638E6847Public record case file · Updated Aug 24, 2026
Accountability file
A public-record case file for correlating official House and Senate financial disclosures with source-diverse news clusters, SEC issuer reference data, SEC filings, and congressional action dates. It treats timing overlap as a review question, not evidence of insider trading or corruption.
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638E 6847 024EThis shows the case file's most significant public-record connections only — see the Role Web and Timeline tabs for the full set. A line means a record connects two points; it is not a finding about conduct.
These are the standards every anchor on this file must clear.
A public official, asset, issuer, article, or bill appearing in a shared timeline is correlation evidence only and does not imply corruption or insider trading.
Every public-record role in this file, grouped by kind. Open a role to read its dossier — its public-record status, what it is, and the exact records that name it. A shared record naming two roles is not a finding about conduct beyond that record.
Pick a role to see its public-record status, what it is, and the exact records that name it. A shared record is not a finding about conduct.
No single record names more than one role in this file yet.
Global coverage index used to identify source-diverse news windows around market-moving public events.
Official public search surface for House financial disclosure reports and periodic transaction reports.
Official SEC ticker-to-CIK association file used as the first issuer-normalization layer before company facts and submissions.
Official SEC API documentation for company facts and ticker-to-CIK reference data.
Official SEC submissions endpoint for issuer filing timelines once CIK identifiers are known.
Official Senate public disclosure portal for financial reports and transaction disclosures.
Import sources create source-run packets, document inventories, and review tokens. They do not publish accusations or graph relationships until the case-file evidence rules are satisfied.
Official public search surface for House financial disclosure reports and periodic transaction reports.
Use as primary disclosure source; derived rows must preserve official report URLs and filing metadata.financial disclosureSenate Public Financial DisclosureU.S. Senate Office of Public RecordsOfficial Senate public disclosure portal for financial reports and transaction disclosures.
Use as primary Senate source; retain official report URLs or PDFs before normalization.legislative recordPublic Law 112-105: Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012GovInfo / U.S. Government Publishing OfficeEnacted text of the statute this case file is named for. It affirms that Members and employees of Congress are not exempt from securities-law insider-trading prohibitions, creates a periodic transaction reporting duty, and directs the House and Senate to publish covered financial disclosure forms online.
Statutory text establishes reporting duties and publication deadlines. It does not establish that any filer traded on nonpublic information, and a late, amended, or missing filing is a disclosure question rather than a finding of insider trading.market referenceSEC EDGAR company facts and ticker metadataU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionOfficial SEC API documentation for company facts and ticker-to-CIK reference data.
Issuer identity joins support normalization only; they do not establish why a public official traded.market referenceSEC company ticker and CIK associationsU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionOfficial SEC ticker-to-CIK association file used as the first issuer-normalization layer before company facts and submissions.
Ticker/CIK associations help normalize issuer identity; they do not establish why a public official traded or whether an issuer is connected to an event.market referenceSEC EDGAR submissions APIU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionOfficial SEC submissions endpoint for issuer filing timelines once CIK identifiers are known.
Filing timelines are market context and cannot prove access to nonpublic information.official recordSEC Litigation Releases FeedU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionOfficial SEC civil-action release feed for litigation releases, complaints, judgments, settlements, and related enforcement documents.
SEC litigation rows must preserve legal posture; allegations, judgments, settlements, and dismissals are different evidence states.official recordSEC Litigation Release No. 26570: Jennings and Vortex StrategiesU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionSEC litigation release alleging insider trading by Justin Jennings and Vortex Strategies LLC based on material nonpublic information.
Use as an example of SEC legal-posture language for market-integrity joins; allegations are not findings unless later court records say so.official recordSEC Litigation Release No. 26621: dismissal of civil enforcement action against Stephen E. BuyerU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionLitigation Release No. 26621, dated August 26, 2026, headed 'SEC Announces Dismissal of Civil Enforcement Action Against Stephen E. Buyer', in No. 1:22-cv-06279 (S.D.N.Y. filed July 25, 2022).
