| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-12 | Halliburton Moves CEO and Corporate Headquarters to Dubai for Tax Advantages and Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Weeks Before Completing KBR Spin-Off
3 src Halliburton · Dick Cheney · Patrick Leahy |
| 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 |
| 2007-03-06 | Scooter Libby Convicted on Four Counts in CIA Leak Case
3 src Lewis 'Scooter' Libby · Patrick Fitzgerald · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-01 | Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer Organize White Nationalist Speaker at Duke University
3 src Stephen Miller |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | ALEC Launches 'Rich States, Poor States' Report with Arthur Laffer - Annual Corporate Tax Competition Manifesto to Drive Interstate Race-to-Bottom
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Arthur Laffer · Stephen Moore · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement
3 src Cellebrite |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | Israel Passes Defense Export Control Law, Creating Framework That Enables Pegasus as Diplomatic Weapon
3 src Benjamin Netanyahu · NSO Group |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies
2 src Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-31 | New Century Financial Conceals Massive Early Payment Defaults Through Accounting Fraud in 2006
2 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Rating agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup
3 src Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons
3 src Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-01 | Subprime Mortgage Delinquencies Surge to 13%, Nearly Double Mid-2005 Rates, as Crisis Accelerates
3 src Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest
3 src George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-29 | Federal Regulators Issue Weakened Mortgage Guidance After Year of Industry Lobbying, Ignoring Warnings
4 src Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Office of Thrift Supervision · +3 |
| 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 |
| 2006-09-06 | Bush Publicly Acknowledges CIA Secret Prisons for First Time, Transfers Detainees to Guantanamo
4 src George W. Bush · Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-01 | DHS awards HBGary, Inc. $100,000 SBIR Phase I contract for botnet detection — the upstream R&D seed of the Team Themis pipeline
2 src Greg Hoglund · DHS Science and Technology Directorate | | confirmed |
| 2006-07-27 | Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: 25-Year Extension Passes with Bipartisan Supermajority Before Conservative Legal Assault
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · John Lewis · John Conyers |
| confirmed |
| 2006-07-24 | ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight
3 src George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · David Addington · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-07-05 | Ken Lay Dies Before Sentencing, Conviction Later Vacated
3 src Kenneth Lay |
| confirmed |
| 2006-07-01 | Housing Bubble Peaks as Predatory Subprime Lending Reaches Maximum, Setting Stage for Collapse
3 src Countrywide Financial · Washington Mutual · Federal Reserve · Rating agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2006-06-07 | Model Ruslana Korshunova, 18, flies to Epstein's island two years before suspicious death
4 src Jeffrey Epstein | | confirmed |
| 2006-06-01 | Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to 5.25%, Triggering Payment Shock for Subprime Borrowers
2 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke |
| 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 |
| 2006-05-18 | Competitive Enterprise Institute Launches "CO2 is Life" Advertising Campaign
4 src Competitive Enterprise Institute · ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-08 | Michael Hayden Nominated as CIA Director Despite NSA Surveillance Controversy
3 src Michael Hayden · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · National Security Agency · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-01 | Magnetar Capital Launches $30 Billion CDO Strategy, Betting Against Housing While Encouraging Investor Purchases
3 src JPMorgan Chase · Investment banks | | confirmed |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure
4 src Dubai Ports World · Dennis Hastert · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2006-03-01 | FBI Infiltrates Orange County Mosques with Informant in Dragnet Surveillance
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal
3 src George W. Bush · Dubai Ports World · UAE · Republican Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-29 | NSA Cancels Trailblazer Program After SAIC Wastes Over $1 Billion on Failed Surveillance System
3 src National Security Agency · Michael Hayden |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-24 | KBR (Halliburton Subsidiary) Awarded $385M DHS/ICE Contingency Contract for Emergency Immigrant Detention Facilities
6 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Dick Cheney · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-23 | Ameriquest Agrees to $325 Million Settlement for Predatory Lending Practices with 49 States
3 src State Attorneys General |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tom DeLay · U.S. Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Countrywide Begins Process to Switch to Office of Thrift Supervision for Lighter Regulation
3 src Countrywide Financial · Office of Thrift Supervision · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | IndyMac and WaMu Drive Option ARM Mortgages to 42% of Adjustable-Rate Market in 2006
3 src Washington Mutual · Countrywide Financial · Office of Thrift Supervision |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Palantir Wins First Major Contract with Joint IED Defeat Organization for Iraq and Afghanistan
2 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Synthetic CDO Issuance Explodes to $61 Billion in 2006, Amplifying Housing Market Risk Exponentially
3 src Goldman Sachs · Deutsche Bank · Morgan Stanley · JPMorgan Chase · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
5 src James Risen · New York Times · George W. Bush · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2005-12-15 | Coast Guard Identifies Critical Intelligence Gaps in Dubai Ports World Deal
3 src U.S. Coast Guard · Dubai Ports World · UAE · Susan Collins |
| confirmed |
| 2005-12-15 | NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice Reports Illegal Domestic Surveillance
3 src National Security Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee · James Risen · New York Times · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-28 | Rep. Duke Cunningham Pleads Guilty to $2.4 Million Bribery Scheme
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-16 | Energy Committee Hearings Expose Oil Industry Climate Denial Campaign and Regulatory Capture
3 src House Energy and Commerce Committee · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-16 | Oil Executives Deny Task Force Participation Despite Documentary Evidence
3 src ExxonMobil · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · Shell Oil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-09 | CIA Destroys 92 Torture Interrogation Videotapes to Conceal Evidence
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Gina Haspel · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-08 | Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban
