Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm admitted in a letter Friday that she made a false statement when she recently told lawmakers she didn't own any individual stocks.
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley released the following statement after Granholm revealed that she held financial stocks as recently as May of this year, contradicting previous statements she made to Senator Hawley during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.
"I mistakenly told the Committee that I did not own any individual stocks, whereas I should have said that I did not own any conflicting stocks. In order to make my financial holdings consistent with my testimony, on May 18, 2023, I divested my remaining stock holdings which consisted of stock in six companies, even though these assets were deemed non-conflicting," Granholm wrote in a letter to lawmakers. The letter did not name the stocks involved.