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Key Trump Supporter Collins Charged With Insider-Trading Calls

By MARK TOOR
Posted 8/13/18

A Republican Congressman from the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area who is a strong supporter of President Trump was arrested Aug. 8 on insider-trading charges along with his son and the father of his son’s fiancéé, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman announced.

Rep. Chris Collins, 68, suspended his bid for a fourth term in the heavily-Republican 27th District, but given the vagaries of state election law it was not immediately clear how he could remove his  name from the ballot.

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