BREAKING: LIB LETLOW HIDES FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE UNTIL AFTER ELECTION

Lib Letlow’s shady swampy financial maneuvering continues

Baton Rouge, LA — Despite – or because of – her history of shady finances, Liberal Julia Letlow has hidden her latest personal financial disclosure from Louisiana voters days before the Senate primary.

“Liberal Julia Letlow has already gotten busted for illegally hiding her shady stock trades from voters, and now she’s at it again right before Election Day,” Cassidy campaign manager Katie Larkin said. “Liberal Letlow is hiding her finances for a reason, so we’re challenging her to release her finances ASAP. Right now, she’s acting like her fellow progressive financial wizards Nancy Pelosi and Ilhan Omar.”

Instead, Letlow filed an extension that allows her to hide her finances until well after both the primary and runoff election (if she were to make the runoff election).

These disclosures have, in the past, revealed part of Letlow’s murky financial picture, including her notoriously shady stock trades.

In stark contrast, Conservative Bill Cassidy has always been transparent about his finances and doesn’t trade stocks.

Click here to see Letlow’s extension request.

Background: 

State Affairs: Cassidy Campaign Files FEC Complaint Against Letlow

Fox 8: Opponents Challenge Letlow On Stock Trading, Congresswoman Says She Broke No Federal Law

“It would prohibit members of Congress from directly trading individual stocks,” Cassidy said. “We have to restore faith in Congress. And when somebody has a subcommittee hearing and gets information, and within 48 hours makes a trade in a stock market, in a stock, as Congresswoman Letlow did, that erodes confidence.”

NOTUS: Rep. Julia Letlow Violated the STOCK Act With Over 210 Late Disclosures

“Republican Rep. Julia Letlow violated a federal transparency law with late disclosures of personal stock trades potentially worth millions of dollars…”

Letlow Refused To File Disclosure

During her first campaign, Letlow brazenly ignored House ethics requirements and her own campaign’s promise by refusing to file a financial disclosure until five months after her election.

During her first campaign, Letlow failed to file her House candidate financial disclosure on time; the due date was thirty days before the March 20 election. “Nearly all the candidates vying for Louisiana's two vacant U.S. House seats have failed to file a required federal financial disclosure form detailing their income and debts, a report that can provide details into possible sources of influence or conflict. Of 27 contenders for the March 20 special congressional elections, only three have filed reports with the U.S. House clerk's office for their races, according to a searchable online database. The clerk's office said all available disclosure reports for Louisiana's special elections are filed in that database… In the northeast Louisiana-based 5th District race, one of the 12 candidates - Republican Chad Conerly, a retired Air Force colonel from Kentwood - sent a financial disclosure form to the House clerk's office for the special election. The race's frontrunner Julia Letlow, a Republican university administrator from Richland Parish running for the seat her husband won last year, hasn't submitted her report.” (Melinda Deslatte, “Louisiana congressional candidates ignore income disclosure,” Associated Press, 3/12/21)

·  Letlow’s campaign manager: “We definitely intend to file one… It is due, and we’re sending it in.” (Melinda Deslatte, “Louisiana congressional candidates ignore income disclosure,” Associated Press, 3/12/21)

Letlow filed her candidate report in August 2021, nearly six months after its due date and nearly five months after her election. (2021 Candidate Report, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, Filed 8/11/21)

In 2022, Letlow again failed to file her financial disclosure report when required, submitting an extension request only after the due date had passed.

In 2022, Letlow failed to file her 2021 financial disclosure report by the May 15 due date; she submitted a 90-day extension request on May 16. (Financial Disclosure Extension Request, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, Filed 5/16/22)

·  Filers are required to request the extension “on or before the applicable filing deadline.” “House Members, officers, or employees who are required to file a Financial Disclosure Statement (FD) under the Ethics in Government Act are permitted by federal law to request an extension of up to 90 days. Filers may request an extension for their FD by filing this form on or before the applicable filing deadline. An FD filed under such an extension is not considered late. However, by law, an individual who files a report more than 30 days after it is due without having received an extension must pay a $200 late filing fee.” (Financial Disclosure Extension Request, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, Filed 5/16/22)

Letlow eventually filed her 2021 report in July 2022. (2021 Annual Report, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, Filed 7/28/22)

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