JUST IN: Republican Sen. Richard Burr is stepping aside as chairman of the influential Senate Intelligence Committee while he’s under investigation for stock trades he made ahead of the market downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement Thursday that Burr"contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step aside as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation.
""We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow," McConnell said.The FBI served Burr with a search warrant and seized a cell phone belonging to the North Carolina Republican on Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times reported, as part of the FBI's investigation into lawmaker stock trades.This story is breaking and will be updated.
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