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Office of Government Ethics

Federal agency overseeing ethics rules and financial disclosure requirements
Tracked because Federal agency overseeing ethics rules and financial disclosure requirements · 19 documented connections
Facts on record8
Connections mapped19
Sources cited16
✦ Thin coverage gap +43 connected to 19 entities · only 8 facts on record · flagged for follow-up research
Evidence: 4P 4S
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Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
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Documented financial relationships span 0 money flow chains, while 1 elected official holds documented connections.
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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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Connection Map
Key Connections
→ STOCK Act instrument
oversight
The STOCK Act requires the Office of Government Ethics to administer filing of Periodic Transaction Reports (OGE Form 278-T) within 30-45 days of transactions over $1,000
← Eric Schmidt person
Disclosure Recipient
Financial holdings partially disclosed to OGE during 2016-2017 Defense Innovation Board service, but disclosures never systematically digitized or made publicly searchable.
← Stephen Miller person
oversight
Stephen Miller filed Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Reports (OGE Form 278e) as required for senior White House staff. White House ethics office records could reveal oversight gaps regarding Palantir-related matters.
← JD Vance elected official
ethics filing obligation
Vance's transition to Vice President in January 2025 triggered mandatory OGE Form 278e filing requirements under the Ethics in Government Act.
→ Securities and Exchange Commission government agency
oversight
Both agencies involved in financial disclosure oversight under STOCK Act
← Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO) person
overseen_by
DAEOs are overseen by OGE for executive branch ethics compliance
Facts (8)
Data Freshness
Stale Last update: 182d ago · Avg age: 3212d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
✓ Verified Findings (6)
Independently re-checked: a second model read the source artifact and confirmed it supports the extracted claim.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Office of Government Ethics filed filing with the SEC on 2005-11-28. Accession number: N/A.
✓ verified Primary Source Over 29,000 public financial disclosure reports and 420,000 confidential reports were filed in 2023
Date: 2023-01-01 Added: 16 Apr 2026 ↗ SOURCE: GAO report GAO-25-107039
✓ verified Primary Source OGE's last evaluation of financial disclosure program was in 2005
✓ verified Partially Corroborated No systematic cross-validation exists between congressional ethics filing systems and SEC EDGAR database
✓ verified Primary Source Electronic filing moved from mandatory to optional under 2013 amendment, creating accessibility barriers
Date: 2013-04-11 Added: 16 Apr 2026 ↗ SOURCE: Sunlight Foundation analysis
✓ verified Primary Source The STOCK Act requires filing of Periodic Transaction Reports (OGE Form 278-T) within 30-45 days of transactions over $1,000
Date: 2012-04-04 Added: 16 Apr 2026 ↗ SOURCE: OGE guidance documents
○ Secondary Records (2)
Sourced from press reports, corporate disclosures, and third-party citations. Awaiting independent re-check by the verification pipeline.
Partially Corroborated The 2013 amendment making electronic filing optional for certain congressional filers increased the practical difficulty of cross-validating OGE and SEC disclosures, since paper-based OGE filings would not be machine-readable for comparison.
Partially Corroborated A 2022 GAO report (GAO-22-105173) documenting OGE's lack of automated cross-validation with SEC EDGAR has not resulted in any publicly known data-sharing agreement between the two agencies as of 2025.
All Connections (19)
→ Securities and Exchange Commission government agency
oversight confirmed
Both agencies involved in financial disclosure oversight under STOCK Act
→ STOCK Act instrument
oversight primary since 2012
The STOCK Act requires the Office of Government Ethics to administer filing of Periodic Transaction Reports (OGE Form 278-T) within 30-45 days of transactions over $1,000
compliance / oversight relationship inferential since 2026
OCFO may coordinate with OGE on financial disclosure and ethics compliance for financial officers.
overseen_by confirmed
DAEOs are overseen by OGE for executive branch ethics compliance
← SAM.gov institution
regulatory_oversight inferential since unknown
OGE oversees ethics compliance for federal contractors registered in SAM.gov.
