2010s
The 2010s contain 858 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-01 | Aleksandr Kogan creates 'This Is Your Digital Life' Facebook app; data later used by Cambridge Analytica
3 src Aleksandr Kogan · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica · Global Science Research | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Elliptic Founded as First Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Firm
2 src Elliptic · Adam Joyce · Tom Robinson · James Smith | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Former CIA Director David Petraeus Becomes Chairman of KKR Global Institute, Converting Intelligence Access Into Private Equity Value
3 src David Petraeus · KKR · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Justice O'Connor Expresses Regret Over Bush v. Gore Damage to Court Reputation
4 src Sandra Day O'Connor · U.S. Supreme Court · Bush v. Gore majority | confirmed | |
| 2013-05-21 | Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate
4 src Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-05-02 | Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman
4 src Tom Wheeler · Barack Obama · Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) · National Cable Television Association (NCTA) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-23 | CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program
4 src James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-15 | Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements
3 src Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-03 | Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure
4 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Jim DeMint · Richard Scaife · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-15 | Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Drone Costs Surge to $222 Million Per Aircraft
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Government Accountability Office | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-11 | Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters
4 src Texas Legislature · Republican Party · MALDEF | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-01 | Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · IBM | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-01 | Trump Foundation Paid $25,000 to Settle Trump University Legal Claim Using Charity Funds
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2013-02-20 | Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty to $750,000 Campaign Fund Fraud
3 src Jesse Jackson Jr. · Sandra Stevens Jackson | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-29 | DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis
4 src Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-14 | Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen
3 src Jeffrey Sterling · James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-02 | Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Making 82% of Bush Tax Cuts Permanent - 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Locks in $2.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts for Wealthy
5 src Barack Obama · Joe Biden · Mitch McConnell · John Boehner · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | 70% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors
4 src Intelligence Community · Private contractors · Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure
3 src Airlines · Telecom companies · Pharmaceutical companies · Agribusiness | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers
4 src Google · Online publishers · Advertisers · News Organizations | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Kansas Implements Kris Kobach's Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Law and Expands Interstate Crosscheck
4 src Kris Kobach · Kansas Secretary of State | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Lance Wallnau Popularizes "Seven Mountains Mandate": The Theology of Institutional Capture Goes Mainstream
3 src Lance Wallnau · C. Peter Wagner · Loren Cunningham · Bill Bright | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed
3 src HSBC · Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Mexican Drug Cartels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | Michigan Passes Right-to-Work in Lame Duck Surprise Using Verbatim ALEC Language
3 src Rick Snyder · American Legislative Exchange Council · Mackinac Center · Michigan GOP · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-05 | ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation
4 src Elizabeth Fowler · Johnson & Johnson · WellPoint · Max Baucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement
3 src BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Vidrine · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-06 | North Carolina Democrats Win Popular Vote But Lose 9 of 13 Congressional Seats
4 src Democratic Party · Republican Party · North Carolina General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-23 | John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program
3 src John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-22 | Climate Scientist Michael Mann Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Climate Denial Writers
4 src Michael Mann · Rand Simberg · Mark Steyn · Competitive Enterprise Institute · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-01 | ALEC's 'Electricity Freedom Act' Systematically Attacks State Renewable Energy Standards
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · James Taylor · Edison Electric Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-01 | Reddit's "Manosphere" Reaches Critical Mass: r/TheRedPill and r/MensRights Become Gateway to White Nationalist Radicalization
3 src Reddit Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations
4 src New England Compounding Center · Barry Cadden · Food and Drug Administration · Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-30 | Holder Closes Durham CIA Torture Investigations With No Charges — Completing the Obama-Era Ratchet Click on Torture Non-Prosecution
4 src Eric Holder · John Durham · Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-10 | FTC Finalizes 2012 Consent Decree Against Facebook — Privacy Order That Did Not Stop Surveillance-Advertising Substrate
