{
  "schema": "ecoPrimals/damages-raytracer/v1",
  "description": "Raytracing calculator — every dollar traced through every membrane back to the emitter. Detroit investigation.",
  "last_updated": "2026-10-14",
  "scope": "detroit",

  "funding_sources": {
    "state_aid_per_year": 4900000,
    "schools": [
      {
        "id": "macdowell",
        "name": "MacDowell Preparatory Academy",
        "annual_funding": 2700000,
        "enrollment": 350,
        "per_pupil": 7714,
        "operating_years": [2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026],
        "total_years": 13,
        "cumulative_public_funds": 35100000,
        "instruction_pct": 32.1,
        "state_target_instruction_pct": 60.0,
        "instruction_deficit_pct": 27.9,
        "purpose_group_extraction_pct": 72.67,
        "management_fee_pct": 10.0,
        "management_fee_annual": 270000,
        "math_proficiency": 3,
        "reading_proficiency": 12,
        "state_rank_bottom_pct": 3,
        "disadvantaged_pct": 90.9
      },
      {
        "id": "pca",
        "name": "Purpose Charter Academy",
        "annual_funding": 2200000,
        "enrollment": 280,
        "per_pupil": 7857,
        "operating_years": [2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026],
        "total_years": 5,
        "cumulative_public_funds": 11000000
      }
    ],
    "total_cumulative_public_funds": 46100000,
    "total_purpose_group_extraction": 33509470,
    "extraction_note": "72.67% of MacDowell revenue + estimated PCA management fees"
  },

  "campaign_finance_rays": [
    {
      "id": "sdj_to_johnson",
      "source": "Save Detroit Jobs (Dykema-formed)",
      "target": "Latisha Johnson",
      "amount": 84000,
      "record": "Michigan CFRS",
      "membrane_crossed": "dark_money → election → board_seat",
      "endpoint": "PCA Board Secretary"
    },
    {
      "id": "sdj_to_sheffield",
      "source": "Save Detroit Jobs → Detroit Next PAC",
      "target": "Mary Sheffield",
      "amount": 35000,
      "record": "TransparencyUSA / CFRS",
      "membrane_crossed": "dark_money → PAC → election → mayor → appointment",
      "endpoint": "Mayor → appointed Bettison as Chief"
    },
    {
      "id": "yancey_to_banks_strategy",
      "source": "Yancey Campaign",
      "target": "Banks Strategy & Consultants LLC",
      "amount": 383.82,
      "record": "Michigan CFRS",
      "membrane_crossed": "judicial_campaign → felon_consultant",
      "endpoint": "Sole campaign expenditure to 6-time felon's firm"
    },
    {
      "id": "dykema_pac_to_barrett",
      "source": "Dykema Federal PAC",
      "target": "Tom Barrett",
      "amount": 4000,
      "record": "FEC",
      "membrane_crossed": "law_firm → federal_election",
      "endpoint": "MI-7 Congressional seat"
    },
    {
      "id": "dykema_pac_to_james",
      "source": "Dykema Federal PAC",
      "target": "John James",
      "amount": 4000,
      "record": "FEC",
      "membrane_crossed": "law_firm → federal_election",
      "endpoint": "MI-10 / Governor candidate"
    },
    {
      "id": "afp_action_to_barrett",
      "source": "AFP Action (Americans for Prosperity)",
      "target": "Tom Barrett",
      "amount": 477000,
      "record": "FEC independent expenditures",
      "membrane_crossed": "dark_money → independent_expenditure → election",
      "endpoint": "44.8% of all outside spending in MI-7"
    },
    {
      "id": "mccastle_cross_committee",
      "source": "5 committees",
      "target": "Gerald McCastle",
      "amount": 20410,
      "record": "Michigan CFRS",
      "membrane_crossed": "campaign → operative → cross-campaign bridge",
      "endpoint": "Bridges Banks to Gay-Dagnogo"
    },
    {
      "id": "ross_catering_self_deal",
      "source": "PACs (multiple)",
      "target": "Ross Catering (Carlton Ross)",
      "amount": 35000,
      "record": "Michigan CFRS",
      "membrane_crossed": "PAC_treasurer → self_vendor",
