2010s
The 2010s contain 858 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-03 | Trump Bodyguard Schiller + Trump Org Lawyer Garten Remove Medical Records from Bornstein Office — 'Raid' (per Bornstein)
7 src Harold Bornstein · Keith Schiller · Alan Garten · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-01 | McKinsey Redirected from Obama-Era ICE Reform to Trump Immigration Crackdown Consulting
6 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-01 | Rex Tillerson ExxonMobil CEO Becomes Secretary of State
3 src Rex Tillerson · ExxonMobil · Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-31 | Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money
3 src Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Donald Trump · Judicial Crisis Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-30 | Deutsche Bank fined $630 million for $10 billion Russian money laundering scheme
3 src Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · New York Department of Financial Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-30 | Executive Order 13771: Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
3 src Donald Trump · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · Public Citizen · Natural Resources Defense Council (plaintiff) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-30 | Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Sally Yates for Refusing to Defend Muslim Ban
2 src Donald Trump · Sally Yates · Dana Boente · Jeff Sessions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-29 | Trump Approves Botched Yemen Raid Killing Navy SEAL Owens and 23+ Civilians Including 8-Year-Old American Girl
2 src Donald Trump · William Owens · Nawar al-Awlaki · Carryn Owens | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-27 | Stephen Miller's Muslim Ban Creates Chaos at Airports Nationwide, Detains Legal Residents
3 src Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Steve Bannon | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-27 | Trump Demands Loyalty from FBI Director Comey at Private White House Dinner
2 src Donald Trump · James Comey · Michael Flynn · Sally Yates · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-27 | Trump Signs Muslim Ban (Executive Order 13769) Causing Airport Chaos and Mass Visa Revocations
3 src Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jim Mattis · State Department | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-24 | Trump Reverses Dakota Access Pipeline Denial, Orders Expedited Approval
4 src Donald Trump · Energy Transfer Partners · Kelcy Warren · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-23 | Trump Appoints Ajit Pai as FCC Chairman, Installing Former Verizon Lawyer to Regulate His Former Employer
3 src Donald Trump · Ajit Pai · Verizon Communications · Federal Communications Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-21 | Mar-a-Lago Membership Fee Doubles to $400K for Presidential Access
3 src Donald Trump · Mar-a-Lago · Chris Ruddy · Yujing Zhang · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Goldman Sachs Alumni Take Control of Trump Economic Policy
3 src Gary Cohn · Steven Mnuchin · Goldman Sachs · Dina Powell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Heritage Foundation Staffs Trump Admin, Implements 64% of Agenda
3 src Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · Mick Mulvaney · Scott Pruitt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | McKinsey's ICE Contract Redirected Toward Trump's Immigration Crackdown and Detention Cost-Cutting
18 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Records show at least ~$1.75–$2.0M in Secret Service spending at Trump properties during presidency
3 src U.S. Secret Service · DHS Office of Inspector General · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Trump Organization Receives 3.6M from Foreign Governments
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Saudi Arabia · China · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | CFPB Sues Navient for Systematically Cheating 12 Million Student Loan Borrowers Through Illegal Servicing Practices
4 src Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Navient Corporation · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | DeVos Confirmation Hearing Reveals Investments in Student Debt Collection - Ethics Review Incomplete
3 src Betsy DeVos · Performant Financial · RDV Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence After Brutal Imprisonment
3 src Barack Obama · Chelsea Manning · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-14 | 28 States Adopt Right-to-Work Laws, Documenting ALEC's Systematic Labor Suppression Success
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Erik Prince Establishes Kremlin Backchannel in Seychelles Meeting with Putin Ally
3 src Erik Prince · Kirill Dmitriev · George Nader · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Rex Tillerson Confirmation Hearing Reveals ExxonMobil-Russia Conflicts and Sanctions Violations
3 src Rex Tillerson · Donald Trump · Igor Sechin · Vladimir Putin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Trump Announces Sham Business Conflicts Plan: Retains Ownership While Sons Run Company - Rejects Divestment
2 src Donald Trump · Sheri Dillon · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-10 | Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Sued for Insulin Price-Fixing Conspiracy as Prices Rise 300%+
3 src Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · CVS Caremark · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-09 | Kentucky Becomes 27th Right-to-Work State in First Week of Session Using ALEC Model
3 src Matt Bevin · Kentucky Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · Kentucky House Committee | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-06 | Intelligence Community Assessment Concludes Putin Ordered Campaign to Influence 2016 Election
4 src Vladimir Putin · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax on $5.6 Billion Profit
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Charlie Kirk Initiates Friendship with JD Vance via Twitter DM, 2017 — Catholic-Adjacent Track Earliest Documented Contact
7 src Charlie Kirk · JD Vance | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Clearview AI Founded to Build Mass Facial Recognition Database
2 src Hoan Ton-That · Richard Schwartz · Peter Thiel · Clearview AI | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Cytrox Established in North Macedonia as NSO Competitor
