WASHINGTON — A Louisiana congressman quietly purchased at least six figures worth of stock in Netflix just weeks before the streaming giant announced its massive acquisition deal with Warner Bros .

Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) bought between $500,000 and $1.25 million worth of Netflix stock from Oct. 31 to Nov. 20, House financial disclosures reveal .

The curiously timed purchases came just weeks before the entertainment giant announced last Friday that it is purchasing Warner Bros and its assets, such as HBO Max, for $82.7 billion in a blockbuster deal.

That monster acquisition deal could still get foiled by the Justice Department amid Paramount’s crusade to upend the deal and encourage the Trump administration to nix it.

Ironically, Netflix’s stock has sunk in the time since Fields’

See Full Page