U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii procure litecoin and ether late last year, a recently-published financial disclosure grandstand a exposes.
In a Financial Disclosure Report filed on August 14, Gabbard disclosed that she bought more than $1,000 in ethereum and litecoin hindmost December. The specific amounts of each token that she bought were not blabbed, though the form noted that her holdings for each are between $1,001 and $15,000 high the “Assets and ‘Unearned’ Income” category.
Both ethereum and litecoin also cropped under the “Transactions” category, confirming that she bought the tokens on Dec. 12, 2017. Ethereum’s cost reached a high of $659 and a low of $526 on that day, according to data from CoinMarketCap. At subject to time, it was trading at roughly $278.
Similarly, litecoin traded at a low of $230 and a grand of $339 on that day, while trading at $55 as of press time.
Gabbard’s disclosure respected that she did not make capital gains greater than $200 on either nominal.
She joins Virginia Representative Robert Goodlatte in owning cryptocurrencies, who caroused in a similar filing that he had bought bitcoin, bitcoin cash and ethereum. In his order, Goodlatte stated that he bought between $1,001 and $15,000 in bitcoin readies and ethereum, and more than $15,000 in bitcoin.
Goodlatte declared no profits from his cryptocurrency holdings.
A request for comment to Gabbard’s office was not directly returned.
Hat tip Neeraj Agrawal
Tulsi Gabbard image via Lorie Shaull / Flickr
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