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15 USC §§§78ff, 78j & 17 CFR §240.10b5-2 make it a federal crime to willfully buy or sell securities on the basis of material nonpublic information misappropriated in breach of a duty of trust or confidence.
Under 15 USC §78u-1, Members of Congress owe a duty arising from a relationship of trust and confidence to the Congress, the U.S. Government, and the citizens of the United States with respect to material, nonpublic information derived from their position as a Members of Congress
Section 4 of the STOCK Act (Pub. L. 112-105) further provides that "Members of Congress ... are not exempt from the insider trading prohibitions arising under the securities laws, including section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b–5 thereunder."
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The federal government actually has a history of trying to change the weather by blowing stuff up in the sky.

On February 27, 1891, Robert Dyrenforth was appointed "Special Agent of the Department of Agriculture for Making Experiments in the Production of Rainfall."
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In 1873, Congress passed the Comstock Act, which made it a federal crime to import or transport in interstate commerce virtually any information about contraception or abortion.
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To assess the criminal case against @SenatorBurr, we need to recognize a causation problem and a possible contradition between an initial moral wrong and the new alleged crime:

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