Hey, it's Kate.

We're off today from Memorial Day,

but we wanted to share an episode we made last year.

It's based on a Wall Street Journal series

that just won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

Here it is.

If you're a senior official in the federal government,

you have to fill out what's called a financial disclosure form.

It's a list of financial interests and investments,

things like stocks.

And the goal is to make sure that officials don't have conflicts of interest.

The financial transactions aren't influencing decision making.

So going back for decades since 1978,

every government agency has compiled every year a report on the financial ownership,

financial stocks, and trades that their top agency officials have made.

These documents are also supposed to be publicly available,

but in most cases, they're not online.

And they're actually really hard to find.

Those documents have gone into a stack somewhere in a file case

and someone's locked the door and no one's ever seen them.

And so no one's really ever looked at these documents

so I thought, wow, if we go look at them,

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