The Consulting Firm on His Disclosures: What Liberty Strategies Reports, and What It Doesn't

Why This Matters for NY-23

Federal financial-disclosure law is supposed to let constituents see the income flowing into a member’s household. Rep. Langworthy’s filings do disclose that his spouse earns income from a political consulting firm — but the law shows the public the source and almost nothing else. Not the amount. Not the clients. Not whether the firm is still working. This entry lays out exactly what the public record shows about that firm, and what it leaves invisible.

What the disclosures show

Rep. Langworthy’s U.S. House financial disclosures list, under Schedule C (earned income), a spouse-income source called Liberty Strategies:

Under House rules, a filer must report the source of a spouse’s earned income over $1,000, but not the amount — so every entry above lists the dollar figure as “N/A.” The firm appears in three of these four reports; it is absent only from the 2023 report.

Liberty Strategies LLC is a New York company formed January 15, 2019, based in Tonawanda. Langworthy’s spouse, Erin Baker Langworthy, is the person listed as earning income from it.

Before Congress: the two Liberty firms

The chronology matters, so here it is with sources — and with a caution against a conflation that has appeared in prior reporting.

Before Congress, Langworthy ran his own polling and consulting firm, Liberty Opinion Research, started in 2016. His state financial disclosures reported it generating $20,000–$50,000 a year in 2016–2018 (Times Union, July 7, 2019), and New York State Board of Elections records show $262,997.56 across 27 payments to the firm in the 2016–2018 election years — and none after 2018. In July 2019, as he became state Republican chair, a state GOP spokeswoman told the Times Union: “He is closing the business to devote his full energy to the state chairmanship role.”

That same January — January 15, 2019 — the similarly named Liberty Strategies LLC was formed in Tonawanda. Its documented clients were federal committees (below), and it appears on Langworthy’s congressional filings as his wife’s income source.

What this is and isn’t: the timing is documented — his firm’s payments stop in 2018, the similarly named firm forms in January 2019, and the household consulting income continues. But these are different firms with different principals. Public records show no formal succession between them, and an August 2022 Investigative Post story that treated “Liberty Strategies” as the firm Langworthy said he would shut down conflated the two entities — the closure statement was about Liberty Opinion Research. We state only what the records show: the sequence in time.

What the firm’s clients were — through 2022

This part is visible, because the clients were political campaigns that file their own public reports. Federal Election Commission operating-expenditure records show Liberty Strategies LLC (Tonawanda) was paid for fundraising and finance consulting by three New York Republican U.S. House committees:

So for its first stretch, the firm’s work was documented through its clients’ own filings.

What isn’t visible — 2023 onward

Here is the gap. After 2022, no payments to Liberty Strategies appear in the public FEC records or in the New York State Board of Elections campaign-finance database for 2023, 2024, or 2025. Yet the spouse-income line from Liberty Strategies reappears on the 2024 and 2025 federal disclosures.

That leaves three things the public cannot see from the record:

• The amount. Spouse income is reported only as a source; the dollar figure is “N/A” in every year.
• The current clients. The last documented client payments were in 2022. If the firm earned income in 2024 and 2025 — enough to be a reportable source on the federal filing — that income came from clients who do not appear in the federal or state campaign-finance databases we reviewed.
• The 2023 absence. The firm is reported in 2022, 2024, and 2025, but not 2023. Under the rules, that is consistent with income below the $1,000 reporting threshold that year, or with an omission. The record alone does not say which.

What is legitimate — and what we are not saying

• A spouse having a career, including running a consulting business, is entirely normal and lawful.
• Doing paid consulting for political campaigns is legal and common.
• The income source is disclosed, as the rules require; the rules simply do not require the amount.
• Erin Baker Langworthy’s own New York state disclosure is the short form for legislative employees, which does not ask for an outside-client list — so the absence of client detail there is a function of the form, not a withheld disclosure.

We make no allegation of wrongdoing. The point is narrower: the disclosure regime lets a household consulting business appear as a one-line income source, with no amount and no client information, even as basic questions about it go unanswered in the public record.

The contrast: where the rules let you check, he checks out

At his June 25, 2026 telephone town hall (official recording, 20:30), Langworthy told constituents: “I don’t trade stocks, I’ve never traded stocks since I’ve been in public office,” describing his money as “mostly in the 401(k) system that the federal government has for employees and it’s just in basic index funds.”

We checked, because for stock trades the rules let anyone check. The Clerk’s filing indexes show he has never filed a Periodic Transaction Report (required within 45 days of any securities trade); his annual reports show one transaction ever — a July 2024 rollover of an old employer 401(k) into his federal Thrift Savings Plan — and his holdings are TSP funds and index funds. The claim is true, and we say so.

That is precisely the point of this entry. Stock trading is checkable because Congress wrote rules that make it checkable — transaction reports, named assets, dated filings. Spouse consulting income is the opposite: a source with no amount, no clients, and no current-activity information. Where the disclosure regime allows verification, Langworthy’s record verifies cleanly. Where it doesn’t, neither confidence nor suspicion is possible — the record simply cannot be assessed. A member can be demonstrably above board on one side of the household ledger while the other side is invisible by design.

Questions This Raises

1. Does Liberty Strategies have current clients, and who are they? Its last documented client payments were in 2022, yet it is listed as a 2024 and 2025 income source on the congressman’s filings.
2. Why does the firm appear on the 2022, 2024, and 2025 disclosures but not the 2023 one?
3. Will Langworthy’s office state, even in general terms, what the firm did in 2023–2025 and roughly what it earned?

A note on sourcing and reply

This entry is built from primary records: the four House financial-disclosure PDFs (Filing IDs 10054324, 10061049, 10068912, 10078337), FEC operating-expenditure data, the New York Department of State business-entity record for Liberty Strategies LLC, and the NYS Board of Elections campaign-finance database. The FEC client payments were re-verified line-by-line against the FEC API on July 2, 2026 (8 + 29 + 2 itemized disbursements; a $1.00 arithmetic error in an earlier draft total was corrected to $103,603.99).

Update, July 2, 2026: LangworthyWatch submitted the questions above to the congressman’s office through its official web contact form on June 24, 2026, and requested a response by July 1, 2026. The office did not respond by the deadline. No email, call, or written reply of any kind was received as of publication. This entry will be updated if a response arrives.

Sources

• U.S. House Financial Disclosure search: https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/FinancialDisclosure
• Langworthy CY2025 Annual Report (Filing ID 10078337): House Clerk PDF
• See the Financial Disclosures source-of-record page for the full Schedule C transcription across years
• FEC operating-expenditure data (Liberty Strategies LLC, Tonawanda, NY): https://www.fec.gov/data/
• NY Department of State — Liberty Strategies LLC (DOS ID 5475707), formed 2019-01-15
• NY State Board of Elections campaign-finance disclosure: https://publicreporting.elections.ny.gov/
• Times Union (Chris Bragg), “Political power brokers are far from broke,” July 7, 2019 — Liberty Opinion Research closure and income history: archived
• Langworthy Telephone Town Hall, June 25, 2026 (official recording, stock-trading statement at 20:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxt8IJFyLJ8 · machine transcript
• House Clerk financial-disclosure filing indexes 2023–2026 (no PTR filings): https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/FinancialDisclosure

Note: This entry documents publicly available financial-disclosure, FEC, and state records. It makes no allegation of unlawful conduct. Spouse employment and political consulting are lawful; the documented gap is between what the disclosure regime reveals (an income source) and what it leaves invisible (amount, clients, current activity).

Last updated: July 2, 2026 (chronology and town-hall contrast sections added same day)