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Dick Durbin: Insider Trader?

Carol Platt Liebau

Carol Platt Liebau | June 15, 2009 10:38 PM

From this Chicag Sun-Times report, it seems that Senator Dick Durbin made some awfully interesting -- and advantageous -- stock trades last autumn, the day after closed-door meetings with Bush administration economic officials.

In some circles, if proven, such allegations carry the stench of "insider trading."