Goblin House
Goblin House
Area: Full Workup (one official, all sections) (eo_full_workup)
Filed: 2026-05-01T22:14:10.073Z
Source: External LLM via /handoff/congress (attempt #69233)
Resolved official: Gregory W. Meeks (entity #11145)
Ingest result: 25 facts · 24 sources · 2 contradictions · 5 voting_records · 4 skipped
Single super-prompt covering every per-official research area in one LLM call: donor mapping, silences, contradictions, telling votes, and constituency baseline. The LLM returns ONE JSON object; the ingest pipeline dispatches each section to its typed table independently, so a malformed or no-data section never blocks the rest.
{ "target_official": { "name": "Gregory W. Meeks", "bioguide_id": "M001137" }, "donor_mapping": { "facts": [ { "fact_text": "Meeks' campaign committee raised $3,025,012 in the 2023–2024 election cycle, with 41.81% ($1,264,819) from PAC contributions and 35.77% ($1,081,999) from large individual contributions. Small individual contributions accounted for just 0.21%.", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00001171&cycle=2024" }, { "fact_text": "The top industry contributing to Meeks' 2023–2024 campaign was Pro-Israel at $510,128, followed by Securities & Investment ($409,603), Real Estate ($198,750), Insurance ($172,775), and Commercial Banks ($163,600).", "date_occurred": "2024-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00001171&cycle=2024" }, { "fact_text": "Meeks' campaign committee raised $1,032,780.77 in total receipts during the 2025 calendar year (01/01/2025 to 12/31/2025), of which $564,000 came from other committee contributions and $293,123.19 from individual contributions.", "date_occurred": "2025-12-31", "confidence": "primary", "source_url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00430991/" }, { "fact_text": "Meeks has long been ranked among the poorest members of Congress. A 2018 financial disclosure showed a net worth of $0 to $0, and he reported no assets to disclose in 2015 filings.", "date_occurred": "2018-12-31", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/gregory-meeks/summary?cid=N00001171" } ], "connections": [ { "donor_entity_name": "American Israel Public Affairs Cmte", "relationship_type": "major_donor", "description": "2024 cycle: $448,828 total ($438,828 individual + $10,000 PAC) — Meeks' single largest career donor and top contributor", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00001171&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "MetLife Inc", "relationship_type": "donor", "description": "2024 cycle: $48,550 total ($41,050 individual + $7,500 PAC)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00001171&cycle=2024" }, { "donor_entity_name": "Apollo Global Management", "relationship_type": "donor", "description": "2022 cycle: $32,150 in individual contributions; 2024 cycle: $26,000 in individual contributions", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/gregory-meeks/contributors?cid=N00001171&cycle=2022&type=I" }, { "donor_entity_name": "JStreetPAC", "relationship_type": "pac_donor", "description": "2024 cycle: $32,750 total ($27,750 individual + $5,000 PAC)", "confidence": "secondary", "source_url": "https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00001171&cycle=2024" } ] }, "silences": { "no_data": true, "reason": "No falsifiable silence identified; Meeks has been publicly active on all major district-relevant and committee-relevant topics during the research window, including Israel-Palestine policy, financial regulation, and foreign affairs." }, "contradictions": { "claims": [ { "claim_text": "Meeks co-authored key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, including conflict-minerals disclosure rules and the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion at financial regulatory agencies, and has positioned himself as a champion of financial transparency and corporate accountability.", "claim_date": "2010-07-21", "claim_type": "platform", "source_url": "https://avoice.cbcfinc.org/member/gregory-w-meeks/" }, { "claim_text": "Rep. Gregory Meeks failed to disclose a $40,000 loan from Queens real estate broker Edul Ahmad on his 2007 and 2008 personal financial disclosures. The House Ethics Committee subsequently found he 'failed to disclose' the loan, though it concluded there was no credible evidence the errors were knowing or willful. Meeks called the omission an 'oversight.'", "claim_date": "2012-12-20", "claim_type": "disclosure", "source_url": "https://lite.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1350227/ethics-panel-says-rep-meeks-failed-to-report-loan/" }, { "claim_text": "Meeks publicly vowed to block an $18 billion arms sale to Israel that included 50 F-15 fighter jets unless he received 'assurances' from the Biden administration about how the weapons would be used in Gaza. He told CNN in April 2024: 'I don't want the kinds of weapons that Israel has to be utilized to have more deaths.'", "claim_date": "2024-04-15", "claim_type": "statement", "source_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/17/biden-israel-arms-sale-meeks/" }, { "claim_text": "After months of blocking the sale, Meeks signed off on the $18 billion F-15 deal in June 2024, telling the Washington Post he had been in 'close touch' with the White House and 'repeatedly urged the administration to continue pushing Israel to make significant and concrete