Every file we used, named and in the open

Primary source documents

lawler_2020_fds_with_amendment.pdf NY State Assembly financial disclosure, 2020, with the gas-coalition amendment 9.5 MB
lawler_2021_fds.pdf NY State Assembly financial disclosure, 2021 2.7 MB
membertravel_2021.csv NY Assembly member-travel voucher records, 2021-22 1.9 MB
lawler_2022.pdf Lawler's 2022 U.S. House financial disclosure (candidate filing) 99 KB
lawler_2024.pdf Lawler's 2024 U.S. House financial disclosure 123 KB
s51001_assembly_rollcall_2022-07-01.html 27 KB
s51002_assembly_rollcall_2022-07-01.html NY Assembly roll call: the Equal Rights Amendment (abortion), 7/1/2022 27 KB
s9458_assembly_rollcall_2022-06-02.html NY Assembly roll call: semiautomatic-rifle licensing, 6/2/2022 27 KB
s9617_assembly_rollcall.html NY Assembly roll call: the legislative pay-raise bill 27 KB

Raw FEC data pulls

by_employer.json Contributions aggregated by donor employer (FEC) 566 KB
by_occupation.json Contributions aggregated by donor occupation (FEC) 223 KB
by_state.json Contributions aggregated by state (FEC) 23 KB
schedule_a.jsonl Every itemized receipt to Lawler's committees (FEC Schedule A), all cycles 132.6 MB
schedule_b.jsonl Every disbursement his committees made (FEC Schedule B) 23.0 MB
schedule_e.jsonl Independent expenditures for and against him (FEC Schedule E) 851 KB
(+5 zip archives) New York State Board of Elections bulk campaign-finance data (2013-2015) 256 B
schedule_a.jsonl MVL PAC (his leadership PAC) itemized receipts (FEC) 1.7 MB

Official spending records

sod/ — 13 quarterly Statements of Disbursements (2023 Q1 to 2026 Q1) + combined His taxpayer-funded office spending, quarter by quarter (14 files)

Processed datasets

cross_giving.jsonl The co-giving network: who else his donors fund 747 KB
cross_giving_edges.tsv Donor-to-committee edges for the network analysis 392 KB
disbursements.tsv His committees' spending, parsed 317 KB
donors_top.json Top donors 6 KB
firm_clusters.tsv Donor employer/firm clustering 32 KB
household_clusters.tsv Donor household clustering 16 KB
individuals.tsv Every individual donor, parsed and normalized 927 KB
industry_totals.json Money by industry, after employer classification 13 KB
nodes.tsv Donor-network nodes 289 KB
pac_aggregated.tsv PAC money aggregated by source 65 KB
pacs.tsv Every PAC/committee donor, parsed 627 KB
clean/census2/ — employer-classification shards Every donor employer classified to an industry (35 files)
explorer/public/data/ — FEC explorer datasets (parquet + json) The structured money data behind the analysis (19 files)

Research workflow outputs

findings_dossier_main.json Workflow: the dossier core (39 agents, 117 vetted claims) 263 KB
findings_fec_oppo.json Workflow: the FEC money investigation (49 agents) 106 KB
findings_dossier_vol2.json Workflow: finances, portfolio, conflicts (36 agents) 136 KB
findings_donor_network.json Workflow: the 215-person donor network (27 agents) 181 KB
findings_donor_dossiers.json Workflow: 34 donor dossiers 229 KB
findings_deep.json Workflow: the co-giving network and who he represents 113 KB
findings_pricetag_votes.json Workflow: the donor-to-vote price tag 111 KB
findings_corruption.json Workflow: Atlantic Solutions and the corruption threads 134 KB
findings_deep_dig.json Workflow: the trades, calendar, and connections 183 KB
findings_deep_dig_iv.json Workflow: the Abramoff bundler (Kidan) 119 KB
findings_career.json Workflow: the career and paper trail 145 KB
findings_industry_census.json Workflow: industry census of employers and PACs 173 KB
findings_census_full.json Workflow: the full employer census 444 KB
findings_audit.json Workflow: the 247-claim data-integrity audit 51 KB
deep_dig_v2_bank.json Workflow: the deep-dig raw bank (74 agent outputs) 821 KB
deep_dig_v2_final.json Workflow: deep-dig adversarial verdicts 327 KB
deep_dig_v2_batch_verdicts.json Workflow: batch verification verdicts 239 KB
synthesis_full_result.json Workflow: the 11-chapter narrative synthesis 252 KB
deck_spec.json Workflow: the briefing-deck slide spec 97 KB

The published investigation

DOSSIER-Lawler-NY17-FULL.md The full narrative dossier (source markdown) 245 KB
LAWLER-COMPLETE-RESEARCH-BANK.md The complete research bank: every finding, every source, both eras 1.6 MB
METHOD-MEMO.md The methodology statement 7 KB
findings_v2.json The compiled evidence ledger (160 findings) 903 KB
money_index.json The 768-entity FEC money index 233 KB
archive-map.json Wayback Machine snapshots for every source link 49 KB

How to read this. The chain runs top to bottom: primary public records, the raw data pulled from them, the datasets built from that, the research workflows that mined the data, and the published artifacts you can read. Every external source link in the dossier is also preserved in the Internet Archive, and the whole corpus is queryable at /api/mcp.

An investigation you don't have to trust.

The Dossier

The Evidence Ledger

The Briefing Deck

The Data Feed