2010s
The 2010s contain 832 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-18 | Mueller Report Released - 448 Pages Documenting Russian Interference and Obstruction Episodes Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · William Barr · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-18 | Trump Administration Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight, Systematically Accelerating WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · White House Counsel Office · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-16 | Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Refuses Congressional Demand for Trump Tax Returns Steven Mnuchin · U.S. Treasury Department · Richard Neal · House Ways and Means Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-16 | Trump Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution to End U.S. Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Protecting MBS After Khashoggi Murder Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · U.S. Congress · Saudi Arabia government | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-15 | Russian Oligarch-Linked Rusal Invests $200 Million in Kentucky Braidy Plant After McConnell Blocks Sanctions Rusal · Oleg Deripaska · En+ Group · Braidy Industries · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-11 | Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Confirmed Despite Extensive Conflicts from Oil and Gas Lobbying Career David Bernhardt · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | HUD Inspector General Finds Ben Carson Violated Ethics Rules by Involving Son in Official Business Ben Carson · Ben Carson Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | Trump Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · John Bolton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-24 | Attorney General Barr Releases Misleading 4-Page Summary of Mueller Report William Barr · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · Rod Rosenstein | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-15 | Christchurch Mosque Massacre: 8chan-Radicalized Terrorist Kills 51, Live-Streams Attack Brenton Tarrant · 8chan | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-13 | FAA Finally Grounds 737 MAX After 51 Other Countries Act First, Exposing Regulatory Capture Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell · European Union Aviation Safety Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-12 | Operation Varsity Blues indicts 50 in largest college admissions fraud scheme Rick Singer · Lori Loughlin · Felicity Huffman · U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-10 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crashes Due to MCAS Malfunction, Killing All 157 Aboard Ethiopian Airlines · Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · MCAS system · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-07 | Paul Manafort Sentenced to Combined 7.5 Years in Federal Prison, Longest Mueller Investigation Sentence Paul Manafort · Donald Trump · Judge T.S. Ellis III · Judge Amy Berman Jackson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-05 | During Sprint merger review, T-Mobile executives spent ~$195,000 at Trump's D.C. hotel T-Mobile US · Sprint · Trump International Hotel Washington · Federal Communications Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-01 | McKinsey Managing Director Says Firm Would 'Walk' from Murderer Client, Then Increases Saudi Revenue Kevin Sneader · McKinsey & Company · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-27 | North Carolina Board Voids Election After Republican Operative's Ballot Harvesting Scheme Mark Harris · McCrae Dowless · Dan McCready · North Carolina State Board of Elections | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-21 | Federal Judge Rules Epstein Plea Deal Violated Crime Victims' Rights Act Kenneth Marra · Bradley Edwards · Paul Cassell · Alexander Acosta · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-17 | YouTube Pedophile Ring Enabled by Recommendation Algorithm Exposed by Matt Watson YouTube · Google · Matt Watson (investigative YouTuber) · Pedophile networks · +4 | 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 | |
| 2019-02-05 | Trump Overrides 25+ Security Clearance Denials for Family and Allies Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Ivanka Trump · John Kelly · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-01 | Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group Announces Xinjiang Training Facility Amid Uyghur Detention Campaign Erik Prince · Frontier Services Group · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-18 | Dream Center Education Holdings Enters Receivership, Art Institutes Collapse Leaves Thousands Stranded, $16 Million in Student Aid Disappeared Dream Center Education Holdings · Art Institutes · Argosy University · South University · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-17 | HHS Inspector General Reveals Thousands More Children Separated Than Disclosed HHS Office of Inspector General · Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-15 | Pam Bondi Joins Ballard Partners as Lobbyist, Monetizing Government Connections Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Susie Wiles | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-10 | The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds Ring · Amazon · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Ginni Thomas Joins CNP Action Board - Supreme Court Spouse in Conservative Coordination Hub Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Council for National Policy · CNP Action | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | ICE uses 230+ contracted detention facilities (2019); public lists undercount due to varied custody arrangements Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Vera Institute · Government investigators | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Intellexa Alliance Forms as "Star Alliance of Spyware" to Compete with NSO Tal Dilian · Intellexa · Nexa Technologies · WiSpear · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | NBER Study: Private Equity-Owned Nursing Homes Have 10% Higher Death Rates Due to Cost-Cutting Private equity firms · Nursing home residents · Healthcare workers | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Noem uses state aircraft for political events violating state law Kristi Noem · National Rifle Association · Republican Jewish Coalition | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Peter Thiel Backs J.D. Vance's $93 Million Narya Capital Venture Fund