← EDGAR Business Office government agency
separate_systems likely
Operate independent validation procedures without cross-checking
← Eric Schmidt person
Disclosure Recipient primary since 2016
Financial holdings partially disclosed to OGE during 2016-2017 Defense Innovation Board service, but disclosures never systematically digitized or made publicly searchable.
← JD Vance elected official
ethics filing obligation primary since 2025
Vance's transition to Vice President in January 2025 triggered mandatory OGE Form 278e filing requirements under the Ethics in Government Act.
← eFD system instrument
oversight inferential since 2026
The eFD system for Senate financial disclosures operates under the regulatory framework of the Office of Government Ethics.
← Virginia Canter person
affiliation inferential since 2026
Virginia Canter (potentially a government ethics official) and 'Office of Government Ethics' appear in proximity within the same untrusted data set, suggesting a possible professional association.
compliance oversight inferential since 2017
The absence of OPM's updated adjudicative guidelines under 5 CFR Part 731 since 2017, despite statutory authority, creates a de facto delegation of standard-setting to DCSA operational practice. DOGE personnel accessing OPM systems had potential visibility into suitability determinations governed by 5 CFR Part 731 without public notice-and-comment rulemaking.
← David Sacks person
Disclosure Obligation secondary since 2025
David Sacks would be required to file OGE Form 278 public financial disclosure within 30 days of assuming a covered White House position, but no filing has been publicly identified.
Potential ethics compliance gap inferential since 2026
DOGE's regulatory anomalies and absence from lobbying disclosures while maintaining securities market relationships suggest potential gaps in ethics oversight typically managed by OGE.
← Schmidt Futures institution
oversight inferential since 2026
Schmidt Futures and Office of Government Ethics are listed together in the known entities database, suggesting a potential connection via ethics oversight or disclosure requirements.
oversight inferential since 2026
Program Analyst for Public Financial Disclosure would fall under the purview of the Office of Government Ethics which administers the executive branch financial disclosure program including the eFD system.
← Stephen Miller person
oversight primary since 2017
Stephen Miller filed Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Reports (OGE Form 278e) as required for senior White House staff. White House ethics office records could reveal oversight gaps regarding Palantir-related matters.
oversight secondary since 2026
David Sacks likely has an ethics waiver or recusal agreement with the OGE regarding his former ties to a16z, potentially not publicly released within 30 days per 5 CFR § 2634.401.
← Kara Frederick person
oversight secondary since 2025
No public ethics agreement or recusal commitment from Frederick regarding Palantir stock is recorded in OGE filings as of the POGO analysis (June 2025)
← Ron Wyden elected official
oversight inferential since 2026
As a Senator with oversight of ethics and lobbying, Ron Wyden interacts with the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), listed as a known entity.
Sources (16)
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Office of Government Ethics — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2004-11-29 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Office of Government Ethics (2004-11-29) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Office of Government Ethics — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed 📜 Receipt
2005-11-28 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Office of Government Ethics (2005-11-28) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Office of Government Ethics — USASpending contracts (no results) contract Processed 📜 Receipt
2004-12-14 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Office of Government Ethics (2004-12-14) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Office of Government Ethics — Corporate registrations (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2011-01-28 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Office of Government Ethics (2011-01-28) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Office of Government Ethics — Court records (no results) court_document Processed 📜 Receipt
2003-12-12 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Office of Government Ethics (2003-12-12) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2005-11-28 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Office of Government Ethics (2005-11-28) web_search Processed 📜 Receipt
2023-01-01 ↗ GAO report GAO-25-107039 web_search Processed 📜 Receipt
2005-01-01 ↗ GAO report on financial disclosure updates needed web_search Processed 📜 Receipt
— ↗ Analysis of disparate systems described in ethics office documentation web_search Processed 📜 Receipt
2013-04-11 ↗ Sunlight Foundation analysis web_search Processed 📜 Receipt
2012-04-04 ↗ OGE guidance documents web_search Processed 📜 Receipt