Department of Justice
Department of Justice is named in 315 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1908 to 2026.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-16 | Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress in January 6 Investigation Steve Bannon · House Select Committee on January 6 · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-15 | Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols Testify Before Senate on FBI's Betrayal in Nassar Case Simone Biles · McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Maggie Nichols · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-27 | Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes Daniel Hale · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · White House Competition Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-26 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14006 to End Federal Private Prison Contracts, But Excludes Immigration Detention Joe Biden · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · U.S. Marshals Service · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Boeing Pays $2.5 Billion in Deferred Prosecution Deal, Zero Executives Charged for 346 Deaths Department of Justice · Boeing · 346 crash victims · Victims' families · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-04 | Jeffrey Clark admits in Signal messages that classified briefing yielded "nothing helpful" for Trump Jeffrey Clark · Scott Perry · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-03 | Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-31 | Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | Trump tells acting AG "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me" Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-20 | DOJ Sues Google for Search Monopoly Through Exclusionary Contracts Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-11 | Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn Bill Barr · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-09 | Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys" Boeing employees · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · House Transportation Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-17 | Edward Snowden Publishes Memoir "Permanent Record"; DOJ Immediately Sues for Proceeds Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-13 | Commerce Inspector General Finds Wilbur Ross Lied to Congress About Census Citizenship Question Wilbur Ross · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-23 | Julian Assange Charged Under Espionage Act - Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom Julian Assange · WikiLeaks · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-21 | FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal Federal Trade Commission · Lucy Koh · Qualcomm · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-26 | Federal Judge Sentences Russian Agent Maria Butina to 18 Months for Conspiracy to Infiltrate Conservative Movement Maria Butina · Tanya Chutkan · Department of Justice · National Rifle Association | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-14 | Northrop Grumman Pays $5.2 Million for Fraudulent USPS Contract Labor Billing Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · USPS Office of Inspector General | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-14 | William Barr Confirmation as Attorney General Enables Systematic DOJ Politicization Using WHIG Template for Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture William Barr · Donald Trump · Senate Judiciary Committee · Department of Justice · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-13 | Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Conspiring as Russian Agent, Admits Years-Long Clandestine Influence Scheme Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · Paul Erickson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-01 | Northrop Grumman Pays $31.65 Million for Fraudulent Overbilling of Air Force Contracts Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Air Force · Defense Criminal Investigative Service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice · Makan Delrahim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-15 | FBI Arrests Maria Butina for Conspiring to Act as Russian Agent to Infiltrate Conservative Organizations Maria Butina · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-07 | Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly Bayer AG · Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-03 | Reality Winner Arrested for Leaking Russian Election Interference Report Reality Winner · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-23 | Private Prison Stocks Soar as CoreCivic, GEO Donate $2.8M to Trump CoreCivic · GEO Group · Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-21 | Attorney General Jeff Sessions Rescinds Obama-Era Private Prison Phase-Out, Citing 'Future Needs of Federal Corrections System' Jeff Sessions · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · CoreCivic · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence After Brutal Imprisonment Barack Obama · Chelsea Manning · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-10 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly Anheuser-Busch InBev · SABMiller · Molson Coors · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-18 | Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates Issues Memo to Phase Out Federal Private Prisons, Citing Safety Problems and High Costs Sally Yates · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · CoreCivic · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-02-16 | FBI Orders Apple to Break iPhone Encryption in San Bernardino Case Apple · Tim Cook · Federal Bureau of Investigation · James Comey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme DaVita · Fresenius Medical Care · American Kidney Fund · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | DaVita Pays $450 Million for Drug Wastage Fraud, Largest Unjoined Whistleblower Settlement in History DaVita · Kent Thiry · Alon J. Vainer · Daniel D. Barbir · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-09-18 | EPA Exposes Volkswagen Dieselgate: 11 Million Cars with Emissions Defeat Devices Volkswagen Group · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · California Air Resources Board (CARB) · International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-18 | Northrop Grumman Pays $11.4 Million for Illegally Billing Executive Compensation to Federal Contracts Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · Defense Contract Management Agency · Defense Contract Audit Agency | confirmed | |