      "endpoint": "Right Turn Project Treasurer pays own catering company"
    },
    {
      "id": "mckinney_to_banks_family",
      "source": "McKinney Campaign",
      "target": "Darryl Banks Jr.",
      "amount": 4483,
      "record": "Michigan CFRS",
      "membrane_crossed": "campaign → extended_family",
      "endpoint": "Extended Banks family compensation"
    },
    {
      "id": "roe_strategic_barrett",
      "source": "Barrett Campaign Committee",
      "target": "Roe Strategic LLC",
      "amount": 114000,
      "record": "FEC",
      "membrane_crossed": "campaign → dynasty_operative",
      "endpoint": "Father+son MI GOP executive directors across 50 years"
    },
    {
      "id": "inner_link_graphics",
      "source": "5 committees",
      "target": "Inner Link Graphics (Larry Thomas Jr)",
      "amount": 98000,
      "record": "Michigan CFRS",
      "membrane_crossed": "campaign → vendor → single_owner",
      "endpoint": "Also runs obituaries4less.com"
    }
  ],

  "raytraces": [
    {
      "id": "ray_charter_authorization",
      "name": "Charter Authorization Ray",
      "description": "Trace from student to the authorization decision",
      "path": [
        {"node": "student", "type": "victim", "value": "90.9% disadvantaged"},
        {"node": "macdowell", "type": "school", "value": "3% math proficiency"},
        {"node": "banks", "type": "operator", "value": "9 convictions, no credentials"},
        {"node": "purpose_group", "type": "management", "value": "72.67% extraction"},
        {"node": "wells_stallworth", "type": "board_president", "value": "12 years as chair"},
        {"node": "vaughn", "type": "authorizer", "value": "DPSCD Board President — signed charter"},
        {"node": "gay_dagnogo", "type": "authorizer", "value": "DPSCD Board — succeeded Banks in HD-1"},
        {"node": "misha_stallworth", "type": "authorizer", "value": "DPSCD Board + CitizenDetroit Director"}
      ],
      "total_funds": 35100000,
      "duration_years": 13,
      "damage_per_year": 2700000
    },
    {
      "id": "ray_dark_money_pipeline",
      "name": "Dark Money Pipeline Ray",
      "description": "Trace from Dykema desk to City Hall to school board",
      "path": [
        {"node": "wilk", "type": "architect", "value": "7 dark money vehicles from one desk"},
        {"node": "moore", "type": "compliance", "value": "80+ accounts, 6 simultaneous roles"},
        {"node": "sdj", "type": "vehicle", "value": "Entity 802002459, Dykema-formed"},
        {"node": "johnson_l", "type": "beneficiary", "value": "$84K SDJ spending on her election"},
        {"node": "pca", "type": "endpoint", "value": "Johnson becomes PCA Board Secretary"},
        {"node": "banks", "type": "operator", "value": "Johnson now oversees Banks' school"}
      ],
      "total_funds_traced": 84000,
      "membranes_crossed": 5,
      "damage": "Dark money elected the board member who oversees the school"
    },
    {
      "id": "ray_enforcement_capture",
      "name": "Enforcement Capture Ray",
      "description": "Trace from dark money to police authority",
      "path": [
        {"node": "sdj", "type": "vehicle", "value": "Dykema-formed dark money"},
        {"node": "detroit_next_pac", "type": "intermediary", "value": "SDJ-funded PAC"},
        {"node": "sheffield", "type": "beneficiary", "value": "Campaign supported, now Mayor"},
        {"node": "bettison", "type": "appointee", "value": "Appointed DPD Chief by Sheffield"},
        {"node": "dpsa", "type": "endpoint", "value": "Bettison on DPSA Board Secretary"},
        {"node": "oig", "type": "oversight", "value": "OIG investigation Sep 2026"}
      ],
      "membranes_crossed": 6,
      "damage": "Dark money → Mayor → Police Chief → school board + enforcement protection"
    },
    {
      "id": "ray_judicial_legitimacy",
      "name": "Judicial Legitimacy Transfer Ray",
      "description": "Trace from fake credential through judicial endorsement",
      "path": [
