2010s
The 2010s contain 832 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-20 | Goldman Sachs Alumni Take Control of Trump Economic Policy Gary Cohn · Steven Mnuchin · Goldman Sachs · Dina Powell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Heritage Foundation Staffs Trump Admin, Implements 64% of Agenda 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 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 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 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 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Navient Corporation · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | DeVos Confirmation Hearing Reveals Investments in Student Debt Collection - Ethics Review Incomplete Betsy DeVos · Performant Financial · RDV Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence After Brutal Imprisonment 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 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 Erik Prince · Kirill Dmitriev · George Nader · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Rex Tillerson Confirmation Hearing Reveals ExxonMobil-Russia Conflicts and Sanctions Violations 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 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%+ 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 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 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 Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Clearview AI Founded to Build Mass Facial Recognition Database Hoan Ton-That · Richard Schwartz · Peter Thiel · Clearview AI | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Cytrox Established in North Macedonia as NSO Competitor 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 Essential Consultants LLC · Columbus Nova · Viktor Vekselberg · Novartis · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange 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 Cellebrite | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | ICE hiring collapses despite 10,000 agent expansion order 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 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 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 Suleyman Kerimov (Russian Federation Council member) · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-13 | VEB Chairman Gorkov meets Kushner at Trump Tower 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 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 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 Saudi Arabia government · Trump International Hotel Washington · Qorvis/MSLGroup (Saudi lobbyists) · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-30 | Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-20 | Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures 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 Richard Spencer · National Policy Institute | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-18 | Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Cases for $25 Million, 10 Days After Election Victory Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Eric Schneiderman | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-09 | Private Prison Stocks Surge After Trump Election Victory, CoreCivic Up 43% and GEO Group Up 21% in Single Day Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Wall Street investors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-04 | National Enquirer Shreds Trump Documents from Safe After WSJ Inquiry Dylan Howard · David Pecker · National Enquirer/AMI · Wall Street Journal · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-01 | Boeing Obtains FAA Approval to Conceal MCAS System from Pilot Manuals and Training 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 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 Facebook · ProPublica · HUD · National Fair Housing Alliance | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-27 | Cohen Uses Essential Consultants to Pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 Hush Money 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 Ammon Bundy · Ryan Bundy · Jeff Banta · Shawna Cox · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-17 | Cohen Creates Essential Consultants LLC for Stormy Daniels Payment Michael Cohen · Essential Consultants LLC · Stormy Daniels · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-12 | Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation 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 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 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 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 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 Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-08 | Saudi Coalition Uses US-Made Bombs to Kill 155 at Yemen Funeral Hall in Sanaa Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-07 | Republicans Withdraw Support for Trump After Access Hollywood Tape Paul Ryan · Reince Priebus · Jason Chaffetz · John McCain · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-07 | Washington Post Releases Access Hollywood Tape Donald Trump · Billy Bush · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-03 | New York Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation to Immediately Cease Fundraising 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 Council of Economic Advisers · Workers · Dominant firms | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-01 | Rybolovlev demolishes Trump's former Palm Beach mansion; property later subdivided and sold Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-27 | Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-20 | CEO Stumpf Testifies Before Senate, Elizabeth Warren Demands Resignation 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 Oliver Stone · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-13 | Washington Post Investigation Reveals Trump Foundation Used for Self-Dealing and Business Settlements 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 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 Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Human Rights Watch | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-08 | Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating 2 Million Fake Accounts 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 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 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 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 Facebook · Brad Parscale · Trump Campaign · Mark Zuckerberg · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-31 | Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation 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 Mylan · Heather Bresch · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-21 | Stone tweets "Podesta's time in the barrel" 47 days before WikiLeaks 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 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 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 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 Paul Manafort · Viktor Yanukovych · Oleg Deripaska · Trump Campaign · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-10 | UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware Ahmed Mansoor · Citizen Lab · NSO Group · UAE Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-02 | Manafort shares internal polling data with Russian intelligence Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Russian Intelligence Services | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-01 | AMI Pays Karen McDougal $150,000 to Kill Story of Trump Affair 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 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 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 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 Donald Trump · Russian GRU · Hillary Clinton · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-22 | WikiLeaks Releases 20,000 Stolen DNC Emails Three Days Before Democratic Convention WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Russian GRU · Democratic National Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-21 | Peter Thiel Delivers Prime-Time RNC Speech Supporting Trump Peter Thiel · Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-01 | Harvey Weinstein Hires Black Cube to Suppress Rose McGowan Allegations Harvey Weinstein · Black Cube · Rose McGowan · Stella Penn Pechanac/Diana Filip · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-28 | Hillbilly Elegy Published - Vance as Trump Critic J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Charlie Rose · ABC News | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-17 | Kentucky Governor Bevin Seizes Control of Pension Board Through Executive Order Matt Bevin · Kentucky Retirement Systems · Thomas K. Elliott · Kentucky Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-15 | Guccifer 2.0 (Russian GRU) Begins Leaking Stolen DNC Emails Hours After Hack Exposure Russian GRU · Guccifer 2.0 · Democratic National Committee · WikiLeaks · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-12 | Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-09 | Trump Jr. Accepts Meeting Explicitly Framed as "Russia and Its Government's Support" Donald Trump Jr. · Jared Kushner · Paul Manafort · Natalia Veselnitskaya · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-02 | Trump Attacks Federal Judge Curiel as "Mexican" Despite Indiana Birth, Paul Ryan Calls It "Textbook Racism" Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Paul Ryan | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-01 | Paul Manafort Shares Trump Campaign Data with Russian Intelligence Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Russian Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-01 | Trump University Victims Testify to Losing Retirement Savings, Disability Income to Fraudulent Scheme Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg · George Hanus | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-31 | Judge Unseals Trump University Documents Revealing Predatory Sales Playbook Targeting Vulnerable Consumers Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-20 | Russian Official Alexander Torshin Meets Donald Trump Jr. at NRA Convention After Requesting Trump Meeting Alexander Torshin · Maria Butina · Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-18 | Trump Promises All Supreme Court Picks Will Come From Federalist Society Donald Trump · Leonard Leo · Don McGahn · Neil Gorsuch · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-17 | CNP's Secret 2014 Membership Directory Leaked - 413 Conservative Elite Exposed Southern Poverty Law Center · Steve Bannon · Kellyanne Conway · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-09 | Twitter Blocks Intelligence Agencies from Using Dataminr for Social Media Surveillance Twitter · Dataminr · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-01 | Paul Manafort Shares Trump Campaign Data with Russian Agent Konstantin Kilimnik Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Trump Campaign · Russian Intelligence (GRU) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-01 | Puerto Rico Defaults on $422 Million Bond Payment, Triggering Largest Municipal Debt Crisis in U.S. History Alejandro García Padilla · Puerto Rico Government Development Bank · Puerto Rico Government · Hedge Fund Creditors | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-01 | Roger Stone Meets Russian National Offering Clinton Dirt for $2 Million Roger Stone · Michael Caputo · henry-greenberg · Russian Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-27 | Dennis Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months, Judge Calls Him 'Serial Child Molester' Dennis Hastert · Thomas Durkin · Scott Cross | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-03 | Panama Papers Expose Global Offshore Financial Networks Mossack Fonseca · Vladimir Putin · Petro Poroshenko · Nawaz Sharif · +4 | confirmed |