FBI wants Apple to provide data in U.S. Senator’s iCloud account

According to the Los Angeles Times (a subscription is required to read the entire article), the FBI has served Apple with a warrant for obtaining info on the iCloud account of U.S. Senator Richard Burr. He’s being investigated for selling a significant percentage of his stock portfolio in 33 different transactions on Feb. 13, just as his committee was receiving daily COVID-19 briefings and a week before the stock market sharply declined.

The article explains: “Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus first struck the U.S., a law enforcement official said. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his phone to agents after they served a search warrant on the lawmaker at his residence in the Washington area, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a law enforcement action.”

Burr is the senior United States Senator from North Carolina, serving since 2005. He was first elected to the Senate in 2004. Since 2015, Burr has served as the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. In 2016, he announced that he would not be seeking reelection in 2022.