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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

''Unfair trade? An examination of US politicians’ share sales''

From The Bureau Investigates

''The Washington Post examined 45,000 individual congressional stock transactions that occurred between 2007 to 2010 to reveal that 130 – nearly a quarter – of the nation’s lawmakers traded between $85m and $218m in 323 companies that had registered to lobby on legislation that appeared before the House. (There is a range because members of Congress do not have to register the exact amount of each share transaction, but instead indicate that it fell in a certain monetary range).''

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