DOJ drops investigation on four Senators

[Pauls' Revere]

They are still going after Burr:

The DOJ dropped investigations into insider trading by Sens. Kelly Loeffler, James Inhofe, and Dianne Feinstein, however, they will continue the investigation against head of the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)

Bet he walks too, just might take longer.

 

[Swordsmyth]

I've never understood the criminality for insider trading for private citizens, Why cant you take an investment tip from somebody you know? If a certain corporate leader is telling people what might be happening in the company, wouldn't that be the corporation's duty to sign NDA's?

Public officials should be held to a higher standard but you can't tell them to just sit there and do nothing while kissing their investment goodbye. In that case the only other options is to force public officials to liquidate their assets before taking office.

In theory insider trading laws aimed at citizens destroy a valuable market signal.
Politicians are not market actors though and should not be able to profit off their power or use it to facilitate corruption.
They should all have to put their money into blind trusts.