INVESTIGATION FILE

The Vargas Files

Dossier: Nora Vargas

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The Vargas Files

The Empty Drawer: How San Diego County Supervisors Stopped Filing and Stopped Watching

How San Diego County Supervisors Stopped Filing and Stopped Watching

Zero Form 803 filings by SD County Supervisors since 2022

They didn't break the oversight system. They just stopped using it.
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The Vargas Files

The Hole in the Form: How California Law Hides the Clients Who Pay Elected Officials

How California Law Hides the Clients Who Pay Elected Officials

The law requires disclosure. The form has a hole big enough to drive an LLC through.
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The Vargas Files

Phantom Threats: The $620,000 Security Detail That No One Approved and No Agency Justified

The $620,000 Security Detail That No One Approved and No Agency Justified

Six hundred thousand dollars for security. Zero documentation of the threat.
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The Vargas Files

The Architecture of Not Knowing: Why the Vargas Files Reopened Themselves

Why the Vargas Files Reopened Themselves

The system isn't broken. It was built this way.
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