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Nancy Pelosi does not trade stocks in person -but her husband Paul Pelosi often does so

Judd Toms

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Past financial disclosures from Nancy Pelosi showed that in January her husband invested up to $2.9 million worth of American Express, Apple, PayPal, and Walt Disney stocks. In March, he bought up to $2.2 million worth of Tesla stocks. (Lawmakers are only required to report the value of such trades in broad ranges.)

Together, these companies, along with Microsoft, spend tens of millions of dollars each year lobbying the federal government, including Congress, according to federal records compiled by nonpartisan research organization OpenSecrets.

Members of Congress have been required to disclose stock transactions since the STOCK Act passed. But Paul Pelosi's trades shot into the news in July 2021, when he made a $5.3 million by exercising call options that let him buy 4,000 shares of Google parent company Alphabet.

Paul Pelosi, 82, also made news last month, when police arrested him on May 28 in California for driving under the influence of alcohol after another car hit him. No one was injured. The speaker was on the East Coast, not with her husband, at the time of the crash, and her office said she wouldn't be commenting on the matter.
 

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