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- Pardon Ledger — CSV · JSON · 29 entries. The 27 grant entries give 48 recipients a row of their own or a recipient page (47 people and one company): 19 have a row each, the Chrisleys and the Cuellars one row per couple, and 25 have a recipient page listed in
named_people. Three group entries also cover recipients who are not broken out: 19 of the 30 people in the September 2026 batch, the rest of the roughly 1,500 January 6 recipients, and all 77 people on the 2020 election allies entry, named in the November 2025 proclamation. - Money Ledger — CSV · JSON · 18 entries
- Corrections — JSON · RSS · every correction, dated
The JSON files also carry the Federal Election Commission rows behind each entry’s campaign-finance table, including the filing PDF link, so a figure can be traced to the filing it came from.
Eight entries cover grants to more than one person. Five of them carry a named_people list of the recipients who have a recipient page, so those recipients can be joined to anything keyed by person: 25 are broken out this way, 24 people and one company (HDR Global Trading Limited). The list is complete for the BitMEX, Herrera Velutini–Vázquez and NFL entries but partial for the other two: it names 2 of the roughly 1,500 January 6 recipients and 10 of the 30 people in the September 2026 batch. One more of the 30, John Dougherty, is left off the list because he has a row of his own. The Chrisley and Cuellar entries each cover two people and the 2020 election allies entry 77; none of the three has a named_people list.
What the columns mean
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
url | Permanent link to the sourced entry this row came from. |
id | Stable identifier for the entry. Ids are not reused. |
name | The person, group or deal the entry records. |
date | For pardons and commutations, the grant date on the Justice Department list, not the announcement date. A row covering several grants carries the date of its main batch; where the Justice Department first lists a recipient’s grant on another day, named_people carries that day. For the Review and Broker case rows, and for money entries, the date of the transaction or the report. |
kind | Pardon, commutation, or the type of money entry. Pardon Ledger rows of kind “Review” (a summary of the reviews of the whole second-term clemency record) and “Broker case” (operatives who marketed pardon access) are not grants. |
offense | Pardon ledger only: the conviction or charge, as the cited record states it. |
counterparty | Money ledger only: who paid, or who received. |
amount | Money ledger only: the figure as reported, with its qualifier. Not a computed total. |
link | The documented connection: the lobbyist, donor, business tie or political relationship the record shows. A connection is not proof of a purchase. |
record | What the sources establish, in the Ledger’s words. |
response | The response of the person or organisation named, or a plain statement that the cited reporting carries none. |
status | The Ledger’s one-line label for where the matter stands. |
correction | If the entry was corrected after publication: what the earlier version said, what is right, and the date of the correction. |
sources | Every source cited on the entry. In the JSON files, a list of objects, each with title, publisher, url, date and kind (“Reporting” or “Primary record”). In the CSV files, the source URLs only, separated by a semicolon and a space. |
named_people | JSON only. On an entry covering grants to more than one person, the recipients who have a recipient page, each as id, name, kind, date and url, so they can be joined to records keyed by person. A recipient with a row of their own is not repeated in the list: John Dougherty, one of the September 2026 batch, is the john-dougherty row. The date is that recipient’s own grant date, the earliest the Justice Department list gives for them: Emory Jones carries September 8, 2026, where his batch’s row carries September 3. An amended re-issue does not move the date, so Herrera Velutini, Vázquez Garced and Rossini carry January 15, 2026, not January 20, when the list records their amended pardons. Where the list does not name the recipient, as with the January 6 recipients, the date is the row’s. Empty on other rows; the note above says which lists are partial. |
people | JSON only. Ids of the People profiles on this site (/people/{id}/) that the entry links to, such as donald-trump. This is not the list of clemency recipients (use named_people for that), though a recipient who has a People profile can appear, as on the 2020 election allies entry. May be empty. |
fec | JSON only. The Federal Election Commission Schedule A rows behind the entry’s “Federal donations on file” table, as filed: date, amount, committee, committee_id, contributor_as_filed, city, state, occupation, filing_pdf, transaction_id, line, memo and memo_text. A row with memo set to true is a committee’s record of its share of a joint-fundraising gift already counted elsewhere; the Ledger leaves such rows out of its totals, and adding them would count the same money twice. Empty when the entry has no such table. |
What the data does not mean
A payment recorded beside a clemency grant is a documented sequence of events, not evidence that the payment caused the grant. The Ledger does not claim a purchase, and neither should anything built from this data. Money entries report figures as their sources state them; they are not audited totals. Where a name matched a filing but could not be tied to the person, the row was left out rather than published as a link.
Licence and citation
The data is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Use it commercially, reuse it, build on it — the one requirement is attribution to The Inner Circle Ledger and to the underlying sources cited in each row.
Cite it as:
The Inner Circle Ledger, Pardon Ledger and Money Ledger data, updated Sep 30, 2026, https://innercircleledger.com/data/
Corrections
If a row is wrong, the Ledger wants to know and will correct it in public with the date and the earlier wording. Write to contact@innercircleledger.com. The corrections log lists every substantive correction so far, each dated and with the earlier wording, and the standards page explains how entries are labeled and how campaign-finance figures are handled.