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 502 days.

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

Ritchie John Torres bought McKesson stock in January 2025 and got around to telling the public about it 502 days later. The STOCK Act says members have 45 days. Torres took sixteen and a half months. He is not alone. Nine other members of Congress collectively racked up another 3,262 days of late disclosures between them, on trades ranging from Palantir to Amazon to a small Ohio bank nobody's heard of. What follows is the countdown, worst to least-worst, with the understanding that 'least-worst' here still means 319 days late.

#10 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 in January 2025 and disclosed 319 days later, in January 2026. An exact calendar year, almost to the day. You have to admire the symmetry, if not the compliance.

#9 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 Newtek Business Services, a small-business-focused BDC, in August 2021. She reported it 329 days late, in September 2022. Foxx spent years chairing the Education and Workforce Committee. Apparently the workforce did not include whoever handles her filings.

#8 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 and disclosed in May 2026. Palantir, the data surveillance company beloved by defense contractors and congressional portfolios alike, sat unreported for 339 days. The government's data-collection arm missed its own data-reporting deadline.

#7 John Fetterman

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

Fetterman bought shares of First Community Bancorp, a bank with about $13 billion in assets, and disclosed 341 days late. For a senator who built his brand on being authentically working-class, the portfolio choices keep getting more interesting.

#6 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 Inc. in August 2021 and reported it in September 2022. Cerence makes AI software for cars. The irony of a tech-forward New Jersey congressman being nearly a year late on a tech-stock filing is available for inspection.

#5 Val Hoyle

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

Hoyle sold Lamar Advertising stock on April 2, 2025, and disclosed on May 15, 2026. Lamar puts billboards on highways. Hoyle presumably drove past a few of them in the 363 days she didn't file.

#4 John Boozman

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

Boozman sold DTE Energy, a Michigan utility, 373 days before he disclosed it. A utility. The most boring stock in the S&P 500. Somehow still couldn't make the deadline.

#3 Daniel Webster

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, a California warehouse REIT, and waited 415 days to say so. The STOCK Act does not have a 'whenever you get to it' clause, though the filing record suggests some members believe otherwise.

#2 Tim Walberg

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

Walberg bought Amazon in February 2025 and disclosed it in June 2026. To be fair, Amazon is a very complicated company. Takes time to figure out what it does. Fourteen and a half months of time, apparently.

#1 Ritchie John Torres

Purchase of $MCK ($1,001 - $15,000) on 2025-01-07. Disclosed 2026-07-08. 502 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

McKesson is one of the three companies that distribute most of the prescription drugs in America. Torres sat on that purchase for 502 days. The deadline is 45. The math on what 'timely disclosure' means to this office is not flattering.

The penalty for a late STOCK Act filing is $200. Not $200 per day. A flat $200, one time, regardless of whether you're two weeks late or, in Torres's case, 457 days late. The fine has not been adjusted for inflation since the law passed in 2012. A parking ticket in Washington, D.C. runs $100.

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 502 days.