WASHINGTON — Long Island Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi has been hit with an ethics complaint zinging him for failure to disclose his purchase of US Treasury bills on time.
On four occasions between September and early November of last year, Suozzi (D-NY) bought Treasury bills valued somewhere between $4,000 and $60,000, but didn’t disclose that until about a year later, Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), an ethics watchdog, discovered.
FACT levied a complaint against Suozzi on Thursday with the House Committee on Ethics and Office of Congressional Ethics, urging both panels to investigate.
“While any violation of this law is serious, this case is even more so given that Suozzi has failed to file periodic transaction reports for hundreds of stock transactions in the pas