4 src Dick Cheney · John McCain · Porter Goss · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-07 | Harry Markopolos Submits 'The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud' to SEC, Agency Ignores Detailed Evidence for Third Time
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-02 | Washington Post Reveals CIA's Secret Prison Network in Eastern Europe
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman
3 src Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2005-10-15 | Dubai Ports World Initiates Controversial CFIUS Review for US Port Management Acquisition
3 src Dubai Ports World · U.S. Coast Guard · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2005-09-28 | House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted for Money Laundering and Conspiracy
3 src Tom DeLay |
| confirmed |
| 2005-08-29 | Hurricane Katrina Enables .4B No-Bid Disaster Capitalism Takeover
3 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Heritage Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2005-08-25 | Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters
3 src Hans von Spakovsky · Georgia Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2005-08-11 | Jack Abramoff Indicted for Wire Fraud in SunCruz Casinos Purchase
3 src Jack Abramoff | | confirmed |
| 2005-08-08 | Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review
3 src Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-08-03 | FBI Finds $90,000 in Cash Hidden in Rep. William Jefferson's Freezer
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-28 | KBR Employee Jamie Leigh Jones Alleges Gang Rape in Iraq, Exposes Systematic Use of Mandatory Arbitration to Shield Contractor Accountability
3 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · State Department · Al Franken |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
3 src Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt
3 src Bain Capital · KKR |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-30 | Investigation Reveals $15M in Lobbyist-Funded Congressional Travel and Fact-Finding Junkets
3 src Tom DeLay · Jack Abramoff |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-15 | FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program
3 src Federal Aviation Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower
3 src ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-03 | L-3 Communications Acquires Titan Corporation for $2.65 Billion, Absorbing Abu Ghraib Contractor
3 src Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2005-05-23 | Trump Launches "Trump University" Real Estate Seminars Without Academic License or Accreditation
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2005-05-10 | Bradbury OLC Memos Reconstruct CIA Interrogation Authorization Post-Goldsmith Withdrawal — Three May 2005 Memos Re-authorize Waterboarding
6 src Alberto Gonzales · David Addington · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-04-20 | Bankruptcy Act Makes Private Student Loans Non-Dischargeable - Weaponizing Law Against Students
3 src George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2005-04-20 | Two Decades of Bankruptcy Weaponization: Students Crushed While Corporations Shield Billions (2005-2024)
3 src Corinthian Colleges · University of Phoenix · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-04-11 | Trump Admits to Entering Pageant Dressing Rooms on Howard Stern
3 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists
3 src Public Citizen · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2005-03-14 | Tom Daschle Joins Private Equity Firm and Lobbying After Senate Majority Leadership
3 src Tom Daschle |
| confirmed |
| 2005-03-01 | Palm Beach police investigation begins after parent reports $300 payment to 14-year-old
3 src Jeffrey Epstein | | confirmed |
| 2005-01-15 | John Negroponte Becomes First Director of National Intelligence
3 src George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-07 | Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda
3 src U.S. Department of Education |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-03 | Dick Gephardt Founds Lobbying Firm After 28 Years as House Democratic Leader
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Approves 'Great Schools Tax Credit' Model - Launches Systematic Education Privatization Campaign
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · DeVos family · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Models Achieve Nationwide Adoption, Guaranteeing Private Prison Profits
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | CIA's In-Q-Tel Makes Strategic Investment in Palantir Technologies
2 src In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Palantir Technologies |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | Private Equity Assets Under Management Reach $1 Trillion, Enabling Systematic Extraction Across Economy
3 src Blackstone · KKR · Bain Capital |
| confirmed |
| 2004-12-17 | Intelligence Reform Act Creates DNI, Accelerates Contractor Dependence
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
| confirmed |
| 2004-12-15 | Billy Tauzin Joins PhRMA as CEO After Shepherding $200B Medicare Drug Bill
3 src Billy Tauzin · PhRMA |
| confirmed |
| 2004-12-13 | Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Acquisition for $10.3 Billion After Defeating Antitrust Challenge
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-30 | Trump Outbids Epstein for Palm Beach Mansion, Ending Friendship
3 src Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Dmitry Rybolovlev |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-21 | Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Removed as CEO
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-18 | FDA Whistleblower David Graham Testifies on Vioxx Cover-up Before Senate
4 src Food and Drug Administration · Merck · U.S. Senate Finance Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-02 | Diebold Voting Machine Irregularities in Ohio 2004 Presidential Election
4 src John Conyers |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-02 | Massey Energy CEO Spends $3 Million to Elect Judge in Case Against His Company
11 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-02 | Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc
2 src George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2004-10-27 | Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth
3 src Google · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2004-09-30 | Merck Withdraws Vioxx After Concealing Heart Attack Risk, FDA Failure Causes Estimated 28,000-55,000 Deaths
3 src Merck · Food and Drug Administration | | confirmed |
| 2004-08-24 | CIA Awards Blackwater Classified Intelligence Contracts, Creating Private Paramilitary-Intelligence Capability
3 src Blackwater · Erik Prince · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto
4 src Google · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt |
| confirmed |
| 2004-08-10 | Porter Goss Begins Systematic Purge of CIA Analysts
3 src Porter Goss |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-22 | Koch Network Restructures: CSE Splits into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity
3 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Dick Armey · FreedomWorks · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-11 | CIA Director George Tenet Departs After Iraq Intelligence Failures, Joins Investment Bank and Intelligence Company Boards
5 src George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel |
| 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 |
| 2004-07-01 | Kroll Associates sold to Marsh & McLennan for $1.9 billion
3 src Kroll Associates · Jules Kroll |
| confirmed |