Decade of record

2000s

The 2000s contain 393 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

393 events From Jan 1, 2000 To Dec 21, 2009 Open in filter view →
Activity over time Events per year
2000 · 33 events2001 · 34 events2002 · 75 events2003 · 37 events2004 · 37 events2005 · 40 events2006 · 31 events2007 · 26 events2008 · 43 events2009 · 37 events20002009
DateEventLanesStatus
2009-12-21Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President
Dr. Julie Gerberding · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck · Gardasil vaccine
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2009-12-14University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation
University of Phoenix · Apollo Group · Mary Hendow · Julie Albertson · +2
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2009-12-01Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law Drafted at ALEC Meeting with CCA Executives - Direct Quid Pro Quo for Immigrant Detention Profits
American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Russell Pearce · Jan Brewer · +3
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2009-11-17Climategate Email Hack Manufactures Controversy Before Copenhagen Summit
Climate Research Unit · University of East Anglia · Phil Jones · Michael Mann · +1
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2009-10-06Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity
Al Franken · Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · +2
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2009-09-129/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Demonstrates Koch Network Mobilization Power
FreedomWorks · Americans for Prosperity · Dick Armey · Brendan Steinhauser · +6
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2009-09-01James O'Keefe's Deceptively Edited ACORN Videos Trigger Destruction of Voter Registration Organization
James O'Keefe · Hannah Giles · ACORN
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2009-07-24Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms
President Barack Obama · Secretary of Education Arne Duncan · Bill Gates · Gates Foundation · +2
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2009-07-17ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election
American Legislative Exchange Council · Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force
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2009-07-01In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future
In-Q-Tel · Google Ventures · Recorded Future · Christopher Ahlberg
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2009-06-26Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill
Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5
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2009-06-08Wells Fargo Loan Officers Reveal "Ghetto Loans" and "Mud People" Targeting: Racial Predation in Subprime Lending Documented
Wells Fargo · NAACP · City of Baltimore
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2009-06-01Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise
Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin · Jim Messina · +2
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2009-05-20Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Shahed Hussain · James Cromitie · Department of Justice
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2009-05-01Russian Digital Sky Technologies Invests $200M in Facebook
Alisher Usmanov · Yuri Milner · Mark Zuckerberg · Digital Sky Technologies
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2009-04-16Obama Releases CIA Torture Memos But Promises No Prosecutions for Torturers
Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Central Intelligence Agency · John Yoo · +3
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2009-04-15Tax Day Tea Party Protests Organized by Koch Network Groups
Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · David Koch · Charles Koch · +3
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2009-04-13Peter Thiel Publishes Anti-Democracy Essay Declaring Freedom and Democracy Incompatible
Peter Thiel · Cato Institute
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2009-04-02Northrop Grumman Pays $325 Million for Decade of Defective Spy Satellite Parts
Northrop Grumman · TRW Inc. · Department of Justice · National Reconnaissance Office · +2
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2009-04-01FinCEN and OCC Assess Concurrent $5 Million Civil Money Penalties Against Doha Bank New York Branch for BSA Violations
FinCEN · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) · Doha Bank New York Branch · U.S. Department of the Treasury
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2009-03-10Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory
Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · AFL-CIO · +2
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2009-02-19Koch Network Prepares Tea Party Mobilization After Santelli Rant
Rick Santelli · David Koch · Charles Koch · Eric Odom · +2
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2009-02-19Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response
Rick Santelli · David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5
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2009-02-17SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings
Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Leroy King · Stanford International Bank · +1
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2009-02-17Trump Entertainment Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Resigns from Board
Donald Trump
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2009-02-15Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Enters Private Sector, Joins Chertoff Group and Corporate Boards
Michael Hayden · The Chertoff Group · Motorola Solutions · Michael Chertoff
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2009-02-13Blackwater Rebrands as Xe Services to Distance from Nisour Square Massacre and Iraq War Crimes
Erik Prince · Blackwater · Xe Services
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2009-02-02Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff Founds The Chertoff Group, Immediately Monetizing Homeland Security Expertise
Michael Chertoff · Chad Sweet · The Chertoff Group · Department of Homeland Security · +3
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2009-01-23Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush
Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · Leon Panetta
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2009-01-20Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud
Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Wall Street Banks · Lanny Breuer · +1
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2009-01-01Americans for Prosperity Organizational Profile: Koch Brothers' Astroturf Empire Manufacturing Fake Grassroots Movements
Americans for Prosperity · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Industries · +2
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2009-01-01Carl Icahn Partners with Andrew Beal in Trump Entertainment Resorts Bankruptcy Restructuring
Carl Icahn · Andrew Beal · Donald Trump · Trump Entertainment Resorts · +2
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2009-01-01CNP Member Ralph Reed Founds Faith and Freedom Coalition - Religious Right Coordination Expands
Ralph Reed · Council for National Policy · Faith and Freedom Coalition
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2009-01-01Dataminr Founded to Provide Real-Time Social Media Surveillance, Later Backed by CIA Venture Capital
