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Chris Collins set to change his plea on biotech in­sid­er trad­ing scan­dal, ex­it­ing House seat

Chris Collins nev­er lost the sup­port of base Re­pub­li­can vot­ers when the feds came down hard on his al­leged in­volve­ment in an in­sid­er trad­ing scan­dal linked to a high-risk Aus­tralian biotech com­pa­ny. But that may not keep him out of prison.

The New York Re­pub­li­can sent in his let­ter of res­ig­na­tion — ef­fec­tive to­day — as Collins will re­port­ed­ly soon plead guilty to the trad­ing scan­dal. There’s no word if he has struck a deal with pros­e­cu­tors.

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