OPINION:
Once again, the powerful ruling class proves that it is shamelessly sneaky in using the classified intelligence its receives on world events to selfishly save its stock portfolios from a looming crisis — a perk the average American is denied (“Sens. Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler sold stock before steep market losses from coronavirus,” Web, March 19).
North Carolina’s Mr. Burr and Georgia’s Ms. Loeffler appear to have financially benefitted from the insider information they had about the coming downward spiral of the stock market from the coronavirus long before the public was made aware of just how devastating the economic destruction would be.
It is long past the time for members of Congress, senators and their families to be limited to the same investments of Thrift Savings Plans and 401(k)s in which all other federal employees and their families invest. Stocks that were held by individual congressional members prior to their election must be held in a blind trust insulated from the knowledge and manipulation of the elected politicians and their families.
The Department of Justice — not congressional ethics committees — must also pursue serious criminal prosecutions for violations of the law. Elected politicians in Congress must never again be allowed to profit off the financial and emotional misery of other Americans.
AL QUARTARARO
Virginia Beach, Va.
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