48A50CE0Public record case file · Updated Aug 24, 2026
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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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SEC Litigation Release No. 26621 records that on August 24, 2026 the Commission filed a joint stipulation to dismiss, with prejudice, its civil enforcement action against Stephen E. Buyer, No. 1:22-cv-06279 (S.D.N.Y.), stating the decision does not necessarily reflect its position on any other case. It adds a dismissal-posture example to the SEC litigation lane.
Evidence limits. A dismissal with prejudice ends the civil action; it neither establishes nor clears the conduct the complaint alleged, and this row does not restate those allegations.
The Senate received H.R. 7008 on July 23, 2026, read it a first time on August 5 and a second time on August 6, and placed it on the calendar as Calendar No. 548. A GovInfo search on 2026-09-27 for later floor action through the September 21, 2026 calendar indexes found none.
Evidence limits. A calendar placement is procedural. It neither schedules a vote nor changes any current disclosure duty.
The House passed H.R. 7008 on Roll No. 280, 232 to 198 with one Member not voting, after rejecting a motion to recommit 211 to 218. Republicans voted 218-0 in favor; Democrats voted 13 in favor and 198 against, and the one Independent voted in favor. The bill would bar Members, spouses and dependent children from buying covered investments, require 7 to 14 days' public notice before a sale, and impose a fee of the greater of $2,000 or 10 percent of the transaction plus any net gain. It would take effect 180 days after enactment. The engrossed bill also adds a photo-identification requirement to the Help America Vote Act. If enacted, it would change the trading and notice duties this file measures against the 2012 STOCK Act.
Evidence limits. House passage is not law. How a Member voted establishes nothing about that Member's trading, and no filer is alleged to have violated anything here.
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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 source records behind it. A shared record linking two roles is not a finding about conduct beyond that record.
4 roles linked to 7 of 15 source records. 0 records connect more than one role. Open a role to follow its records into the timeline.
4 of 4 roles · Counts describe records in this file.
Publishes official House disclosure reports and PTR search records.
1 source record · 2 linked eventsRead role →Publishes official Senate public financial disclosure records.
1 source record · 2 linked eventsRead role →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.
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9 recorded events · Apr 4, 2012 — Aug 24, 2026
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SEC Litigation Release No. 26621 records that on August 24, 2026 the Commission filed a joint stipulation to dismiss, with prejudice, its civil enforcement action against Stephen E. Buyer, No. 1:22-cv-06279 (S.D.N.Y.), stating the decision does not necessarily reflect its position on any other case. It adds a dismissal-posture example to the SEC litigation lane.
The Senate received H.R. 7008 on July 23, 2026, read it a first time on August 5 and a second time on August 6, and placed it on the calendar as Calendar No. 548. A GovInfo search on 2026-09-27 for later floor action through the September 21, 2026 calendar indexes found none.
The House passed H.R. 7008 on Roll No. 280, 232 to 198 with one Member not voting, after rejecting a motion to recommit 211 to 218. Republicans voted 218-0 in favor; Democrats voted 13 in favor and 198 against, and the one Independent voted in favor. The bill would bar Members, spouses and dependent children from buying covered investments, require 7 to 14 days' public notice before a sale, and impose a fee of the greater of $2,000 or 10 percent of the transaction plus any net gain. It would take effect 180 days after enactment. The engrossed bill also adds a photo-identification requirement to the Help America Vote Act. If enacted, it would change the trading and notice duties this file measures against the 2012 STOCK Act.
The import plan keeps House and Senate disclosure surfaces visible as planned/session imports until official report URLs and derived rows can be cached respectfully.
These links follow shared source records; they do not imply conduct or a direct relationship.
GDELT coverage windows can now be joined to disclosure and issuer-reference records as review questions with correlation-only labels.
These links follow shared source records; they do not imply conduct or a direct relationship.
Hugin adds SEC ticker/CIK associations, company facts, and submissions metadata as the issuer identity layer for ticker and CIK normalization.
These links follow shared source records; they do not imply conduct or a direct relationship.
Hugin adds official disclosure sources, SEC ticker/CIK metadata, issuer filings, litigation releases, GDELT coverage windows, and Congress.gov action joins to the correlation case file.
These links follow shared source records; they do not imply conduct or a direct relationship.
SEC Litigation Release No. 26570 adds a current market-integrity source row for testing Hugin's distinction between allegation, complaint, judgment, settlement, and timing-correlation language.
Public Law 112-105 affirmed that Members and employees of Congress are not exempt from the insider-trading prohibitions arising under the securities laws, including section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5. Section 6 added Ethics in Government Act section 103(l), requiring a covered filer to report a transaction not later than 30 days after receiving notification of it and in no case later than 45 days after the transaction. The Act was enacted April 4, 2012 from S. 2038 and is printed at 126 Stat. 291.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Litigation 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).
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo)
The Senate's placed-on-calendar print of H.R. 7008, recording receipt, the two readings, and placement on the Senate calendar.
Congressional Record (U.S. Government Publishing Office)
The Congressional Record's account of the motion to recommit and the passage vote on H.R. 7008.
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo)
Engrossed House text of H.R. 7008. It would add a subchapter to chapter 131 of title 5 restricting purchases and sales of covered investments by Members, spouses and dependent children, with fees for violations. It also adds a photo-identification voting requirement to the Help America Vote Act.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
The Clerk's roll-call record for the passage vote on H.R. 7008 on July 22, 2026, with totals by party.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC litigation release alleging insider trading by Justin Jennings and Vortex Strategies LLC based on material nonpublic information.
GovInfo / U.S. Government Publishing Office
Enacted 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.
Library of Congress
Official API for bills, members, and congressional actions once a server-side key is configured.
The GDELT Project
Global coverage index used to identify source-diverse news windows around market-moving public events.
A shared source does not establish conduct or a direct personal relationship.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Official public search surface for House financial disclosure reports and periodic transaction reports.
A shared source does not establish conduct or a direct personal relationship.
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.
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.
48A5 0CE0 B085Connections 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.
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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.
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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.
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Screenshots or social posts without a public source URL.
Misconduct labels for living people unless the exact cited public record supports that exact statement.
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