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PHPete Hegseth
Secretary of Defense · Department of Defense
Hegseth reported 29 sales estimated at $428K between February 7, 2025 and April 1, 2025, with no purchases on record. Assets sold included WMT, TMO, PEP, PNC and MSFT. None of the transactions were flagged as filed late.
29trades
29sales
0purchases
~$428Ktrade volume (est.)
Feb. 7, 2025 – April 1, 2025
Last filing: June 7, 2025|Transactions: Feb. 7, 2025 – April 1, 2025
The counted trades include sales and no purchases. This is the pattern you would expect from an official liquidating positions to comply with an ethics agreement, but Open Cabinet does not yet ingest the entry-disclosure baseline (Nominee 278) needed to confirm which holdings have been fully divested.
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Transaction timeline
One mark per disclosed trade, sized by reported amount range. Circle = sale, square = purchase.
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Mark size = reported amount range (minimum)
Rows are extracted from OGE filings by automated parsing (Claude PDF reading, PDF-parser and OCR cross-checks) and reviewed by a mix of software and human checks; the status on each row says which. Open the source PDF to confirm any row, and tell us if something is wrong. How rows are checked.
Filter29 trades
| Date | Description | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 1, 2025 | Morgan StanleyCheckedA PDF parser and an AI model each read this filing and agreed on every row. A page check confirmed this row. | Sale | $1K-$15K |
Source documents
Reviewed financial disclosure documents the Office of Government Ethics has published or recorded for Pete Hegseth. Open Cabinet summarizes listed documents observationally and links to the source PDF where one is publicly available. We do not issue compliance verdicts — that is OGE’s role, not ours.
Document timeline
Nominee 278Ethics AgreementCompliance Cert278-T
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Hegseth's Broker Contacted BlackRock About Defense ETF Before Iran Strikes
Financial Times / CNBC · March 31, 2026
Hegseth's Morgan Stanley broker contacted BlackRock about a defense-sector ETF weeks before Trump began strikes on Iran. Pentagon denied wrongdoing.
Source filings
Original PDFs from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. These are the documents Open Cabinet parses.
Source: U.S. Office of Government Ethics, 278-T Periodic Transaction Report. Asset values and transaction amounts are reported in ranges as required by federal law. View original filings