| 2019-05-21 | FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2019-04-26 | Federal Judge Sentences Russian Agent Maria Butina to 18 Months for Conspiracy to Infiltrate Conservative Movement
3 src Maria Butina · Department of Justice · National Rifle Association |
| confirmed |
| 2019-02-14 | Northrop Grumman Pays $5.2 Million for Fraudulent USPS Contract Labor Billing
3 src Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service |
| confirmed |
| 2019-02-14 | William Barr Confirmation as Attorney General Enables Systematic DOJ Politicization Using WHIG Template for Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture
5 src William Barr · Donald Trump · Senate Judiciary Committee · Department of Justice · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-12-13 | Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Conspiring as Russian Agent, Admits Years-Long Clandestine Influence Scheme
2 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · National Rifle Association |
| confirmed |
| 2018-11-01 | Northrop Grumman Pays $31.65 Million for Fraudulent Overbilling of Air Force Contracts
3 src Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Air Force · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly
2 src Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-15 | FBI Arrests Maria Butina for Conspiring to Act as Russian Agent to Infiltrate Conservative Organizations
3 src 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
3 src Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · European Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power
3 src CVS Health · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-03 | Reality Winner Arrested for Leaking Russian Election Interference Report
3 src National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-23 | Private Prison Stocks Soar as CoreCivic, GEO Donate $2.8M to Trump
3 src 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'
3 src Jeff Sessions · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · CoreCivic · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-17 | Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence After Brutal Imprisonment
3 src Barack Obama · Chelsea Manning · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-10 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly
3 src Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-18 | Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates Issues Memo to Phase Out Federal Private Prisons, Citing Safety Problems and High Costs
3 src Sally Yates · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · CoreCivic · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-02-16 | FBI Orders Apple to Break iPhone Encryption in San Bernardino Case
4 src 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
5 src DaVita · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-28 | DaVita Pays $450 Million for Drug Wastage Fraud, Largest Unjoined Whistleblower Settlement in History
3 src DaVita · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-18 | EPA Exposes Volkswagen Dieselgate: 11 Million Cars with Emissions Defeat Devices
4 src Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-18 | Northrop Grumman Pays $11.4 Million for Illegally Billing Executive Compensation to Federal Contracts
3 src Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice |
| 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
3 src Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme
3 src DaVita · Department of Justice · HHS Office of Inspector General |
| confirmed |
| 2014-07-21 | Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion"
3 src 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
3 src American Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-05 | Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations
4 src Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-21 | Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court
4 src Microsoft · Google · Department of Justice · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-21 | Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for WikiLeaks Disclosures
3 src Chelsea Manning · U.S. Army · Department of Justice · Obama Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-21 | Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-14 | U.S. Charges Edward Snowden with Espionage and Theft of Government Property
3 src Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · Eric Holder |
| confirmed |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail
3 src 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
4 src Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-14 | Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen
3 src James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed
3 src Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Eric Holder · Covington & Burling |
| confirmed |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement
3 src BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Eric Holder · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-10-23 | John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program
3 src John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-09-24 | FBI Raids Anti-War Activists' Homes in Coordinated Nationwide Operation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| 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
2 src Goldman Sachs · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-08 | Thomas Drake Indicted Under Espionage Act for NSA Whistleblowing
3 src 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
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2009-04-02 | Northrop Grumman Pays $325 Million for Decade of Defective Spy Satellite Parts
3 src Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · National Reconnaissance Office |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Lanny Breuer · Covington & Burling |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave
3 src Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-31 | FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · Michael Hayden · +1 |
| 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
4 src Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed)
4 src Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · US Intelligence · Department of Justice |
| reported |
| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse
3 src Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-15 | Congressman Bob Ney Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Corruption Scandal
3 src Jack Abramoff · U.S. House of Representatives · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-03-01 | FBI Infiltrates Orange County Mosques with Informant in Dragnet Surveillance
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
3 src Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-07 | Enron Founder Ken Lay Indicted on 11 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2004-06-28 | WHIG-Enabled Torture Authorization Establishes Executive Immunity Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Governance
3 src John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Alberto Gonzales · White House Iraq Group · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-02-26 | Department of Justice Files Antitrust Lawsuit to Block Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger
3 src 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
4 src HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2002-06-15 | Arthur Andersen Convicted, Destroying 85,000 Jobs Worldwide
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation
4 src 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
4 src Federal Reserve · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1997-10-01 | 287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement
3 src U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1996-04-24 | Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review
3 src 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
2 src Department of Justice · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1995-12-12 | FDA Approval of OxyContin Reveals Systemic Regulatory Capture by Purdue Pharma
3 src Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1994-09-13 | Violent Crime Control Act Expands Federal Wiretap Predicates and Roving Wiretap Authority
2 src Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1994-06-01 | FISA Court Annual Report Reveals 99%+ Approval Rate Over 15 Years, Rubber-Stamp Critique Crystallizes
3 src Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1993-02-01 | US Customs Opens Criminal Investigation of Phil Zimmermann Over PGP Encryption Export
3 src Department of Justice · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1988-11-18 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Creates "Aggravated Felony" Category, Merging War on Drugs with Deportation
3 src 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
3 src Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Thrift Supervision |
| confirmed |
| 1985-09-04 | Inslaw Files Bankruptcy Accusing DOJ of Stealing PROMIS Software for Intelligence Use
4 src Department of Justice · Edwin Meese |
| confirmed |
| 1983-01-01 | Reagan Administration's Mass Immigration Emergency Plan Mandates 10,000 Detention Beds — First Systematic Detention Infrastructure Requirement in U.S. History
4 src Ronald Reagan · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1982-09-20 | Bamford's The Puzzle Palace Published, First Book-Length Public History of NSA After 30 Years of Denial
2 src National Security Agency · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness
4 src 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
3 src AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork |
| confirmed |
| 1981-07-01 | AG Smith Declares Detention-as-Deterrence Doctrine, Eliminating Bond Rights for Asylum Seekers
5 src Ronald Reagan · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Haitian refugees |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Robert Bork · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-25 | Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance
3 src Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Church Committee · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique
4 src 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
4 src Gerald Ford · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1976-03-10 | Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations
2 src Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1972-06-19 | Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question
3 src Lewis Powell · Department of Justice · John Mitchell |
| confirmed |
| 1960-05-06 | Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democrats · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism
6 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy
3 src Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration
3 src Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · House Un-American Activities Committee · Department of Justice · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1944-12-18 | Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Frank Murphy · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1942-12-21 | Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment
3 src Department of Justice · Truman Committee · Francis Biddle | | confirmed |
| 1942-03-26 | Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason
3 src Harry Truman · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1940-06-28 | Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution
3 src U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1920-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
3 src Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1920-01-02 | Palmer Raids Escalate with Coordinated Mass Arrests Across 33 Cities
5 src A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1919-08-01 | Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1917-06-15 | Wilson-Era Wartime Executive Architecture: Espionage Act, War Powers Statutes Build Permanent Emergency-Authority Template
3 src Woodrow Wilson · Herbert Hoover · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice |
| reported |
| 1908-07-26 | Bonaparte Creates Bureau of Investigation Inside DOJ, Bypassing Congressional Opposition
3 src Theodore Roosevelt · Department of Justice · Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |