A Purdue Pharma lobbyist and billionaire donated to a defense fund for Senator Richard Burr
Sen. Richard Burr uses a hand sanitizer dispenser while walking to the Senate chambers for a vote in the U.S. Capitol Building on August 04.acing an insider-trading investigation from the Department of Justice, Senator Richard Burr raised money for his defense fund from private-industry donors, including a Purdue Pharma lobbyist and billionaireBurr had come under scrutiny for stock-trades he made at the outset of the pandemic.
Three executives at investment firms handed over a total of $22,500 to the defense fund for Burr, who . Four senior executives at the utility-infrastructure construction firm Pike also made contributions. In the first half of 2020, Burr raised a total of $433,000, just shy of the $490,000 that his defense fund paid the law firm Latham & Watkins. 37 lawmakers who pitched in to Burr’s defense fundThis excerpt from a financial disclosure filed by Sen. Richard Burr's legal defense fund shows some of the donors who've supported his defense.
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