I'm surprised it's only 77.....or 75, I didn't count.

[Mr. Daystar]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/75-members-congress-violated-law-160918008.html

Personally, I find it repulsive that the standard fine is only $200. I think that in it's self is a criminal act.

In my wrathful, hate filled opinion goes more like this.

Every last one of them should be required to donate every last penny of the profits from these investments, PLUS the initial out of cash for the investment, to a charity that benefits something, or someone in the United States. Like veterans, or the elderly. Charities that benefit animals, and abused children. As further punishment for their greed, there will be absolutely NO TAX DEDUCTIONS allowed for these charitable donations. Just the painful reminder that America is sick and tired of them getting fat off of a job, they should be doing on a volunteer basis, out of concern and pride for this country.

 

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You think that's bad, Canada's PM has faced THREE ethics investigations:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/tru...reaches-occur-but-system-is-working-1.6202668

Trudeau was the first prime minister to find himself on the wrong side of federal conflict of interest rules after the Conflict of Interest Act took effect under former prime minister Stephen Harper in 2006.

Trudeau’s first breach — as deemed by then-ethics commissioner Mary Dawson in 2017 — was in connection to his Christmas 2016 trip with family and friends to the Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas. At the time, the PM vowed to behave "differently" in the future.

In 2018, now-Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc was found under current Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion to have breached conflict of interest rules in connection to granting an Arctic surf clam licence to a company that employed a family member during his time as fisheries minister.

In 2019, Trudeau was found to have broken the federal Conflict of Interest Act in relation to the SNC-Lavalin scandal, by seeking to influence Jody Wilson-Raybould in "many ways."

In 2021, both Trudeau and then-finance minister Bill Morneau were subjects of an ethics investigation in connection to the controversy surrounding a 2020 cabinet decision to pay WE Charity millions to manage a student summer service program, despite close personal family connections to the charity.

That's not to mention the ethics violations from members of his cabinet, the most recent of which just happened in the past weeks

Most recently, it was International Trade Minister Mary Ng who had to apologize after Dion found that she "twice failed to recognize a potential conflict of interest involving a friend" and broke ethics rules by contracting a friend's company to assist with communications. Ng has said she takes "full responsibility," but Conservatives have called for her to resign.

But similar to the US, the consequences are barely a slap on the wrist:

Under the federal Conflict of Interest Act there are no penalties for being found in contravention of the rules, because the Act, as it is currently written, doesn’t allow for them. The only penalties written into the law are administrative monetary penalties related to reporting gifts within the prescribed timelines, for example. Having the public alerted to politicians’ breaking of the ethics rules has largely been the only consequence for these contraventions.

Yeah, it must "suck" to be caught in multiple scandals and not face any consequences....