2020s
The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-13 | Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022
3 src Ring · Amazon · Brian Huseman · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-05 | Voyager Digital Files Bankruptcy After Three Arrows Capital Collapse, Exposing Crypto Lending Contagion and Regulatory Failure
3 src Voyager Digital · Three Arrows Capital · Securities and Exchange Commission · BlockFi · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-01 | Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership
3 src Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-01 | Roger Stone Settles $2.1 Million Tax Fraud Case Over Drake Ventures Shell Company
3 src Roger Stone · Department of Justice · Internal Revenue Service · drake-ventures-llc | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-30 | Supreme Court Establishes Major Questions Doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA, Limiting Regulatory Power
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Kennedy v. Bremerton: Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Public School Prayer, Effectively Overturning Lemon Test
2 src Joseph Kennedy · Neil Gorsuch · First Liberty Institute | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion
4 src Three Arrows Capital · Kyle Davies · Su Zhu · Monetary Authority of Singapore · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Trump allegedly orders deletion of Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage
3 src Donald Trump · Carlos De Oliveira · Walt Nauta · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-24 | Dobbs v. Jackson: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade — The 49-Year Institutional Capture Project Succeeds
2 src Samuel Alito · Leonard Leo · Federalist Society · Neil Gorsuch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-24 | Sweet v. Cardona Settlement Approves $6 Billion in Automatic Debt Cancellation for 200,000 Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges, Ending Years of Trump-Era Delays
8 src U.S. District Court for Northern California · U.S. Department of Education · Miguel Cardona · Betsy DeVos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-23 | Epic Charter Schools Founders Arrested on $22 Million Embezzlement Charges in Oklahoma's Largest Education Fraud
4 src Ben Harris · David Chaney · Josh Brock · Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-14 | FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy
3 src Federal Trade Commission · JAB Consumer Partners · JAB Holding Company · National Veterinary Associates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-13 | January 6th Committee Exposes "Big Rip-Off" - $250 Million Fraudulent Fundraising Scheme
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Save America PAC · House January 6th Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-07 | FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · Maria Cantwell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-06 | Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Solar Panels, Heat Pumps, and Grid Components
3 src Joe Biden · Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-06 | Milo Yiannopoulos Becomes Unpaid Intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene After Connecting Her to White Nationalists
4 src Milo Yiannopoulos · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Nick Fuentes | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-06 | Nine of Thirteen Axon Ethics Board Members Resign After Company Announces Taser-Equipped Drones Without Consultation
3 src Axon · Barry Friedman · Wael Abd-Almageed · Miles Brundage · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-03 | Christina Bobb signs false attestation that all classified documents returned
3 src Christina Bobb · Evan Corcoran · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-01 | Ed Coristine fired from cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets
3 src Edward Coristine · Path Network · Marshal Webb · EGodly | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-01 | Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine
3 src Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-25 | NRO Awards Largest-Ever Commercial Imagery Contracts: $1B to BlackSky, $3.2B to Maxar, Plus Planet
4 src National Reconnaissance Office · BlackSky Technology · Maxar Technologies · Planet Labs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-24 | UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws
3 src Information Commissioner's Office · Clearview AI · United Kingdom | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-19 | First CPAC Outside the US Convenes in Budapest: Hungary-Paradigm Becomes Operational US-Right Infrastructure
13 src Viktor Orbán · Matt Schlapp · Steve Bannon · Tucker Carlson · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-18 | Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Baby Formula After Abbott Recall Exposes Dangerous Monopoly
3 src Joe Biden · Abbott Nutrition · Food and Drug Administration · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-13 | Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion
4 src Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-12 | House Investigation Reveals Meatpacking Industry Drafted Trump DPA Order While 59,000 Workers Infected
3 src James Clyburn · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-11 | Grand jury issues subpoena demanding all classified documents from Trump
3 src Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Federal grand jury | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-10 | Chainalysis Raises $170 Million at $8.6 Billion Valuation in Series F
3 src Chainalysis · GIC · Singapore | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | HHS Issues First Two SHARE BPA Task Orders to Palantir — $10.4M Combined for Enterprise Licenses and CARES Data Integration
2 src Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · HHS Program Support Center · Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash
4 src Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-06 | CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus terminates Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams; duties transferred to Office of Professional Responsibility
6 src Chris Magnus · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol · CBP Office of Professional Responsibility · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-03 | Trump Org and Inaugural Committee pay $750,000 to settle D.C. AG lawsuit over hotel overcharges
