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Half of the entire trading volume on the first trading day after they got the news. >> reporter: collins, his son and his sons fiancees father all questioned by the fbi in april and are now charged with lying about what really happened. >> heres a better inside tip for those who think they can play by a different set of rules. do not lie to special agents of the fbi. >> reporter: collins already under investigation for promoting innate, denying to wolf blitzer he encouraged former secretary tom ...

Board of directors and then lied about it. secondly, indictments of sitting congressmen are rare, particularly in an election year. the justice department tries avoid attorney was forceful in charging collins, his son and his sons soon to be father-in-law. >> reporter: tonight, congressman chris collins faces charges of insider trading and of lying to the fbi. the 68-year-old former businessman who served in congress since 2013 surrendered to the fbi in manhattan wednesday morning and then faced...

>> reporter: according to the indictment, while collins at a congressional picnic at the white house, posing for pictures with the president and first lady, on june 22nd, 2017, he received an e-mail at 6:55 p.m. that the drug trial the company had been banking on failed. at 7:10 p.m., he replied, wow, makes no sense. one minute later, at 7:11, he launched a flurry of phone calls to son cameron. when they connected at 7:16, the congressman allegedly told cameron the drug trial had failed. the nex...