There is no secret set of websites to use. Every target is different, with much depending on the state and community they are from, their career, and the office they are in.
Generally, you want to start by getting all of the target's personal financial disclosures and campaign finance filings, which are usually in local, state, and federal election offices. Online access is now the norm.
Also do comprehensive internet and newspaper searches in the target's name. Your local public library can probably give you free access to NewsBank and other newspaper databases, possibly even from your home computer.
Collect the news articles, disclosures, minutes, agendas, agenda packets, and other materials that document the target's career in office. This should all be done over the internet or otherwise as anonymously as possible.
Research the target's personal finances and business and professional history, not just through their disclosures but also by searches in the local property and court records.
Most states make their corporate and partnership filings available online. You should collect all your target's corporate affiliations and research them in those databases.
After the first hunt and gather effort, look for patterns and affiliations in the material you have collected. I usually print out the key documents and analyze them, again and again, looking for hits, leads, and additional places to search. You may end up with hundreds of pages of documents and analytical materials.
Think of it as if you are profiling your target for a newspaper article or as a foreign intelligence target. Your scrutiny and assumptions should be hostile but factual. As the old saying goes, few politicians escape unscathed from a good shake -- and its your job to shake them (methaphorically) until their teeth rattle.
You are looking for controversies and lapses that involve the target. Who are they? Who are their family and business associates? How does your target make a living? Do they get sued or run up traffic violations? Are they scrupulous or sloppy in their personal, professional, and political dealings? Are there any ethics violations, failures to disclose, or conflicts of interest?
Your instinct is correct that one way to research a target is to find connections between their personal, business, professional, and campaign finances. To do this comprehensively is difficult because it means researching all the corporate and partnership names you find and collecting the personal affiliations, while doing the same for the personal names of the target and those closely connected to him.
This requires doing many tedious and time-consuming one by one searches in databases and keeping track of the results. You can use index cards, a spreadsheet program like Excel, or a relational database program like Access or MySQL.
Happy hunting.
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Name + business + organizations + association names + the associations businesses and organizations. Anything that connects names with names and organizations with organizations and connects them all together. Believe it or not Forbes financial and wikipedia are great for chasing down connections between these criminals. The Bilderberg attendee list is another.
Sometimes you have to chase through names and organizations that you think would not have anything to do with what you are looking for until you come across the mother load five names or organizations removed. Then bingo there is the head of the snake that ties them all together.
I can tell you right now that they are ALL connected to BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, and Kissinger in some way or another through associations and organizations. They are all tied to the Bilderbergers, the Atlantic Council, and the WEF.
And it is bipartisan, so don’t stop digging if a Republican happens to be the connection between entities. Keep connecting the dots and take good notes. I use an old school note pad and assign a page to each entity to jot down all the connections with that entity in columns labelled as associates-businesses-organizations.
Then I tie the pages together and they always expose a large bipartisan network conspiracy that revolves around money. Follow the money and you will find the truth...