The FBI is Not Investigating Dianne Feinstein for Insider Trading

Misbar’s investigation has found a few troubling pieces of evidence pointing to the dubious nature of this claim. Most important to note initially is that this claim is actually a “second-try” at forcing this headline to go viral, after a previous attempt failed. This was discovered through an older Twitter post on July 7th by the account @RipTorn18 that shared the same article from the Right Wing Tribune on that date, over two months before its current publication date.

Regardless, both claims are making haphazard reference to news that came out in March through May regarding allegations reported by The New York Times that Senator Feinstein used insider information to influence trades made by her husband, investment banker Richard Blum, of certain biotech holdings ranging from $1.5 - 6 million. The article also focuses on three other Senators, all Republicans who were under similar investigation, with particular focus on Senator Richard Burr, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

At the time, a spokesperson for Feinstein maintained to the Times that all of the Senator’s personal holdings were in a blind trust, that no information had been relayed to her husband related to the trades, and that the Senator had not even been present during the committee hearings that the FBI was referring to. Ultimately, that investigation into the Senator and her husband was closed as of May 26th, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, given the lack of evidence linking the two. It was also closed for two of the other Republican Senators with the exception of Burr, who is still under investigation.