Rep. Tom Suozzi profited from the very companies linked to the abuse he publicly condemned.
The New York Democrat spent years championing China’s persecuted Uyghur minority in Congress — co-sponsoring legislation, relaunching caucuses, delivering fiery speeches about genocide and forced labor camps.
Behind the scenes, according to congressional financial disclosures, Suozzi was buying and selling stock in Chinese companies accused of ties to Uyghur forced labor and surveillance.
The trades paint a troubling picture: a lawmaker condemning human rights abuses with one hand while potentially profiting from them with the other.
“The CCP is brutally and systemically trying to destroy the Uyghur people with mass internment camps, forced labor, sexual abuse, and forced sterilization. We cannot shy away from this. We must shine a light on these atrocities.”
That’s Suozzi speaking when he relaunched the Congressional Uyghur Caucus as co-chair in 2024.
Yet Suozzi’s financial disclosures tell a different story.
In September 2020 — six months after co-sponsoring the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act — Suozzi purchased between $1,001 and $15,000 of NIO stock, a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer with supply chains tied to Uyghur forced labor.
He doubled down a month later with another purchase of between $15,001 and $50,000 on October 5, 2020.
He sold between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of NIO stock on May 20, 2021 — eight months after his second purchase.
NIO isn’t Suozzi’s only problematic investment.
He also held stock in Baidu, the Chinese search engine that drew international condemnation after a patent revealed facial-recognition technology capable of identifying ethnicity — including Uyghurs.
Baidu claimed it has “never developed or permitted its technology to profile any ethnic group,” insisting the patent doesn’t represent “the expected implementation of the invention.”
Suozzi sold between $15,001 and $50,000 of Baidu stock in 2017.
The Uyghurs are a predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic minority in northwest China. The Chinese Communist Party has been accused of subjecting them to forced labor, mass detention, sexual abuse, forced sterilization, and cultural erasure.
Suozzi co-sponsored the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in March 2020. President Biden later signed it into law.
He also co-sponsored the Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025 and has served as co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Uyghur Caucus since 2024.
Since entering Congress, Suozzi has reported 671 stock transactions totaling roughly $20.9 million in disclosed trading volume.
He’s among roughly half of Congress that still trades individual stocks — a practice Republican Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin is trying to end.
Steil introduced the Stop Insider Trading Act earlier this year. The bill would ban lawmakers from buying individual stocks during their time in office and require seven days’ notice before any sale.
Suozzi’s office did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.
