A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Don Young says the Alaska Republican is updating his financial disclosures to show ownership in a family farm dating to the 1990s and income from oil and gas leases.
Spokesman Matt Shuckerow said the failure to include the farm prior to his 2015 report was an oversight that became apparent after the death of Young’s brother, Russell, and the property’s sale.
Shuckerow said Young became a partial owner in the farm after his mother died in 1990 but Russell Young operated it. He said the congressman derived no income from farm operations but did receive some income from oil and gas leases.
He said income from leases in the 1990s was included in Young’s congressional financial disclosures but $4,100 over three years from a 2001 sale wasn’t. He said the omission was inadvertent and Young’s filings would be updated to reflect those.
The story was first reported by the Alaska Dispatch News.
