The Wall of Disclosure: 10 Worst STOCK Act Delays in Five Years

Five years of STOCK Act delays, ranked by days past the 45-day deadline. The worst entry sat for 379 days.

By Beltway Alpha · Edited by Sean Baptiste · Published 2026-05-07

Susie Lee bought shares of Ally Financial on June 15, 2021. She told the public about it on August 13, 2022. That's 379 days past the deadline Congress imposed on itself. The STOCK Act requires members to disclose trades within 45 days. These ten took anywhere from 204 days to more than a year. Below, a countdown from merely embarrassing to fully committed.

#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.

Schneider's sale of Trupanion sat undisclosed for 204 days. At least he's consistent: Trupanion sells pet insurance, a product built on the premise that something unexpected might happen. The irony is doing its own work.

#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.

Manning sold Facebook stock in May 2021, the height of the 'is Big Tech too powerful' news cycle, and waited until February 2022 to mention it. Nothing focuses the mind like a 228-day lag.

#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.

Britt bought Exxon Mobil in April 2025 and disclosed it 243 days later, in late January 2026. She sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee. The calendar is the calendar.

#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.

Lowenthal's GM sale took 260 days to surface. General Motors is a company that makes cars, which travel faster than Lowenthal's paperwork.

#6 Julia Letlow

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

Letlow sold Accenture shares in January 2025 and disclosed the transaction 319 days later, one day before the one-year mark. Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and apparently STOCK Act filings.

#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.

Foxx purchased shares of Newtek Business Services on August 30, 2021, and filed 329 days late. She was, at the time, ranking member of the House Education and Labor Committee. The lesson here writes itself.

#4 John Hickenlooper

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, a data-analytics firm that sells surveillance infrastructure to federal agencies, and disclosed it 339 days later. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee seat is a nice touch.

#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.

Gottheimer sold Cerence, an AI software company, 352 days before he got around to mentioning it. He's one of Congress's more vocal advocates for financial transparency. The receipts are public.

#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.

Miller purchased BlackRock shares and took 356 days to disclose them. BlackRock manages roughly $10 trillion in assets. Miller could not quite manage a filing inside a calendar year.

#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 purchased Ally Financial stock, sat on the disclosure for 379 days, and filed on the same August 13, 2022 date as Schneider at rank 10. It's possible the deadline reminder email went to spam. It's possible a lot of things.

The STOCK Act's enforcement mechanism for late filers is a $200 fine. Not per day. Per filing. A single flat fee of $200, regardless of whether you're 45 days late or, as Lee demonstrates, 379 days late. Congress wrote that penalty into law for itself.

The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.

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The Wall of Disclosure: 10 Worst STOCK Act Delays in Five Years

Five years of STOCK Act delays, ranked by days past the 45-day deadline. The worst entry sat for 379 days.