Sen. Tom Carper just violated this federal transparency and conflicts-of-interest law

Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware violated a transparency and conflicts-of-interest law by disclosing one of his wife’s stock trades more than a year after a federal deadline, according to a Raw Story review of congressional financial disclosure records. Carper on Tuesday disclosed that Martha Ann Stacy sold $2,991.98 worth of stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., although the trade took place on Jan. 19, 2022. His wife’s sale of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. came shortly before Carper, as chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, advocated …

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