| 2015-02-03 | S&P Settles for $1.375 Billion Over Fraudulent AAA Ratings on Junk Mortgage Securities, While Moody's Pays $864 Million, Exposing 'Issuer-Pays' Conflict of Interest Model Where 73% of 2006 AAA-Rated Securities Were Downgraded to Junk by 2010 Standard & Poor's · Moody's Investors Service · Fitch Ratings · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme DaVita · Kent Thiry · Department of Justice · HHS Office of Inspector General | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-21 | Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion" Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-09 | American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market American Airlines · US Airways · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-05 | Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-21 | Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court Microsoft · Google · Brad Smith · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-21 | Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for WikiLeaks Disclosures Chelsea Manning · U.S. Army · Department of Justice · Obama Administration | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-21 | Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-14 | U.S. Charges Edward Snowden with Espionage and Theft of Government Property Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · Eric Holder | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-29 | DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-14 | Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen Jeffrey Sterling · James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed HSBC · Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Mexican Drug Cartels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Vidrine · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-23 | John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2010-09-24 | FBI Raids Anti-War Activists' Homes in Coordinated Nationwide Operation Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · Anti-war activists · Grand jury | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-16 | SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Over ABACUS 2007-AC1 Synthetic CDO Deal Where Hedge Fund Manager John Paulson Selected Mortgage Securities to Bet Against While Goldman Sold Package to Investors, Resulting in $550 Million Settlement but No Criminal Charges Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-08 | Thomas Drake Indicted Under Espionage Act for NSA Whistleblowing Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2009-05-20 | Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism Federal Bureau of Investigation · Shahed Hussain · James Cromitie · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2009-04-02 | Northrop Grumman Pays $325 Million for Decade of Defective Spy Satellite Parts Northrop Grumman · TRW Inc. · Department of Justice · National Reconnaissance Office · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Wall Street Banks · Lanny Breuer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave Delta Air Lines · Northwest Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-31 | FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional FISA Court · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · Michael Hayden · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-01 | Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed) Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · US Intelligence · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion Roger Vinson · FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-15 | Congressman Bob Ney Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Corruption Scandal Bob Ney · Jack Abramoff · U.S. House of Representatives · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-01 | FBI Infiltrates Orange County Mosques with Informant in Dragnet Surveillance Federal Bureau of Investigation · Craig Monteilh · Muslim community · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-07 | Enron Founder Ken Lay Indicted on 11 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-28 | WHIG-Enabled Torture Authorization Establishes Executive Immunity Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Governance John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Alberto Gonzales · White House Iraq Group · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-26 | Department of Justice Files Antitrust Lawsuit to Block Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger Department of Justice · Oracle · PeopleSoft · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-26 | HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-15 | Arthur Andersen Convicted, Destroying 85,000 Jobs Worldwide Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-01 | Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 1998-09-30 | NationsBank-BankAmerica $62 Billion Merger Creates First Coast-to-Coast National Bank NationsBank · BankAmerica · Federal Reserve · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-01 | 287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Local law enforcement agencies | confirmed | |
| 1996-04-24 | Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-11 | DOJ Drops Zimmermann PGP Investigation, Marks Crypto Wars Policy Inflection Phil Zimmermann · Department of Justice · U.S. Customs Service · Michael Yamaguchi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1995-12-12 | FDA Approval of OxyContin Reveals Systemic Regulatory Capture by Purdue Pharma Curtis Wright IV · Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Division of Anesthetic, Critical Care, and Addiction Drug Products · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-13 | Violent Crime Control Act Expands Federal Wiretap Predicates and Roving Wiretap Authority Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · Department of Justice · 103rd Congress | confirmed | |
| 1994-06-01 | FISA Court Annual Report Reveals 99%+ Approval Rate Over 15 Years, Rubber-Stamp Critique Crystallizes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court · Department of Justice · Office of Intelligence Policy and Review · Center for National Security Studies | confirmed | |
| 1993-02-01 | US Customs Opens Criminal Investigation of Phil Zimmermann Over PGP Encryption Export Phil Zimmermann · U.S. Customs Service · RSA Security · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1988-11-18 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Creates "Aggravated Felony" Category, Merging War on Drugs with Deportation Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1988-01-01 | S&L Crisis Prosecutions: 1,000+ Bankers Convicted, Contrasts Sharply with 2008 Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Thrift Supervision · S&L executives | confirmed | |
| 1985-09-04 | Inslaw Files Bankruptcy Accusing DOJ of Stealing PROMIS Software for Intelligence Use William Hamilton · Inslaw Inc. · Department of Justice · Edwin Meese · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-09-20 | Bamford's The Puzzle Palace Published, First Book-Length Public History of NSA After 30 Years of Denial James Bamford · National Security Agency · Houghton Mifflin · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-08 | AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Stanford Law School · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Douglas Ginsburg · Robert Bork · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-25 | Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Birch Bayh · Church Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement Gerald Ford · Senator Philip Hart · Senator Hugh Scott · Representative Peter Rodino · +2 | confirmed |
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