Lawmakers’ New Botched Stock Disclosure Scapegoat: Financial Advisers

Lawmakers’ New Botched Stock Disclosure Scapegoat: Financial Advisers

As the list of lawmakers who have violated federal conflicts-of-interest and transparency rules with late stock-trade disclosures keeps getting longer, members of Congress are increasingly blaming their financial advisers for the screwups. Rep. Dan Meuser, a Pennsylvania Republican, was almost a year late when last week he reported the sale of $750,000 to $1.5 million worth of his wife’s stock in Nvidia Corp., the computer chip company. Meuser c…