improvements on all fronts when it comes to humanitarian efforts and limiting civilian casualties.'", "claim_date": "2024-06-17", "claim_type": "vote", "source_url": "https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/key-democrat-holdouts-green-light-major-israel-arms-sale/article_c92097f9-57d4-5cf5-be05-cca103fc5757.html" } ], "contradictions": [ { "claim_a_idx": 0, "claim_b_idx": 1, "type": "platform_vs_disclosure", "severity": "medium", "narrative": "Meeks built a legislative record around financial transparency (Dodd-Frank co-author) but failed to disclose a $40,000 personal loan on required congressional filings for two years, calling it an 'oversight.' The Ethics Committee formally found he failed to report the loan." }, { "claim_a_idx": 2, "claim_b_idx": 3, "type": "reversal", "severity": "high", "narrative": "Meeks publicly vowed to block an $18 billion F-15 arms sale to Israel citing civilian death concerns in Gaza, but approved the same sale two months later under Biden administration pressure — a reversal on the same arms package involving the same enforcement mechanism (congressional hold authority under the Arms Export Control Act)." } ] }, "telling_votes": [ { "bill_id": "H.R.3746", "title": "Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (debt ceiling deal)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2023-05-31", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3746", "why_it_matters": "Meeks joined House Democratic leadership including Hakeem Jeffries in supporting the bipartisan debt ceiling deal, while 46 progressive Democrats opposed it over spending-cap concerns. His district's median household income ($86,577) and significant poverty rate (12.9%) meant constituents had material stakes in the social safety net provisions.", "category": "constituent_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.Res.845", "title": "Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for comments on the Israel-Hamas war", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2023-11-07", "roll_call_url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/845", "why_it_matters": "Meeks was one of only 22 House Democrats to vote to censure Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress. The vote put him sharply at odds with 184 of his Democratic colleagues and aligned with his top donor AIPAC's stated position. Tlaib represents a neighboring district with similar demographic composition to Meeks' own.", "category": "party_defection" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.8034", "title": "Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 (providing $17.6 billion in military aid to Israel)", "vote": "yea", "vote_date": "2024-04-20", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024152", "why_it_matters": "Meeks, as Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, argued for the bill in Democratic caucus. His top career donor is AIPAC ($448,828). While 37 Democrats voted against the bill over concerns about offensive aid to Israel, Meeks supported it, citing the $9.2 billion in global humanitarian aid bundled in the package.", "category": "donor_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "S.5", "title": "Laken Riley Act (requiring detention of undocumented immigrants charged with certain crimes)", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-01-22", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202523", "why_it_matters": "Meeks voted against this bill while 46 House Democrats joined all Republicans in support. His Queens-anchored district is 43.1% foreign-born with a 21.1% Hispanic population, making immigration enforcement a high-salience constituent issue. His vote aligned with immigrant-rights advocates in his majority-minority district.", "category": "constituent_aligned" }, { "bill_id": "H.R.23", "title": "Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (sanctioning the ICC over arrest warrants for Israeli officials)", "vote": "nay", "vote_date": "2025-01-09", "roll_call_url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20257", "why_it_matters": "Meeks voted against sanctioning the ICC despite being the top House recipient of AIPAC funding ($448,828) — a donor that strongly supports ICC sanctions. Forty-five Democrats broke ranks to support the bill. This vote represents a donor_defection: Meeks broke with a major donor's legislative priority while aligning with the Democratic majority (140 nays).", "category": "donor_defection" } ], "constituency_baseline": { "baseline": { "district_summary": "New York's 5th Congressional District encompasses southeastern Queens, including Jamaica, Hollis, St. Albans, South Ozone Park, and parts of the Rockaways, with a small portion extending into Nassau County. It is a majority-minority district with a population of approximately 790,000. Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) residents form the largest group at 39.6%, followed by Hispanic (21.1%), Asian (Non-Hispanic) at 14.8%, and White (Non-Hispanic) at 13.8%. The district is heavily immigrant: 43.1% of residents were born outside the United States, and 36.2% of households speak a non-English language at home. The median household income is $86,577, the poverty rate is 12.9%, and the homeownership rate is just 53.8% with a median property value of $671,700. 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