The report from back in March is here:

Burr is chair of the US Senate Intelligence Committee

committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings

A week after Burr's sales, the stock market began its sharp decline

Concern centres on:

  • Burr's stock trades were made on a single day
  • were an unusually high volume of transactions based on his previous trading activity
  • were focused on the hospitality sector
  • he personally acknowledged he was behind the sales

LA Times now:

  • Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging Burr
  • after they served a search warrant
  • investigation into whether Burr violated a law preventing members of Congress from trading on insider information
The report from back in March is here: