Calls for Senator Richard Burr to step down amid coronavirus stock selloff scandal
It was recently made public that North Carolina's Republican Senator Richard Burr downplayed the coronavirus outbreak while getting rid of hundreds of thousands of dollars of stocks before the market collapsed as the pandemic spread. Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for Burr's resignation after the secretary of the Senate disclosed him and his wife had sold more than 33 stocks valued between 628,000 to 1.7 million USD.
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