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[CAPTURE PORTAL] 119TH CONGRESS
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CongressOfficials → Ritchie Torres

Ritchie Torres

Democratic · Representative, NY ·15
Score Components
31 ELEVATED
Connection Density 20%
4 → 1
Donor Influence 10%
0 → 0
Silence Risk 25%
0 → 0
Contradiction Risk 25%
100 → 25
Intelligence Volume 10%
55 → 6
Constituency Deviation 5%
0 → 0
Voting Misalignment 5%
0 → 0
% = weight in composite score · Raw component 0–100 × weight = weighted contribution (→) · Sum of contributions = overall score. Hover a row for details.
[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Cook Partisan Voting Index: D+57 (shifted R+9 since 2020)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: unemployment rate: 12.1% (vs. 3.5% nationally)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: average commute time: 42.3 minutes
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: public transit utilization: 53.7% (vs. 5% nationally)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median rent: $1,418
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median home value: $532,500
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: White (Non-Hispanic) population share: 13.5%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Black population share: 36.3%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic population share: 52.4%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median age: 35.5
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: bachelor's degree or higher: 22.3% (25.3% lack a high school diploma)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: homeownership rate: 17.7% (vs. 65.5% nationally)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: poverty rate: 24.3% (double the 12.4% national average)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median household income: $47,075
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: population: 751,695 (2024 LegisLetter ACS)
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: New York Public Question 1 — Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment (2023) (2023) — passed, margin 62% Yes — 38% No
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 44-45 (share 0.1)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 61 (share 0.11)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 (share 0.22)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: BronxCare Health System (3000 employees)
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Hakeem Jeffries Political Peer In November 2023, AIPAC's connected federal PAC disbursed over $200,000 in bundled contributions to Hakeem Jeffries' cam
BillVoteDateAlignment
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (Crypto regulation) yea_unverified 2025-07-17 aligned
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House final passage, July 3, 2025 nay 2025-07-03 aligned
Rescissions Act of 2025 (June 12, 2025) nay 2025-06-12 aligned
FY 2025 Budget Resolution — February 2025 nay 2025-02-21 aligned
Laken Riley Act (119th Congress, January 7, 2025) yea 2025-01-07 misaligned
Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($26 billion military aid) yea 2024-04-20 aligned
Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($61 billion military aid yea 2024-04-20 aligned
Last contradiction analysis: Never
platform_vs_vote 90/100
Platform: "Torres represents NY-15, the poorest congressional district in the United States with a 24.3% poverty rate, only 17.7% homeownership, and $47,075 medi"
Vote: on "Torres's top donor is AIPAC at $712,752, his top contributing industry is Securities & Investment at"
Torres represents the poorest congressional district in America — 24.3% poverty, majority Black and Latino — yet his top donors are AIPAC ($712K), Wall Street firms (Blackstone $148K, Apollo $78K), and far-right billionaires. He raises millions from
reversal 90/100
Platform: "Torres violated the STOCK Act by failing to properly disclose more than 70 stock purchases. His office confirmed the violations. He said the trades we"
Vote: on "In March 2024, Torres voted nay on the Laken Riley Act (H.R. 7511), opposing mandatory ICE detention"
Torres voted nay on the Laken Riley Act in March 2024, opposing mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants. He then reversed to yea in January 2025 — one of only seven House Democrats to flip. His district has a massive immigrant community,
statement_vs_disclosure 50/100
Platform: "In September 2024, Torres purchased shares in Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris — three defense contractors that manufacture the bombs, "
Vote: on "Torres was one of the staunchest pro-Israel Democrats in Congress, voting for every Israel military "
Torres voted for a $17 billion weapons package to Israel in April 2024 and championed bomb shipments to Israel — then in September 2024, for the first time in his life, purchased individual stocks exclusively in the three defense contractors profitin
Last silence detection: Never
No active silences
No donor interests mapped
No constituency baseline modelled
No platform commitments archived
No committee memberships recorded
Scoring Methodology

The Capture Risk Score is a composite 0–100 index measuring potential regulatory capture of elected officials. It is computed from seven weighted components:

ComponentWeightSignal
Silence Risk25%Topics where donors have interests but the official is silent
Contradiction Risk25%Stated positions contradicted by voting record (recent findings boosted)
Connection Density20%Mapped relationships to lobbyists, contractors, interest groups
Intelligence Volume10%Documented facts from verified sources (logarithmic scale)
Donor Influence10%Distinct donors with interests overlapping committee jurisdiction
Constituency Deviation5%Gap between district priorities and legislative focus
Voting Misalignment5%Floor votes contradicting stated platform positions

Each component produces a raw score 0–100. The weighted sum yields the overall score. Tier thresholds: Critical ≥ 45, High ≥ 36, Elevated ≥ 22, Moderate ≥ 10, Low < 10.

Officials without at least 2 documented facts, 1 contradiction analysis, 1 voting record, or 1 constituency baseline are marked Insufficient Evidence and excluded from numeric ranking.

Contradiction findings from the last 180 days receive a recency boost. High-severity contradictions (score ≥ 70) receive additional weight.

Full methodology: /congress/methodology

[PUBLIC COST ESTIMATE]
Documented financial relationships span 0 money flow chains, while 1 elected official holds documented connections.
0Money Chains
0Traced Hops
Connected Officials
Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

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