House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband bought up to $11 million worth of big tech stocks in May and June, according to a financial disclosure form filed July 2 and signed by the Democratic leader.
Paul Pelosi, who owns and operates a San Francisco-based real estate and consulting firm, bought 4,000 shares of Alphabet on June 18 at a strike price of $1,200, according to the report.
He made an initial $4.8 million gain from Alphabet’s rising share price, which has since grown to $5.3 million, Bloomberg reported.
Prior to that, on May 21, Pelosi purchased up to $1 million worth of call options in Amazon, along with up to $250,000 in call options on Apple.
Per the disclosure form, Pelosi purchased 20 Amazon call options with a strike price of $3,000 and an expiration date of June 17, 2022, along with 50 Apple call options with a strike price of $100 and an expiration date of June 17, 2022.
The businessman bought the stock by exercising a call option; a contract between a buyer and a seller to purchase a certain stock, bond, commodity, or other asset at a certain price up until a defined expiration date.
Call options are typically used if the trader expects the price of the underlying to rise within a certain time frame, suggesting that Pelosi’s husband expects Amazon and Apple to continue their gains.
The stock purchases came shortly before the House Judiciary Committee voted to advance six bipartisan antitrust bills aimed at giving Congress the power to regulate Big Tech Companies.
Pelosi’s wife and the House of Representatives are currently working on anti-trust legislation designed to rein in Big Tech companies’ control over the public discourse and end their practices that have resulted in the infringement on the free speech of Americans.
