'So extensive': GOP congressman violated federal law with up to $8.5M in late financial disclosures
One month after President Donald Trump took office in 2017, Republican Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) purchased up to $15,000 in stock in an agrochemical corporation — Monsanto — that no longer exists as an independent company.
But it wasn’t until six-and-a-half years later — on Aug. 10 — that Allen properly reported the transaction as a federal conflicts-of-interest law requires.
And the Monsanto trade was just one of 136 stock and other financial transactions — totaling between $3.05 million and $8.56 million — that Allen failed to properly report, according to an exclusive Raw Story analysis of federal financial disclosures....
Aug 16, 2023