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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 campaign donations they 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.
@groundhopper_fc Sorry in advance for the tropical weather! You will eat well here - the suggestions are all good. With the rain, I concur that Space Center Houston is a good bet. Eat lunch at Frenchies and do Happy Hour at Boondoggles.
My last birthday post for President Trump tonight and this one is personal.
This man has not just been my president, he has been a friend to me.
Behind the title, the cameras, and everything people say about him, there is a real person with a real heart.
Tonight, I want to share the good side of President Trump that so many people refuse to show, because he deserves that.
No, I don’t talk to him every day, and I don’t get to see him often. But every time I do see him, he treats me with nothing but kindness.
He gave me a stage and allowed me to speak at the White House. He has shared my posts, given me recognition, and encouraged me to keep going and never give up.
One moment I will never forget happened at dinner. I told him I didn’t want to interrupt his time with his family, and he looked at me and said, “You are family too.”
That meant more to me than he will ever know.
I have personally experienced his kindness, and I will never forget it.
Happy Birthday, President Trump. Thank you for believing in me, encouraging me, and always treating me with respect. I pray God continues to protect you, strengthen you, and bless you.
@AbudBakri First of all… gives me nightmares. No…night terrors. That’s not sleep. I’m pretty sure the NASA flight surgeon protocols are posted on the internet. Might help… for me, though, no more melatonin.
@tutticontenti He’s still not free of prosecution. The dog could still be taken again and he could be charged with something. It’s disgusting what they have done.