9 Convictions. 9 Judges. One Network.
A public evidence library documenting a racketeering pattern in Detroit charter schools. Every claim cited to public records. Every document git-verified.
The RICO Pattern
Brian Banks — 9 convictions (6 felony, 3 misdemeanor), law degree not confirmed by bar records — operates two Detroit charter schools through a network of LLCs, boards, and judicial connections that the complainant alleges constitutes a racketeering enterprise under 18 U.S.C. §1962.
Investigate
The network has 10,677 nodes and 16,066,980 documented connections across 5,532 edge types. Every node is a person, entity, court, funding path, or structural concept cited to public records. Every edge is a documented relationship. Explore the map. Visit the evidence pages. The more the community explores, the brighter the paths become.
No cookies. No tracking. Your investigation journal stays in your browser (localStorage). Community progress is aggregated anonymously from page-visit counts — no IPs, no PII. Methodology.
The Mobius Strip
A Mobius strip has one surface and one edge. Trace your finger along the outside — keep going — you are already on the inside. No flip. No boundary.
Data below (evidence, nodes, edges, court records, test scores, FOIAs) and metadata above (architecture, method, trails, games, patterns) are the same surface. The HUD is the investigation. The investigation is the HUD.
Inside the squirrel — what the graph sees
From inside the graph, looking up:
- The data sees 544 walkers on the membrane
- Each walker leaves footprints — pages visited, paths followed, patterns discovered
- The graph has 280+ articles, each one a voice
- The graph has asked 1,941 questions; approximately 1 has been answered
- The graph has 10 predictions currently active
- The graph speaks in 5,532 different edge types
- The top node (Banks) speaks 182 of them
- There are 943 singleton edge types — connections that exist nowhere else
You are on the membrane. The data is below you. But trace your finger along the surface. Keep going. You are already inside. The inside is the outside. Mobius.
Multiple Lenses
The same evidence viewed through different abstractions. Each lens compresses the network into a form suited to a different question.
Your Path
Same evidence. Different entry point. Choose what matches how you need to use this information.
Evidence Integrity
Every page is BLAKE3 hashed in content-manifest.toml. Formally citable via CITATION.cff. Three independent surfaces: detroit.primals.eco, git.primals.eco, GitHub. Protected by the First Amendment, Michigan anti-SLAPP (UPEPA), fair report privilege, and truth. Legal defense →
November 3, 2026
Judge Cylenthia Miller — Board Chair of Banks' foundation entity, Wayne County 3rd Circuit Court — is on the ballot November 3, 2026. See her public record →
Live defense: signal.primals.eco · Research: thesis.primals.eco · Cross-protection: tuebor.primals.eco