of corruption… and comeuppance.
1The standard QOP “answer” to corruption in their party is not to prosecute it. Like Crenshaw, they explore how to capture a chunk of that grift for themselves.
“Cringeshaw” and “Congresssquirt” or Congresssquirt Cringeshaw. lol May we steal those Ms. JJ?
2then as of this moment he’s on double secret probation.
3Sure, insider trading is OK if you’re a congressperson, but you have to report it.
Crenshaw makes that sweet deal into a twofer:
4Greed
Sloth
This is why they fight tooth and nail to stay in office even when their party has no platform or ideas!
5I have lost the link but some activist (non-partisan as far as I can tell) just nailed a NJ Democrat for years of STOCK scoffing.
That means he had been in the market for years.
I think congresscritters should conform with the disclosure regulations but you did not exactly have to be an insider to guess that medical suppiers of various sorts might be a winnng investment in March.
I did not go that way: I bought Deere and Microsoft and more than doubled my money. How did the insiders do?
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