J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · narya-capital · Marc Andreessen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | State Corporate Tax Rates Decline 33% Over Three Decades - ALEC's Interstate Race-to-Bottom Costs States $43-57 Billion Annually in Lost Revenue American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Corporate Lobby · Good Jobs First · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Vance Returns to Ohio, Launches Narya Capital J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Eric Schmidt · Marc Andreessen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-18 | Judge Sullivan's Harsh Questioning of Flynn at Sentencing - "Arguably You Sold Your Country Out" Michael Flynn · Judge Emmet Sullivan · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-18 | New York Judge Orders Trump Foundation Dissolved, Assets Distributed to Charities Saliann Scarpulla · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Barbara Underwood | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-18 | Trump Foundation Admits to Misusing Charity Funds, Agrees to Dissolve Under Court Supervision Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Barbara Underwood · New York Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Resigns Facing 18 Federal Investigations Ryan Zinke · Donald Trump · Department of Interior · David Bernhardt | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments McKinsey & Company · Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · The New York Times · +5 | 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 | |
| 2018-12-10 | University of Phoenix Enrollment Collapses 80% After Fraud Investigations - $191M FTC Settlement University of Phoenix · Apollo Education Group · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-06 | NYPD Begins Secret Trial of Clearview AI Facial Recognition Technology NYPD · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-01 | Investigation Reveals McKinsey Advised Both Puerto Rico Fiscal Board and Hedge Fund Creditors Through Whitebox Advisors Holding $140 Million in Bonds McKinsey & Company · MIO Partners · Whitebox Advisors · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-29 | Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying to Congress About Trump Tower Moscow Timeline Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Dmitry Peskov · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-27 | Georgia Purges 1.4 Million Voters Under Exact Match System Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Georgia Secretary of State Office · Common Cause Georgia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-20 | Trump Defends Saudi Arabia Despite CIA High-Confidence Finding MBS Ordered Khashoggi Murder - "Maybe He Did, Maybe He Didn't" Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Central Intelligence Agency · King Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-15 | Mexican Journalists Targeted with Pegasus Days After Colleague's Assassination Javier Valdez Cárdenas · Andrés Villarreal · Ismael Bojórquez · Citizen Lab · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-13 | Amazon Selects NYC and Arlington for HQ2—Extracting at Least $4.6 Billion in Subsidies Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Andrew Cuomo · Bill de Blasio · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Facebook Admits Platform Used to "Incite Offline Violence" in Myanmar Genocide, Implements No Systemic Changes Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations · Rohingya Muslims · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Florida Voters Approve Amendment 4 Restoring Voting Rights to 1.4 Million with Felony Convictions Florida voters · Desmond Meade · Florida Rights Restoration Coalition | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Michigan Voters Approve Independent Redistricting Commission, Ending Partisan Gerrymandering Voters Not Politicians · Michigan voters | 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 | |
| 2018-10-29 | Lion Air Flight 610 Crashes Due to Boeing 737 MAX MCAS System Malfunction Lion Air · Boeing · MCAS system · 189 victims · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-27 | Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre: Gab-Radicalized Gunman Kills 11 in Deadliest Antisemitic Attack in US History Robert Bowers · HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) · Tree of Life Congregation | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-23 | Trump Calls Saudi Khashoggi Explanation "Worst Cover-Up Ever" But Signals He Won't Hold MBS Accountable Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Mike Pompeo · Saudi Arabia government | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-22 | Trump Adopts 'Invasion' Rhetoric Mainstreaming Great Replacement Theory Before Midterms Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-21 | McKinsey Claims It's 'Horrified' After Saudi Dissident Report Made Public McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · Saudi Arabia · Omar Abdulaziz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition AbbVie · Amgen · Samsung Bioepis · Mylan · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | China Approves 16 Trademarks for Ivanka Trump During Trade War Ivanka Trump · Chinese Government · China National Intellectual Property Administration · White House · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-11 | Trump Vows to Continue Raytheon, Lockheed Arms Sales Despite Khashoggi Murder and Yemen Atrocities Donald Trump · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-06 | Senate Confirms Kavanaugh 50-48 Despite Sexual Assault Allegations and Severely Limited FBI Investigation Brett Kavanaugh · Susan Collins · Joe Manchin · Lisa Murkowski · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 But Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Options Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Jamal Khashoggi Murdered Inside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by 15-Member Hit Squad Sent by Crown Prince MBS Jamal Khashoggi · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Turkish intelligence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Saudi Crown Prince's Entourage Books Trump Hotel During Khashoggi Crisis Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Trump International Hotel New York · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-01 | Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Refuses to Recuse From Overseeing His Own Governor Election Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Brad Raffensperger | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-01 | Operation Faithful Patriot deploys 5,200 active-duty troops to border 101st Airborne Division · Military police battalions · Combat engineers · Pentagon · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-27 | Christine Blasey Ford Delivers Credible, Emotional Testimony Alleging Kavanaugh Sexual Assault, He Responds with Partisan Rant Christine Blasey Ford · Brett Kavanaugh · Lindsey Graham · Chuck Grassley · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-26 | Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video Leaked - Exposes Systematic Union Suppression Program Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods | 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 | |