3 src District of Columbia Office of Attorney General · Trump Organization · Presidential Inaugural Committee (2017) | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-02 | Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380
3 src Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-26 | Warren Report Reveals 672 Pentagon and Congressional Officials Now Lobby for Defense Contractors
3 src Elizabeth Warren · Boeing · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses
2 src Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · OFAC | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Trump Endorses Vance Following Thiel's $15 Million Strategic Political Investment
3 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-12 | Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers
3 src Amazon · Strategic Organizing Center | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Heritage Foundation Launches 2 Million Project 2025 Initiative
3 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Steven Groves | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Peter Thiel Provides $15 Million to J.D. Vance's Ohio Senate Campaign
3 src J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · protect-ohio-values-pac · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-30 | Senate Candidate JD Vance Appears on Eric Metaxas Show, Frames Ohio Senate Race as Fight Against 'Attempts to Ban God from the Public Square'
3 src JD Vance · Eric Metaxas | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-25 | French Senate Investigation Reveals 'McKinsey Gate' Scandal: Nearly €1 Billion in Government Consulting Fees
2 src McKinsey & Company · Emmanuel Macron · Karim Tadjeddine · French Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance
3 src Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy
3 src Robert Califf · United States Senate · FDA Leadership · Pharmaceutical Industry Executives | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-12 | Free State Project Libertarians Slash Croydon, New Hampshire School Budget by Half in Coordinated Takeover
4 src Free State Project · Ian Underwood · Jody Underwood · Croydon School Board | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-03 | Russian State Media Outlet RT America Ceases Operations and Lays Off All Staff After Major Distributors Drop Channel
4 src RT America · RT (Russia Today) · DirecTV · Roku · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-01 | Clearview AI Deploys Mass Facial Recognition Technology in Ukraine War
3 src Clearview AI · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Hoan Ton-That | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-01 | Task Force KleptoCapture Launched: US Expands Anti-Kleptocracy Operations
3 src Merrick Garland · Andrew Adams · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-25 | National $26 Billion Opioid Settlement with Distributors and J&J, Zero Executive Prosecutions
3 src McKesson · Cardinal Health · AmerisourceBergen · Johnson & Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-18 | Thousands Strike Across Puerto Rico Demanding End to PROMESA, Austerity, and Privatization in National Day of Action
4 src Puerto Rican Workers' Union · Central Workers' Federation · United Auto Workers · Electrical Workers' Union · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-15 | Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions
3 src Oracle · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Air Force · Defense Information Systems Agency | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-14 | Rio Grande Council of Governments, Texas launches first i3-compliant cloud-native 911 system with Carbyne
3 src Rio Grande Council of Governments · Carbyne · City of Alpine Texas · Brewster County Texas · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-01 | Flock Safety Reaches $3.5 Billion Valuation with 1,000+ Police Departments Using Surveillance Network
3 src Flock Safety · Tiger Global · Andreessen Horowitz · Garrett Langley | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-24 | Neil Young Demands Removal from Spotify Over Joe Rogan's COVID Misinformation
3 src Neil Young · Joe Rogan · Spotify · Daniel Ek | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-24 | Ten House and Senate committee chairs request GAO audit of CBP Critical Incident Teams
3 src Bennie G. Thompson · Gary Peters · Jerrold Nadler · Richard Durbin · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-21 | Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 80 at Yemen Detention Center in Worst Attack in Three Years
3 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Amnesty International · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-19 | Conservative Influencer Lauren Chen and Husband Liam Donovan Incorporate Tenet Media in Tennessee
2 src Lauren Chen · Liam Donovan · Tenet Media | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-18 | NY Attorney General James Files Motion Revealing Evidence of Trump Organization Fraud
4 src Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-17 | National Archives retrieves 15 boxes with 184 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago
3 src Donald Trump · National Archives · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Judge Dismisses All Flint Criminal Charges on Technicality—Zero Accountability After Poisoning Thousands
4 src Elizabeth Kelly · F. Kay Behm · Rick Snyder · Michigan Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Navient Settles for $1.85 Billion Over Student Loan Servicing Fraud - Steered Borrowers Into Costly Forbearances
3 src Navient · Letitia James | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Supreme Court Blocks Biden OSHA Vaccine Mandate as Executive Overreach
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Joe Biden · Occupational Safety and Health Administration · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Virginia Giuffre Lawsuit Against Prince Andrew Proceeds Despite Sealed Settlement Documents
3 src Virginia Giuffre · Prince Andrew · Lewis Kaplan · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Anduril AI-Powered Drones Deployed to Ukraine Since 2022
2 src Anduril Industries · Ukraine · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Peter Thiel Receives Second Putin Meeting Invitation
4 src Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Starbucks Executes Systematic Union-Busting Campaign with Record NLRB Violations
