Clarence, N.Y.

Not a witch hunt: Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) resigned from office this week before pleading guilty to insider trading and lying to the FBI. Collins, 69, the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, was arrested last year but still won a fourth term by about 1,000 votes in his solidred district covering the Buffalo suburbs. Prosecutors say Collins, who sat on the board of an Australian biotech company, was caught on camera at a White House picnic phoning his son Cameron, 26, to reveal that a multiple-sclerosis drug had failed a medical trial. When the news went public, Cameron Collins and his fiancée’s father had already dumped their shares, allegedly avoiding $768,000 in losses. “I am embarrassed and dismayed,” former Rep. Collins said upon pleading guilty. He had initially derided the case against him as “a partisan witch hunt.”