Don't worry, the US Govt will step in and protect the average investor.........???
Maxine (Batshit Crazy) Waters heads the committee that lead the charge. Sit back and watch the theatre as blame to passed to the retail / average man on the street for taking on Wall Street. Maxine won't bite the hand that feeds her.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/15/maxine-waters-wall-street-1357237
https://www.rt.com/usa/514156-robinhood-waters-financial-contributions/
Robinhood execs' contributions to House Financial Service panel leaders under scrutiny as hearing over GameStop saga announced
31 Jan, 2021 00:27 / Updated 1 hour ago
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) before a House Financial Services Committee hearing, April 9, 2019. © REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
Robinhood co-founders channeled the maximum sum allowed to the campaigns of the chiefs of the House Committee on Financial Services last year, it has been revealed. The panel is poised to investigate the GameStop craze.
Federal records, dug up by the media in light of the continuing massacre of hedge funds by retail investors using trading apps like Robinhood and Webull, has showed that Robinhood CEO Vlad
Tenev and the app co-founder
Baiju Bhatt contributed $2,800 each to the campaigns of Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, and top Republican on the committee, Patrick McHenry (R-NC), last October.
Under the
federal law, $2,800 is the maximum allowed amount an individual donor can contribute to a candidate’s committee in the current election cycle.
Apart from this, both Tenev and Bhatt funneled $1,200 each to Innovation Political Action Committee, linked to McHenry, and to People Helping People, which, in turn, is associated with Waters. Tenev and Bhatt also donated $2,800 to WINRED, an online fundraising platform, endorsed by the Republican National Committee.
Sorry to any Robert McHenrys, this should be Patrick McHenry. Thx to
@ff_ff8008ff_ff for the correction.Not only did Vladimir Tenev & Baiju Bhatt make exactly the same political contributions, these are their *only* political contributions.
https://t.co/GE8gXu4oBc
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz)
January 30, 2021
All of the contributions were made in the span of several days in October and appear to be the only political activity from the Robinhood execs to have ever left a footprint in the federal records.
The scoop was first reported by Mediaite and the Intercept’s Jon Schwarz on Saturday, two days after Waters announced the committee will hold a hearing
“on short selling” and
“online trading platforms” in view of the Gamestock and other heavily shorted stocks trading bonanza.
Reached by Mediate, spokesperson for Waters did not comment on what some critics deem a potential
conflict of interest, citing her only statement on the issue instead.
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