NOURNEWS- Senior Republican Richard Bohr has resigned as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He is accused of abusing reports from intelligence agencies to sell his stocks before the Corona spread across the United States. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reportedly confiscated the senator's mobile phone.
Sen. Mitch McCannell, the Republican president of the Senate, announced that Bohr, a senator from the state of North Carolina, has resigned.
Bohr and his wife are accused of selling about $ 1.7 million of their stock in February, just days before the outbreak of the new coronavirus virus in the United States, in order to prevent further economic downturn.
Personal profiteering of US intelligence reports that have not yet been made public is prohibited for members of the United States during their time in Congress.
In addition to Richard Bohr, a prominent Republican in the Senate, several other senators have been charged with similar illegal acts.
Republican Sen. Kelly Lufler of the State of Georgia, Jimmer Inhof, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, and Diane Feinstein, a prominent Democratic senator from the state of California, are also accused of selling shares before the Corona epidemic began in the United States. However, no investigation has been launched into the allegations.
Only Sen. Feinstein said he had answered Afby's questions about his wife's purchase and sale of shares.
"Senator Bohr called me and informed me of his decision to step down as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee during an investigation into the allegations against him," McCannell said. We both came to the conclusion that his decision was in favor of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The news of the seizure of the 64-year-old Bohr's mobile phone by AFP on Thursday was first made public by the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper also reported that Afibia had also searched the home of Senator Bohr in Washington, DC, with a court order.
A search of Senator Bohr's home and the seizure of his cell phone reveals new dimensions to the accusation that this prominent Republican figure has been abused by unconfirmed intelligence reports.
The U.S. Attorney's Office has been investigating the allegations since March.
Preliminary research on the subject was published in the journal Propablika and reported that between late January and mid-February, Senator Richard Bohr sold more than 30 shares; Among the stocks for industries that suffered the most after the start of Corona; Such as restaurants, hotels and the transportation industry.
As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Bohr has access to daily reports from US intelligence agencies informing US officials of threats to the United States.
However, Bohr claims that he sold his shares not on the basis of "information rents" but only on the basis of public and private reports.
Senator Bohr, meanwhile, has been criticized for reading Crona's omnipotence in the same days. At a time when the outbreak of the new corona virus in the United States was not yet serious, while making public statements that were less important to Cuvid 19, he spoke to Corona's economic threats in private conversations with businessmen in his home state of North Carolina.
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