The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for October 7, 2026. We recorded 1 event from October 6, 2026 that erode our democratic ideals and added 16 more from earlier dates — 90 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 2384. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

WHYY News investigation revealed Philadelphia Gas Works CEO Seth Shapiro left the value of Phillies-paid trips off required state ethics filings

Event: October 6, 2026 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jurisdiction: Philadelphia Abuses: Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest

On October 6, 2026, WHYY News reported that Seth Shapiro, CEO of the city-owned Philadelphia Gas Works, accepted Phillies-paid trips to the team's spring training sponsor event in Clearwater, Florida, each year from 2022 to 2025 while approving the utility's advertising with the team, which topped $1 million from October 2022 to November 2024. His Pennsylvania statements of financial interests for those years omitted the value of the trips and other hospitality gifts, as the state Ethics Act requires. After WHYY contacted the State Ethics Commission, it asked him to amend his 2025 filing, which then valued that year's Phillies trip at $2,500 and listed a $4,200 trip paid by pipeline company Enbridge; he did not amend the three earlier years.

People & Organizations: - Seth Shapiro (President and CEO, Philadelphia Gas Works)

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/10/06/local-undisclosed-financial-conflicts-8a942aff/ Primary source: Philadelphia Gas Works CEO got free trips to Phillies spring training, but didn't disclose required details on state ethics form

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we've archived over the past day. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• March 29, 2023 — NYPD detective gave false identification claim used to obtain Brooklyn search warrant
• May 5, 2025 — Montana Gov. Gianforte signed HB 719, requiring absentee voters to write their birth year on ballot envelopes or have ballots rejected
• July 29, 2025 — CBP and ICE detained a green-card holder at O'Hare over two decade-old bad checks, holding her 143 days
• October 31, 2025 — DHS published notice adding driver's-license, passport and Social Security data to SAVE citizenship checks, effective before public comment
• November 5, 2025 — ICE agents arrested daycare teacher Diana Santillana Galeano without a warrant inside a Chicago preschool as children arrived
• November 7, 2025 — Waukegan, Illinois alderman says federal immigration agents pointed guns at him as he sat in traffic during Midway Blitz sweep
• September 23, 2026 — IMPD officer Michael Rogers ran about 4,400 Flock searches on his wife, her friend and a man he suspected of an affair, charges allege
• September 25, 2026 — ICE re-arrested habeas winner Alejandro outside the Whipple Federal Building moments after releasing him under a court order
• September 29, 2026 — Treasury inspector general found 52 IRS employees made 86 suspicious searches of officials', executives' and celebrities' tax records
• October 1, 2026 — ICE re-arrested habeas winner Ivan inside the Whipple Federal Building as he walked out under a judge's release order
• October 2, 2026 — Chesterfield County, Va. police intelligence investigator Rebekkah Robinson misused Flock cameras and crime databases, charges allege
• October 4, 2026 — JTF Western Hemisphere killed 4 aboard suspected narcotics vessel in Caribbean Sea
• October 4, 2026 — Former Brooklyn Democratic chair Bichotte Hermelyn held a party leadership vote barred by court order; allies named Nikki Lucas chair
• October 5, 2026 — Trump White House barred Politico from Air Force One on its scheduled print pool day, leaving the Nebraska trip without a primary print pooler
• October 5, 2026 — Trump called for The New York Times and other news outlets to be arrested over reports of empty seats at his Ohio rally
• October 5, 2026 — Ste. Genevieve County jail barred priests from giving Communion and confession to ICE detainees, archdiocese lawsuit disclosed

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