Ted Bailey · Sam Hendel · Jeff Kinsey · In-Q-Tel · +1
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2009-01-01Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate
House Energy and Commerce Committee · Fred Upton · PhRMA · Pfizer · +1
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2009-01-01Harlan Crow Begins Paying Private School Tuition for Thomas's Grandnephew
Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Mark Martin · Hidden Lake Academy · +1
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2009-01-01LAPD's Joint Regional Intelligence Center Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance
Joint Regional Intelligence Center · Los Angeles Police Department · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2008-12-11Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years
Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission · Harry Markopolos
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2008-12-09Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested for Attempting to Sell Obama's Senate Seat
Rod Blagojevich · Barack Obama · Patrick Fitzgerald · Donald Trump
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2008-10-29Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave
Delta Air Lines · Northwest Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division
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2008-10-03Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight
George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +3
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2008-10-03Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions
Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4
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2008-10-03Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Creates $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to Bail Out Wall Street Banks with Minimal Oversight or Executive Accountability Requirements, Leading to Just One Criminal Prosecution Compared to 900+ in 1980s Savings & Loan Crisis
Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +6
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2008-10-03Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance
George W. Bush · Paul Wellstone · Pete Domenici · U.S. Department of Labor · +2
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2008-09-29Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money
Barney Frank · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street · TARP
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2008-09-19Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs
Henry Paulson · Lloyd Blankfein · Don Jester
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2008-09-16Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis
American International Group · Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +3
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2008-09-15Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic
Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3
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2008-09-15Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets
Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization
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2008-09-11Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers
Mark Ciavarella · Michael Conahan · PA Child Care · Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas · +2
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2008-09-09Iowa Attorney General Files Criminal Complaint Against Agriprocessors for 9,311 Child Labor Violations, Revealing Systematic Use of Minors as Young as 14 in Dangerous Meatpacking Operations with Harsh Chemicals and Power Equipment
Agriprocessors Inc. · Abraham Aaron Rubashkin · Sholom Rubashkin · Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller · +1
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2008-09-07Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Placed in Federal Conservatorship, $187 Billion Taxpayer Bailout
U.S. Treasury Department · Henry Paulson · Federal Housing Finance Agency · Fannie Mae · +3
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2008-09-04Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution
Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +5
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2008-09-01Sarah Palin's NAR Pastors Exposed: New Apostolic Reformation Theology Enters National Electoral Politics
Sarah Palin · Thomas Muthee · Mary Glazier · C. Peter Wagner
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2008-08-29Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors
Bush Administration · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · CACI · +3
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2008-08-18General Dynamics Pays $4 Million to Settle Fraud Charges for Defective Submarine and Aircraft Parts
General Dynamics · Benton J. Campbell · Defense Criminal Investigative Service · U.S. Navy
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2008-08-01FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Throttling BitTorrent Traffic in Historic 3-2 Vote on Net Neutrality
Federal Communications Commission · Comcast Corporation · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Kevin Martin
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2008-07-31Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor
Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · National Security Agency · +2
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2008-07-31FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional
FISA Court · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · Michael Hayden · +2
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2008-07-29Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Felony Corruption Charges
Ted Stevens · Bill Allen · Eric Holder
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2008-07-24Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis
Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · Clear Channel Communications · iHeartMedia · +2
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2008-07-16Trump sells Palm Beach 'Maison de L'Amitié' to Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95M
Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump · Trump Organization
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2008-07-09FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity
U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +3
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2008-07-01Bank 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
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2008-07-01Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer
Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo · Robin Arkley II
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2008-06-30Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein
Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · Kenneth Starr · +1
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2008-06-28Model Ruslana Korshunova dies in suspicious fall two years after Epstein island visit
Ruslana Korshunova · Jeffrey Epstein · Virginia Giuffre · Valentina Kutenkova
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2008-05-12ICE Conducts Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. History at Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors Plant, Arresting 389 Workers While Management Faces No Criminal Charges Despite Systematic Labor Law Violations and Exploitation
