WFB: Businesses connected to California Democratic representative Harley Rouda were subject to nearly $230,000 in local, state, and federal tax liens, documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Rouda spent decades as a real estate executive prior to his successful congressional bid in 2018. The Democrat owned stakes in a multitude of companies in the industry through his investment firm, Trident Holdings, which he registered in 2001 under the name Real Living, Inc. In November 2011, the company received a Franklin County, Ohio, lien notice showing more than $117,000 in unpaid taxes from 2009 to 2011. Rouda served as the company’s “Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner” at the time, according to a 2009 Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Rouda’s firm was also subject to a roughly $52,000 federal tax lien between the 2012 and 2015 tax years. The Democrat remained the company’s CEO at the time, having served in the role “since February 2002,” according to a since-deleted 2018 Bloomberg executive profile. State filings show that Rouda was not removed as the firm’s registered agent until August 2020—in total, businesses connected to Rouda faced 33 liens totaling $228,835.34 from 2003 to 2020. read more