The Wall of Disclosure: 10 Worst STOCK Act Delays on Record

Ranked by days past the 45-day deadline. The worst entry took 271 days to tell you about a $15,000 trade.

By Beltway Alpha · Edited by Sean Baptiste · Published 2026-08-18

Julie Johnson sat on a disclosure for 271 days. The trade itself topped out at $15,000. The STOCK Act gives members 45 days to tell the public what they bought or sold. Johnson needed nine months. Below are the ten worst delays we've tracked, counted down from merely embarrassing to genuinely committed. The rule is simple. The compliance, as the list makes clear, is optional in spirit if not quite in law.

#10 Katie Britt

Sale of $NVDA (1K-15K) on 2025-11-07. Disclosed 2026-01-27. 36 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Britt rounds out the list at 36 days late on an Nvidia sale. By the standards of this countdown, 36 days feels almost punctual. It is not punctual. It is the least-bad entry on a list of people who did not file on time.

#9 Christian D. Menefee

Sale of $BRK.B ($1,001 - $15,000) on 2026-02-10. Disclosed 2026-06-01. 66 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Rank 9 is also Menefee, also Berkshire Berkshire, also 66 days late. Either the system logged it twice or disclosure tardiness runs in pairs. Either way, it counts.

#8 Christian Menefee

Sale of $BRK.B (1K-15K) on 2026-02-10. Disclosed 2026-06-01. 66 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Menefee's Berkshire Berkshire sale cleared 66 days after the deadline. This entry and rank 9 are the same person, same stock, same date. The list contains a Menefee twice, which is either a filing anomaly or a commitment to consistency.

#7 Tim Walberg

Sale of $UAA (1K-15K) on 2026-02-10. Disclosed 2026-06-03. 68 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Walberg unloaded Under Armour and then waited 68 days past the deadline to say so. Under Armour's recent earnings suggest he had the right idea. The paperwork, less so.

#6 Steve Cohen

Purchase of $SFGYY (1K-15K) on 2025-12-26. Disclosed 2026-05-15. 95 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Cohen bought shares of Schindler Holding, a Swiss elevator manufacturer, the day after Christmas 2025 and disclosed it 95 days late. What moves a man to buy elevator stock on December 26 is a question for another day.

#5 Julia Letlow

Sale of $ACI (1K-15K) on 2025-08-26. Disclosed 2026-01-14. 96 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Letlow sold Albertsons in August 2025 and filed the paperwork in January 2026. Albertsons itself went through an entire failed merger saga in roughly the same stretch of time. Both of them were slow.

#4 Dwight Evans

Sale of $CVS (1K-15K) on 2025-11-21. Disclosed 2026-05-15. 130 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Evans sold CVS at a loss — figuratively and literally, since CVS has had a rough couple of years — and then waited 130 days to tell anyone. The disclosure window is 45 days. He needed three of them.

#3 Michael Patrick Guest

Sale of $ABNB ($1,001 - $15,000) on 2025-12-16. Disclosed 2026-08-14. 196 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Guest sold Airbnb stock in mid-December 2025 and got around to filing it in August 2026. One hundred and ninety-six days. Whatever he was doing instead, it apparently took priority.

#2 John Boozman

Purchase of $ADBE (1K-15K) on 2025-09-04. Disclosed 2026-05-11. 204 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Boozman's Adobe purchase sat undisclosed for 204 days, which is long enough to watch every episode of a prestige drama, forget the plot, and watch it again. The trade was worth $15,000.

#1 Julie Johnson

Sale of $UDR ($1,001 - $15,000) on 2025-09-23. Disclosed 2026-08-05. 271 days past the STOCK Act deadline.

Nine months to disclose a UDR trade worth a maximum of $15,000. For context, a gestating human is ready faster. Johnson didn't just miss the deadline — she lapped it.

The penalty for a late STOCK Act disclosure is $200. That is not a typo. Two hundred dollars. The fine has not changed since the law passed in 2012. Inflation has; the fine has not.

Members are required to disclose. They are not required to divest, recuse, or abstain. The $200 is the accountability architecture. 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 on Record

Ranked by days past the 45-day deadline. The worst entry took 271 days to tell you about a $15,000 trade.