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Closed loop: Raytheon Technologies (RTX) → Gabe Amo → Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC → Raytheon Technologies (RTX)

Raytheon Technologies (RTX) funds Gabe Amo; Gabe Amo has authority over Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC; Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC benefits Raytheon Technologies (RTX). Three documented edges form a closed conflict-of-interest circuit.
Computed value: 1 closed loop (raw: 1)

Inference logic

1. Edge A→B: Raytheon Technologies (RTX) → Gabe Amo (relationship: funding-type, "$6,000 to Gabe Amo's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (6 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00097568/").
2. Edge B→C: Gabe Amo → Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC (relationship: authority-type, "The political action committee representing the employees of RTX.").
3. Edge C→A: Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC → Raytheon Technologies (RTX) (relationship: benefit-type, "Accepted thousands of dollars from Raytheon employees per Jewish Voice for Peace–Rhode Island; Raytheon/RTX is a major defense contractor with facilities in Rhode Island district employing approximately 3,000 workers").
Each edge is independently documented in the connections table (IDs 22932, 93489, 13101). Together they form a directed cycle: money flows from A, authority flows through B, benefit returns to A. This is the structural definition of a closed conflict-of-interest loop.

Source edges (3)

  • Gabe Amo ↔ Raytheon Technologies (RTX) — employment (Accepted thousands of dollars from Raytheon employees per Jewish Voice for Peace–Rhode Island; Raytheon/RTX is a major defense contractor with facilities in Rhode Island district employing approximate)
  • Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC ↔ Gabe Amo — donor ($6,000 to Gabe Amo's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (6 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00097568/)
  • Raytheon Technologies (RTX) ↔ Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC — political_action_committee (The political action committee representing the employees of RTX.)

Comparative baseline

A randomly chosen triple of entities in the graph closes a funding→authority→benefit loop in well under 1% of cases. Each documented closure is therefore unusual on its own.

Steelman — strongest benign interpretation

The three relationships may be unrelated in time or substance. Raytheon Technologies (RTX)'s support of Gabe Amo could predate Gabe Amo's authority over Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC by years; Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC's benefit to Raytheon Technologies (RTX) could be an arms-length commercial transaction that would have happened regardless of the other two edges. Closure is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a corrupt circuit.

Sensitivity

Edges with vague or generic relationship types (e.g. 'professional association') will produce false positives. Detector pattern matching is conservative but not exhaustive — narrowing or broadening the relationship buckets changes which loops surface.

Replication query (SQL)

Anyone can re-execute this query to verify the published value. If the result diverges, the finding auto-flags as stale.

SELECT (
      EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM connections WHERE ((entity_a_id=10879 AND entity_b_id=52941) OR (entity_a_id=52941 AND entity_b_id=10879)) AND (relationship_type ILIKE '%investor%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%donor%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%donation%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%contributor%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%contribution%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%funder%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%founder%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%co-founder%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%shareholder%'))
      AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM connections WHERE ((entity_a_id=52941 AND entity_b_id=130) OR (entity_a_id=130 AND entity_b_id=52941)) AND (relationship_type ILIKE '%oversight%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%regulatory_oversight%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%regulatory%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%regulator%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%committee_membership%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%committee%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%chair%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%appointed_by%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%appointment%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%supervisor%'))
      AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM connections WHERE ((entity_a_id=130 AND entity_b_id=10879) OR (entity_a_id=10879 AND entity_b_id=130)) AND (relationship_type ILIKE '%contractor%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%contractor_relationship%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%client%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%supplier%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%vendor%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%grant_recipient%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%employment%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%employee%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%former_employee%' OR relationship_type ILIKE '%consultant%'))
    )::int AS value
Last run: 19 Oct 2026, 01:29 · Last result: 1

Questions this raises

Each question can be commissioned at the matching investigation tier.

  • SEED — $5 What is the timeline of these three relationships — does Raytheon Technologies (RTX)'s support of Gabe Amo predate Gabe Amo's authority over Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC?
  • SKETCH — $20 What is the dollar value flowing on each edge over the past five years?
  • SKETCH — $20 Are there public records of Gabe Amo recusing from any decision involving Employees Of Raytheon Technologies Corporation PAC?
  • DOSSIER — $75 Map every contract, grant, or appointment between the three entities since the loop closed.
Detector: triangular_loops v1.0 · Created Sep 29, 2026