It’s only a matter of time before Nancy Pelosi is forced to answer for the years-long stock scheme she’s used to enrich herself and her family throughout her career in public office.
Google searches for “Pelosi stock trades” hit a record high earlier this month as users on social media platforms including Twitter, Reddit, Youtube and TikTok scrutinize her investments.
Trade disclosures filed by Pelosi, a multimillionaire, are shared widely across social media soon after they appear on the House website.
Companies she disclosed trades in last year include Apple, Amazon, Tesla and Microsoft. Like other Congressional lawmakers, Pelosi is legally required to file disclosures of her stock trades.
Her reports have garnered growing attention amid a massive uptick in retail trading – as well as recent calls to ban lawmakers from trading at all, a debate Pelosi has been pulled into in recent weeks.
[source: Reuters]
On Monday, 27 House members signed a letter calling for a floor vote on recent proposals to prohibit Congress members from owning stocks “in light of recent misconduct.” That was the latest push to ban stock trading by lawmakers after Pelosi in December defended their rights to trade.
In a reversal, Pelosi last week signaled her willingness to potentially advance legislation that could ban stock trading by lawmakers. Last year, Pelosi filed transaction reports showing her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, made trades valued at as much as $5 million at a time in Big Tech companies now facing an antitrust bill in Congress.
Those companies are also among the most widely held across Wall Street, making investing in them relatively common. A 2012 law makes it illegal for lawmakers to use information from their work in Congress for their personal gain.
The law requires them to disclose stock transactions by themselves or family members within 45 days. Transaction reports are typically filed days after the actual purchases and sales, making it potentially difficult for traders aiming to mimic lawmakers’ specific trades.
That has not stopped users on TikTok from focusing on her disclosures, with one video clip about her husband’s recent options purchases in companies including Alphabet, Micron Technology, and Roblox earning 45,000 likes.
A recent analysis by Unusual Whales, a service selling financial data, concluded that Congressional lawmakers last year traded $290 million in stocks, options, cryptocurrency and other assets, and that they outperformed the market, on average.
Pelosi’s performance ranked sixth-best in 2021, according to the analysis. While her taxpayer-funded salary sits at the low six-figure mark, the millionaire a hundred times over continues to benefit off her insider knowledge and regulatory power.
Author: Elizabeth Tierney
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