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    "id": "abc-news",
    "name": "ABC News (Disney)",
    "role_note": "Settled a defamation suit for $15 million in December 2024, directed to the presidential library fund.",
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      "src-warren-library-press"
    ],
    "type": "media_company"
  },
  {
    "id": "adam-schiff",
    "name": "Sen. Adam Schiff",
    "role_note": "U.S. Senator (D-CA); co-author of the April 2025 letters requesting an SEC investigation.",
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    ],
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  },
  {
    "id": "binance",
    "name": "Binance",
    "role_note": "Crypto exchange founded by Changpeng Zhao; reported recipient of a $2 billion investment denominated in World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin. Zhao disputes any Trump business relationship.",
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      "src-wsj-zhao-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "cantor-fitzgerald",
    "name": "Cantor Fitzgerald",
    "role_note": "Investment bank formerly led by Commerce Secretary Lutnick; holds a convertible stake in Tether and custodies most of its reserves, per reporting cited by senators.",
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      "src-bloomberg-lutnick-tether"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "cerberus-capital-management",
    "name": "Cerberus Capital Management",
    "role_note": "Private-equity firm co-founded by Deputy Defense Secretary Feinberg; at least four linked companies received Golden Dome contracts, per the Warren letter.",
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      "src-warren-feinberg-letter"
    ],
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  },
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    "id": "changpeng-zhao",
    "name": "Changpeng Zhao (CZ)",
    "role_note": "Binance founder; served a Bank Secrecy Act sentence; pardoned October 21, 2025. Denies any business relationship with the Trumps.",
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      "src-doj-warrant-zhao",
      "src-nyt-zhao-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "checkpoint-government-systems",
    "name": "Checkpoint Government Systems",
    "role_note": "Ches McDowell's firm; reported $1.3 million engagement in the Zhao clemency effort.",
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      "src-politico-zhao-lobbying"
    ],
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  },
  {
    "id": "cic-digital-llc",
    "name": "CIC Digital LLC",
    "role_note": "Cryptocurrency firm affiliated with the Trump Organization; reported source of $636 million in memecoin-linked 2025 earnings.",
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      "src-abc-crypto-14b"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "commodity-futures-trading-commission",
    "name": "U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission",
    "role_note": "Regulator reported to be investigating the White House teleprompter operator's prediction-market trading.",
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      "src-reuters-teleprompter"
    ],
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  },
  {
    "id": "damac-properties",
    "name": "DAMAC Properties",
    "role_note": "Dubai developer; reported to have paid roughly $12.5 million in 2025 management and licensing fees for Trump-branded projects.",
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      "src-thenational-gulf"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "dar-global",
    "name": "Dar Global",
    "role_note": "International arm of Saudi developer Dar Al Arkan; Trump Organization partner on Gulf projects including Saudi Arabia and Oman.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-wsj-gulf-fees"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "dave-min",
    "name": "Rep. Dave Min",
    "role_note": "U.S. Representative (D-CA); co-led the May 2026 congressional clemency inquiry.",
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    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "david-gentile",
    "name": "David Gentile",
    "role_note": "GPB Capital founder sentenced to seven years for investment fraud; commuted to time served November 26, 2025. Reported payment allegations remain unproven.",
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      "src-nyt-gentile-commutation"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "department-of-commerce",
    "name": "U.S. Department of Commerce",
    "role_note": "Issued the July 2026 rule easing UAE semiconductor export controls that names MGX for favorable license review.",
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      "src-cnbc-mgx-chip-rule"
    ],
    "type": "government_body"
  },
  {
    "id": "department-of-defense",
    "name": "U.S. Department of Defense",
    "role_note": "Accepted the Qatari Boeing 747-8 gift on May 21, 2025.",
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      "src-reuters-qatar-jet"
    ],
    "type": "government_body"
  },
  {
    "id": "department-of-justice",
    "name": "U.S. Department of Justice",
    "role_note": "Includes the Office of the Pardon Attorney, which publishes the clemency warrants cited in this ledger.",
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      "src-doj-warrant-milton"
    ],
    "type": "government_body"
  },
  {
    "id": "donald-trump",
    "name": "Donald J. Trump",
    "role_note": "President of the United States (second term, from January 20, 2025). Filer of the OGE disclosures at the center of this ledger.",
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      "src-oge-278e-2025"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "donald-trump-jr",
    "name": "Donald Trump Jr.",
