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No documented enforcement against Rick W. Allen

Rick W. Allen has 3 documented facts referencing violations, fines, settlements, or fraud, but no connection in the platform's graph documents an enforcement action, prosecution, sanction, or consent decree against them. This may indicate the platform's data is incomplete — or it may indicate a real enforcement gap. Either way, it's worth a closer look.

Entities involved: Rick W. Allen
Detected: 04 May 2026
Evidence last verified: 03 May 2026
Supporting evidence
Allen appears to have violated the STOCK Act on multiple occasions. In September 2021, Business Insider identified him as one of four Republican members who apparently failed to properly disclose stock trades, with transactions worth up to $200,000 in total. In July 2024, Raw Story reported Allen was late in disclosing his spouse's sale of SouthState Corporation stock valued at $100,001-$250,000. In August 2023, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported he filed disclosures listing dozens of trades that should have been reported months earlier.
Rick W. Allen · primary · source ↗ · 03 May 2026
[disclosure] Allen has violated the STOCK Act multiple times, failing to properly disclose stock trades — including transactions valued at up to $200,000 in 2021 and his spouse's $100,001-$250,000 SouthState Corporation stock sale in 2024. He was one of at least 62 members of the 118th Congress identified by Raw Story as having violated the federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law.
Rick W. Allen · primary · source ↗ · 03 May 2026
[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Georgia Constitutional Amendment 1 — Suspension of Public Officials Indicted for a Felony (2024) (2024) — passed, margin 61% Yes — 39% No
Rick W. Allen · secondary · source ↗ · 03 May 2026
3 actions you can take
File a FOIA
File a FOIA request with the U.S. Department of Justice — Criminal Division
Target: U.S. Department of Justice — Criminal Division
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Subject: FOIA Request — All non-exempt records — including correspondence, internal memoranda, referrals

Dear FOIA Officer,

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, I request access to and copies of the following records held by the U.S. Department of Justice — Criminal Division:

All non-exempt records — including correspondence, internal memoranda, referrals, declination memos, and case-opening or case-closing documents — concerning any investigation, declined investigation, or referral involving "Rick W. Allen" from January 2010 to the present.

I am requesting these records because: This request supports public-interest investigation of an oversight gap documented at https…
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Contact the oversight body
Ask the House Committee on Financial Services to hold a hearing
Target: House Committee on Financial Services
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Subject: Constituent request: hearing on No documented enforcement against Rick W. Allen

Dear Members of the House Committee on Financial Services,

I am writing to ask the committee to hold a public hearing on the following matter that falls within your jurisdiction: No documented enforcement against Rick W. Allen.

The basis of this request is documented in publicly available evidence summarised here: No documented enforcement against Rick W. Allen.

Full evidence trail with source citations: https://goblinhouse.net/wall/enforcement-gap-congress-a000372

This matter has not, to my knowledge, been the subject of a formal committee inquiry. The cited evidence consists of public re…
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Tip a journalist
Send this to ProPublica
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Subject: Tip — No documented enforcement against Rick W. Allen

Hi ProPublica team,

Tipping you to a documented accountability gap that aligns with your beat (Investigative journalism, financial crime, government accountability):

No documented enforcement against Rick W. Allen

One-line summary: No documented enforcement against Rick W. Allen

Full evidence trail with source citations and confidence labels: https://goblinhouse.net/wall/enforcement-gap-congress-a000372

This is not original reporting — it's a structured map of public-record evidence (court filings, settlements, disclosures) compiled by Goblin House, an open investigative database. Sharing…
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