Washington Free Beacon: Inside Jasmine Crockett’s Secret Stock Portfolio and Failed Attempts To Become a Marijuana Magnate
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) 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. Crockett also didn’t reveal the stock holdings once she got to Washington in 2023.
The far-left firebrand’s impressive financial portfolio—according to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a public records request—clashes with her image as an eco-warrior and beacon of progressivism. Further, Crockett, a self-described civil rights attorney, was an active stakeholder in the cannabis business—seeking unsuccessfully to open marijuana dispensaries in Ohio—even as she represented, as a defense lawyer, a man accused of murdering someone in a marijuana deal gone bad. Both in the Texas statehouse and in Congress, Crockett has pushed bills to decriminalize marijuana.
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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.”
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As a state representative in 2021, Crockett was also a vocal advocate for COVID-19 vaccine mandates, a policy that provided a boon for the pharmaceutical firms in her stock portfolio that manufactured those vaccines, including Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca. She criticized “right-wing nuts” who opposed vaccine mandates in 2021 and has been a vocal opponent in Congress of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine policies, accusing him of playing politics with people’s lives.
Crockett’s undisclosed stock portfolio could also open her up to charges of hypocrisy. She says climate change is an “existential crisis” that hits communities of color the hardest and purports to be a champion of the transition to green energy. But she also omitted from her congressional financial disclosure reports her ownership of stock in ExxonMobil, a fossil fuel giant that has been sued by several liberal state and local governments for allegedly causing climate change.
