Chief Executive Officer
CurrentMission: Capture & post online every dime taxed and spent at every level of government - federal, state and local across America. Simply stated, "Every Dime. Online. In Real Time." Our work is premised in powerful Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: "... A Regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of All Public Money Shall be published from time to time." Our History: We are the world’s largest private database of public-sector expenditures. Captured $12 trillion government expenditures: all disclosed federal spending; 49 of 50 state checkbooks; and 25 million public employee salary and pension records from 50,000 public bodies across America.We display this data on our website at OpenTheBooks.com; in our mobile app – Open The Books, free in the Apple 'App Store' and 'Google Play' store; and on our interactive mapping platform by ZIP code. Our aggressive transparency and forensic auditing of government spending has led to the assembly of grand juries, indictments, and successful prosecutions; congressional briefings, hearings, and subpoenas; federal legislation; and much more. Our Honorary Chairman - In Memoriam is U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, MD. Our works have been featured on the BBC, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, NBC News, FOX News, CNN, Forbes, National Public Radio (NPR), & many others.Our federal oversight work was cited in the President's Budget To Congress FY2021. Posted on YouTube, Andrzejewski's presentation, The Depth of the Swamp, at the Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar 2020 in Naples, Florida received 3+ million views.Our founder, Adam Andrzejewski, has addressed Harvard Law School, and the Columbia School of Journalism regarding public-sector forensic auditing techniques and big data journalism.We open the books and audit them. Learn more at OpenTheBooks.com.