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Open question · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: SOURCE-RESTORED RECOVERY ITEM. URLs and source-specific support statements restored from corrected v2 snapshot. Evidentiary firewall preserved; dynamic aggregates and secondary reports still require ordinary publication-stage verification.
Transparency USA's current contributor aggregate lists a Richard Larsen with $140,000 in Idaho contributions; candidate pages show Richard Larsen contributions to multiple candidates. Hometown Heroes' captured early-cycle page lists Richard Larsen at $50,000. Name-only identity matching remains unsafe.
Evidence firewall: Do not attach an occupation, employer, family, or other identity to the donor without a unique identifier.
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified export gap and live roster inconsistency; cause and original PDF not verified
Preserved September 17 official CSV transaction 383994 remains a $9,000 May 1, 2026 broadcast expenditure to Redbird with 16 populated candidate allocations of $529.41, sum $8,470.56, gap $529.44. One additional base row has neither candidate nor Amount Applied and is not an allocation. Live public transaction detail, opened from Defend's Reinke $529.41 row, shows $9,000, distribution May 1–19, history Original filed June 10, and a roster count of 16. Howe…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: open identity-resolution question; no attribution yet
A March 28, 2025 federal prosecution filing in United States v. Casada et al. states that bank records for Cade Cothren's other business entities included 'Redbird Strategies' and says prosecutors intended to show that Cothren concealed his identity when conducting political business. DOJ later reported that Cothren and former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada were convicted and sentenced in the Phoenix Solutions bribery/fraud case. Separately, Idaho fil…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Open investigative hypothesis; no direct Jim Risch–LLC connection established
Investigative hypothesis only: Esto Perpetua PAC records point to Jeremy Pisca and the 407 W. Jefferson address associated with Risch Pisca. Risch Pisca is the firm name of partners Jeremy Pisca and Jason Risch; Jason Risch is reported to be Senator Jim Risch's son and has served in political roles for Risch campaigns. This creates a meaningful proximity and network question requiring investigation. It does not establish that Jim Risch knew of, directed, f…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Unresolved identity lead — name/business-line match only; no legal-entity bridge
Idaho campaign-finance records identify a payee named Redbird Strategies receiving $208,725 from Defend and Protect Idaho on May 13 and May 15, 2026; TransparencyUSA's aggregate Idaho payee index reports $597,302 statewide. A federal court filing in United States v. Casada/Cothren separately states that Cade Cothren controlled a business entity named Redbird Strategies and used it, among other entities, to conceal his identity in political business. A curr…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Strong functional/personnel alignment; formal affiliation unresolved.
Reclaim Idaho's current donation page identifies Reclaim Idaho as a 501(c)(4) and says donors interested in supporting 'tax-deductible voter education work' should contact Reclaim at its own email address. Project Reclaim Idaho Inc. is a separate Twin Falls 501(c)(3), tax-exempt since March 2024, whose stated purpose is empowering Idahoans in bottom-up grassroots advocacy through training, education and resources. Its officers are Tracy Olson, Regina Cleme…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Strong identity lead; unresolved. Do not treat as verified same person yet.
Reclaim Idaho Fund's 2024 Form 990 lists an Ann Marie Johnson as a director alongside Luke Mayville and Yvonne Sandmire. Separately, Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson of Boise contributed $100,250 to Idahoans for Open Primaries; Bruce Newcomb says Proposition 1 originated in a dinner conversation involving him, his wife, Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson; and reporting credits AnnMarie Johnson with helping raise substantial in-state support for the campaign. The uncommon …
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Strong circumstantial lead; direct c4-to-c3 operational/fundraising linkage not yet verified.
Reclaim Idaho's current donation page explicitly says Reclaim Idaho is a 501(c)(4), donations are not tax-deductible, and people wishing to support 'tax-deductible voter education work' should contact info@reclaimidaho.org. Separately, Project Reclaim Idaho Inc. is a 501(c)(3) with Reclaim branding, officers tied to Reclaim, and an education/advocacy classification. This makes Project Reclaim Idaho a plausible candidate for the tax-deductible voter-educati…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Payment magnitude verified from Sunshine-derived aggregations; vendor legal identity, principals, address and exact service descriptions not yet reproduced from primary Idaho transaction rows.
Campaign Associates LLC is currently the largest identifiable vendor/payee in Idahoans United’s 2026 initiative campaign and therefore a high-priority 'who gets paid' research target. Transparency USA’s current Idaho aggregation reports $546,967.25 paid to Campaign Associates LLC, while a newer Sunshine-derived Prop 1 tracker using data through Aug. 14, 2026 reports approximately $608,967 paid to the same vendor, indicating additional later payments or a l…
Read note and sources →Open question · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: OPEN DOCUMENT TARGET. Grant agreement proves the report was required; public copy not located in current search. Contents unknown.
The April 2025 Contours→Western Futures grant agreement required Western Futures Fund to submit a final report by January 31, 2026 containing a 1–2 page narrative describing objectives, activities and achievements during the April–December 2025 grant period plus financial accounting for WFF’s full budget during that period. Targeted public-web searches have not located that final report. If obtained through public records, donor/grantee disclosure, litigat…
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