Data Braid — GLLG Entity Graph: Dynasty Through Entity to Human

The Method

Six independent searches. Six different public databases. One convergent graph.

Each search started from a different entry point and arrived at the same social infrastructure. No search was directed by the result of another — they were run in parallel. The braid is the convergence.

Search 1: LARA Entity Records

Query: LARA Business Entity Search → ID 802112914

Edge found: Entity → Agent → People

Search 2: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer

Query: CitizenDetroit Action Group → EIN 82-2361291

Edge found: Attorney and charter authorizer sit on same nonprofit board under attorney’s former government employer.

Source: IRS Form 990 filings, publicly available via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer

Search 3: School Board Records

Query: macdowellprep.com/board-of-directors/

Cross-reference: Hall’s separate law firm is named “Crump Hall of Justice Law Firm.” MSU email: crumpver@msu.edu. Crump-Gibson attended MSU for undergrad.

Edge found: Attorney with Crump maiden name sits on Banks’ school board.

Source: MacDowell Preparatory Academy official website

Search 4: State Bar / LinkedIn

Query: Henri O. Harmon → MSU College of Law

Banks claims MSU Law JD (~2010 cohort). Harmon graduated 2006 and led the BLSA. Same law school, overlapping institutional memory.

Edge found: GLLG partner was BLSA president at the same law school Banks claims to have attended.

Source: gllegalgroup.com, lawyer.com, LinkedIn

Search 5: LinkedIn Career History

Query: Jehan Crump-Gibson → employment history

Edge found: Attorney worked for the person who became CEO of the nonprofit where attorney and charter authorizer sit on the same board.

Source: LinkedIn, Rolling Out, Voyage Michigan

Search 6: Federal Appointment Records

Query: Jehan Crump-Gibson → appointments

Edge found: Attorney who represents Banks also serves as panelist on the body that processes complaints about attorneys — including any complaint about herself.

Source: gllegalgroup.com, LinkedIn, NBI-SEMS

The Braid

Six independent searches. One graph:

SEARCH 5: LinkedIn
  Jehan worked for Sheila Cockrel (2007-09)
      │
      ▼
SEARCH 2: ProPublica 990
  Sheila Cockrel = CEO, CitizenDetroit
  Jehan = Vice Chair / Chair
  Misha Stallworth = Director
      │
      ├──────────────────────┐
      ▼                      ▼
SEARCH 1: LARA            SEARCH 6: Appointments
  GLLG (802112914)           ADB Hearing Panelist
  Jehan = Agent              Judicial Advisory Committee
  represents Banks
      │
      ▼
SEARCH 3: School board
  Verkeydia Hall =
  MacDowell Board Director
  (Crump maiden name)
      │
      ▼
SEARCH 4: Bar / MSU Law
  Henri Harmon =
  BLSA President (2006)
  at Banks' claimed law school

No search was designed to find the next. Each was a separate query to a separate database. The convergence is the finding.

Dynasty → Entity → Human

These problems do not originate with individuals. They originate in dynasties, move through entities, and land on humans.

The Dynasty Layer

The Entity Layer

The Human Layer

Every individual in this graph is a person making choices under pressure. The dynasty flows through the entities, and the entities create the conditions. But each human chooses where they stand.

Crump-Gibson limited her scope within 24 hours. That is a choice. The correspondence timeline documents it.

Point / Wave / Reaction

For each actor in this graph, three properties:

What This Decomposition Reveals

Point = where someone IS. Static. Verifiable from a single database query.

Wave = how influence MOVES through them. Dynamic. Only visible when you cross-reference multiple databases — the wave is the braid.

Reaction = what HAPPENS when waves intersect at a point. Emergent. You can’t predict it from either wave alone.

Example: Misha Stallworth (point) receives the Stallworth dynasty wave AND the CitizenDetroit professional network wave. The reaction: a charter school is authorized for an operator the professional network is now defending.

Example: Jehan Crump-Gibson (point) receives the Cockrel employment wave AND the Banks client wave AND the ADB panelist wave. The reaction: scope limitation within 24 hours. Three waves, one point, one reaction.

Last names are poor indicators alone. “Stallworth” connects to money laundering AND to the DPSCD board — but only when you follow the family chain through marriages and entities. “Crump” connects a firm name to a maiden name to an MSU email — but only when you search three databases. The surnames are correlation. The entity chain is the causation path.

Verification

Correlation does not imply causation. But causation can be masked — and hidden — by correlation. The braid method does not assume any connection. It finds them independently, then maps where they converge. The convergence is the data.

Each person in this graph can choose which side of the demarcation they are on.