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Hi John, I wanted to make sure you saw this email from my team the other day. While I know the current public health situation is top-of-mind for everyone, our work to keep folks accountable cannot stop. These extremely disturbing reports about Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler’s stock trades need to be thoroughly investigated. Will you read the email below, and if you agree, sign my petition for an immediate investigation? https://act.myngp.com/Forms/4135133059070625792 -- Hank ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Team Hank Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Subject: Kelly Loeffler needs to be held accountable .jpg "Hank Johnson Logo") Team, In times of crisis, we need our leaders to bring us together and help the least fortunate among us weather the storm. We don’t need them exploiting confidential information for their own financial gain. Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler has been exposed for selling off stocks on January 24th, the very day that she got a Senate intelligence briefing about coronavirus, and buying stocks in companies that make working from home software. Suspicious? Insider trading by members of Congress is illegal -- sign on to our petition to call for an immediate investigation into Senator Loeffler.
By all indications, what Kelly Loeffler did was wrong -- insider trading by members of Congress is a violation of the STOCK Act, which prohibits insider trading and established the reporting mechanism that helped the press catch Loeffler and other GOP Senators in the act. And here’s how it looks to the public: The chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and his wife -- a United States Senator from Georgia -- profited off of Senate intelligence briefings on the coronavirus. It stinks. Instead of apparently selling her stocks for her own personal financial gain, maybe Loeffler should have used that information and sounded the alarm to Georgians and members of the public that coronavirus is something we should take very seriously. There is nothing worse than profiting off of a crisis. The recent coverage of price gouging by third-party retailers on Amazon for items like hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes made us angry. If we’re all in this together, we each have to be better than this. We deserve better than this from our political leaders in Georgia. Will you join us in calling for an immediate investigation into Kelly Loeffler? Thanks, -- Team Hank |
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