The documented crimes
This is the strictest area on the site, because it is the one where being wrong costs the most — costs the people wrongly named, and costs every other true thing on this site by association.
So nothing here is a claim. Everything here is a file.
What a file contains
Every entry carries the same five parts, and it does not get published without all five:
- What is alleged, stated narrowly enough to be wrong.
- Who alleges it — the plaintiff, the prosecutor, the committee, the inspector general, the named witness. Never "reports suggest".
- Which document or proceeding it came from, linked to the primary source. An indictment, a deposition, a released record, a court finding.
- What its status is — alleged, charged, established by a court, dismissed, unresolved. These are different words on purpose and the file never blurs them.
- What is still missing, named as an open gap rather than filled with inference.
Alleged, charged, and established are three different things
The difference is not a technicality; it is most of the information:
- Alleged — somebody with standing said it, on a record. The fact is that they said it.
- Charged — a prosecutor filed it. Still not established.
- Established by a court — a finder of fact concluded it. Only here does the site state it as fact about a living person.
A file that moves between these states is updated, and the change is published as a correction rather than silently applied.
Where the files live
Alongside the rest of the catalog in Problems, cloneable in full from Open Data. You do not need our software or our website to check any of it — that is the point of publishing it as a repository rather than a database.
How a chain is reasoned about when links are missing
Most of these records have holes in them, some of them created deliberately. The method for reasoning across a chain with missing links — and for saying honestly how much the conclusion is worth — is Chain of evidence and Your confidence threshold.
Also in this area
- Who the deep state is — the definitions the files are filed under.
- The withheld files — the pattern in what is missing.