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OPM Director Scott Kupor Publicly Touted Robinhood. He’s Also an Investor.

A Kupor spokesperson said government ethics officials didn’t require him to divest his investment in the financial services company.

Scott Kupor

Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Scott Kupor’s Robinhood stock sales on June 18 are together worth between $1.7 million and $3.5 million, a disclosure document filed with the Office of Government Ethics indicates. Mariam Zuhaib/AP

By Dave Levinthal

July 30, 2026 08:11 p.m.

In December, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor highlighted a partnership between financial services company Robinhood Markets Inc. and the Trump administration that temporarily places skilled private-sector tech workers in federal government jobs.

“We’re doing this in partnership with about 25 of the tech companies that you all know and love — so, you know, Coinbase, Robinhood, Databricks, Snowflake, NVIDIA, xAI, OpenAI,” Kupor told technology news show TBPN in explaining the Trump administration’s “US Tech Force” initiative.

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What Kupor didn’t say: He has maintained massive personal financial interests in Robinhood. And last month, the OPM director exercised stock call options and sold seven figures worth of his Robinhood shares, according to new federal ethics records reviewed by NOTUS.