Find expenses made with companies of campaign donors

[g4brielvs]

This issue might be correlated to #17. It consists of finding out expenses on companies belonging to campaign donors. It is not nepotism, but it certainly sounds like favoritism and corruption.

[awerlang]

Is that forbidden? How would you make a case for the reimbursement to be returned?

[cuducos]

Is that forbidden? How would you make a case for the reimbursement to be returned?

I don't think it's illegal, but suspicious. We might not be able to make a legal case, to claim for reimbursement. But surely news outlets would love to tell this story to the wide public (and this can trigger a public pressure over the politician to stop that, to be more accountable). IMHO It's a good thing (and this kind of data can help in a algorithm that spots real illegal stuff too).

[g4brielvs]

But surely news outlets would love to tell this story to the wide public

@awerlang That was my idea. It is not strictly illegal spending public money on companies financing campaigns, but I guess it is quite immoral. It is a step away from corruption. We should put a spotlight on such politicians.

[Irio]

It's a suspicious activity that may be used as one of the features when predicting the legality, in a larger Machine Learning model. I personally like it.

[disouzaleo]

So guys this analisys is already done ? Can you provide me info where the files are ?

[cuducos]

So guys this analisys is already done?

Unfortunately, not.

Can you provide me info where the files are?

If you refer to the reimbursement data, you can get them using the toolbox mentioned in the README.md — please, let me know if you have troubles running it.

If you refer to the donors data, this is something that should come in as part of this feature implementation ; )