Investigations
Stories return one at a time, after every figure is checked
We took our earlier stories down to re-verify them against official records. Each comes back only when its numbers have a cited public source.
No stories are published right now
The data pages stay open in the meantime: every trade and contract links to the filing it came from.
Read why stories were withdrawnThe standard a story has to meet
A source for every figure
Each number carries a numbered footnote to the official record it came from: a filing, an award page, a statute.
A last-verified date
Every story shows when its figures were last checked against the source, and says so when they change.
Patterns, not accusations
We describe what the records show. A sequence of events is not proof of wrongdoing, and we say that where it applies.
Errors are logged
When a story is wrong we fix it and record the change in the public corrections log.
See how each dataset is built, or report an error.