| While Anna Paulina Luna continues to threaten a discharge petition on a bill to ban congressional stock trading, new reporting revealed that her legislation would conveniently allow her to continue holding up to half a million dollars she’s invested in one of her donor’s companies.
America First Natural Resources LLC, which Luna has reported investing anywhere between $250,001 to $500,000 in, was founded and managed by one of Luna’s top political and financial supporters.
Luna has specifically railed against members of Congress who invest in companies whose business overlaps with committees they sit on. Still, Luna apparently sees no issue with her investments while she sits on the House Natural Resources Committee and a subcommittee on Energy Policy.
DCCC Spokesperson Madison Andrus:
“Anna Paulina Luna only cares about corruption and insider trading as long as the rules exempt all of her own shady behavior. Luna doesn’t actually want to clean up the swamp – she just wants to play pretend. Once a grifter, always a grifter.”
NBC News: Rep. Luna’s investment in a donor’s energy firm illustrates potential limits of a stock trading ban
September 8, 2025
- Luna’s most recent financial disclosure statement shows she has a significant investment of her own, illustrating how lawmakers could hold assets that pose potential conflicts of interest, even if the stock trading ban that she’s pushed for becomes law.
- Luna reported in July on a financial disclosure form that she has invested $250,001 to $500,000 in America First Natural Resources LLC, a company founded and managed by one of her political donors, Bruce N. Rosenthal, who has described it as a private equity firm focused on domestic energy exploration and production.
- “You don’t need to be an ethics expert to see the problem with a member of Congress investing in a donor’s company that could likely be affected by the decisions of one of her committees…,” said Donald K. Sherman, the executive director and chief counsel at the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW.
- The nonpartisan independent Project on Government Oversight (POGO), which has endorsed the proposed stock ban, said lawmaker investments focused on a specific industry, like Luna’s in energy, raise red flags.
- They are “ripe for manipulation or ripe for some kind of conflict of interest,” said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, who heads policy and government affairs at POGO.
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