    "role_note": "Eldest son of Donald Trump; trustee of the trust holding the president's Trump Media stake.",
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      "src-pbs-ap-april9"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "ed-martin",
    "name": "Ed Martin",
    "role_note": "DOJ Pardon Attorney (political appointee) who marked the Jenkins pardon with a post reading 'No MAGA Left Behind,' per NBC News.",
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      "src-nbc-jenkins-pardons"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "elizabeth-fago",
    "name": "Elizabeth Fago",
    "role_note": "Mother of Paul Walczak; donated $1 million to MAGA Inc. and attended a $1-million-per-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner before her son's pardon.",
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      "src-nyt-walczak-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "elizabeth-warren",
    "name": "Sen. Elizabeth Warren",
    "role_note": "U.S. Senator (D-MA), Ranking Member, Senate Banking; co-author of the SEC letter and the library-fund oversight letters.",
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      "src-schiff-warren-sec-letter",
      "src-warren-library-press"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "eric-trump",
    "name": "Eric Trump",
    "role_note": "Son of Donald Trump; Trump Organization executive who attended the Vietnam project groundbreaking.",
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      "src-reuters-vietnam-groundbreaking"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "federal-election-commission",
    "name": "Federal Election Commission",
    "role_note": "Recipient of the pending Campaign Legal Center complaint alleging straw donations connected to the Herrera Velutini pardon.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-clc-fec-complaint"
    ],
    "type": "government_body"
  },
  {
    "id": "fight-fight-fight-llc",
    "name": "Fight Fight Fight LLC",
    "role_note": "Delaware entity formed January 7, 2025 that, with CIC Digital LLC, reportedly holds the retained $TRUMP token supply.",
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      "src-reuters-memecoin-launch"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "gabriel-perez",
    "name": "Gabriel Perez",
    "role_note": "White House teleprompter operator reported to be under CFTC investigation over Kalshi 'Mentions' market bets; placed on unpaid leave. No public order or criminal case exists; prosecutors reportedly declined a criminal inquiry.",
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      "src-abc-teleprompter",
      "src-reuters-teleprompter"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "howard-lutnick",
    "name": "Howard Lutnick",
    "role_note": "Commerce Secretary; former Cantor Fitzgerald chief. Senators allege, citing UCC filings, that Tether financed his divestiture; his office had not confirmed as of July 2026.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-banking-warren-wyden-lutnick",
      "src-bloomberg-lutnick-tether"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "hung-yen-hospitality",
    "name": "Hung Yen Hospitality Services",
    "role_note": "Vietnamese partner entity on the $1.5 billion Trump Organization project in Hung Yen province.",
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      "src-reuters-vietnam-approval"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "isabela-herrera",
    "name": "Isabela Herrera",
    "role_note": "Daughter of Julio Herrera Velutini; FEC filings cited in a pending complaint record $3.5 million in MAGA Inc. contributions in her name.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-clc-fec-complaint"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "joseph-schwartz",
    "name": "Joseph Schwartz",
    "role_note": "Nursing-home operator convicted in a $38 million payroll-tax fraud; pardoned November 14, 2025 after paying $960,000 to pardon lobbyists, per reporting.",
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      "src-wapo-schwartz-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "juan-orlando-hernandez",
    "name": "Juan Orlando Hernández",
    "role_note": "Former president of Honduras, serving 45 years for cocaine-importation conspiracy; pardoned December 1, 2025, days before Honduras's election.",
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      "src-wapo-hernandez"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "julio-herrera-velutini",
    "name": "Julio Herrera Velutini",
    "role_note": "Banker originally charged with felony bribery counts, reduced to misdemeanors before a January 15, 2026 pardon. A pending FEC complaint alleges related straw donations.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-doj-warrant-herrera",
      "src-clc-fec-complaint"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "justin-sun",
    "name": "Justin Sun",
    "role_note": "Tron founder; World Liberty Financial's largest publicly known early investor ($75 million in tokens per Reuters). The SEC's civil fraud case against him was paused in February 2025; he later sued WLF over frozen tokens.",
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      "src-reuters-crypto-machine"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "kalshi",
    "name": "Kalshi",
    "role_note": "CFTC-regulated prediction-market exchange; flagged and referred the teleprompter-operator trading to the CFTC, per Reuters.",
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      "src-reuters-teleprompter"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "maga-inc",
    "name": "MAGA Inc.",
    "role_note": "Pro-Trump super PAC; recipient of donations documented in the Walczak and Herrera Velutini pardon records.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-nyt-walczak-pardon",
      "src-clc-fec-complaint"
    ],
    "type": "political_committee"
  },
  {
