NEW: After assuring the public about the government's coronavirus preparedness, Senate Intel chair Richard Burr, in one day, sold off up to $1.6 million is stock.
A week later, the market began its fall.
His committee was receiving daily briefings.
Robert Faturechi
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- BREAKING: SEC says Sen. Richard Burr had material nonpublic info re COVID economic impact. After Burr dumped stock, he called his brother-in-law. His brother-in-law called his stock broker **the next minute**
- I watched the post-Access Hollywood presidential debate with Brian Kemp at a Kansas hunting lodge. (He didn't realize I was a reporter.) He joked "Trump should have gone over there and groped her!" to a room of corporate donors and other secretaries of state.Brian Kemp is running for Governor of the great state of Georgia. The Primary is on Tuesday. Brian is tough on crime, strong on the border and illegal immigration. He loves our Military and our Vets and protects our Second Amendment. I give him my full and total endorsement.
- That's... the point of the story.Replying to @kyledcheneyBurr’s office also rebutted a ProPublica story indicating he sold between $500k-$1.6m in stock in the weeks leading up to the market collapse. An aide said the sale happened before market volatility began. politico.com/news/2020/03/1…
- NEW: Trump Media recently outsourced jobs to Mexico 🇲🇽 -even as Trump publicly promised to “stop outsourcing” and “punish” companies that send jobs abroad. The move caused outrage inside his company, seen as betrayal of his stated “America First” ideals.
- Replying to @RobertFaturechiTurns out we missed a few transactions. It's up to *$1.7* million.
- A federal judge issued a restraining order blocking the city from releasing disciplinary records. The judge also barred the NY Civil Liberties Union from disclosing the data. @propublica is not subject to the order. Here’s the data:
- NEW: How billionaire sports owners use their teams to avoid millions in taxes, and pay lower tax rates than: -their millionaire players -low paid stadium workers
- New: Georgia Senator David Perdue sold his home last year, in a private deal, to an official whose organization had business before his committee.
- NEW: Sen. Richard Burr sold his D.C. townhouse to a powerful lobbyist and donor - who had business before Burr’s committees. The deal was done through an LLC, without being publicly listed. Burr appears to have used the proceeds to buy a beach house.
- Replying to @RobertFaturechiProPublica had revealed last year that Burr and his brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, who sits on the National Mediation Board, dumped stock the same day. That they talked that day, and that Fauth called his broker one minute after their call, is new.
- I was texting with an old L.A. cop source. White, high-ranking, old school. His take on the Minneapolis Police Department shocked me...
- NEW: On **the same day** that Sen. Richard Burr dumped stocks… …so did his brother-in-law.
- New: Georgia Sen. David Perdue privately pressed Mnuchin on an obscure tax regulation that would have benefitted wealthy owners of pro sports teams - including his then-major donor Kelly Loeffler.