4 src Ivo Malinkovski · Cytrox · Israel Aerospace Industries · North Macedonia Ministry of Interior · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Essential Consultants Receives Over $2M from Multiple Corporate Entities and Oligarch-Linked Firms
3 src Essential Consultants LLC · Columbus Nova · Viktor Vekselberg · Novartis · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange
4 src Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Publishers · Advertisers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Hacker Steals 900 GB of Data from Cellebrite, Exposing Customer Information and Technical Details
3 src Cellebrite | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | ICE hiring collapses despite 10,000 agent expansion order
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | ICE relies on a sprawling, mostly contracted network of ~200 detention facilities; oversight fragmented
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · CoreCivic · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Marshals Service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Pecker and Howard Remove Trump Documents from National Enquirer Safe Before Inauguration
3 src David Pecker · Dylan Howard · American Media Inc. · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Reports: Sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov held ~1% SpaceX stake via Heritage Trust
4 src Suleyman Kerimov (Russian Federation Council member) · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-13 | VEB Chairman Gorkov meets Kushner at Trump Tower
4 src Sergey Gorkov · Jared Kushner · Sergey Kislyak · VEB Bank | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-08 | Former Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh Joins Northrop Grumman Board After B-21 Bomber Contract Award
3 src Mark Welsh · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Wes Bush · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-01 | Banking Committee Chairman Shelby Advocates for Financial CHOICE Act to Gut Dodd-Frank
3 src Richard Shelby · U.S. Senate Banking Committee · Wall Street · Dodd-Frank Act | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-01 | Saudi Lobbyists Book 500 Rooms at Trump Hotel After Election
3 src Saudi Arabia government · Trump International Hotel Washington · Qorvis · MSLGroup · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-30 | Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement
3 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-20 | Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures
4 src Morton County Sheriff's Department · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Mandan Rural Fire Department · Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-19 | Richard Spencer's NPI Conference: "Hail Trump, Hail Our People" — The Alt-Right Goes Public
2 src Richard Spencer · National Policy Institute | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-18 | Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Cases for $25 Million, 10 Days After Election Victory
3 src Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Eric Schneiderman | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-15 | George Nader Begins Operating MBZ Back Channel to Trump Transition — Phase 2 Transfer Vector Activates
2 src George Nader · Mohammed bin Zayed · Erik Prince · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-09 | Private Prison Stocks Surge After Trump Election Victory, CoreCivic Up 43% and GEO Group Up 21% in Single Day
3 src Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Wall Street investors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-04 | National Enquirer Shreds Trump Documents from Safe After WSJ Inquiry
4 src Dylan Howard · David Pecker · National Enquirer · American Media Inc. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-01 | Boeing Obtains FAA Approval to Conceal MCAS System from Pilot Manuals and Training
3 src Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing pilots · Airline pilots · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-28 | Corrections Corporation of America Rebrands as CoreCivic After DOJ Phase-Out Announcement and Undercover Exposé
3 src Corrections Corporation of America · CoreCivic · Damon T. Hininger · Board of Directors | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-28 | ProPublica Exposes Facebook's Algorithmic Redlining: Digital Ad Platform Enables Housing Discrimination at Scale
3 src Facebook · ProPublica · HUD · National Fair Housing Alliance | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-27 | Cohen Uses Essential Consultants to Pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 Hush Money
4 src Michael Cohen · Stormy Daniels · Essential Consultants LLC · Keith Davidson (attorney) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-27 | Federal Jury Acquits Bundy Brothers and Five Others for Armed Occupation of Malheur Wildlife Refuge
8 src Ammon Bundy · Ryan Bundy · Jeff Banta · Shawna Cox · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-17 | Cohen Creates Essential Consultants LLC for Stormy Daniels Payment
4 src Michael Cohen · Essential Consultants LLC · Stormy Daniels · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-15 | Thiel Announces $1.25M Trump Donation — Eight Days After Scheduled Epstein-Churkin Lunch, Completing His Public Trump Commitment
3 src Peter Thiel · Make America Number 1 (super PAC) · Trump Victory (joint fundraising committee) | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-12 | Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation
3 src John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-10 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly
3 src Anheuser-Busch InBev · SABMiller · Molson Coors · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-10 | Carl Icahn Closes Trump Taj Mahal Casino After Prolonged Labor Dispute
3 src Carl Icahn · Donald Trump · Unite-HERE Local 54 union · Hard Rock International | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-09 | Trump Stages Pre-Debate Event with Bill Clinton Accusers
4 src Donald Trump · Paula Jones · Juanita Broaddrick · Kathleen Willey · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-08 | Rumors Surface of Apprentice Outtakes Showing Trump Using N-Word, Burnett Refuses Release
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-08 | Saudi Coalition Uses US-Made Bombs to Kill 155 at Yemen Funeral Hall in Sanaa
4 src Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-07 | Republicans Withdraw Support for Trump After Access Hollywood Tape
