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Over 2,000 shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older, Moody's found. The oldest known human lived to 122 (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Wasn't she also jailed in the US? I never understood why politicians there are allowed to do insider trading. Then again, previous prime minister where im from basically did the same, but said "sorry", so it's cool.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

It is explicitly not illegal for Congress to do what Martha did. There was an article yesterday that Pelosi just made like 500k doing it?

One of the actual "both sides are shitty" examples is insider trading. It seems like a no-brainer that it should be illegal for our politicians to do it, but they refuse to vote on a bill to make it so.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

It seems Martha's mistake wasn't the Insider trading, it was not running for office before she did it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It was the cover up that really sunk her.