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

Congress requires trade disclosures within 45 days. These ten members took anywhere from 329 to 436 days. The fine is $200.

By Beltway Alpha · Edited by Sean Baptiste · Published 2026-06-05

Tim Walberg bought Amazon stock in February 2025 and waited 436 days to tell anyone. The STOCK Act says 45. That's not a rounding error — that's a different calendar year, a different news cycle, and a different Congress. The law passed in 2012 on the premise that members trading stocks while writing legislation was a problem worth at least documenting. These ten entries represent the worst the public record has produced in five years: purchases and sales that sat undisclosed for nearly a year or more while the deadline ticked quietly past. Ranked by days late. Starting from the bottom.

#10 Virginia Foxx

Virginia Foxx — Photo: United States Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Purchase of $NEWT (,001 - 5,000) on 2021-08-30. Disclosed 2022-09-08. 329 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Foxx filed her $NEWT purchase 329 days past the deadline — which is impressively bad until you see the next nine entries and realize she barely made the list.

#9 John Hickenlooper

John Hickenlooper — Photo: Renee Bouchard, United States Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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

Hickenlooper sold Palantir in April 2025 and disclosed it in May 2026. The company spent that entire year in the news. Coincidence is a word.

#8 John Fetterman

John Fetterman — Photo: United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Purchase of $FCBN (1K-15K) on 2025-04-24. Disclosed 2026-05-15. 341 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Fetterman's $FCBN purchase cleared 341 days late. The ticker is a small community bank holding company. The lateness is not small.

#7 Josh Gottheimer

Josh Gottheimer — Photo: Kristie Boyd; U.S. House Office of Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sale of $CRNC (,001 - 5,000) on 2021-08-15. Disclosed 2022-09-16. 352 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Gottheimer was 352 days late on a Cerence sale. He sits on the Financial Services Committee. The committee's jurisdiction includes, among other things, corporate disclosure requirements.

#6 Carol Devine Miller

Carol Devine Miller — Photo: U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Purchase of $BLK (5,001 - $50,000) on 2021-07-28. Disclosed 2022-09-02. 356 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Miller filed a BlackRock purchase — up to $50,000 worth — nearly a full year after the deadline. BlackRock manages more assets than the GDP of Japan. The filing can wait, apparently.

#5 Val Hoyle

Val Hoyle — Photo: U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sale of $LA (1K-15K) on 2025-04-02. Disclosed 2026-05-15. 363 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Hoyle sold $LA shares 363 days past the cutoff. The ticker is for Laureate Education. The lesson here appears to have been poorly retained.

#4 John Boozman

John Boozman — Photo: Rebecca Hammel, U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sale of $ETFIVW (1K-15K) on 2025-03-19. Disclosed 2026-05-11. 373 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Boozman missed the deadline by 373 days on an ETF sale. It's an index fund, the most passive investment available, and he still couldn't manage to disclose it inside thirteen months.

#3 Susie Lee

Susie Lee — Photo: U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Purchase of $ALLY (,001 - 5,000) on 2021-06-15. Disclosed 2022-08-13. 379 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Lee's Ally Financial purchase sat unreported for 379 days. Ally is a bank. The STOCK Act is a disclosure law. Both things exist. The overlap is, apparently, manageable.

#2 Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster — Photo: Possibly John Adams Whipple, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sale of $REXR (15K-50K) on 2025-02-26. Disclosed 2026-06-01. 415 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Webster sold Rexford Industrial Realty — up to $50,000 — and took 415 days to mention it. That's not a clerical delay. That's a deliberate relationship with the calendar.

#1 Tim Walberg

Tim Walberg — Photo: Ike Hayman, House Creative Services, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Purchase of $AMZN (1K-15K) on 2025-02-07. Disclosed 2026-06-03. 436 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Walberg bought Amazon stock on February 7, 2025, and disclosed it on June 3, 2026: 436 days late, or roughly fourteen and a half months past the legal deadline. Amazon was not a quiet company during that stretch. It was in the headlines on tariffs, antitrust, AI infrastructure, and federal contracting. The filing arrived anyway. Eventually.

The STOCK Act imposes a $200 fine for late disclosures. Not $200 per day. A flat $200. For a member earning 74,000 a year in base salary, that's approximately what they make between 9:23 and 9:50 on a Tuesday morning.

Members are required to disclose. They are not required to divest, recuse, or abstain. The fine has not changed since 2012. The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.

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

Congress requires trade disclosures within 45 days. These ten members took anywhere from 329 to 436 days. The fine is $200.