NASHVILLE – U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is questioning whether a Washington group’s filing Monday of a new ethics complaint over his Senate personal financial disclosures is linked to his opposition to major Wall Street hedge funds seeking to profit off bailed-out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Corker raised the issue to reporters in Nashville after the group, Campaign for Accountability, announced it has filed a new ethics complaint against him.
The group’s second complaint alleges the Chattanooga Republican and millionaire businessman concealed information about his financial stakes in two Chattanooga-based hedge funds, as well as one based in Memphis.
Campaign for Accountability says its new complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Senate Ethics Committee is based on new filings made by Corker after questions were raised last year about his frequent trading in Chattanooga-based CBL & Associates Properties stock.
Last year, they said that prompted their first complaint.