Joseph Kennedy’s stock disclosures — and why we can’t show the trades

Joseph Kennedy (House) has filed 27 disclosures under the STOCK Act, from Jul 14, 2015 to Sep 18, 2020. We hold every one of them, and 27 are a form we cannot machine-read.

What’s actually wrong

27 of those filings are image scans: a photograph of a paper form, with no text layer. Our parser reads the text layer, so for those there is nothing to read — no tickers, no amounts, no dates of trade. That is a limitation of our pipeline, not a fact about Joseph Kennedy’s trading, and we would rather say so than show you an empty table that looks like an answer.

It is also why Joseph Kennedy does not appear on our copy-return leaderboard. A member we cannot read cannot be backtested, and inventing a zero for them would rank them against people whose trades we actually have.

Every filing we hold

Newest first, with what our parser got from each. Every row links to the original document on the House Clerk’s site, so you can open it yourself.

FiledDocumentWhat we got
Sep 18, 20208217660Image scan — unreadable
Jul 21, 20208217403Image scan — unreadable
Jan 8, 20208216878Image scan — unreadable
Jul 25, 20199115196Image scan — unreadable
Jun 11, 20199115038Image scan — unreadable
Apr 9, 20199114525Image scan — unreadable
Mar 12, 20199114456Image scan — unreadable
Feb 11, 20199114373Image scan — unreadable
Feb 6, 20199114360Image scan — unreadable
Jan 3, 20199114269Image scan — unreadable
Sep 18, 20189113890Image scan — unreadable
Jul 17, 20189113534Image scan — unreadable
Jan 5, 20189112245Image scan — unreadable
Jun 29, 20179111344Image scan — unreadable
Jan 5, 20179110333Image scan — unreadable
Dec 5, 20169110268Image scan — unreadable
Aug 3, 20169109763Image scan — unreadable
Jun 10, 20169109476Image scan — unreadable
Jun 10, 20169109475Image scan — unreadable
Apr 28, 20169108651Image scan — unreadable
Feb 3, 20169108254Image scan — unreadable
Jan 4, 20169108098Image scan — unreadable
Oct 27, 20159107821Image scan — unreadable
Oct 27, 20159107820Image scan — unreadable
Sep 24, 20159107659Image scan — unreadable

Showing the latest 25 of 27.

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