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- Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency, Meeting 6 Evidence
Transcript · 2022
House of Commons of Canada
Finance official Isabelle Jacques testified that approximately 280 financial products and about $8 million were affected. She stated that all accounts frozen in response to the…
- Special Prosecutor Dan K. Webb Concludes Investigation into the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and Chicago Police Department’s Handling of the Jussie Smollett Case
Government Record · 2020
Dan K. Webb, Special Prosecutor
Special prosecutor Dan Webb's August 2020 release announcing the end of his investigation. He found no evidence supporting criminal charges against State's Attorney Kim Foxx or…
- Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645
Court Filing · 1972
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that a father was entitled to a hearing on his fitness as a parent before the state could take his children.
- State Department Inspector General: Inspection of the Global Engagement Center (2022)
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Department of State Office of Inspector General
State Department Inspector General, September 2022: found weaknesses at the Global Engagement Center in structure, contractor oversight, planning and risk reviews, and made 18 recommendations that…
- State Department: Global Engagement Center Closed (2024)
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Department of State
U.S. State Department archive page: records that the Global Engagement Center closed on December 23, 2024, and describes its foreign-focused mission. The department's own page.
- State Employees Search Amos Miller Farm, Seize Property
News Report · 2024
The Lancaster Patriot
Report says PDA employees, assisted by Pennsylvania State Police, searched the farm January 4 under a January 3 administrative warrant. It identifies Sheri Morris as affidavit…
- State v. Simonson, No. 105237-5 — Answer to Petition for Review
Court Filing · 2026
State of Washington
Washington State's filing in State v. Simonson, describing an appeals ruling that a Flock photo of a car on a public road did not violate the…
- Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
Government Record · 2016
James B. Comey / FBI
Comey described extremely careless handling but found no clear evidence of intent and recommended no charges. The statement was not a finding that no classified material…
- Statement of Michael E. Horowitz Concerning the OIG’s 2016 Election Report
Transcript · 2018
Michael E. Horowitz, DOJ Inspector General
The June 2018 OIG review criticized Comey’s departure from Department norms while finding no evidence that political bias drove the prosecutorial closure decision.
- Statement of U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine Regarding Sentencing of Reality Winner
Government Record · 2018
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Georgia
The “longest” description was made by U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine in an official statement. It is properly attributed to him; the opened record does not…
- Status of Washington Mutual Bank Receivership
Government Record · 2008
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
All WaMu deposits transferred to JPMorgan regardless of amount, including approximately $45 billion uninsured. The record contradicts alleged uninsured-depositor losses and reports no DIF loss.
- STOCK Act, Pub. L. 112-105
Government Record · 2012
Congress of the United States
The Act expressly applies securities-law insider-trading prohibitions to Congress and establishes transaction-reporting duties. It contradicts categorical statutory legality.
- Streisand v. Adelman, Case SC077257: Docket (2003)
Court Filing · 2003
Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, mirrored by PlainSite
Los Angeles Superior Court docket, 2003, copied by PlainSite: records a judgment of dismissal in Streisand v. Adelman. A mirror of the docket, not the court's…
- Supreme Court of Canada Docket 42261
Court Filing · 2026
Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court granted the government leave and granted both respondents leave to cross-appeal. Merits review is pending, so the litigation is not finally resolved.
- Tax Compliance: Trends of IRS Audit Rates and Results for Individual Taxpayers by Income, GAO-22-104960
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO reported an overall individual audit rate of 0.25 percent for tax year 2019. Its tables put returns claiming only the Earned Income Tax Credit at…
- Terry Dehko: Motion for Post-Seizure Hearing
Court Filing · 2013
Institute for Justice
The filed motion was opened for the Michigan IRS structuring seizure. No concise passage was retained for quotation.
- The AFCARS Dashboard: Preliminary FFY2025 Estimates, No. 33
Government Record · 2026
Children's Bureau
The Children's Bureau's preliminary federal foster care count for fiscal 2025: 331,747 children in care on September 30, 2025, 175,008 entries, 169,927 exits and 501,745 children…
- The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services
Document · 2008
Nancy Schaefer
Former Georgia state senator Nancy Schaefer's report accusing child protective services of breaking up families for federal money, including adoption bonuses. This copy, hosted by an…
- The Federalist No. 47 (1788)
Document · 1788
James Madison
James Madison, January 1788: the essay on separation of powers. Putting legislative, executive and judicial power in the same hands 'may justly be pronounced the very…
- The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Government Record · 2011
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
The FCIC made referrals where it found potential violations. Referrals are not convictions and do not prove that every senior executive escaped all civil accountability.
- The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2023
Document · 2023
Federation for American Immigration Reform
The approximately $150 billion attribution belongs to FAIR, not CIS. It is FAIR’s net estimate after subtracting claimed tax contributions, not an official government accounting.
- The Human Rights of Foster Children
Transcript · 2023
U.S. Senate hearing
The October 25, 2023 Senate hearing where former foster youth Mon'a Houston, 19, described 18 placements, overmedication, restraint, isolation and detention while in care from 2017…
- Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146
Court Filing · 2019
Supreme Court of the United States
The Court incorporated the Excessive Fines Clause against the states. It did not finally decide whether Timbs’s forfeiture was excessive.
- Title IV-E Programs Expenditure and Caseload Data 2022
Government Record · 2023
Administration for Children and Families
The federal government's annual tables of what each state claimed for foster care, adoption and guardianship under Title IV-E, built from quarterly CB-496 reports.