    "id": "mar-a-lago",
    "name": "Mar-a-Lago Club",
    "role_note": "Trump's private club and residence; reported ~$77.5 million of 2025 income and the venue for access events documented in this ledger.",
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      "src-independent-maralago"
    ],
    "type": "family_business"
  },
  {
    "id": "meta-platforms",
    "name": "Meta Platforms",
    "role_note": "Paid $25 million in January 2025 to settle Trump's account-suspension lawsuit.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-npr-meta-settlement"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "mgx",
    "name": "MGX",
    "role_note": "Abu Dhabi state-backed AI and technology investment firm; settled its $2 billion Binance investment in USD1 and was later named for favorable export-license review in a Commerce rule.",
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      "src-reuters-wlf-usd1-mgx",
      "src-cnbc-mgx-chip-rule"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "nikola-corporation",
    "name": "Nikola Corporation",
    "role_note": "Electric-truck maker founded by Trevor Milton, whose investors were owed the restitution ended by Milton's pardon.",
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      "src-nyt-milton-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "oak-view-group",
    "name": "Oak View Group",
    "role_note": "Arena development company led by Tim Leiweke at the time of his pretrial pardon.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-wsj-leiweke-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "office-of-government-ethics",
    "name": "U.S. Office of Government Ethics",
    "role_note": "Receives and publishes the president's Form 278e annual disclosures and 278-T periodic transaction reports.",
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    ],
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  },
  {
    "id": "paramount-global",
    "name": "Paramount Global",
    "role_note": "Paid $16 million in July 2025 to settle the '60 Minutes' editing lawsuit.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-ap-paramount-settlement"
    ],
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  },
  {
    "id": "paul-walczak",
    "name": "Paul Walczak",
    "role_note": "Health-care executive convicted of payroll-tax offenses; pardoned April 23, 2025, twelve days after sentencing.",
    "source_ids": [
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      "src-nyt-walczak-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "peter-welch",
    "name": "Sen. Peter Welch",
    "role_note": "U.S. Senator (D-VT); co-led the May 2026 congressional inquiry to 17 clemency recipients.",
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      "src-cbs-welch-min"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "polymarket",
    "name": "Polymarket",
    "role_note": "Blockchain prediction-market platform; venue of the pseudonymous pre-announcement Iran-ceasefire bets documented by AP analysis as reported by Reuters.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-reuters-timing-factbox"
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    "type": "company"
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  {
    "id": "presidential-library-fund",
    "name": "Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund",
    "role_note": "Recipient of media-settlement proceeds; subject of congressional oversight letters describing up to $14.5 million as unaccounted for.",
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      "src-warren-library-press"
    ],
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  {
    "id": "qatar-investment-authority",
    "name": "Qatar Investment Authority",
    "role_note": "Qatar's sovereign wealth fund; Qatari Diar is described in reporting as its real-estate arm.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-cnn-mideast-business"
    ],
    "type": "fund"
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  {
    "id": "qatari-diar",
    "name": "Qatari Diar",
    "role_note": "Sovereign-wealth-backed real-estate firm; counterparty in the Trump-branded Qatar golf-resort deal reported April 2025.",
    "source_ids": [
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      "src-cnn-mideast-business"
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    "type": "company"
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  {
    "id": "richard-blumenthal",
    "name": "Sen. Richard Blumenthal",
    "role_note": "U.S. Senator (D-CT); wrote the May 2025 emoluments letter on the Qatari aircraft and co-signed library-fund oversight letters.",
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    ],
    "type": "person"
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  {
    "id": "roger-stone",
    "name": "Roger Stone",
    "role_note": "Longtime Trump adviser; delivered Hernández's clemency plea and urged its election timing, by his own account to the WSJ.",
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      "src-wapo-hernandez",
      "src-wsj-pardon-process"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "scott-jenkins",
    "name": "Scott Jenkins",
    "role_note": "Former Culpeper County, VA sheriff convicted on federal bribery and honest-services counts; pardoned May 27, 2025, the eve of his reporting to prison.",
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      "src-doj-usao-jenkins",
      "src-nbc-jenkins-pardons"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "securities-and-exchange-commission",
    "name": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission",
    "role_note": "Recipient of the April 11, 2025 senatorial investigation request; no investigation has been publicly confirmed.",
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      "src-schiff-warren-sec-letter"
    ],
    "type": "government_body"
  },
  {
