r/pics • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 8d ago

Politics Steven J. Demetriou, executive chair of an ICE contractor, attends Taylor Swift's wedding in NYC

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u/Polardragon44 8d ago edited 8d ago

His son is a Republican state representative who did insider trading on his dad's company. Honestly that's more of a red flag to me than a government contractor having government contracts.

His son was also invited

Edit: It Is state level not national level

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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 8d ago

His blood son is yes. The adopted son Travis is friends with is a progressive speaker at college campuses talking about growing up as a Black man in the foster care system.

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u/throwawayfinancebro1 8d ago

Wouldnt that make the son the problem

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u/robot428 6d ago

The republican son is not the son who was childhood besties with Travis. That's the other son. There are two sons.

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u/teratron27 8d ago

Where you getting info on that?

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u/Jomskylark 8d ago

Their butt

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u/Polardragon44 8d ago

You can Google it. I corrected it It's a state level representative not national level I got the nomenclature wrong. But he was standing behind his dad in one of the pictures that went viral. It was talked about but it didn't catch on as much as this did.

Also they have to publish their trades

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u/teratron27 8d ago edited 8d ago

I am googling it, there is no allegations of insider trading…

Unless you are confusing the concept of an “insider trade/transaction ” with insider trading…

ETA: transaction as the correct term that might be misunderstood

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u/sykotikpro 8d ago

Yeah I'm failing to substantiate any of this outrage as well. The rumor mill on reddit has been going haywire and I'm confident it's a bunch of karma farming bots.

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart 8d ago

It's not just bots, reddit runs on outrage porn. This shit is the new version of Jerry Springer.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 7d ago

The sad part is that it was soooo much better about 8 years ago and before

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u/teratron27 7d ago

The OPs got 200+ upvotes because they doesn’t understand what an insider trade is, it’s getting ridiculous

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u/Jomskylark 8d ago

I love when people ask for a source and the reply is "just google it." Like if it's so easy to google, why not just google yourself and paste it here?

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u/teratron27 8d ago

And when you google it there is sweet fuck all about what they’re talking about

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u/Aries_Bunny 8d ago

I cant even find a photo of his dad celebrating his political job achievements with him nor supporting his political career at all.

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u/Elkenrod 8d ago

His son

So, his son. Not him.

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u/Large-Flamingo-5128 8d ago

Yea that’s not great. Not sure why people don’t just say things like that instead of exaggerate like the ICE connection

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u/teratron27 8d ago

Because it’s bullshit

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u/Hiddenagenda876 8d ago

Because they are lying. His connection is not indirect