The news ranked by rule: how many outlets, from Fox to the Guardian to Al Jazeera, are covering the same story. Below it, the live unrest map and who is funding what.
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Follow the money
Where federal money goes, what is lost to fraud, and every fraud and corruption case the Justice Department announced in the last 12 months, state by state. Figures come from Treasury, GAO, USAspending and DOJ; each one links to its source.
A charge is an accusation. Everyone listed as charged is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Each case shows its latest announced stage and links to the official record. Know of a dismissal, acquittal or error? Tell us.
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Fraud cases by state Documented
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Choose a state to see its cases, case files and federal spending.
Which programs Documented
Dollar figures named in DOJ releases over 12 months, one figure per case. Choose a program to list its cases.
Where the money goes Documented
Biggest cases, last 12 months
Follow a dollar
Type an organization, program or contractor. You get the federal money it received (USAspending), the largest awards, any DOJ cases that name it, and a check against the US sanctions list. For groups in the news, the records button checks terror designations, foreign-agent filings and nonprofit tax returns.
How to read this. A DOJ release records what prosecutors announced that day: a charge is an accusation, not a finding of guilt, and acquittals or reversals often get no release, so every case links to its court record. Dollar figures are the largest amount a release names (alleged loss, settlement or restitution), counted once per case where releases share a docket number. Counts reflect where prosecutors are active, not how much fraud exists in a state. Improper payments include paperwork errors and underpayments and are not the same as fraud. Receiving federal money is not wrongdoing. State oversight comes from HHS-OIG: each state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit statistics, state attorney general and fraud unit actions, and federal audits of state-run programs. State auditor and state inspector general reports are not included yet: each state publishes them on its own site, with no shared feed.
Unrest map
How to read this. Events are machine-coded from news reports by the GDELT Project and rebuilt every 6 hours. A dot means news outlets reported something there; it is not a verified incident count, and one event can be reported many times. Raw machine coding is often wrong: a 2016 study in Science (Wang et al.) found that only about 21% of GDELT’s protest records pointed to real protests. So this map does not take the codes at face value. For the busiest places it reads the source articles and checks that they actually describe the coded event: filled dots passed that check, hollow dots have not been checked yet, and places whose stories do not match are hidden as likely miscoded. The live check rate is shown above the map. Reports placed only at the middle of a country are hidden by default, because that dot is not where anything happened. "Patterns" are things happening at the same time; they are not evidence of coordination. Group lookups show only what a public record or a news article states, marked by how strong that evidence is.