"What we learned wasn't just that roughly 200 people had filed their disclosures late. The process taught us the extent to which elected officials and their sta

"What we learned wasn't just that roughly 200 people had filed their disclosures late. The process taught us the extent to which elected officials and their staff were willing to go to obscure information they're required to make publicly available. After talking to experts, we learned it was that way by design."