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Rep. Byron Donalds filed a House stock-trade report in Nov. 2024 for trades dated 2021 to May 2024, listing an April 2024 notification date 198 days earlier, and corrected eight trade dates in 2026

Confidence: Confirmed · 7 sourcesFlorida · Oct 12, 2026

Subject of this story

Byron Donalds, U.S. Representative, Florida's 19th Congressional District

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Oversight

Office of Congressional Ethics

Advocate

Campaign Legal Center

What happened

Byron Donalds, a U.S. Representative and the Republican candidate for Florida governor, hand-delivered a 25-page periodic transaction report (House Clerk Filing ID 8220682) that the House Clerk stamped received on Nov. 8, 2024. The pages reviewed list stock purchases and sales by Donalds and his spouse with transaction dates from Jan. 5, 2021 through May 9, 2024, and the entries reviewed show a notification date of April 24, 2024, 198 days before the filing stamp. Under the STOCK Act, a periodic transaction report is due within 30 days of notification and no later than 45 days after the transaction, and the House form states that a $200 penalty is assessed against anyone who files more than 30 days late. Every transaction date on the pages reviewed is more than 45 days before the Nov. 8, 2024 stamp. In a letter dated Feb. 9, 2026 and stamped received Feb. 19, 2026 (Filing ID 8221334), Donalds amended the report: eight transactions had been listed as made on Feb. 22, 2024 when they were made on March 27, 2024, and he wrote that they were reported correctly on Schedule B of his 2024 annual report. On Sept. 5, 2024, the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy group, filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics alleging that 108 trades in 2022 and 2023, worth up to $1.6 million, were never reported in periodic transaction reports; Business Insider reported that the trades appeared in his annual disclosures filed in August 2023 and August 2024. The records reviewed do not show whether the November 2024 report relates to that complaint. Florida Bulldog reported on Oct. 5, 2026 that the outcome of that complaint has not been made public, and the records reviewed do not show whether a late-filing penalty was assessed. A Donalds spokesperson responded to the complaint in Sept. 2024: "All stock trades on behalf of Congressman Donalds and his wife are completed by third-party professionals without their direction or approval. The congressman is working to reconcile any outstanding infractions and follow all necessary procedures to ensure proper compliance."

Sources (7)

U.S. House Clerk, Periodic Transaction Report, Filing ID 8220682 (Byron Donalds), stamped Nov. 8, 2024Hand-delivered PTR stamped 2024 Nov 8; entries such as Intuitive Surgical, Shopify, Veeva: transaction date 01/05/2021, date notified 04/24/24; final page: Equifax and Monster Beverage, transaction date 05/09/24, notified 04/24/24; page 25 of 25

U.S. House Clerk, Amendment letter and PTR, Filing ID 8221334 (Byron Donalds), Feb. 19, 2026It has been brought to my attention that a previous PTR of mine, that was filed on November 8, 2024, did not report the correct transaction date for eight (8) separate transactions... reported correctly on Schedule B of my 2024 annual report.

U.S. House Clerk, Financial Disclosure Reports index (2024 filings, Donalds)Donalds, Byron, FilingType P, FL19, filed 11/8/2024 (DocID 8220682) and 2/19/2026 (DocID 8221334)

Campaign Legal Center: press release on Sept. 5, 2024 ethics complaintWhile Rep. Donalds and his spouse made 108 stock trades between 2022 and 2023 valued up to $1.6 million, he failed to file PTRs for any of these transactions.

WINK NewsSpokesperson: 'All stock trades on behalf of Congressman Donalds and his wife are completed by third-party professionals without their direction or approval. The congressman is working to reconcile any outstanding infractions and follow all necessary procedures to ensure proper compliance.'

Response

Byron Donalds

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