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RandySF

(58,776 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:47 PM Mar 2020

Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing

The Senate’s newest member sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks after a private, all-senators meeting on the novel coronavirus that subsequently hammered U.S. equities.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) reported the first sale of stock jointly owned by her and her husband on Jan. 24, the very day that her committee, the Senate Health Committee, hosted a private, all-senators briefing from administration officials, including the CDC director and Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, on the coronavirus.

“Appreciate today’s briefing from the President’s top health officials on the novel coronavirus outbreak,” she tweeted about the briefing at the time.

That first transaction was a sale of stock in the company Resideo Technologies worth between $50,001 and $100,000. The company’s stock price has fallen by more than half since then, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average overall has shed approximately 10,000 points, dropping about a third of its value.

It was the first of 29 stock transactions that Loeffler and her husband made through mid-February, all but two of which were sales. One of Loeffler’s two purchases was stock worth between $100,000 and $250,000 in Citrix, a technology company that offers teleworking software and which has seen a small bump in its stock price since Loeffler bought in as a result of coronavirus-induced market turmoil.




https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly-loeffler-dumped-millions-in-stock-after-coronavirus-briefing

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Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2020 OP
Dupe? denem Mar 2020 #1
Duplicates are only an issue in the Late Breaking News forum as indicated in the littlemissmartypants Mar 2020 #7
Great, another one. dhol82 Mar 2020 #2
i am so tired dweller Mar 2020 #3
Her husband is Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Who else heard or saw the SIGNAL? . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #4
Time for these people to go to jail Ilsa Mar 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author democratisphere Mar 2020 #6
Best case explanation: She was concerned enough to dump her stock, but not concerned enough to Doodley Mar 2020 #8
Greed, net worth $500 million, but cheats to save a decline to 499 million. Cicada Mar 2020 #9

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dhol82

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2. Great, another one.
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:51 PM
Mar 2020

Burr dumped 1.5 million in stock and now this one!
Sincerely hope they will be brought up on insider trading charges but I am often a fool.

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Doodley

(9,088 posts)
8. Best case explanation: She was concerned enough to dump her stock, but not concerned enough to
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 11:06 PM
Mar 2020

take action and warn the public. Worst case explanation: She knew she could personally benefit by cashing the stock and, among others, let the virus spread happen.

Cicada

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9. Greed, net worth $500 million, but cheats to save a decline to 499 million.
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 01:47 AM
Mar 2020

The chumps who bought her shares were cheated. They didn’t have access to her secret info.

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