Ex-GOP Lawmaker Collins Barred From Corporate Boards in SEC Case

(Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Representative Chris Collins was permanently barred from serving as an officer or a director of a public company by the Securities and Exchange Commission after the scandal-ridden Republican lawmaker pleaded guilty to criminal insider trading charges in October.Collins, who represented a district in Western New York, was charged last year with tipping his son, Cameron, to negative results from a clinical trial by Innate Immunotherapeutics Ltd.The ex-lawmaker sat on the