Kyrsten Sinema is represented in this repository as a former Arizona senator whose campaign-finance records, joint-fundraising structure, post-Senate advisory roles, and financial-regulatory issue positioning provide a bounded comparison case for Jessica Killin. The current repo evidence supports donor-class, employer, vendor, and issue-network comparison, but it does not support a direct personal or operational relationship between Sinema and Killin.
The retained Sinema source layer is intentionally narrow. It was created to test whether Jessica Killin's donor and fintech / financial-regulatory network overlaps with Sinema through direct donors, donor-employer clusters, campaign vendors, fundraising vehicles, policy communities, or post-office intermediaries.
The strongest source basis is OpenFEC. Sinema's 2024 cycle Senate candidate ID is S8AZ00197; her principal committee is SINEMA FOR ARIZONA (C00508804), and the retained comparison also includes SINEMA LEADERSHIP FUND (C00789834), a joint fundraising committee. The post-office source layer adds a narrower intermediary context: Coinbase announced Sinema's Global Advisory Council role in January 2025, Hogan Lovells announced her March 2025 senior-advisor role in its Global Regulatory & IP practice group, and an official Senate page lists her post-employment lobbying restriction period as 2025-01-03 through 2027-01-02. A follow-up LDA check found no Kyrsten Sinema / Sinema lobbyist-name results in the queried 2025-2026 set, and found one stronger intermediary bridge through shared donor Steven Elmendorf, Avoq, and Coinbase.
- Role or function: former U.S. senator from Arizona; former federal candidate; post-Senate advisor in crypto / regulatory / law-firm contexts
- Scope in this repository: campaign-finance and intermediary comparison case for Killin donor and policy-network overlap
- Principal committee in retained OpenFEC package:
SINEMA FOR ARIZONA / C00508804
- Related joint fundraising committee in retained OpenFEC package:
SINEMA LEADERSHIP FUND / C00789834
- Post-Senate intermediary roles retained here: Coinbase Global Advisory Council and Hogan Lovells senior advisor
- LDA follow-up retained here: no Sinema-name lobbyist result in queried 2025-2026 fields; Avoq/Coinbase filings name shared donor Steven Elmendorf as lobbyist on digital-assets / digital-currency issues.
- Important context: Sinema's comparison window is mostly
2023-2024, while Killin's retained campaign donor window is 2025-2026; shared donors therefore show recurrence across time, not simultaneous support.
- Important context: the retained OpenFEC comparison found
11 exact shared individual donor names, 28 shared employer strings, 5 shared vendor strings, and 0 exact shared PAC / organization donors under the chosen definition.
- Jessica Killin: comparison subject in the retained donor and network overlap package; evidence supports bounded overlap analysis rather than a direct relationship.
- Financial regulatory policy: relevant because Sinema's post-Senate roles and donor-employer clusters include crypto, fintech, private equity, and regulatory-advisory contexts.
- None created in this pass. The issue-network comparison is not yet broad enough for a durable theme page beyond existing financial-regulatory-policy framing.
- None created in this pass. Chronology is handled inside the comparison report because the retained Sinema chronology is useful but not yet a reusable standalone timeline.
¶ Evidence and source basis
- Kyrsten Sinema OpenFEC and post-Senate intermediary source cluster, 2024-2026: summarizes the retained OpenFEC and post-Senate intermediary source cluster.
- Killin / Sinema shared-donor identity and LDA client-lobbying check, 2026: summarizes the identity reconciliation and LDA follow-up.
- a locally retained dataset from api.open.fec.gov, captured 2026-04-24T16:10:00-06:00, titled Jessica Killin / Kyrsten Sinema OpenFEC overlap package, 2024-2026: documents the OpenFEC package, cursor-pagination method, comparison files, and derived counts.
- a locally retained dataset from lda.senate.gov, captured 2026-04-24T22:40:45.273272+00:00, titled Jessica Killin / Kyrsten Sinema LDA identity and client-lobbying check, 2025-2026: documents the LDA source package and derived files.
- a locally retained article from www.coinbase.com, captured 2026-04-24T16:10:00-06:00, titled Coinbase welcomes Kyrsten Sinema to Global Advisory Council: preserves the limited source basis for Sinema's January 2025 Coinbase Global Advisory Council role.
- a locally retained article from www.hoganlovells.com, captured 2026-04-24T16:11:00-06:00, titled Hogan Lovells welcomes Kyrsten Sinema as senior advisor: preserves Hogan Lovells' March 2025 announcement of Sinema as senior advisor.
- a locally retained dataset from www.senate.gov, captured 2026-04-24T16:12:00-06:00, titled U.S. Senate post-employment lobbying restrictions, Sinema 2025: preserves the official Senate restriction period for post-employment lobbying contacts.
- The current repo does not preserve Sinema's older 2018-cycle donor universe, House-era donor data, or complete post-Senate compensation terms.
- The current exact-name donor overlap has been partially reconciled, but should not be treated as full legal identity proof; aliases, spouses, households, and full street-address comparisons were intentionally not merged.
- LDA no-result searches do not rule out non-lobbying legal advice, advisory work, informal policy work, or unregistered contacts that do not require LDA disclosure.
- The Coinbase capture is partial because direct fetch returned a Cloudflare challenge page; refresh with an archived or browser-accessible copy if the Coinbase role becomes central.
¶ Source access and local retention
Atlas Trace retains a local research capture for provenance of the sources identified on this page. The capture and processing records remain local; they are not available through this wiki. Consult the identified sources for public access options where available. See Sources, access, and local retention.