by Bob Unruh at WND
A federal ethics complaint was filed on Monday against a Democrat member of Congress for concealing his wife’s $1.5 million payoff from a Colorado company – and it hits her too, as she is Joe Biden’s nominee to the Federal Reserve.
Fox Business reported American Accountability Foundation, a watchdog organization, filed the complaint against Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a House impeachment manager against former President Donald Trump, over the money paid to his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin.
The congressman allegedly violated the requirements that force members of Congress to reveal financial windfalls within a certain time period.
Bloom Raskin got the massive payout from Reserve Trust, for which she previously worked.
It happened at the end of 2020, but her sale of nearly 196,000 shares wasn’t reported until August of 2021, even though the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act from 2012 requires that those details be reported within 45 days.
“Sarah and Jamie Raskin are career politicians who have used the system to enrich themselves, and it is time that someone holds them accountable,” Tom Jones, the founder of the American Accountability Foundation, told FOX Business. “If House rules are going to mean anything, the House Ethics Committee needs to open an investigation and sanction Jamie Raskin for hiding this shady stock deal from the public.”
The Raskins about that time were dealing with the death of their son, Thomas, and Raskin told Business Insider that the late filing happened “because” of their loss.
But the report pointed out that Raskin also was a key leader of the second of two failed impeach-and-remove schemes that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched against President Trump…
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