Political-finance source verification

Cynthia Coulter George: a specific authenticated receipt

Himes for Congress reported a $250 contribution from Cynthia George on September 30, 2014, transaction C10078851, for the 2014 general election. The original report identifies the employer as Schoonmaker, George and occupation as Attorney. Its Schedule A page 37, image 14978369092, was checked visually; original electronic filing 959435 independently reproduces the same transaction, amount, election and employment fields.¹²

The professional identity bridge is specific: the firm’s own biography identifies Cynthia Coulter George as its co-founder. The name, named-firm employment and occupation support attribution of this particular receipt to the attorney. This is not an attribution based only on a common name or Connecticut location.³

The FEC’s national 2013–2014 individual-contribution archive provides a further transaction cross-check. Its itcont.txt contains 2,192,151 rows. Six match the exact Cynthia George name pattern; only one also reports the Schoonmaker employer. That record is the same C10078851, filing 959435, $250, transaction type 15, with no memo flag—not another contribution to add. The archive’s date-partitioned copies were excluded from the scan to avoid duplicate counting.⁴

This resolves one historical contribution, not the entire Cynthia George donor history. The bulk archive’s Last-Modified date is December 30, 2018; it is not a current amendment-chain certification. The broader FEC name query remains only partially retrieved, and unrelated or unsupported names are not promoted into the ledger. A receipt to Himes for Congress is a federal campaign record, not a Connecticut judicial-appointment act or a law-firm payment. No reviewed record connects this $250 to judicial appointments or case outcomes.

Rosenwald receipts and bounded refund checks

Seven original electronic reports were examined for the targeted receipts and Rosenwald-named Schedule B payees. The checks cover the specific reports below, not lifetime giving or every possible later refund.

For Lieu, the three reports span January 1–June 30, 2026. The saved September 14 filing index identifies those versions as most recent and not themselves amended. The pre-primary amendment 1997246 expressly references earlier filing 1978718. The first-quarter amendment retains James Rosenwald’s two February 23 receipts of $3,500 each. Their matching ActBlue intermediary record remains non-additive.⁵

For De la Torre, the three reports also span January 1–June 30, 2026. The pre-primary amendment 1979040 references filing 1978814. The version chain is supported by an August 23 public filing-index capture; a successful fresh index was not obtained. The first-quarter amendment retains Laura’s DA404 and Jocelyn’s DA367 receipts, each $3,500, with the previously documented professional identification. No later original examined contains a Rosenwald-named Schedule B entry.⁶

Blue Momentum’s original second-quarter filing 1997272 independently confirms the two receipts already recorded: James Rosenwald, $5,000 on June 24, 2026, transaction 11641131, employer Rosenwald Cap/NYU, occupation Analyst/Professor; and Laura Rosenwald, $5,000 on June 25, transaction 11641129, Rosenwald Capital Management Inc/Executive. These are corroborated prior receipts, not additional money. The report contains no Schedule B line 28 refund entries; its 48 other Schedule B entries contain no Rosenwald payee match.⁷

The absence of a named payee in these originals is a bounded negative finding. It does not establish that no subsequent refund, differently recorded return, or conduit-level refund occurred. No family total or complete net-giving figure is reported. Generic James/RCM analyst records remain unresolved between III and IV; the NYU/professor identification is not projected onto those other rows.

Welsh recipient corroboration remains open

The existing ActBlue records remain the supported evidence for Aidan Welsh: $25 and $100 on September 19, 2020, transactions SA11AI_299143411 and SA11AI_299141945, reporting SGCBBW/Lawyer and an earmark for Biden Victory Fund, C00744946. No new recipient-side record was verified. Those conduit records have not been relabeled as independent recipient cash receipts.⁸

A public API retry returned an explicit rate-limit error and a Retry-After interval of 39,129 seconds. No additional API calls were made during this follow-up. Public electronic index requests failed, and attempted page-specific PDF retrievals returned not-found responses. These access failures are not zero-result searches. The full 2020 national archive, approximately 5.87 GB, was not retrieved; a probed Connecticut-only archive location did not exist. Recipient corroboration and the interrupted Soros refund query therefore remain open.

FEC reporting guidance distinguishes the original donor contribution from supporting conduit information. A second reporting stage does not create another contribution. The older bulk individual file is also threshold-limited, so absence from a bulk subset would not alone disprove a smaller contribution.⁹

Evidence boundaries

Only the newly authenticated Cynthia George receipt is added as a new financial edge. Existing Rosenwald receipts are corroborated without duplicating them in the new financial-edge list. The new historical receipt appears in the relationship tables and this chapter; the separate 24-row financial extract retains its earlier, narrower selection and is not a complete donor history. No residential addresses, private contacts or unrelated donors’ histories are reproduced here. The attribution and bounded counts passed an independent check against the original record and a repeated bulk-file scan; the amendment and refund limitations remain.

Sources

1. Federal Election Commission, Himes for Congress October Quarterly report, filed October 15, 2014, p.37, entry B, image14978369092.

2. Federal Election Commission, original electronic filing 959435, F3N, Schedule A transaction C10078851; G2014, September 30, 2014, $250.

3. Schoonmaker George, Cynthia Coulter George professional biography, undated, accessed September 14, 2026. Used only for professional identity.

4. Federal Election Commission, 2013–2014 individual-contribution bulk archive, Last-Modified December 30, 2018; itcont.txt, sub-ID4103020141226338626. Complete archive retrieved and the non-duplicated main file scanned September 14, 2026.

5. Federal Election Commission, original Lieu reports 1997237, 1997246, 1997255; filing-index query, successful September 14 capture inspected without re-querying the rate-limited service.

6. Federal Election Commission, original De la Torre reports 1979034, 1979040, 1998070; public electronic filing index, August 23, 2026 capture. Current index access failed.

7. Federal Election Commission, Blue Momentum PAC original electronic filing 1997272, July 15, 2026, transactions11641131/11641129 and complete Schedule B records.

8. Federal Election Commission, Aidan Welsh Schedule A query, prior successful September 14 capture, filing1482832, transactionsSA11AI_299143411/SA11AI_299141945.

9. Federal Election Commission, contributions received through conduits and individual-contributions file description, accessed September 14, 2026. Access-error receipts and exact attempted URLs are retained in the companion ledger.