News of the delayed financial disclosure drew swift backlash from government ethics experts and advocates on Wednesday.
“The senator ought to have an explanation for the trade and, more importantly, why it took him almost a year and a half to discover it from his wife,” James Cox, a law professor at Duke University, told
The Washington Post, which first reported the disclosure.
“The fact that he didn’t disclose it, and the investigations of other senators for possible insider trading related to Covid didn’t trigger him to disclose, it is very troubling,” Walter Shaub, a senior ethics fellow with the Project on Government Oversight, said Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” adding that it wouldn’t matter if Paul’s wife made or lost money off the trade for it to be acceptable.
