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Insider Five-Month Investigation into Federal Lawmakers Finances Finds Alarming Conflict of Ethical Standards

In light of several reports calling for an “outright ban” on allowing politicians to trade stocks on the market, a Dec. 2021 Business Insider report, which not surprisingly escaped significant media coverage, conducted an investigative reporting project entitled “Conflicted Congress.” The Insider’s investigative report revealed “myriad ways members of the US House and Senate have eviscerated their own ethical standards, avoided consequences, and blinded Americans to the many moments when lawmakers' personal finances clash with their public duties.”

Hundreds of interviews of the nation’s most powerful leaders were conducted over a five month period covering almost 9,000 financial-disclosure reports for every sitting lawmaker and their top-ranking staffers. 

Here’s what the Business Insider found: 

“From December 13 to December 17, Insider published more than two-dozen articles and data visualizations that together reveal:

If you think this is appalling, see more in the Insider’s published exclusive, searchable, and sortable database of all members of Congress' personal finances, including their assets, debts, and sources of outside income.

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