Several members of Congress, their spouses and investment advisers sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock after sensitive, closed-door briefings for lawmakers about the threat of the disease
Weeks before the new coronavirus pandemic sent the stock market plummeting, several members of Congress, their spouses and investment advisers sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock after lawmakers attended sensitive, closed-door briefings about the threat of the disease.
Some of the well-timed sales saved the senators and their spouses as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential losses, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the trades shows.
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