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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 04:54 PM Jan 2017

Company Says It Gave Price Exclusive Stock Deal, Contrary To His Testimony

Source: Talking Points Memo


By MATT SHUHAM Published JANUARY 30, 2017, 3:51 PM EDT

An Australian pharmaceutical company says it gave President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services an exclusive deal to purchase stock, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

That directly contradicts Price's testimony in his confirmation hearings that discounted shares of Innate Immunotherapeutics Ltd. “were available to every single individual that was an investor at the time."

Innate Immuno CEO Simon Wilkinson said in an interview with the Journal that those investors who had previously participated in private placement had been invited to “make friends and family aware of the opportunity” to buy discounted shares.

The Journal confirmed the exclusive discount in an interview with Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), who owns a 17 percent stake in the company and who made Price aware of the stock opportunity. Price was one of just six “friends and family” of investors previously involved in a private placement that were offered the special discounted rates, according to the report. The Journal noted that “about 10” investors who previously purchased Innate Immuno stock were also offered discount rates, in addition to all investors in Australia and New Zealand.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tom-price-purchased-exclusive-discounted-stock

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Company Says It Gave Price Exclusive Stock Deal, Contrary To His Testimony (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
Perjury mobeau69 Jan 2017 #1
Martha Stewart went to jail for this. Price is corrupt to the core. Criminal insider trading. Fred Sanders Jan 2017 #2
hers was selling with I side info sarah FAILIN Jan 2017 #4
IOKIYAR progressoid Jan 2017 #3
My guess is that it won't keep him from being confirmed Tomorrow red dog 1 Jan 2017 #5
Payola is practically a religion in the Deep South. tenorly Jan 2017 #6
Rape, pillage, and plunder moondust Jan 2017 #7
Praise the Lawd! tenorly Jan 2017 #8

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)
4. hers was selling with I side info
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:23 PM
Jan 2017

I thought hers was very minor tbh. He was literally writing legislation for them. Lock him up!

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
5. My guess is that it won't keep him from being confirmed Tomorrow
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 07:25 PM
Jan 2017

After all, the guy who nominated him to head HHS is a pathological liar himself.

K&R, thanks for posting, DonViejo.

tenorly

(2,037 posts)
6. Payola is practically a religion in the Deep South.
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 07:30 PM
Jan 2017

Render unto God on Sunday; and unto Caesar on Monday.

moondust

(19,972 posts)
7. Rape, pillage, and plunder
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 08:38 PM
Jan 2017

six days a week, just be sure to show your face in church on Sunday so everybody can see you're a saint.

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