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This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:13 am
Posted by Placekicker
Florida
Member since Jan 2016
14053 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:13 am



u/#chiefwarren
Copy Pasta Alfredo:
This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.
A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.
It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:
56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.
More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.
343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.
That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.
The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:
The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.
Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.
Now look at the individual leaderboard:
Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade
And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.
She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.
The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.
The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.
And the cruelest part is this:
A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.
But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.
They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.
The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.
Posted by Shiftyplus1
Regret nothing that made you smile
Member since Oct 2005
14626 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:19 am to
Expecting them to correct themselves is silly. But this is not why they were elected. There have to be constraints placed on reps and senators
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
23825 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:20 am to
No wonder they want to "serve" us. It is extremely profitable and without penalty.
Posted by Laugh More
Member since Jan 2022
4038 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:20 am to
This is where demoralization comes into play.

We all KNEW this shite is and has been happening for a while. Now that we are seeing “evidence,” most people sit around saying, “nothing will happen.”

And they’re right. It’s sucks, but it’s true.
Posted by Big4SALTbro
Member since Jun 2019
24680 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:20 am to
Congress and their insider trading should be making people dump tea in the harbor from both sides, the left finds it ok though
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
64232 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:21 am to
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the left finds it ok though


Apparently the right does too.
Posted by Aubie Spr96
lolwut?
Member since Dec 2009
44565 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:23 am to
quote:

This is where demoralization comes into play. We all KNEW this shite is and has been happening for a while. Now that we are seeing “evidence,” most people sit around saying, “nothing will happen.”


Yep. There are no consequences. Ever.
Posted by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
98889 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:25 am to
Congress doing insider trading demoralizes you?

Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
21838 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:26 am to
The Congressional Members need this stock boondoggle, especially now that USAID and other sources of corruption have been curtailed. How else can they get the gobs of money needed to pay NGOs, think tanks, media, university operatives, bail money for Antifa, and Moloch for the power they so desire.
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
16843 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:27 am to
Smells like seven layers,


That machine eats taco bell.

Posted by dalefla
Central FL
Member since Jul 2024
4386 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:38 am to
Now expand the search to their families and friends who aren't exempt. Locking up love ones may get their attention.

Martha Stewart jailed for lying about trades. Aren't late filings similar?
Posted by cadillacattack
the ATL
Member since May 2020
10921 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:41 am to

Outstanding article and the information is very clarifying.

Time to clean house …..
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
15653 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:45 am to
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Congress doing insider trading demoralizes you?


Uh, yeah. It does.
Posted by Techdave
Laffy
Member since Apr 2014
904 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:46 am to
It's kind of mind blowing that any Congressman or Executive Branch Official can be allowed to trade in the first place. Just seems that should have been a law long ago.
Posted by Pragmatist2025
Member since Jun 2025
1286 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:51 am to
I had actually had a similar discussion about this recently with my son. It was not ‘if’, but ‘when’ Ai would track lobby donations to congressmen and how it affected their votes and how these votes influenced valuations in the companies they traded in.

Most of this was already available but I wasn’t aware if most of their trading information was publicly revealed info.
Posted by duckblind56
South of Ellick
Member since Sep 2023
5564 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 7:58 am to
Sort of helps one poor white boy like me understand why a couple million $ is spent to get elected to a job with a salary of $200K.

Just an example.

quote:

Julia Letlow's campaign has spent roughly \(\$3.9\) million during her run for the U.S. Senate. Overall disbursements filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for her campaign committee total \(\$3,425,607\), while independent sources tracking total cycle spending estimate her total campaign expenditures at about \(\$2.8\) million.


quote:

U.S. Representative Julia Letlow earns a base annual salary of $174,000, which is the standard compensation for members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Beyond her congressional salary, public financial disclosures estimate her total net worth at approximately $1.9 million to $2 million.

This net worth includes her financial investments in publicly traded stocks as well as her previous academic administration career.
This post was edited on 6/16/26 at 8:01 am
Posted by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
98889 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 8:08 am to
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Uh, yeah. It does.


You beta males are pathetic
Posted by Champagne
Sabine Free State.
Member since Oct 2007
55520 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 8:33 am to
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No wonder they want to "serve" us. It is extremely profitable and without penalty.


Yep.

That's why they fight so hard against term limits.
Posted by Geekboy
Member since Jan 2004
8253 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 8:36 am to
Wow! I am totally devastated. I thought our politicians were on the up and up.

Now, explain to me again why people go to the voting booth?
Posted by lake chuck fan
Vinton
Member since Aug 2011
24103 posts
Posted on 6/16/26 at 8:45 am to
If I was working in the DOJ, this would piss me off! Just sayin
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