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Cait Conley won her primary while refusing to tell voters what two Palantir-linked AI defense contractors paid her nearly $335,000 to do, citing nondisclosure agreements. Now that she’s the nominee, the Lawler for Congress campaign is calling on Conley to release certified copies of her NDAs with Primer AI and Hidden Level. If she won’t, voters deserve to know why.

Pearl River, NY — 6/24/2026… Cait Conley is now the Democratic nominee for New York’s 17th Congressional District. She earned that nomination without ever answering a basic question: What are Primer AI and Hidden Level paying her hundreds of thousands of dollars to do?

Conley’s own financial disclosure, filed only after a local reporter and constituents pressed her, shows roughly $335,000 in income from the two firms, $35,000 from Primer, and nearly $300,000 from Hidden Level. Both companies work alongside Palantir, the contractor helping the federal government carry out its surveillance and deportation operations. Primer advertises that it supports DHS “homeland security operations.” Primer also won what was then its largest federal contract in history, a multi-million-dollar deal with US Special Operations Command, in October 2020, while Conley was serving as Director of Operations at Army Special Operations Command, inside SOCOM.

When voters and members of the media asked what she actually did for that money, Conley said she had signed nondisclosure agreements and could not discuss it. Lawler for Congress campaign manager Ciro Riccardi today called on her to release certified copies of those agreements:

“Cait Conley is asking Hudson Valley voters to make her their voice in Congress, but she’s doing so while hiding who has been signing her checks and what they bought. She says an NDA ties her hands. Fine. Then release certified copies of them. If there is nothing in Cait Conley’s arrangement with Primer and Hidden Level that voters would object to, a certified copy of each NDA costs her nothing. So which is it, Cait? Will you release certified copies of your NDAs with Primer and Hidden Level, so the people of the Hudson Valley can see exactly what a Palantir-linked surveillance contractor is paying their would-be Congresswoman to do? Or will you ask them to trust you while you keep them in the dark? If you are serious about representing the Hudson Valley, you’ll release them. If you won’t, voters deserve to know why.”

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