        {"node": "banks", "type": "origin", "value": "Claims MSU Law J.D. — not in bar records"},
        {"node": "langford_morris", "type": "authenticator", "value": "Sitting judge wrote book foreword using fake J.D."},
        {"node": "vonda_evans", "type": "mentor", "value": "21-year mentor, endorsed despite 9 convictions"},
        {"node": "a_sabree", "type": "classmate", "value": "MSU Law 2010 — same claimed cohort"},
        {"node": "miller", "type": "board_member", "value": "Sitting judge on Banks entity board"},
        {"node": "public_trust", "type": "victim", "value": "Judicial credibility transferred to felon"}
      ],
      "membranes_crossed": 5,
      "damage": "Fake credential authenticated by judicial imprimatur"
    },
    {
      "id": "ray_dual_employment",
      "name": "Authorization Membrane Breach Ray",
      "description": "Trace from DPSCD (authorizer) to MacDowell (authorized)",
      "path": [
        {"node": "dpscd", "type": "authorizer", "value": "Authorized MacDowell charter"},
        {"node": "coleman", "type": "breach", "value": "DPSCD employee + MacDowell Dean. Expired cert."},
        {"node": "jennifer_crump", "type": "breach", "value": "DPSCD 33yr + MacDowell Office Manager"},
        {"node": "macdowell", "type": "authorized", "value": "Charter school under DPSCD oversight"},
        {"node": "banks", "type": "operator", "value": "Runs both sides through captured staff"}
      ],
      "membranes_crossed": 1,
      "damage": "The authorizer's own employees work at the authorized school — the membrane is dissolved"
    },
    {
      "id": "ray_legal_defense_capture",
      "name": "Legal Defense Capture Ray",
      "description": "Trace from state law enforcement to enterprise defense",
      "path": [
        {"node": "ag_office", "type": "origin", "value": "Michigan Attorney General — law enforcement"},
        {"node": "moreland", "type": "crossover", "value": "Former AAG → now Banks' litigation attorney"},
        {"node": "pca_board", "type": "dual_role", "value": "Moreland also on PCA Board of Directors"},
        {"node": "banks", "type": "client", "value": "Former state attorney now defends the enterprise"}
      ],
      "legal_theory": "MRPC 1.7 concurrent conflict + MRPC 1.11 successive employment",
      "membranes_crossed": 3,
      "damage": "The person who was supposed to enforce the law now defends the person who breaks it"
    },
    {
      "id": "ray_dykema_total_system",
      "name": "Total System Capture Ray (5-Level Recursion)",
      "description": "Dykema operates at every level simultaneously",
      "path": [
        {"node": "dykema", "type": "level_1", "value": "Wrote MI charter school law (Public Act 277, 1993)"},
        {"node": "dykema", "type": "level_2", "value": "Defended charter law in court challenges"},
        {"node": "dykema", "type": "level_3", "value": "Represents charter authorizers"},
        {"node": "dykema", "type": "level_4", "value": "Forms dark money entities (SDJ, ONF, DJF, etc.)"},
        {"node": "dykema", "type": "level_5", "value": "Runs PAC compliance that elects school board members"}
      ],
      "membranes_crossed": 0,
      "damage": "There are no membranes. One firm operates the entire system. The operating system IS Dykema."
    }
  ],

  "damage_summary": {
    "total_public_funds_through_enterprise": 46100000,
    "total_extraction_by_purpose_group": 33509470,
    "instruction_deficit_per_year": 752700,
    "instruction_deficit_total_13yr": 9785100,
    "campaign_finance_traced": 876876,
    "public_officials_implicated": 20,
    "judges_implicated": 9,
    "membranes_dissolved": 7,
    "dark_money_vehicles_traced": 7,
    "students_affected_annually": 630,
    "students_affected_cumulative": 8190,
    "note": "Every number sourced to public record. Extraction = 72.67% of MacDowell revenue. Instruction deficit = difference between 32.1% actual and 60% target applied to annual funding."
  }
}