| 2018-09-12 | CMS Administrator Seema Verma Spent $5 Million in Taxpayer Funds on GOP Consultants to Boost Personal Profile Seema Verma · Frank Pallone | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-06 | McKinsey Holds Lavish Corporate Retreat in Kashgar Four Miles from Uyghur Concentration Camps McKinsey & Company · China · Xinjiang · Uyghurs | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-05 | Bernie Sanders Introduces "Stop BEZOS Act" Targeting Amazon Wages Bernie Sanders · Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ro Khanna | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-21 | Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Campaign Finance Violations, Implicates Trump as "Individual-1" Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Stormy Daniels · Karen McDougal | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-21 | Rep. Duncan Hunter and Wife Indicted for $250,000 Campaign Finance Fraud Duncan Hunter · Margaret Hunter | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-14 | Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Invests $15M in Carbyne, Connecting Epstein-Barak Surveillance Network to Erik Prince Operations Peter Thiel · Erik Prince · Lital Leshem · Jeffrey Epstein · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-09 | US-Made Bomb Kills 40 Children on School Bus in Yemen, Triggering International Outrage Lockheed Martin · Raytheon · General Dynamics · Saudi Arabia · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-08 | Rep. Chris Collins Indicted for Insider Trading Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Stephen Zarsky · Innate Immunotherapeutics | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Kushner Receives $1.28B Qatar Bailout After Blockade Reversal Jared Kushner · Qatar Investment Authority · Brookfield Property Partners · Charles Kushner · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Qatar-Linked Brookfield Bails Out Kushner's 666 Fifth Avenue for $1.28 Billion Jared Kushner · Kushner Companies · Brookfield Asset Management · Qatar Investment Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-02 | SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration Securities and Exchange Commission · ExxonMobil · Donald Trump · Rex Tillerson | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | 200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tech Workers Coalition · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Guo Wengui Begins Funding Steve Bannon Operations Guo Wengui · Miles Guo · Steve Bannon · Guo Media · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Trump Administration Expands 'Junk Insurance' Short-Term Plans to Undermine ACA Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · U.S. Department of Labor · Department of the Treasury · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-26 | ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-20 | Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak Charged in 1MDB Scandal Najib Razak · Jho Low · Rosmah Mansor · Tim Leissner · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-19 | Senate Votes 98-0 to Reject Putin's Request to Interrogate U.S. Officials in Bipartisan Rebuke of Trump Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Chuck Schumer · Michael McFaul · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-18 | EU Fines Google Record €4.34B for Android Monopoly Abuse Through Bundling Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-17 | Trump Claims He Misspoke "Would" Instead of "Wouldn't" in Implausible Helsinki Walkback Attempt Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Refers Sinclair-Tribune Merger to Hearing Over "Serious Concerns" About Sham Divestitures and Misrepresentation Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Sinclair Broadcast Group · Tribune Media · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | Trump Sides with Putin Over U.S. Intelligence at Helsinki Summit, Attacks Own Agencies Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Dan Coats · John Brennan · +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 | |
| 2018-07-13 | HHS Inspector General Finds Tom Price Violated Federal Travel Rules, Wasted $341,000 on Private Jets Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Tom Price · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-13 | Mueller Indicts 12 GRU Officers for Hacking DNC and Democratic Campaign Infrastructure Robert Mueller · Russian Intelligence (GRU) · Russian Military Intelligence · Democratic National Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-12 | Tech Workers Coalition: Establishing Digital Resistance Infrastructure Tech Workers Coalition · Silicon Valley Employees · Digital Rights Advocates · Rachel Melendes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-09 | Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Becomes Acting EPA Administrator After Pruitt Resignation Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Faegre Baker Daniels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-06 | McKinsey Agrees to Repay $74 Million to South Africa's Eskom After State Capture Scandal McKinsey & Company · Eskom · South Africa · Gupta Family · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-05 | EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid 14 Federal Investigations Scott Pruitt · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Andrew Wheeler | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-01 | IRS Launches Virtual Currency Compliance Campaign Using Chainalysis Internal Revenue Service · Chainalysis · IRS Criminal Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-27 | Janus v. AFSCME - Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Sector Union Fees, Targeting Teachers' Unions Justice Samuel Alito · Justice Neil Gorsuch · National Right to Work Foundation · State Policy Network · +4 | confirmed |