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Democratic Reps. Lori Trahan, Kathy Castor, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz appear to have violated a federal transparency law

Another asset in one of the blind trusts: an investment worth $100,001 to $250,000 in the Arizona-based World View Enterprises.

The company advertises providing "raw and analyzed high resolution imagery and data products to government and commercial customers" using high-altitude balloons that "transit the stratosphere with sensors that loiter over large areas of interest and provide persistent observation and data collection for a wide variety of applications."

World View Enterprises spent $80,000 on federal-level lobbying during 2020 but hasn't yet reported lobbying expenditures in 2021.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski speaks to the media during his visit to Lalish temple in Shikhan, Iraq, February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal
Rep. Tom Malinowski, a Democrat from New Jersey, is facing scrutiny for his stock trades. Thomson Reuters

Tom Malinowski finally files late disclosures

Rep. Tom Malinowski, a Democrat from New Jersey, is facing congressional ethics complaints and a related investigation after Insider in March revealed he failed to disclose dozens of stock trades. Among them: a flurry of pandemic-sensitive stocks in early 2020, as COVID-19 began gripping the US.

Malinowski in July retroactively filed disclosures for trades he made in 2019 and amended several disclosures he made this year.

By law, Malinowski should have disclosed the trades made in 2019 within 45 days of making them. Some of these disclosures are more than two years late.

In July, Malinowski's chief of staff, Colston Reid, told the New Jersey Globe that the congressman would stop trading stocks until the House Committee on Ethics approved his request to create a blind trust for his assets.

Malinowski had continued to aggressively trade stocks as recently as this spring.

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