{"entity":{"id":9252,"name":"Gary Peters","slug":"gary-peters","type":"elected_official"},"generatedAt":"2026-10-19T06:36:23.721Z","eventCount":5,"events":[{"date":"2025-09-16","year":2025,"kind":"contradiction_analysis","headline":"Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure","body":"Peters led the Senate push to ban congressional stock trading while personally executing $4.3 million in trades and holding $3.6 million in assets. His public rhetoric about public confidence and personal financial conflicts directly contradicts his own financial conduct. The two source hosts differ (detroitnews.com vs. quiverquant.com), satisfying the independent-outlet requirement.","internalUrl":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceLabel":null,"contradictionId":null,"confidence":"primary"},{"date":"2025-01-20","year":2025,"kind":"contradiction_analysis","headline":"Vote contradicts: reversal","body":"Peters voted against the Laken Riley Act in March 2024, then voted for it in January 2025 — a complete reversal on the same policy question (mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants accused of theft) under the same statutory hook. His retirement announcement came just eight days after his 2025 yea vote, suggesting electoral calculus rather than policy conviction drove the flip. The two source hosts differ (nrsc.org vs. newrepublic.com), satisfying the independent-outlet requirement.","internalUrl":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceLabel":null,"contradictionId":null,"confidence":"primary"},{"date":"2024-05-16","year":2024,"kind":"contradiction_analysis","headline":"Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure","body":"Peters publicly positioned himself as 'very anti-crypto,' co-sponsoring Warren's AML bill and criticizing crypto-facilitated crime, yet voted with the crypto industry to nullify SAB 121 in May 2024 — one of the industry's top legislative priorities. The two source hosts differ (standwithcrypto.org vs. galaxy.com), satisfying the independent-outlet requirement.","internalUrl":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceLabel":null,"contradictionId":null,"confidence":"primary"},{"date":"2015-09-10","year":2015,"kind":"contradiction_analysis","headline":"Vote contradicts: reversal","body":"Peters reversed his earlier public skepticism and voted to support the Iran nuclear agreement, citing new assurances from the administration.","internalUrl":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceLabel":null,"contradictionId":null,"confidence":"primary"},{"date":"2014-05-28","year":2014,"kind":"contradiction_analysis","headline":"Vote contradicts: same_source_inconsistency","body":"[auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Peters campaigned as an environmentalist backed by the League of Conservation Voters yet praised Dow Chemical — a company seeking to expand fracking — without disclosing they were his second-largest donor. Both quotes come from the same secondary source (Washington Free Beacon, May 28, 2014), making this a same_source_inconsistency at low severity; the underlying donor data is independently verifiable from OpenSecrets.","internalUrl":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceLabel":null,"contradictionId":null,"confidence":"primary"}]}