Lauren Boebert Corruption & Ethics Colorado

Lauren Boebert's Financial Disclosure Was Due July 14. Ten Weeks Later, She Still Hasn't Filed It.

Every member of Congress has to publicly report their income, investments and debts each year. Lauren Boebert got an extension to July 14, blew past it, and still hasn't filed. It isn't the first time she has kept her finances from voters.

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Every member of Congress has to file a yearly report showing voters where their money comes from: their income, their investments, their debts, and their spouse's income too. The point, as the Associated Press has put it, is to let voters judge potential conflicts of interest.

Lauren Boebert hasn't filed hers.

The Colorado Republican asked for a 60-day extension in May, which moved her deadline for last year's report to July 14, the Washington Sun reported on Tuesday, September 22. More than two months after that deadline, the report still isn't public. Because it's more than 30 days late, she is now subject to a $200 fine.

The Sun named two other House members who hadn't filed either, Texas Republicans Dan Crenshaw and Michael McCaul. Boebert's office did not answer the Sun's repeated requests for comment.

The rule she posts on her own website

The yearly report is required by a federal law called the Ethics in Government Act. The Sun noted one detail that makes Boebert's silence stand out: she advertises the House's financial disclosure rules on her own congressional website.

So she knows the rule. She tells the public about it. And she hasn't followed it.

This has happened before

This is not the first time Boebert has kept her household's money out of view.

When she first ran for Congress in 2020, Boebert listed her husband's consulting business on her candidate form, but wrote his income source as "N/A." After she won, she filed paperwork in August 2021 showing her husband, Jayson Boebert, had been paid $478,000 in 2020 and $460,000 in 2019 as a consultant to an energy company, the Associated Press reported. The AP found no company registered under the name she listed, but a similarly named natural gas producer, Terra Energy Partners, has a heavy presence in the district she represented.

None of that had been disclosed while voters were deciding whether to elect her. Boebert, meanwhile, has been a defender of the energy industry. Kedric Payne, a former deputy chief counsel at the Office of Congressional Ethics, told the AP she should have disclosed the source of her husband's income the year before. "The spouse is supposed to disclose the source of all earned income and this doesn't add up with what was in the prior filing," Payne said.

The same week, the AP reported, federal election officials asked her campaign to explain $6,000 it had sent to Boebert over Venmo. Her campaign said the payments were mistakes and had been paid back.

Why it matters now

Boebert is asking voters in Colorado's 4th District to re-elect her in November. Without this report, they can't see what she owns, who's paying her household, or what she owes, which is the whole point of the law.

And it comes as she faces other questions. The day before the Sun's report, we covered a sworn ethics complaint accusing Boebert of sexual relationships with three of her own staffers, including a $200,000 payment to keep one of them quiet. Boebert has called the complaint garbage.

She's not the only Republican on this site with a disclosure problem. Nebraska's Brinker Harding broke federal disclosure law too.

The short version

Lauren Boebert's yearly financial disclosure, which shows voters her income, investments and debts, was due July 14 after she asked for more time. As of September 22 she still hadn't filed it, and she is now subject to a $200 late fine. In 2021, she disclosed nearly $1 million in energy-company income her husband earned during the two years before she took office, only after voters had already elected her.