Methodology
Sources
Every claim in an entry is tied to at least one cited source, and each source is a full bibliographic record: publisher, title, publication date, and where available a docket or case number. Official records take precedence. Charging documents, seizure notices, and agency statements set the facts. Reporting is used to establish timing and aftermath. Where accounts conflict, the entry follows the official record and marks the remainder as not established. Every source is listed on the Sources page.
Each source also carries a provenance grade. The grading scale is the dataset's own, not this site's. The letter is the class of source, P for primary and official, S for secondary, T for tertiary, and the digit is the dataset's confidence in the record, with 0 the strongest. The dataset does not publish a fuller definition than that, so the table below reports what actually carries each grade in this corpus rather than a definition nobody wrote down.
| Grade | In this corpus | What carries it |
|---|---|---|
| P0, Primary | 4 sources, all marked official | Indictment (2), Court filing (1), Judgment (1) |
| P1, Primary | 78 sources, all marked official | Prosecutor release (46), Government release (18), Law enforcement release (11), Court decision (2), Court case page (1) |
| P2, Primary | 61 sources, all marked official | International agency release (51), Law enforcement release (5), Government release (4), Official private partner release (1) |
| S1, Secondary | 4 sources, none marked official | News report (4) |
| S2, Secondary | 20 sources, 15 marked official | Prosecutor release (10), News report (4), Law enforcement release (4), Government release (1), Web source (1) |
| T1, Tertiary | 6 sources, none marked official | Participating company report (6) |
| T2, Tertiary | 3 sources, none marked official | Cybersecurity report (3) |
The grades are applied unevenly. Prosecutor and law enforcement releases appear under both P1 and S2, and participating company reports sit at T1 rather than in the S range. The grades are reported as the dataset recorded them and have not been reassigned here, because rewriting them would put this site's judgment over the record's.
166 of the 176 sources carry an address, recovered and checked in the re-verification pass. The remaining 10 are listed by name above, and carry publisher, title and date so they can still be retrieved from the publisher. No URL was reconstructed from memory, because a plausible invented link is worse than no link.