Former Rep. Chris Collins Sentenced to 26 Months in Prison

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Former U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins was sentenced to 26 months in prison for his role in an insider-trading scheme

Corinne RameyChristopher Collins, the former western New York congressman who admitted his role in an insider-trading scheme, was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison.

Mr. Collins, who won four congressional terms before resigning last year, shot to fame in 2016 as the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Mr. Collins was known as a pugnacious conservative who supported gun rights and was able to win his district in the suburbs and rural areas outside Buffalo and Rochester even when he was...

 

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I hope they pass him around like the whore that he is.

I see many people playing Red v. Blue in the comments. I'm a former GOPer who thinks the two-party system is fundamentally corrupt and broken. If you're using this story to push your political party, you're the problem.

Clinton got another Trump supporter put in jail. No justice in USA

Good

Trump knows 'all the best people.'

Because he was a Trump supporter I imagine...

Clean old man. He'll do fine.

Gonna be hard to keep that Trump tan in prison.

I don't understand why jail people for business insider trading scheme... It's too funny...

that's it 🥴 2 something yrs

So like 13 month, 10 with good behavior for hundreds of thousands not bad.

Collins should have gotten 5 years

What a surprise that the first person in congress to endorse Trump ended up also being a criminal

Next !

When is Nancy Pelosi going to prison?

Insider trading has a whole new meaning in prison

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