A dismissal is not a merits finding in either direction. The release does not restate the allegations or describe any public office, so neither may be added from outside this record, and it states the decision 'does not necessarily reflect the Commission's position on any other case.'baselineClaim rows are derived from timeline events and source anchors. They are evidence-status labels, not accusations or final truth claims.
Release requests are lawful public-record asks. They identify source gaps, review gates, and privacy constraints; they are not evidence that a specific person committed wrongdoing.
Deliberate gaps in the public record — open until the underlying records are released or reviewed, not questions we have skipped.
638E 6847 024EConnections are navigation aids. They show where a record, event, or role is sourced; they do not convert association, correspondence, testimony requests, or document appearance into misconduct findings.
Market-integrity desk for financial disclosures, issuer records, SEC posture, and legislative timing checks.
Source leads and automated probes are review inventory. They become verified anchors only after Hugin can attach the public record, legal posture, and no-allegation guardrails.
These are not loose TODOs anymore. Each lane below is computed from the case file's source tiers, then joined to matching sources, timeline events, role nodes, and release-roadmap requests.
Attach SEC litigation releases to issuer/person review windows by release number, respondent, publication date, complaint or judgment link, and legal posture.
Resolve asset descriptions and ticker symbols to SEC CIK, issuer legal name, and exchange before joining to news, filing, or litigation-release timelines.
Attach source-diverse news windows to official disclosure rows as review questions only.
Cache official report URLs and parse member, filing date, transaction date, asset description, amount range, and ticker where available.
Configure a server-side CONGRESS_GOV_API_KEY before joining member, bill, action, and vote rows.
Hugin accepts public records, not accusations. A submitted URL lands in a review lane, gets source-validated, and only becomes a case anchor after the evidence rules and privacy gates are satisfied.
Fact-check status is a review posture, not a verdict. Source-scout rows are leads until a reviewer joins them to publishable anchors; claim-ledger rows are timeline-derived and still require source validation plus no-allegation guardrails before promotion.
Paste an official or public-record URL. Hugin classifies the lane first, keeps lead-only material quarantined, and requires source validation before anything reaches the case file.
Queue a public source for review.Sanitized queue view: Hugin shows the public URL, lane, status, and why a source has not been promoted. Submitter identifiers are not shown.
A source is a public URL someone else can inspect. A claim is an interpretation. Hugin queues sources first and keeps claims out until a reviewed public record supports the exact wording.
Official agency pages, court dockets, congressional releases, civil records, state updates, and public repositories with source URLs.
Publisher, date, record family, and why the URL belongs in this file.
Source URLs first. Context is welcome, but claims do not publish from submissions alone.
Private tips, survivor identifiers, sealed or leaked material, graphic details, and private contact data.
Screenshots or social posts without a public source URL.
Misconduct labels for living people unless the exact cited public record supports that exact statement.
Audit feed for source anchors, queue decisions, privacy-review jobs, and hashes. It explains the process without turning leads into claims.
Extract document index and source metadata first.
Next: Metadata extraction includes publisher, URL, document family, and date.00bc34dfe729Extract document index and source metadata first.
Next: Metadata extraction includes publisher, URL, document family, and date.251bdeea1d53Extract document index and source metadata first.
Next: Metadata extraction includes publisher, URL, document family, and date.c90ec599d903Extract document index and source metadata first.
Next: Metadata extraction includes publisher, URL, document family, and date.d93c303988a3Extract document index and source metadata first.
Next: Metadata extraction includes publisher, URL, document family, and date.e76022d766c2Mirrors can compare this hash to verify the same case file bundle.
Next: Compare the short hash in the UI with this machine-readable ledger.638e6847024eThis binds document mirroring and privacy-triage rules.
Next: Compare the short hash in the UI with this machine-readable ledger.9f5443a1eaebThis binds privacy-review and metadata extraction jobs.
Next: Compare the short hash in the UI with this machine-readable ledger.1a3875852953This binds the visible queue decisions to a machine-readable report.
Next: Compare the short hash in the UI with this machine-readable ledger.c825335f1a39This changes when sanitized submission rows change.
Next: Compare the short hash in the UI with this machine-readable ledger.69d04ddd0e0c