Paul R Lawrence

Deputy Secretary · Department of Veterans Affairs

Lawrence reported 3 sales totaling an estimated $96K, consistent with ethics agreement divestitures. Notable: Dominion Energy sale is relevant given VA's large energy footprint. Filer received a 30-day filing extension. Confirmed to second Trump-term role as Deputy Secretary of VA after previously serving as Under Secretary for Benefits (2018-2021).

3trades

3sales

0purchases

Apr 22, 2025 – May 8, 2025

Last filing: Jul 11, 2025|Transactions: Apr 22, 2025 – May 8, 2025

Every transaction on file is a sale. 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.

Transaction timeline

One dot per disclosed trade, sized by amount. Red = sale, green = purchase.

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3 trades

Date	Description	Ticker	Type	Amount	Source
May 8, 2025	Dominion Energy, Inc. (D)	D	Sale	$15K-$50K	PDF
Apr 28, 2025	T Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund, Inc Class I Shares (THISX)	THISX	Sale	$15K-$50K	PDF
Apr 22, 2025	Fidelity Software and IT Services Portfolio (FSCSX)	FSCSX	Sale	$15K-$50K

Source documents on file with OGE

Reviewed financial disclosure documents the Office of Government Ethics has published or recorded for Paul Lawrence. 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-TCert. of Divestiture

Source filings

Original PDFs from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. These are the documents Open Cabinet parses.

278-T2025-07-11PDF

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

278-T Periodic Transaction ReportForm 278T Transaction Report· filed Jul 11, 2025
VA Deputy Secretary transaction report documenting securities trades and portfolio rebalancing activities.
OGE record
Ethics AgreementEthics Agreement· filed Feb 13, 2025
Ethics agreement for VA Deputy Secretary including recusal from benefit programs where official has interests and divestiture commitments for specific holdings.
OGE record
Nominee 278Nominee Form 278· filed Feb 13, 2025
Financial disclosure for VA nominee listing diverse investment portfolio, retirement accounts, and holdings in healthcare and financial services sectors.
OGE record

Cross-check: ProPublica’s Trump Team Financial Disclosures database lists 2 filings for this official. Verified against ProPublica's appointee page for Paul R. Lawrence. ProPublica's page embeds 2 unique DocumentCloud disclosure documents; Open Cabinet may list additional OGE-indexed ethics, compliance, certificate, waiver, or request-only records that ProPublica does not expose as separate DocumentCloud PDFs. No contradictory filing record was identified in this check. View ProPublica record.