The 2020 congressional insider trading scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving allegations that several members of the United States Senate

who violated the STOCK Act by selling stock at the start of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and just before a stock market crash on February 20, 2020, using knowledge given to them at a closed Senate meeting.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated a probe into the stock transactions on March 30, 2020.

No charges were brought against anyone and all investigations into the matter are closed.

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