The Franklin case
The public record of the Franklin credit union case in Omaha: the Legislature’s floor debates and committee hearing on its Franklin Committee, the FBI’s files on the credit union and the 1990 Omaha inquiry, and the Secret Service’s file on Craig Spence.
Who released this.
Mostly the Nebraska Legislature, whose Franklin Committee publicly disputed how the police and the grand jury handled the allegations. The FBI and Secret Service files are those agencies’ own records of matters in which their conduct was later questioned.
What this collection cannot tell you.
Neither grand jury’s report is here: the county report was expunged in 1993 and the federal one has not been found. Nor are the Nebraska appellate opinions in the perjury case, the crash investigation, either ruling in Bonacci’s lawsuit, the 1989 newspaper stories or any book. Most of the text is OCR of scanned pages. Pages that tie a private person to a home address, birth date or account number, and pages describing the alleged child victims in identifying detail, were left out before loading; the FBI’s release redacts the names of the alleged victims and most third parties. A search returning nothing here means these documents do not contain those words, not that the thing did or did not happen.
We say this on every collection because an absence in a curated release is evidence about the curation, not about the world. Why that distinction runs through the whole product.
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