    "id": "state-of-qatar",
    "name": "State of Qatar (royal family / Ministry of Defense)",
    "role_note": "Donor of the ~$400 million Boeing 747-8 accepted by the Pentagon for use as interim Air Force One.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-reuters-qatar-jet"
    ],
    "type": "foreign_government"
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  {
    "id": "stephen-feinberg",
    "name": "Stephen Feinberg",
    "role_note": "Deputy Secretary of Defense; Cerberus co-founder. At least four Cerberus-linked companies received Golden Dome contracts under the program he oversees, per Sen. Warren's April 2026 letter.",
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      "src-warren-feinberg-letter",
      "src-tpm-feinberg"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "tether",
    "name": "Tether",
    "role_note": "Stablecoin issuer; Cantor Fitzgerald paid over $600 million for a stake and holds most of its reserves. Subject of the Warren–Wyden letter on the alleged Lutnick trust loan.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-bloomberg-lutnick-tether",
      "src-banking-warren-wyden-lutnick"
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    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "tim-leiweke",
    "name": "Tim Leiweke",
    "role_note": "Oak View Group CEO; received a pretrial pardon December 2, 2025 ending a pending bid-rigging prosecution. He had pleaded not guilty.",
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      "src-wsj-leiweke-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "todd-blanche",
    "name": "Todd Blanche",
    "role_note": "Deputy Attorney General; signed the April 7, 2025 memo disbanding the DOJ's crypto enforcement team while disclosing personal crypto holdings of $159,000–$485,000, per ProPublica.",
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    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "trevor-milton",
    "name": "Trevor Milton",
    "role_note": "Founder of Nikola Corp.; convicted of securities and wire fraud; pardoned March 27, 2025.",
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      "src-doj-warrant-milton",
      "src-ap-milton-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "trey-gowdy",
    "name": "Trey Gowdy",
    "role_note": "Attorney and former congressman; per WSJ, discussed the Leiweke prosecution with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after a round of golf.",
    "source_ids": [
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    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "trump-47-joint-fundraising-committee",
    "name": "Trump 47 Joint Fundraising Committee",
    "role_note": "Trump re-election fundraising committee; FEC filings as reported record $920,000 from Trevor Milton.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-ap-milton-pardon"
    ],
    "type": "political_committee"
  },
  {
    "id": "trump-media-technology-group",
    "name": "Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT)",
    "role_note": "Operator of Truth Social; Trump holds a ~53% stake in a trust controlled by Donald Trump Jr. Reported a $712.3 million net loss in 2025 and a bitcoin-treasury strategy.",
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    "type": "company"
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    "name": "$TRUMP (memecoin)",
    "role_note": "Solana-based token launched January 17, 2025, days before the inauguration; 80% of supply reportedly held by Trump-affiliated entities on a multi-year unlock. Basis of the top-holders dinner access program.",
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  {
    "id": "trump-organization",
    "name": "The Trump Organization",
    "role_note": "The Trump family's holding company; recipient of foreign licensing fees, club income, and project revenue documented in the 2025 disclosure.",
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      "src-wsj-gulf-fees"
    ],
    "type": "family_business"
  },
  {
    "id": "usd1-stablecoin",
    "name": "USD1 (stablecoin)",
    "role_note": "Dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial; used to settle the $2 billion MGX–Binance investment. On-chain analyses report the large majority of supply custodied at Binance.",
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      "src-forbes-usd1-binance"
    ],
    "type": "token"
  },
  {
    "id": "wanda-vazquez-garced",
    "name": "Wanda Vázquez Garced",
    "role_note": "Former governor of Puerto Rico; co-defendant pardoned January 15, 2026 after charges were reduced.",
    "source_ids": [
      "src-doj-warrant-vazquez",
      "src-cbs-herrera-vazquez"
    ],
    "type": "person"
  },
  {
    "id": "white-house",
    "name": "The White House",
    "role_note": "Source of policy announcements (tariffs, AI Action Plan, Gulf fact sheets) and of the administration responses quoted on claims.",
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    ],
    "type": "government_body"
  },
  {
    "id": "world-liberty-financial",
    "name": "World Liberty Financial",
    "role_note": "Trump family crypto venture (WLFI token, USD1 stablecoin) co-founded with Zach Witkoff; source of almost $800 million in reported 2025 receipts.",
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    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "x-corp",
    "name": "X Corp.",
    "role_note": "Paid about $10 million in February 2025 to settle Trump's suspension lawsuit.",
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    ],
    "type": "company"
  },
  {
    "id": "zach-witkoff",
    "name": "Zach Witkoff",
    "role_note": "Co-founder of World Liberty Financial with Trump's sons; son of Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.",
    "source_ids": [
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    ],
    "type": "person"
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