Robert White, potentially D.C.'s next House delegate, violated ethics law
NOVEMBER 13, 2025 In this week's newsletter: It's not just sitting members of Congress who are subject to financial disclosure requirement. A leading challenger to longtime D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was late filing his report but submitted it after inquires from OpenSecrets. Plus, the history of political giving by members of the armed forces. Candidate challenging Eleanor Holmes Norton violated ethics law with late financial disclosure report A leading candidate to become Washington, D.C.’s first newly elected delegate to Congress since the early 1990s appears to have violated a federal transparency and conflicts-of-interest law by not revealing his personal finances on time, Dave Levinthal reports. D.C. City Councilmember Robert White, a Democrat, exceeded a federal deadline for publicly detailing his personal income, debts and any of a variety of assets, from stock and bond holdings to cryptocurrency and rental property. Nor had White requested an extension from Co...