Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's Financial Disclosures Under Scrutiny Amid Calls for Stock Trading Ban
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), who has advocated for banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks, is facing questions regarding discrepancies in her own financial disclosure filings. These filings, spanning her 2022 campaign and initial years in office, show changes and omissions concerning holdings in Robinhood, Amazon, Tesla, and Apple stock. For instance, an amended filing in February 2023 listed Amazon and Tesla holdings that were absent from her original June 2022 disclosure. Conversely, a Robinhood stock holding from her June 2022 report was not present in the February 2023 amendment. Furthermore, a May 2023 new-filer report disclosed capital gains from Apple stock, which had not appeared as an asset in previous filings. The absence of Amazon stock in her 2023 and 2024 annual disclosures, despite being listed in a February 2023 amendment, also raises questions, particularly as no periodic transaction report (PTR) for its sale has been identified. These inconsistencies c...