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Rep. Paul Mitchell (I-MI)
House · Independent (most recent term) · MI-10 · in Congress 2017–2021 · Bioguide ID M001201
Party history: R 2017–2019, I 2019–2021 (party changed during service). Source: term data in unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0); party shown is as recorded per term there.
Estimated net worth (from public disclosures)
| Estimate | Report year | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Estimated net worth before entering office (report year 2016) | 2016 | $32,521,087 | $104,718,042 | $176,914,998 |
| (b) Latest net worth estimate | 2019 | $34,715,066 | $103,282,532 | $171,849,999 |
| (c) Estimated gain / loss, nominal dollars, 2016 → 2019 (3 years spanned) | 2016–2019 | −$142,199,932 | −$1,435,510 | +$139,328,912 |
Gain Low = latest Low − earliest High; Gain High = latest High − earliest Low (widest possible spread); Mid = latest Mid − earliest Mid.
Reliability flags (net worth): 2016: 1 Schedule A row(s) had the upper bound of the range lost in text extraction; completed from the fixed statutory bracket. Included in the recommended dollar-gain ranking.
Net worth by report year (mid; Low–High)
| Report year | Assets (mid) | Liabilities (mid) | Net worth mid | Low … High | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $110,718,044 | $6,000,001 | $104,718,042 | $32,521,087 … $176,914,998 | computed; 1 Schedule A row(s) had the upper bound of the range lost in text extraction; completed from the fixed statutory bracket |
| 2017 | $98,065,032 | $6,000,001 | $92,065,032 | $28,180,065 … $155,949,998 | computed |
| 2018 | $89,805,036 | $3,000,000 | $86,805,035 | $32,710,071 … $140,899,999 | computed |
| 2019 | $106,282,533 | $3,000,000 | $103,282,532 | $34,715,066 … $171,849,999 | computed |
- What this is: Net worth = Schedule A assets (each value range at its midpoint; low–high range shown) minus Schedule D liabilities (midpoints / ranges). Low = assets at range floors minus liabilities at range ceilings; Mid = midpoints; High = assets at ceilings minus liabilities at floors. Low and High are outer bounds of the reported ranges, not likely outcomes.
- What it excludes / understates: exact values (only ranges are reported); a personal residence is not reported as an asset (although a mortgage on it may be listed as a liability, which then lowers the estimate); retirement and federal accounts (e.g. Thrift Savings Plan, defined-benefit pensions) are only partly or not reported; assets of excepted/blind trusts, cash held below reporting thresholds, vehicles, household goods and most spouse/dependent items exempt from reporting are not included; liabilities on a personal residence, revolving credit under thresholds and loans to family may be omitted by filers.
- Open-ended top ranges (e.g. “Over $50,000,000”) are counted at their lower bound and flagged, so such values are understated.
- The change is a change in estimated net worth in nominal dollars (no inflation adjustment). It includes salary, gifts, inheritances, business income and re-valuation as well as investment results, and it is subject to range-bracket noise; it is not an investment return and implies nothing about conduct.
Read this first. Members report asset values only as ranges (e.g. “$15,001 – $50,000”), never exact dollars. Every figure below is an estimate computed from range midpoints, not a measured return. Figures cannot be interpreted as investment performance, and they do not show wrongdoing or skill. Methodology and limitations are at the end and in the project README. Sources: public financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and/or the Secretary of the Senate (Senate eFD), linked below.
Insufficient data to rank. Only 1 comparable year-pair(s) could be computed (minimum 3 to rank). 4 annual filing(s) were usable (text-readable, validated OCR, or validated X-mark decoding) and 0 scanned/image-only filing(s) could not be used (older layouts failing validation, small amendments not integrated). See the method-per-year section below.
Estimated year-over-year change
Bars: midpoint estimate; whisker: same-position floor/ceiling band. Axis clipped to −100%…+150%. Years with insufficient traceable holdings are omitted.
| Year (t−1 → t) | Opening value (mid) | Closing value (mid) | Income (mid) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) | Est. gain | Same-position band | Strict envelope | Traced coverage | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016→2017 | $37,244,022 | $22,140,014 | $73,106 | $32,500 | $8,122,508 | -18.6% | -20.4% … -11.4% | -126% … +89% | 34% | excluded; not eligible: traced coverage 34% < 60% |
| 2017→2018 | $97,657,532 | $62,390,025 | $1,529,414 | $1,650,002 | $250,001 | -36.0% | -37.0% … -31.6% | -136% … +64% | 100% | counted |
| 2018→2019 | $52,640,022 | $46,607,517 | $700,658 | $0 | $0 | -10.1% | -17.5% … -8.2% | -124% … +104% | 59% | excluded; not eligible: traced coverage 59% < 60% |
Filings used
Each annual-report year uses one filing (most recently filed version among originals/amendments whose Schedule A row count is ≥ 40% of the largest). Electronic (text) PDFs are parsed. Scanned/image-only filings are OCR-read and used only if they pass the explicit validation gates described in the project README (value/income coverage, two-engine agreement, exact bracket snapping, page completeness, year-to-year position continuity); such years are labelled OCR-derived below. Scanned filings that fail validation are listed as “insufficient data – scanned”.
