Sunday, June 14, 2009

Senators held stock in bailed-out banks

And it makes you wonder why the Senators who sit on the Senate Banking Committee are making decisions on TARP on the bilout banks that they hold stock in.

Senators who oversee the $700 billion Wall Street rescue package held stocks in many of the banks bailed out towards the end of last year, according to financial disclosure reports released Friday.

According to the reports detailing senators’ finances in 2008, nearly half of the members of the Senate Banking Committee had holdings in financial institutions that have taken funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The panel has jurisdiction over the bailout fund and other relief efforts directed by federal regulators to save the nation’s financial system.

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