5 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Jon Leibowitz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings
4 src Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple · Jon Leibowitz (FTC Chairman) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-07-30 | Senate Harkin Report Documents Massive Fraud and Abuse in For-Profit College Industry
3 src Senator Tom Harkin · Senate HELP Committee · University of Phoenix · Corinthian Colleges · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-07-25 | Congress Overrides Army to Fund $255 Million in Unwanted Abrams Tank Upgrades to Protect General Dynamics Ohio Plant
3 src General Dynamics · Rob Portman · Sherrod Brown · Ray Odierno · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-28 | Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · National Federation of Independent Business · Republican Governors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-07 | 38 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss
4 src Curt Schilling · 38 Studios LLC · Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation · Lincoln Chafee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-04 | Bureau Investigation Exposes CIA Double-Tap Drone Strikes Killing Rescuers and Mourners
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-01 | New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program
3 src NOPD · Palantir Technologies · Mitch Landrieu · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-29 | New York Times Exposes Obama's Kill List and Terror Tuesday Assassination Meetings
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · JSOC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-22 | Kansas Governor Brownback Signs ALEC-Laffer Tax Plan Eliminating Pass-Through Business Income Taxes - 'Kansas Experiment' Becomes Test Case for Supply-Side Economics
4 src Sam Brownback · Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · Kansas Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley
3 src Morgan Stanley · Facebook · William Galvin · James Gorman | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-04 | Heartland Institute Billboard Compares Climate Scientists to Unabomber
4 src Heartland Institute · Ted Kaczynski · James Sensenbrenner · State Farm · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-01 | Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-13 | Major Corporate Exodus from ALEC: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald's, Wendy's, Mars, and Intuit Drop Membership After Public Pressure Campaign
3 src Color of Change · Coca-Cola · PepsiCo · Kraft Foods · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-09 | Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor
5 src Facebook Inc. · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram Inc. · Kevin Systrom · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-06 | Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress
3 src Sergei Magnitsky · Bill Browder · Benjamin Cardin · John McCain · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law
3 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-09 | Greece Accepts Second Troika Bailout of €130 Billion with 53.5% Private Debt Haircut
3 src European Financial Stability Facility · International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank · Greek private creditors | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-02 | Iowa Governor Branstad Signs Nation's First Modern Ag-Gag Law Criminalizing Undercover Documentation of Agricultural Facility Abuses, Using ALEC Model Legislation to Shield Corporate Factory Farms from Whistleblower Investigations
4 src Iowa Legislature · Governor Terry Branstad · American Legislative Exchange Council · Agriculture Industry | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-01 | Trump Foundation Illegally Used $158,000 in Charity Funds to Settle Mar-a-Lago Legal Dispute
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Town of Palm Beach | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-27 | WikiLeaks Publishes 5 Million Stratfor Emails Revealing Private Intelligence Firm's Surveillance of Activists and Corporate Espionage
4 src WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Jeremy Hammond · Stratfor · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-09 | 25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Provides Banks Immunity for Minimal Payments
3 src Eric Holder · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-01 | Indiana Becomes 23rd Right-to-Work State Using ALEC Model Legislation
3 src Mitch Daniels · American Legislative Exchange Council · Indiana Republican Party · National Right to Work Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-15 | PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded
2 src George Mohler · Jeff Brantingham | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Amazon Implements Automated Worker Surveillance and Tracking System
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Epstein's Mac Address Book Contains Direct Contact for Crown Prince of Dubai (EFTA00507137) — Documents Phase 1 Personal-Tier Access
1 src Jeffrey Epstein · Crown Prince of Dubai (Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum) · Al Maktoum ruling family | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices Enables Facility Fee Price Gouging, Driving 53% Increase in Outpatient Costs
3 src Hospital corporations · Private equity firms | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Koch Network Spends $407 Million in Coordinated 2012 Election Campaign
3 src Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Leonard Leo Directs Hidden Payments to Ginni Thomas Through Kellyanne Conway, Instructs "No Mention of Ginni"
4 src Leonard Leo · Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Kellyanne Conway · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates
3 src Kaiser Permanente · Ascension Health · Tower Health · Bernard Tyson | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Patent Trolls Dominate U.S. Patent Litigation: 61% of All Cases, Systematic Small Business Extraction
3 src Santa Clara University School of Law · U.S. Government Accountability Office · Patent Assertion Entities | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Stock Buybacks Reach $500 Billion Annually as S&P 500 Companies Return 91% of Earnings to Shareholders
