Suspected of improper stock trading temporarily resigned by Chamei Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman
Xinhua News Agency, Washington, May 14th (Reporter Deng Xianlai Sun Ding) was investigated for allegedly engaging in improper stock trading during the New Crown epidemic. Richard Bohr, chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, decided on 14th to temporarily resign as chairman of the committee.
The US Senate Majority Leader and Republican Mitch McConnell issued a statement that day, Burr informed him that he decided to temporarily resign as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee during the investigation. McConnell said Burr ’s decision was in the best interests of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and his resignation “will take effect at the end of the 15th”.
Burr later told the media that the reason for his resignation was that the relevant investigation interfered with the work of the Senate Intelligence Committee and its members. Burr said he cooperated with the investigation from the beginning and will assist the investigation to continue.
Burr is from the Republican Party and was investigated by the FBI for allegedly dumping his own stock through internal sources during the New Crown epidemic. The FBI issued a search warrant to Burr on the 13th and confiscated one of his mobile phones.
According to US media reports, the US Senate on January 24 heard a closed-door briefing by White House officials on the risk of outbreaks. Since then, during the plunge in the New York stock market in late February, several senators, including Burr and others, had their shares worth between hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars sold.
Burr issued a statement saying that the only basis for his decision to sell shares at the time was public news reports, and he had requested a comprehensive review of the matter by the Senate Ethics Committee.
According to reports, several senators suspected of selling shares through internal sources during the epidemic all claimed that they had not committed wrongdoing.