The FBI served a search warrant on Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) Wednesday as an investigation pushes forward on whether or not the senator violated a law that prevents members of Congress from trading on insider information they learn from their work, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Federal agents seized Burr’s cellphone after they served a search warrant on the Republican at his residence in the Washington area, a law enforcement official told the Times.
Caitlin Carroll, a spokeswoman for Burr, declined to comment on the reported warrant.
Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sold a significant percentage of his stock portfolio in February shortly before the stock market declined and after his committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings.
The Justice Department started to probe stock transactions made by lawmakers, including Barr, ahead of the steep market decline, CNN reported last month.
Burr sold off between $628,000 to $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions, according to ProPublica which first reported in March on the senator’s selloff.
Burr has denied using any information he learned in his capacity as a senator to guide his decisions regarding selling his stocks.
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Op Ed: Burr has always been a scumbag whose one of the biggest bribe takers is Washington. Doing illegal stock trades was probably one of the most honest things he's ever done. Like other Republican scumbags in congress Richard Burr became a multimillionaire on a US senator's salary. How is that even possible? With our corrupt criminal justice system, even if charges are brought against Senator Burr, he'll probably buy a judge or the federal prosecutor. Those whores come cheap.
Bad news for Senator Burr. To get a search warrant, a prosecutor must show and a judge and that judge must find probable cause that a crime was committed and that evidence of the crime likely will be found.
A moral criminal justice system would lock him up with hardened street thugs. If his criminal activity involved other countries which may have led to putting American lives in danger, Burr should be executed for treason after a few years of waterboarding at Gitmo. Before Americans were told of the COVID-19 pandemic Richard Burr knew and he kept is lie hole shut. American died because Richard Burr and scum like him.
The worst that will happen to Burr is he will be kicked out of the Senate (He was not going to run again anyway.) and he'll get to keep most of his ill gotten money. That's how it works when a member of the criminal elite commit crimes.
The worst that will happen to Burr is he will be kicked out of the Senate (He was not going to run again anyway.) and he'll get to keep most of his ill gotten money. That's how it works when a member of the criminal elite commit crimes.
Burr would be smart to ask Putin for asylum.
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