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Agriprocessors Inc. · Sholom Rubashkin · +1
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2008-05-08Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarm Over Intelligence Contractor Revolving Door, Requires Workforce Reporting
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Government Accountability Office · Department of Defense · Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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2008-05-06Tim Shorrock Publishes "Spies for Hire," First Comprehensive Account of Intelligence Outsourcing
Tim Shorrock · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · CACI International · +3
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2008-04-28Crawford v. Marion County: Supreme Court Upholds Strict Voter ID Laws Despite No Evidence of In-Person Fraud
U.S. Supreme Court · John Paul Stevens · Indiana Legislature · American Civil Liberties Union · +1
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2008-04-13Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly
Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · Pamela Jones Harbour (dissenting FTC Commissioner) · +1
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2008-03-20Sprint Nextel GPS Location Data Sharing with Law Enforcement
Sprint Nextel · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Law Enforcement Agencies
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2008-03-16Bear Stearns Collapse and Federal Reserve-Facilitated Fire Sale to JPMorgan with $29 Billion Taxpayer Guarantee Establishes 'Too Big to Fail' Precedent with Zero Criminal Prosecutions Despite Fraud-Driven Collapse
Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3
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2008-01-15Project Chanology: Anonymous Mobilizes Against Scientology, Proving Chan Culture Can Produce Real-World Action
Anonymous · Church of Scientology
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2008-01-02KBR's Faulty Electrical Work Kills Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, Part of Systematic Negligence Causing 18 Electrocution Deaths in Iraq with No Criminal Charges Despite Army Negligent Homicide Finding
Ryan Maseth · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · U.S. Department of Defense · +3
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2008-01-01Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development
Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1
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2008-01-01Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications
Palantir Technologies · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community
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2008-01-01Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed)
Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · US Intelligence · Department of Justice
reported
2008-01-01Shell companies spend $890M on Trump condos during financial crisis
Trump Organization · Anonymous shell companies · Delaware LLCs · British Virgin Islands corporations · +1
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2007-12-18Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law
Trent Lott · John Breaux · Breaux Lott Leadership Group · Patton Boggs
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2007-11-15Thomas Drake Reports NSA Trailblazer Program Waste and Constitutional Violations
Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · DOD Inspector General · Trailblazer Program · +3
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2007-11-02CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide
Gul Rahman · Central Intelligence Agency · Afghanistan
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2007-10-19Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking
Comcast Corporation · Associated Press · Electronic Frontier Foundation · TorrentFreak
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2007-10-02Erik Prince Testifies Before Congress Defending Blackwater Despite Evidence of 195 Shooting Incidents
Erik Prince · Blackwater · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Henry Waxman
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2007-10-01Trump Foundation Pays $258,000 for Six-Foot Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction
Donald Trump · Trump Foundation
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2007-09-16Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation
Blackwater Worldwide · Erik Prince · State Department · Central Intelligence Agency · +4
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2007-09-15Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door
U.S. Congress · K Street · Public Citizen
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2007-09-01FBI Inspector General Reports 35% Error Rate on Terror Watchlist
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice Inspector General · Terrorist Screening Center
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2007-08-27Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · Humana · +2
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2007-08-01Verizon's Deep Involvement in NSA Surveillance Programs
Bush Administration · National Security Agency · Verizon Communications
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2007-06-25DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression
Alberto Gonzales · Hans von Spakovsky · Bradley Schlozman · John Tanner · +1
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2007-05-23Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers
Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · Regent University · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
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2007-05-14ODNI Reveals 70% of Intelligence Budget Goes to Private Contractors
Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Tim Shorrock · Defense Intelligence Agency · Stephen Shaw
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2007-05-10Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding, $600M Fine, Zero Executives Jailed
Purdue Pharma · Michael Friedman · Howard R. Udell · Paul D. Goldenheim · +1
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2007-04-05Halliburton Completes Spin-Off of KBR to Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Fraud Investigations, and $2.7 Billion in Questioned Costs
Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · David Lesar · Dick Cheney · +1
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2007-04-02New Century Financial Bankruptcy Signals Start of Subprime Mortgage Crisis
New Century Financial · Brad Morrice · KPMG · Wall Street investment banks · +2
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2007-04-01FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion
Roger Vinson · FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · +1
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2007-03-12Halliburton Moves CEO and Corporate Headquarters to Dubai for Tax Advantages and Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Weeks Before Completing KBR Spin-Off
Halliburton · David Lesar · Dick Cheney · Patrick Leahy
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2007-03-09DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse
Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +2
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