What this is
The Conley Dossier is a fully-sourced look at the money and professional history behind Cait Conley's NY-17 campaign, assembled entirely from primary public records: her FEC filings, her federal financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e), federal contract and spending databases, voter-registration records, and named, on-the-record reporting. Every claim links to the source. The findings ledger marks each one corroborated, corrected, partially corroborated, or could-not-verify — and the ones that couldn't be confirmed are shown as open questions, not buried.
The point isn't to tell you what to think. It's to put the documentary record in one place, clearly enough that you can read it, check the citations, and decide for yourself.
Who made it
My name is Andrew Torpie. I built this independently. It is not authorized by, paid for by, or coordinated with any candidate, campaign, party committee, or political action committee — including any opponent of Cait Conley. No one commissioned it and no campaign reviewed it. It is independent political research and commentary, published in my own name because work like this should carry an accountable signature, not hide behind an anonymous account.
I think the most important thing here isn't any single finding — it's that the whole thing is checkable. The receipts, the method, and the parts I couldn't nail down are all in the open. If the method holds up, the conclusions can stand on their own.
How it was built
- Primary records first. FEC committee filings (C00900431 / H6NY17171), the OGE Form 278e financial disclosure (#10076406), USASpending/FPDS federal contract data, SEC EDGAR, voter-registration records, and the Internet Archive.
- Verify or flag. Every finding was independently re-pulled from its primary source, the source document archived, and a verdict assigned. Claims that couldn't be corroborated are kept as flagged open leads — not presented as fact.
- Archived, so it can't vanish. External sources are preserved in the Wayback Machine; the ⧉ beside a citation opens the archived copy.
- Open to inspection. The full evidence ledger lives on the Findings page, the complete file list on Sources, and the entire investigation is queryable as a live data feed on /mcp.
What this does not claim
- Nothing here questions her military service. Her record is confirmed and is not in dispute, full stop.
- Reported is not the same as proven. Where a relationship rests on reporting or a company's own marketing rather than a contract in the federal record, it is labeled that way — not stated as established fact.
- Concentration is not coordination. Independent spending is, by law, uncoordinated with the candidate. Where the same donors recur across her campaign, a bundling PAC, and an outside super PAC, that is a documented pattern of concentration — not an allegation of an illegal exchange, and none is made.
- No claim of a crime. Everything documented here is, as far as the record shows, legal. The argument is about whose money and whose interests a candidate's record sits closest to — not wrongdoing.
Corrections & right of reply
If anything here is wrong, I want to fix it. If you can point to a primary record that corrects a finding — including the Conley campaign — email me and I will review it and post a correction. That standing offer is part of the method: a record you can challenge is more trustworthy than one you can't.
Support the work
This was independent, unpaid research — weeks of pulling filings, reconciling figures, and archiving sources, with no institutional backing behind it. If you find it useful and want more of this kind of open, checkable public-records work, you can chip in. It funds the time, not a position — nothing about a contribution changes a finding.
☕ Support this researchPublished independently by Andrew Torpie · not authorized by or coordinated with any candidate or committee · built from public records · corrections welcome at corrections@conleyrecord.com.