Chris Collins
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 22 Dec
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She sold her stock and when he called me the next morning I
There was nothing more I could do about it other than to say, you know, that shouldn't have happened.
We're not going to talk about it.
And let's just move on.
Well, Jeff Berman saw an opportunity to leverage my son to come after me, even though I never sold any stock, was never accused of it.
It was a trading halt on the stock when I called my son with the information.
But that whole story revolved around what the Department of Justice does.
They typically leverage family where they can.
And in my case, they leveraged my son, basically forcing me, in my opinion, to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit insider trading because I didn't trade.
And the FBI had knocked on my door, set me up, and claimed I made a false statement, which I did not do.
But they charged me with making a false statement.
I was frankly forced to plead guilty to those two charges in order to take some pressure off the situation with my son.
And fortunately, by me taking the fall and then because of that, having to resign from Congress, my son ultimately was just given a sentence of probation, whereas they did send me to federal prison.
That's a chapter in my book, which will be
really mortifying to me, but I think people who will go on Amazon maybe today and buy my book, My Remarkable Life, they'll be horrified at what I was put through for 10 weeks before President Trump did pardon me on December 22nd of 2020, three days before Christmas.
I was home for Christmas and then I had to
Basically, rebuild my life.
Took me a good three years to climb out of the shell I was in.
I was embarrassed.
You know, convicted felon, yes, with a pardon, but nevertheless, convicted felon.
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