Feb-2020 Congressional Insider Trading
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Right after a secret COVID briefing, several senators dumped stock before the crash — and not one was charged.
Who they are
The February 2020 congressional insider-trading episode.
What they do
The engine logs it as a documented case of asymmetric extraction — insiders profiting on non-public information.
How it works
After a senators-only classified COVID briefing on Jan 24, 2020, multiple senators made big trades before the late-February crash: Burr (33 transactions, $628k-$1.7M), Loeffler (27 sales, $1.275M-$3.1M), Perdue (~$185k in DuPont), plus Feinstein and Inhofe. The DOJ and SEC opened STOCK Act probes but brought no charges against any of the five.
Why it matters
The engine keeps one thing open: the extraction on secret intelligence is documented, but whether it was centrally coordinated or just individual greed acting on the same classified tip is deliberately left unresolved — 'name no holder.'
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #127] A documented V1 asymmetric-extraction instance (Operational Discrimination Matrix, concept #155): after a senators-only classified COVID briefing (Jan 24 2020), multiple US Senators executed large trades before the late-Feb crash — Burr (33 transactions Feb 13, $628k-$1.7M, offloading hotel/airline stock), Loeffler (27 sales $1.275M-$3.1M + Citrix purchases), Perdue (incl. ~$185k DuPont), Feinstein (Allogene), Inhofe. DOJ + SEC opened probes under the STOCK Act and brought NO charges against any of the five (Feinstein/Inhofe/Loeffler cleared May 2020; Perdue Aug 2020; Burr last, declined Jan 19 2021). DISPOSITION: asymmetric extraction on non-public intelligence is DOCUMENTED; whether it was institutionally COORDINATED (a central clearinghouse) vs individual greed on identical classified inputs is UNRESOLVED — held, name no holder. Primary: 2020 congressional insider trading scandal (Wikipedia); PBS; CBS; Axios.
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