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Sherrod Brown: “If I am in a top-secret meeting and I find that we are going to drop a weapons system and by doing that the company…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2011
If I am in a top-secret meeting and I find that we are going to drop a weapons system and by doing that the company stock is going to go down dramatically, and I walk outside and I pick up the phone and I say, 'Hey, sell XYZ Company's stock,' that is what we are talking about.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Scott Brown emphasizes the seriousness of insider trading by Congress members.

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