Josephs: Richard Burr sold $1.4M in stocks after publishing reassuring COVID-19 op-ed
Chris Josephs · Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Apr 18, 2025 · at 10:16
Chris Josephs, co-founder of Autopilot, recounts the 2020 congressional trading scandal where Senator Richard Burr dumped stock holdings after confidential pandemic intelligence briefings.
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“He called up his financial advisor, in his, him and his financial advisor, they liquidated their portfolio, their retirement account, a week after he wrote that op-ed telling the world to kind of stay calm. Sold off 1.4 million dollars of his entire retirement account, while sitting as the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee.”
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