4 src Paul Ryan · Reince Priebus · Jason Chaffetz · John McCain · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-07 | Scheduled Epstein-Thiel-Churkin Meeting on Access Hollywood Day — Three Subjects, Two Now Dead, Documentary Record Shows Intent Not Execution; Thiel Endorses Trump Six Days Later
4 src Jeffrey Epstein · Peter Thiel · Vitaly Churkin · Cara Groff (Epstein scheduler) | confirmed-scheduling-uncertain-execution | |
| 2016-10-07 | Washington Post Releases Access Hollywood Tape
4 src Donald Trump · Billy Bush · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-03 | New York Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation to Immediately Cease Fundraising
3 src Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-01 | Council of Economic Advisers: Market Power Suppresses Wages, Contributes to $1+ Trillion in Lost Worker Income
3 src Council of Economic Advisers · Workers · Dominant firms | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-01 | Rybolovlev demolishes Trump's former Palm Beach mansion; property later subdivided and sold
3 src Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-27 | Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation
3 src John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-20 | CEO Stumpf Testifies Before Senate, Elizabeth Warren Demands Resignation
3 src John Stumpf · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate Banking Committee | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-16 | Oliver Stone's "Snowden" Film Brings NSA Whistleblower Story to Mainstream Audiences
3 src Oliver Stone · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-13 | Washington Post Investigation Reveals Trump Foundation Used for Self-Dealing and Business Settlements
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-12 | Indianapolis Star Investigation Exposes Nassar Abuse After FBI Sat on Allegations for 14 Months
3 src Indianapolis Star · Larry Nassar · Michigan State University Police · USA Gymnastics · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-10 | Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 31 Civilians at Yemen Water Drilling Site in Apparent War Crime
4 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Human Rights Watch | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-08 | Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating 2 Million Fake Accounts
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Richard Cordray | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-06 | ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees
4 src ITT Technical Institute · Kevin Modany · Daniel Fitzpatrick · U.S. Department of Education · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-03 | Standing Rock: Private Security and Police Attack Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protectors
3 src Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Energy Transfer Partners · Private Security Contractors · Morton County Sheriff's Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-01 | Apollo Global Management Acquires Constellis Holdings (Blackwater Successor) for Approximately $1 Billion
3 src Constellis Holdings · Apollo Global Management · Blackwater · Triple Canopy | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-01 | Facebook Embeds Staff in Trump Campaign Headquarters to Optimize Targeting for Voter Manipulation
4 src Facebook · Brad Parscale · Trump Campaign · Mark Zuckerberg · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-31 | Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation
4 src Tom Price · Chris Collins · Innate Immunotherapeutics · Zimmer Biomet · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress
3 src Mylan · Heather Bresch · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-21 | Stone tweets "Podesta's time in the barrel" 47 days before WikiLeaks
4 src Roger Stone · John Podesta · WikiLeaks | 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 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-17 | Bannon Named Trump Campaign CEO: The Gamergate-to-MAGA Pipeline Is Formalized
3 src Steve Bannon · Donald Trump · Kellyanne Conway · Robert Mercer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-15 | Raytheon Paveway Bomb Strikes MSF Hospital in Yemen, Killing 11 Including Healthcare Workers
4 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Doctors Without Borders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-14 | Black Ledger Reveals $12.7 Million in Secret Cash Payments to Trump Campaign Chair Manafort
4 src Paul Manafort · Viktor Yanukovych · Oleg Deripaska · Trump Campaign · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-10 | UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware
3 src Ahmed Mansoor · Citizen Lab · NSO Group · UAE Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-02 | Manafort shares internal polling data with Russian intelligence
4 src Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Russian Intelligence Services | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-01 | AMI Pays Karen McDougal $150,000 to Kill Story of Trump Affair
5 src Karen McDougal · American Media Inc. · David Pecker · Dylan Howard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-01 | Stone exchanges private messages with Russian GRU intelligence front Guccifer 2.0
4 src Roger Stone · Russian GRU intelligence · Guccifer 2.0 persona | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-29 | Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Law With "Surgical Precision" Ruling
4 src Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · Diana Gribbon Motz · North Carolina General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-29 | North Carolina Voter ID Law Struck Down for Targeting African Americans
3 src North Carolina General Assembly · Governor Pat McCrory · Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-27 | Trump Publicly Calls on Russia to Hack Clinton Emails, GRU Begins Targeting Clinton Servers Same Day
4 src Donald Trump · Russian GRU · Hillary Clinton · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-22 | WikiLeaks Releases 20,000 Stolen DNC Emails Three Days Before Democratic Convention
4 src WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Russian GRU · Democratic National Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-21 | Peter Thiel Delivers Prime-Time RNC Speech Supporting Trump
3 src Peter Thiel · Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-01 | Harvey Weinstein Hires Black Cube to Suppress Rose McGowan Allegations
4 src Harvey Weinstein · Black Cube · Rose McGowan · Stella Penn Pechanac · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis
5 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government | confirmed |