"If Representative Raskin was able to perform these official duties during this time, it is reasonable to expect that he should have been able to comply with the Periodic Transaction Report requirements during these times and not frustrate the legitimate ends of Congressional oversight by waiting nine months to disclose the sale," the complaint said. While the complaint from the American Accountability Foundation conceded that the Raskins had lost their son during that time period and should be "afford some latitude in meeting filing requirements," it noted that the congressman quickly returned to his official duties in leading the impeachment charge against Trump. "We lost our son during the reporting period, and I filed the report late," the congressman told Insider. Sarah Bloom Raskin, nominated to be vice chairman for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, is sworn in before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb (Bill Clark/Pool via REUTERS / Reuters Photos) "If House rules are going to mean anything, the House Ethics Committee needs to open an investigation and sanction Jamie Raskin for hiding this shady stock deal from the public." "Sarah and Jamie Raskin are career politicians who have used the system to enrich themselves, and it is time that someone holds them accountable," Tom Jones, the founder of the American Accountability Foundation, said in a statement to FOX Business. The document listed the initial transaction date as Dec. Jamie’s father, Marcus Raskin, ran the Institute for Policy Studies, an often incendiary left-leaning DC think tank, and his mother, Barbara Raskin, was a combative author and journalist. Jamie Raskin disclosed information about the transaction in August 2021 – eight months after Sarah Bloom Raskin sold 195,936 shares of Reserve Trust for $1.5 million, according to a federal financial disclosure. The parents of Congressman Jamie Raskin, leader of the second Democratic attempt to impeach Donald Trump, were longtime hellraisers in the nation’s capital. The American Accountability Foundation, a conservative ethics watchdog, said in a complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics that Raskin had violated federal financial disclosure reporting obligations by waiting too long to report a huge stock payout that his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, received in December 2020.
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