379 Days Late: The 10 Worst STOCK Act Delays in Five Years

Congress mandates disclosure within 45 days. These ten members took months. The winner took 379 days.

By Beltway Alpha · Edited by Sean Baptiste · Published 2026-05-08

Susie Lee bought shares of Ally Financial sometime in June 2021. She got around to telling the public about it in August 2022. That's 379 days past the STOCK Act's 45-day deadline, which is the kind of disclosure timeline that makes the word 'disclosure' do a lot of heavy lifting. The rule is simple: members of Congress must report personal trades within 45 days of execution. What follows are the ten members who treated that deadline as a loose suggestion, ranked from bad to spectacular.

#10 Bradley S. Schneider

Sale of $TRUP ($15,001 - $50,000) on 2021-12-07. Disclosed 2022-08-13. 204 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Bradley Schneider sold Trupanion, a pet insurance company, in December 2021 and disclosed it 204 days late. Pet insurance is not a sector typically associated with legislative sensitivity. The delay still ran past six months. The bar clears itself at some point.

#9 Kathy Manning

Sale of $FB ($1,001 - $15,000) on 2021-05-14. Disclosed 2022-02-11. 228 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Kathy Manning sold a small Facebook position in May 2021 and didn't report it until February 2022. That's 228 days past the deadline, and it covers a period when Meta was navigating congressional scrutiny on antitrust, content moderation, and data privacy. Manning sat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Unrelated. Probably.

#8 Katie Britt

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Purchase of $XOM (1K-15K) on 2025-04-14. Disclosed 2026-01-27. 243 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Katie Britt bought Exxon Mobil in April 2025 and disclosed it 243 days late. Britt sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Exxon Mobil spent most of 2025 watching energy policy get rewritten in real time. The purchase was between $1,000 and $15,000. The optics cost more than that.

#7 Alan S. Lowenthal

Sale of $GM ($15,001 - $50,000) on 2021-08-23. Disclosed 2022-06-24. 260 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Alan Lowenthal sold General Motors stock and waited 260 days to say so. GM received a federal bailout, operates under significant congressional oversight, and is the kind of holding that tends to move on legislative news. Lowenthal has since left Congress. The filing, however, is forever.

#6 Julia Letlow

Sale of $ACN (1K-15K) on 2025-01-15. Disclosed 2026-01-14. 319 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Julia Letlow sold Accenture shares in January 2025 and disclosed it 319 days later, one day before the one-year mark. Accenture is one of the largest federal IT contractors on the planet. Close call on the anniversary.

#5 Virginia Foxx

Purchase of $NEWT ($1,001 - $15,000) on 2021-08-30. Disclosed 2022-09-08. 329 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Virginia Foxx purchased shares of Newtek Business Services in late August 2021 and reported it 329 days later. Newtek is a small-business lender. Foxx spent years on the committee that oversees education and workforce. The connection is tenuous. The delay is not.

#4 John Hickenlooper

Sale of $PLTR (1K-15K) on 2025-04-16. Disclosed 2026-05-05. 339 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

John Hickenlooper sold Palantir in April 2025 and disclosed it the following May. Palantir is a defense and intelligence data company. Hickenlooper sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee. The timing, as they say, is the thing.

#3 Josh Gottheimer

Sale of $CRNC ($1,001 - $15,000) on 2021-08-15. Disclosed 2022-09-16. 352 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Josh Gottheimer's Cerence sale sat unreported for 352 days. Cerence makes AI software for automobiles. Gottheimer sits on the House Financial Services Committee. The trade was small. The wait was not.

#2 Carol Devine Miller

Purchase of $BLK ($15,001 - $50,000) on 2021-07-28. Disclosed 2022-09-02. 356 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Carol Devine Miller waited nearly a full calendar year to disclose a BlackRock purchase. BlackRock manages roughly $10 trillion in assets. The fine for this delay, per STOCK Act enforcement, is $200. BlackRock charges more than that in management fees before lunch.

#1 Susie Lee

Purchase of $ALLY ($1,001 - $15,000) on 2021-06-15. Disclosed 2022-08-13. 379 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Susie Lee bought Ally Financial on June 15, 2021 and sat on that information for 424 days total before anyone outside her brokerage could see it. Ally Financial is a bank. Lee sat on the House Financial Services Committee. The calendar is doing the work here.

The STOCK Act passed in 2012 with bipartisan fanfare. It was sold as a transparency law. Members who blow past the 45-day window face a fine of $200. A single late fee, once, per violation, regardless of the trade size or how long they waited.

Two hundred dollars. The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.

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379 Days Late: The 10 Worst STOCK Act Delays in Five Years

Congress mandates disclosure within 45 days. These ten members took months. The winner took 379 days.