U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett, the far-left, foul-mouthed Democrat from Texas, might have violated House rules by not disclosing her stock portfolio.
The Washington Free Beacon disclosed the possible violation today. Crockett “owned stocks in at least 25 companies that she did not disclose to the public during her first congressional run in 2022, even though she’d quietly admitted to the holdings the previous year as a Texas state legislator,” the website reported. Nor did she disclose the holdings when she landed in Congress in 2023.
The records reveal Crockett to be something of a hypocrite. She doesn’t believe the sinistral nonsense she spews like a firehose.
The Stocks
Indeed, Crockett is quite the Wall Street tycoon, the report shows.
“The records obtained by the Free Beacon open a window into the personal financial life of Crockett, 44, who says she supports herself,” the website reported:
“I have no husband, y’all. Never been married, never been engaged” she told an interviewer in February, holding up her hands to emphasize the absence of a ring.
She holds stocks in companies that can gain from her position in Congress, and “and others that stand in opposition to the image she’s cultivated as a champion of green energy.”
Crockett’s holdings during 2021 were “sizable,” the website reported. She owned shares in Big Tech, Energy, and Pharma, along with shares in the auto and marijuana sectors. She “did not disclose owning any of those same stocks in her first congressional financial disclosure, which also covered her financial holdings during the 2021 calendar year.”
Crockett’s array of blue-chip and other stocks is impressive. They include “Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, General Motors, Uber, DuPont, ExxonMobil, American Airlines, AT&T, Aurora Cannabis, Ford, and ‘Corporate Cannabis’ and ‘Stocks Worldwide.’”
The website continued:
Crockett also reported in her last Texas financial disclosure owing debts of at least $110,000 — none of which she divulged in her first congressional financial disclosure covering the same calendar year.
Candidates for Congress are required to file detailed financial disclosures. If victorious, they must file more disclosures when beginning their terms. False or incomplete financial reports can lead to civil and even criminal penalties.
Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of ethics watchdog Americans for Public Trust, told the Free Beacon that Crockett’s undisclosed stock portfolio and debts raise major conflict of interest concerns, with several of the companies, in particular the firms in the pharmaceutical and marijuana industries, standing to benefit from actions she’s taken in the Texas state legislature and Congress.
“Personal financial disclosure rules are in place to make sure Members of Congress do not engage in conflicts of interest while working for the American people,” Sutherland said. “The concerns surrounding the extreme discrepancies between Representative Crockett’s state and federal financial disclosures are certainly legitimate. If she is found to have improperly reported her assets and liabilities, further inquiry and possible penalties would be warranted.”
Crockett reported that she owned fewer than 100 shares in each of the 25 stocks she reported in her Texas financial disclosure covering the 2021 calendar year but omitted from her congressional disclosure covering the same year. It’s not clear if Crockett still owns shares in those companies — members of the House are only required to publicly disclose their stock holdings that exceed $1,000.
Debts, Giggle-weed Magnate
The website also broke down her debts. She owed at least $46,580 to Wells Fargo and the Texans Federal Credit Union at 2021’s end. She also owed “between $18,630 and $46,580 to an individual named Ben Babcock.” However, “she disclosed none of those debts in her congressional financial disclosure covering the 2021 calendar year.”
House ethics rules are clear. Stocks and debts must be reported on financial disclosures.
The debt to Babcock might be what she owes him for rent, given that she lived in a home he owned, the website continued.
Not surprisingly, Crockett’s ardor for the Giggle Weed industry during her Texas House years involved introducing bills “that would have decriminalized drug paraphernalia associated with marijuana use and expanded access to medical marijuana in the state.”
The bills failed, the website noted, “but Crockett continued her marijuana advocacy after she took her seat in Congress, co-sponsoring legislation in August to decriminalize marijuana at the national level.”
And, continued the Free Beacon, Crockett isn’t just a partisan of Devil’s Lettuce dispensaries. She’s 20 percent owner of one:
Crockett maintains personal ties to the cannabis business through Black Diamond Investments, a firm she reported as owning in her latest congressional financial disclosure.
Indeed, the marijuana bills could have provided (or even provide) a personal boon to Crockett. … [I]n the years just before her election to the Texas House in 2020, Crockett’s efforts were devoted in part to Black Diamond Investments, a firm which sought, unsuccessfully, from 2018 to 2020, to be licensed to operate marijuana dispensaries in Ohio.
Black Diamond Investments identified Crockett as a 20 percent owner of the firm in a 148-page application it submitted to the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program in 2018. The firm disclosed in the application exhaustive business plans for its proposed dispensary, including Crockett’s day-to-day duties as its chief operations officer. Crockett was listed as the only contact for the firm during the application process. At the time, medical marijuana was legal in Ohio, but subject to far more restrictions in Texas, where Black Diamond LLC was based.
As for her ties to Big Pharma, the website continued, in 2021 as a state representative, she was a “vocal advocate” for China Virus vaccine mandates. That, of course, helped the companies in which she owned stock, meaning AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.
Those who opposed such mandates were “right-wing nuts.”
Crockett might even make a fortune on old civil rights lawsuits. Appearing on The Breakfast Club, the Texas Democrat said she might collect “some very lucrative fees from long-running civil rights cases she worked on before entering government,” the website reported:
If House ethics rules prevent her from taking her cut, Crockett told the Breakfast Club hosts, she’ll quit Congress, take the money, then run again.
Nutjob, “Gangsta” Fakery
Since entering Congress, Crockett has earned a reputation as something of a nutjob:
• She called a hearing on National Public Radio “bullsh*t”;
• She called called paraplegic GOP Texas Governor Greg Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels”;
• She said GOP Senator Ted Cruz should be “knocked over the head”;
• She falsely claimed that entering the country illegally is not a crime; and,
• She said she wanted Tesla tycoon Elon Musk “taken down” as a birthday present.
As for Crockett’s fakery on her origins, Fox News’ Todd Starnes accurately explained her past on X.
“Crockett wants you to think she’s from the hood — that she grew up on the streets,” he explained:
The exact opposite is true. She attended an exclusive day school where tuition is nearly $35,000 per year. She also attended Rhodes College, a private school where tuition is nearly $55,000 per year. She’s cosplaying a gangsta.
And in March, podcaster Kyle Seraphin posted video of Crockett speaking in a normal accent, not the one she routinely uses now.