3 src S&P 500 companies · Shareholders · Workers | confirmed | |
| 2011-12-12 | Erik Prince Sells Xe Services (formerly Blackwater), Rebranded as Academi with John Ashcroft on Board
3 src Erik Prince · Xe Services · Academi · John Ashcroft · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2011-11-29 | Michigan Emergency Manager Seizes Control of Flint, Stripping Democratic Governance
3 src Rick Snyder · Michael Brown · Flint City Government | confirmed | |
| 2011-11-13 | STOCK Act Gains Momentum After 60 Minutes Exposes Congressional Insider Trading
3 src Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · Brian Baird | confirmed | |
| 2011-10-31 | MF Global Bankruptcy: $1.6 Billion in Customer Funds Missing Under Jon Corzine
3 src Jon Corzine | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-30 | U.S. Drone Strike Assassinates Anwar al-Awlaki, American Citizen, Without Trial
4 src Anwar al-Awlaki · Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · JSOC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-18 | Amazon Lehigh Valley Warehouse Heat Exhaustion Scandal Exposed
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-01 | FBI Surveils Occupy Wall Street as "Terrorist Threat" Before First Protest
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Occupy Wall Street · Joint Terrorism Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-01 | LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir
3 src LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Craig Uchida · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2011-08-30 | Boeing Abandons New Aircraft Design, Chooses to Re-Engine 737 to Compete with Airbus
4 src Boeing Board of Directors · Jim McNerney · American Airlines · Airbus · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-08-06 | Rick Perry's "The Response" Prayer Rally: 30,000 at Reliant Stadium as NAR Leaders Launch a Presidential Campaign
3 src Rick Perry · C. Peter Wagner · Cindy Jacobs · John Hagee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-07-13 | ALEC Exposed: Leaked Documents Reveal 800 Corporate-Written Model Bills
2 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · The Nation · Corporate members · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-07-01 | ALEC Achieves Systematic Legislative Capture: 200+ Corporate-Drafted Bills Enacted Annually Across States
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-07-01 | Wisconsin Republicans Pass Act 43 Gerrymandering Plan in Secret Process
4 src Wisconsin Legislature · Republican Party · Michael Best & Friedrich | confirmed | |
| 2011-06-16 | Rep. Anthony Weiner Resigns After Sexting Scandal and Cover-Up
3 src Anthony Weiner · Huma Abedin · Barack Obama · Nancy Pelosi | confirmed | |
| 2011-06-13 | Department of Education Issues Gainful Employment Rule to Regulate For-Profit Colleges, Industry Immediately Challenges in Court
3 src U.S. Department of Education · Barack Obama · Arne Duncan · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-27 | Judd Gregg Joins Goldman Sachs as International Advisor After Banking Committee Role
3 src Judd Gregg · Goldman Sachs · Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-11 | FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker Joins Comcast Four Months After Approving NBC Universal Merger
3 src Meredith Attwell Baker · Comcast Corporation · NBC Universal · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-01 | Pam Bondi Fires Foreclosure Fraud Investigators After Campaign Donations from Lender Processing Services
3 src Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2011-04-27 | Trump's Birtherism Campaign Forces Obama to Release Long-Form Birth Certificate
4 src Donald Trump · Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-23 | Trump Launches Political Career with Racist Birther Conspiracy
3 src Donald Trump · Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-17 | CIA Drone Strike Massacres 42 Civilians at Pakistani Tribal Council Meeting
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-11 | Wisconsin Act 10 Crushes Public Sector Unions Using ALEC Model Legislation
3 src Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council · Wisconsin GOP · Koch brothers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-01 | Chris Dodd Becomes Hollywood's Chief Lobbyist After Promising No Lobbying
3 src Chris Dodd · MPAA · Motion Picture Association | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-01 | Prison Labor at $0.12-$0.40/Hour Documented: The Thirteenth Amendment's Slavery Exception in Industrial Operation
3 src ACLU · Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) · CoreCivic · GEO Group | confirmed | |
| 2011-02-06 | Anonymous hacks HBGary Federal, exposing Team Themis: proposed disinformation and harassment campaign against WikiLeaks supporters and journalist Glenn Greenwald on behalf of Bank of America
7 src Aaron Barr · Greg Hoglund · Glenn Greenwald · Anonymous · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-27 | Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Released, No Banker Prosecutions Follow
3 src Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission · Phil Angelides · Lloyd Blankfein · Jamie Dimon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-19 | House Republicans Launch Six Years of Symbolic ACA Repeal Votes
5 src House Republicans · Speaker John Boehner · Rep. Joe Barton · Rep. Pat Meehan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-03 | Evan Bayh Joins Apollo Global Management and Five Corporate Boards After Senate
3 src Evan Bayh · Apollo Global Management · McGuireWoods · Marathon Petroleum · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | 34 States Introduce ALEC Voter ID Bills in Coordinated Suppression Campaign
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Republican state legislators · Heritage Foundation · State Policy Network | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | ALEC Grants Corporate Lobbyists 'Equal Vote' on Model Legislation for State Legislatures
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Arizona Becomes First State to Enact ALEC-Inspired Education Savings Accounts - Pioneering Universal Voucher Path
4 src Jan Brewer · American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education Task Force · Goldwater Institute · +2 | confirmed |