All posts tagged "Finances"

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) finally filed her overdue financial disclosure this week, capping a rough stretch for the Colorado Republican, and one veteran money-and-politics reporter says it shows she's "broke."

Boebert filed the report Thursday, two days after The Washington Sun reported she had missed her deadline. It lists no assets and a single liability: a personal loan of between $10,000 and $15,000 from Congressional Credit Union, taken out in January 2024. Members of Congress earn a base salary of $174,000.

"It indicates she's broke," investigative journalist Dave Levinthal wrote on X. Denver 9NEWS anchor Kyle Clark reshared the post....

The finances of Republican nominee former President Donald Trump include gallons of red ink — particularly with the addition of recent legal judgments, according to a new presidential financial disclosure released Thursday.

Trump reported debts between $346 million and $455 million throughout 2023, from a legal judgments and property mortgages.

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A Republican congressman was as much as five years late reporting his spouse’s stock trades, violating a federal financial disclosure law, according to a Raw Story review of congressional financial records.

Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) failed to properly report 16 stock trades and one bond transaction from two of his wife’s brokerage accounts, some going back as far as February 2019.

Each stock trade was in the $1,001 to $15,000 range involving a variety of companies such as tech conglomerate Alphabet, artificial intelligence company NVIDIA, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company and media and entertainment conglomerate Walt Disney and Company. ...

Trump may need to put his money where his mouth is.

David Johnston, the author who penned the biography "The Making Of Donald Trump," suspects the $83.3 million a nine-member jury verdict in the second defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump will force him to prove he has the coin.

"We may discover just how many smoke and mirrors [there are]," said Johnston during an appearance on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."...