3 src Starbucks · Howard Schultz · Starbucks Workers United · National Labor Relations Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-31 | Rogan Hosts Vaccine Skeptic Dr. Robert Malone Who Claims "Mass Formation Psychosis"
6 src Joe Rogan · Dr. Robert Malone · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-29 | Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
3 src Ghislaine Maxwell · Alison Nathan · Southern District of New York · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-21 | SEC Charges Nikola Corporation $125 Million for SPAC-Related Fraud and False Claims
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Nikola Corporation · Trevor Milton · VectoIQ Acquisition Corp (SPAC) | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-16 | Federal Judge Overturns Sackler Immunity Deal, Rules Bankruptcy Law Violated
3 src Colleen McMahon · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-16 | Melania Trump Launches NFT Platform with "Melania's Vision" Collection
4 src Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-15 | Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10%
3 src Private Equity Industry · Blackstone Group · KKR · TeamHealth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-13 | USA Gymnastics Emerges from Bankruptcy with $380 Million Settlement for 500+ Nassar Survivors
5 src USA Gymnastics · Robyn Moberly · U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee · Simone Biles · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-10 | Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse
4 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-01 | Truth Social Receives $8 Million from Russian-Connected Entities While "On Brink of Collapse"
5 src Trump Media & Technology Group · Paxum Bank · Anton Postolnikov · ES Family Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-23 | Apple Sues NSO Group Over FORCEDENTRY Exploit and Pegasus Spyware Targeting
3 src Apple · NSO Group · Citizen Lab · US District Court Northern California | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-23 | Federal Jury Finds CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Liable for Fueling Ohio Opioid Crisis
3 src CVS · Walgreens · Walmart · Lake County Ohio · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-22 | SEC Fines McKinsey Subsidiary MIO Partners $18 Million for Puerto Rico Conflict of Interest and Material Nonpublic Information Violations
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · MIO Partners · McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-16 | Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History
3 src Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-09 | Office of Special Counsel Report Documents Hatch Act Violations by 13 Senior Trump Officials, Finding "Willful Disregard" for Federal Law
4 src Mike Pompeo · Chad Wolf · Kellyanne Conway · Jared Kushner · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-03 | US Commerce Department Adds Candiru and NSO Group to Entity List
5 src US Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · Candiru · NSO Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-02 | Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History
3 src Pfizer · BioNTech · U.S. government | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-01 | In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids'
2 src Christopher Darby · Stephen Bowsher · Michael Morell · Jeremy Bash · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-01 | Senate Candidate JD Vance Keynotes NatCon 2 in Orlando, Calls for 'Aggressively Attacking' Universities and Says Teaching That 'Divides People' Is 'Satanic'
5 src JD Vance · Edmund Burke Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-21 | Fed Implements Strict Trading Restrictions After Major Ethics Scandal
3 src Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve Board · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Clarida · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Announces Trump Media SPAC Merger
4 src Donald Trump · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress in January 6 Investigation
4 src Steve Bannon · House Select Committee on January 6 · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Trump Media Founded with Chinese-Connected Financial Backer Patrick Orlando
4 src Donald Trump · Patrick Orlando · Trump Media & Technology Group · Yunhong International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-18 | NPR Documents How Hedge Fund Newspaper Ownership Creates News Deserts and Undermines Democracy - Over 2,500 Newspapers Closed Since 2005
5 src Alden Global Capital · Local Newspapers · Hedge Funds · Communities · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-15 | Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin
4 src Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-05 | Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy
4 src Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-03 | Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks
4 src International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · King Abdullah II of Jordan · Andrej Babiš · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-01 | Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering
4 src Stephen Hahn · Flagship Pioneering · Moderna · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-27 | Dallas and Boston Fed Presidents Resign Over Trading Scandal
4 src Robert Kaplan · Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-15 | Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols Testify Before Senate on FBI's Betrayal in Nassar Case
5 src Simone Biles · McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Maggie Nichols · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-08 | Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal
3 src Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-07 | Dallas Fed President Kaplan Resigns Over Trading Controversy
3 src Robert Kaplan · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Jerome Powell · Eric Rosengren | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-01 | Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition
3 src Robert Drain · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-01 | Joe Rogan Announces He Treated COVID with Unproven Ivermectin, Sparking Medical Misinformation Controversy
4 src Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience · Food and Drug Administration · +3 | confirmed |