| Report year | Doc ID | Type | Filed | Schedule A rows | Rows with unparsed value | Source (official filing) / SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 10024839 | House amendment | 10/9/2018 | 118 | 1 | 10024839.pdf691bcdf1a301793eacd90ff3fbc002710f2185656244cbe25a4b7730b07ddfb0 |
| 2017 | 10028864 | House amendment | 7/29/2019 | 117 | 0 | 10028864.pdf755ad45ae7d89cb97ab00f935ce3dcef8cd29de01f3945478f6799dd3965eef1 |
| 2018 | 10028852 | House amendment | 7/30/2019 | 93 | 0 | 10028852.pdfb1f0de0ff3d5d996154c23023ba6151178e2b7cce1333e911be0a68791759b56 |
| 2019 | 10036374 | House annual | 8/5/2020 | 86 | 0 | 10036374.pdf73df028ff46ac7d7c4af05303bce9973c11661ca6766d05d2b7300cb1ae26d48 |
Largest movers 2017→2018
| Position (as written in filing) | Owner | Kind | Opening range(s) | Closing range(s) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otsi Keta Focus Fund Limited Partnership ⇒ Cooper Tire & Rubber (CTB), 26% Interest [HE] | — | held | $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 | None | $0 | $0 |
| Otsi Keta Focus Fund Limited Partnership ⇒ Otsi Keta Capital LLC ⇒ Cooper Tire & Rubber (C | — | held | $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 | None | $0 | $0 |
| Otsi Keta Focus Fund Limited Partnership ⇒ Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), 26% Inter | — | held | $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 | None | $0 | $0 |
| Otsi Keta Focus Fund Limited Partnership ⇒ Capella Education (CPLA), 26% Interest [HE] | — | held | $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 | None | $0 | $0 |
| Otsi Keta Focus Fund Limited Partnership ⇒ Otsi Keta Capital LLC ⇒ Diamond Hill Investment | — | held | $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 | None | $0 | $0 |
| Otsi Keta Focus Fund Limited Partnership ⇒ Westlake Chemical PR LP (WLKP), 26% Interest [H | — | held | $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 | None | $0 | $0 |
| Otsi Keta Focus Fund Limited Partnership ⇒ Otsi Keta Capital LLC ⇒ Dorman Products (DORM), | — | held | $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 | None | $0 | $0 |
| Otsi Keta Focus Fund Limited Partnership ⇒ Otsi Keta Capital LLC ⇒ Capella Education (CPLA | — | held | $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 | None | $0 | $0 |
Method (summary)
- Schedule A asset rows are read from each annual report; the dollar range for each row is converted to its midpoint. Open-ended top ranges (“Over $50,000,000”) are excluded from the traced set and counted as a coverage loss.
- Positions are matched year to year by owner code (self/SP/DC/JT) + normalised asset name. A position that appears only in year t is included only if Schedule B shows a purchase of it in year t (opening value 0); a position that disappears is included only if Schedule B shows a sale (closing value 0). Otherwise it is excluded as unexplained.
- Estimated gain = (closing − opening + reported income − purchases + sale proceeds) ÷ opening, all at midpoints, for the traced positions. “Capital gains” income is not added again (it is already in value change and sale proceeds).
- A year counts only if traced opening value ≥ $50,000 and traced coverage ≥ 60% of the opening midpoint. A member is ranked only with ≥ 3 such years (exactly 2 = “limited data”, shown but unranked). Average = geometric mean of (1+yearly estimate).
Limitations
- Ranges are wide (up to a factor of 5 or more, and up to $50M+ open-ended); a holding can move between ranges without any real change in value, and stay in a range while moving materially. Yearly estimates are therefore noisy; the “strict envelope” shows the mathematical worst/best case and is typically wider than ±100%.
- Purchases and sales are only disclosed as ranges and only for transactions over $1,000; partial sales, dividend reinvestment, spousal/dependent accounts and retirement-plan funds are reported inconsistently. Excepted/blind trusts, personal residences and certain pensions are not reported at all.
- Filers sometimes change how they list assets (e.g. listing a brokerage account vs. its individual holdings), which can make positions untraceable across years; these are excluded rather than guessed.
- Asset values in an annual report are as of Dec 31 of the reporting year; the report year t−1→t covers that calendar year. Late or amended filings are used when filed; extensions can delay them.
- The text of these reports is machine-parsed from PDFs; parse errors are possible. Every number links back to the cited filing. This is not investment advice.
- Use of these filings is restricted by 5 U.S.C. § 105(c) (no unlawful, commercial or credit-rating purpose, and none for solicitation of money).
Generated 2026-10-01 by an automated pipeline. Data: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (disclosures-clerk.house.gov); member roster: unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0).