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"All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat."

Eugène Ionesco, Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros publishes investigative analysis of public records in Michigan. The focus is local government accountability: campaign finance, corporate registries, nonprofit filings, lobbying disclosures, and the connections between them.

Every factual claim links to its source. Readers can download the original documents and verify any finding independently. Where a claim is an inference rather than a documented fact, it is labeled as such.

Sources

Analysis draws on publicly available records including:

• Michigan campaign finance filings (MiTN)
• IRS Form 990 nonprofit returns (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)
• IRS Form 8872 political organization disclosures
• LARA corporate registry filings
• City council and planning commission meeting packets (CivicClerk)
• Federal and state court records
• Federal lobbying disclosures (Senate LDA)

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Corrections are published in place with a note at the top of the affected article.