Topic: Insider Trading

After more than 3 years in jail, a head injury sustained in a fight with another inmate, and a revolving door of at least a dozen lawyers, Ponzi suspect Allen Stanford's trial finally began last month. NetNet spoke with Richard Roth, white collar criminal defense attorney at the Roth Law Firm.    Read More

Last week the Senate passed the STOCK Act, aimed at reining in insider trading by lawmakers. This week the House takes up a similar bill.    Read More

Pension fund managers worry they may have to register as lobbyists.   Read More

Former SEC Attorney: Can Drive A Truck Through the Openings in 'The Stock Act'   Read More

A bill to bar members of Congress from trading stocks based on nonpublic political information has moved a step closer to becoming law.   Read More

In a strange and unexpected twist, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives is now blocking progress on a bill that would definitively outlaw insider trading by federal lawmakers.   Read More

I may have jumped the gun by claiming that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was attempting to gut the proposed bill to ban insider trading by members of Congress.    Read More

What exactly is Kirstin Gillibrand thinking? The Democratic senator from New York has proposed a new version of a bill to outlaw insider trading by members of Congress that would, in effect, make it completely legal for members of Congress to engage in insider trading.    Read More

Almost no one is willing to speak up in defense of lawmakers trading stocks based on knowledge of non-public information about public policy.    Read More

Want a good stock tip? Ask a Congressman. Or a Senator. Or a Capitol Hill staffer.   Read More