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Business Insider

U.S. news organization; its reporters ran the “Conflicted Congress” project, first published in December 2021.

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74 Members of Congress Have Violated a Law Designed to Prevent Insider Trading and Stop Conflicts-of-Interest, Business Insider, via Reader Supported News. Scholarship & press
Insider has chronicled this widespread nature of this phenomenon in "Conflicted Congress," an ongoing reporting project initially published in December.
78 members of the 117th Congress violated a federal conflicts-of-interest and financial transparency law, Business Insider, 3 Jan 2023. Scholarship & press
But a decade on, Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike routinely violate the STOCK Act: 40 Republicans and 37 Democrats in the current Congress violated the law, per Insider's tally.
In late 2021, Insider endeavored to digitize each member of Congress' financial records, leading its reporters to pore over the data to find numerous unreported conflicts of interest from several members of Congress as part of its "Conflicted Congress" investigation.

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