John Boehner! Nancy Pelosi! John Kerry! Spencer Bachus and more, Republicans and Democrats alike, all with inside information about pending government actions, all of whom, Mr. Schweizer suggests, benefited from amazingly well-timed investment decisions tied to those actions.

“There are all sorts of forms of honest grafts that congressmen engage in that allow them to become very, very wealthy,” Mr. Schweizer told Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes.” “So it’s not illegal, but I think it’s highly unethical. I think it’s highly offensive and wrong.”

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