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Gillibrand rebuffs GOP, says '08 trade netted $79G

As the Senate began debating the STOCK Act Wednesday, New York GOP chairman Ed Cox accused Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) of hypocrisy for backing the measure to ban lawmakers from insider trading when her husband shorted housing stocks as the market tumbled in 2008.

Citing a May 2010 Wall Street Journal article, Cox charged  the Gillibrands made a “killing” on the 2008 trades and said...

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