1.0Center for Public Integrityhttps://publicintegrity.orgThe Center for Public Integrityhttps://publicintegrity.org/author/center-for-public-integrity/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="H4bWU4u6Rs"><a href="https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/how-we-investigated-conflicted-interests-in-statehouses-across-the-country/">How we investigated conflicted interests in statehouses across the country</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/how-we-investigated-conflicted-interests-in-statehouses-across-the-country/embed/#?secret=H4bWU4u6Rs" width="600" height="338" title="“How we investigated conflicted interests in statehouses across the country” — Center for Public Integrity" data-secret="H4bWU4u6Rs" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); </script> The stories you’re reading today are the result of months of dogged reporting. At their heart lie thousands of personal financial disclosure statements filed by state legislators. Getting all of these disclosures was no easy task. The project began more than a year ago when the Center for Public Integrity requested the personal financial disclosure reports of state legislators from around […]https://publicintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2019-02-15-at-10.28.01-AM.png