No One Will Be Held Accountable

Members of Congress trade stocks in companies when they receive inside information. CNBC, Insider trading and Congress: How lawmakers get rich from the stock market.

(PS NBC, Justice Department drops insider trading investigations of three senators.)

Federal Reserve officials trading stocks that the Fed is propping up. NY Times, Fed Officials’ Trading Draws Outcry, and Fuels Calls for Accountability, Central bank regional presidents traded securities in markets in which Fed choices mattered in 2020.

Federal Reserve officials traded stocks and other securities in 2020, a year in which the central bank took emergency steps to prop up financial markets and prevent their collapse — raising questions about whether the Fed’s ethics standards have become too lax as its role has vastly expanded.

Federal judges own stock in companies they rule on. WSJ, 131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest,

More than 130 federal judges have violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned stock.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that judges have improperly failed to disqualify themselves from 685 court cases around the nation since 2010.

We all know no one will be held accountable.