| 2010-04-23 | Arizona Passes SB 1070 Drafted by ALEC and Private Prison Companies Russell Pearce · Jan Brewer · Corrections Corporation of America · +3 | 6 | |
| 2010-04-20 | Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Begins - Environmental Disaster and Corporate Negligence BP (British Petroleum) · Transocean Ltd · Halliburton · +4 | 7 |
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| 2010-04-16 | SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Over ABACUS 2007-AC1 Synthetic CDO Deal Where Hedge Fund Manager John Paulson Selected Mortgage Securities to Bet Against While Goldman Sold Package to Investors, Resulting in $550 Million Settlement but No Criminal Charges Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · +4 | 7 |
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| 2010-04-14 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposed Systematic Foreclosure Document Fraud Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · +2 | 5 |
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| 2010-04-08 | Thomas Drake Indicted Under Espionage Act for NSA Whistleblowing Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · Obama Administration · +1 | 4 |
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| 2010-04-05 | Purdue Reformulates OxyContin as "Abuse-Deterrent" After 14 Years, Drives Users to Heroin Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Sackler Family | 3 |
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| 2010-03-26 | SpeechNow.org v. FEC Appeals Court Decision Creates Super PACs with Unlimited Contribution Authority David Keating · Federal Election Commission · U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | 3 |
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| 2010-03-23 | ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall Barack Obama · America's Health Insurance Plans · PhRMA · +3 | 6 |
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| 2010-03-17 | Obama Authorizes CIA Signature Strikes - Killing Based on Behavior Patterns, Not Identity Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 2010-01-27 | Obama Criticizes Citizens United at State of Union, Alito Responds 'Not True' Barack Obama · Samuel Alito · John Roberts · +4 | 7 |
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| 2010-01-27 | Oracle Completes Sun Microsystems Acquisition for $7.4 Billion, Gains Java and MySQL Oracle · Sun Microsystems · Larry Ellison · +1 | 4 |
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| 2010-01-21 | Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending U.S. Supreme Court · Citizens United · Federal Election Commission · +2 | 5 |
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| 2010-01-15 | Northrop B-2 Bomber Operating Costs Reach $150,000 Per Flight Hour Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense | 3 |
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| 2010-01-01 | ALEC Distributes Climate Denial Model Legislation to Kill Regional Climate Pacts American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +3 | 6 |
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| 2010-01-01 | ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +6 | 9 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Chertoff Promotes Airport Body Scanners on Media While His Firm Represents Manufacturer Rapiscan Michael Chertoff · The Chertoff Group · Rapiscan Systems · +2 | 5 |
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| 2010-01-01 | CNP Coordinates Tea Party Movement Through Member Organizations Council for National Policy · Jenny Beth Martin · Tea Party Patriots · +2 | 5 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · +3 | 6 |
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| 2010-01-01 | DonorsTrust Organizational Profile: Dark Money ATM Enabling Anonymous Billionaire Political Spending DonorsTrust · Donors Capital Fund · Whitney Lynn Ball · +7 | 10 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Epstein Operates as Geopolitical Consultant to DP World — Sulayem Channel Establishes UAE Sovereign Access Jeffrey Epstein · Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem · DP World · +1 | 4 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Foreclosure Crisis Extracts $200 Billion in Black Household Wealth: Largest Destruction of Black Assets in American History Wells Fargo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · +1 | 4 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Gig Economy Emerges Using Worker Misclassification to Avoid Labor Protections and Unions Uber · Lyft · DoorDash · +3 | 6 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations | 2 |
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| 2010-01-01 | NSO Group Founded in Israel to Develop Pegasus Spyware Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie · Niv Karmi · +1 | 4 |
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| 2010-01-01 | NYPD Counterterrorism Unit Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance Operations New York Police Department · Palantir Technologies · Richard Falkenrath · +1 | 4 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Republican State Leadership Committee Launches REDMAP Gerrymandering Project Republican State Leadership Committee · Ed Gillespie · Karl Rove | 3 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Trump SoHo money laundering operation - 77% shell company sales Trump Organization · Bayrock Group · Felix Sater · +3 | 6 | |
| 2009-12-21 | Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President Dr. Julie Gerberding · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck · +1 | 4 |
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| 2009-12-14 | University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation University of Phoenix · Apollo Group · Mary Hendow · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-12-01 | Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law Drafted at ALEC Meeting with CCA Executives - Direct Quid Pro Quo for Immigrant Detention Profits American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Russell Pearce · +4 | 7 |
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| 2009-11-17 | Climategate Email Hack Manufactures Controversy Before Copenhagen Summit Climate Research Unit · University of East Anglia · Phil Jones · +2 | 5 |
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| 2009-10-06 | Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity Al Franken · Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-09-12 | 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Demonstrates Koch Network Mobilization Power FreedomWorks · Americans for Prosperity · Dick Armey · +7 | 10 |
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| 2009-09-01 | James O'Keefe's Deceptively Edited ACORN Videos Trigger Destruction of Voter Registration Organization James O'Keefe · Hannah Giles · ACORN | 3 |
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| 2009-07-24 | Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms President Barack Obama · Secretary of Education Arne Duncan · Bill Gates · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-07-17 | ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election American Legislative Exchange Council · Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · +1 | 4 |
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| 2009-07-01 | In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future In-Q-Tel · Google Ventures · Recorded Future · +1 | 4 |
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| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · +6 | 9 |
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| 2009-06-08 | Wells Fargo Loan Officers Reveal "Ghetto Loans" and "Mud People" Targeting: Racial Predation in Subprime Lending Documented Wells Fargo · NAACP · City of Baltimore | 3 |
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| 2009-06-01 | Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-05-20 | Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism Federal Bureau of Investigation · Shahed Hussain · James Cromitie · +1 | 4 |
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| 2009-05-01 | Russian Digital Sky Technologies Invests $200M in Facebook Alisher Usmanov · Yuri Milner · Mark Zuckerberg · +1 | 4 |
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| 2009-04-16 | Obama Releases CIA Torture Memos But Promises No Prosecutions for Torturers Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Central Intelligence Agency · +4 | 7 |
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| 2009-04-15 | Tax Day Tea Party Protests Organized by Koch Network Groups Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · David Koch · +4 | 7 |
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| 2009-04-13 | Peter Thiel Publishes Anti-Democracy Essay Declaring Freedom and Democracy Incompatible Peter Thiel · Cato Institute | 2 | |
| 2009-04-02 | Northrop Grumman Pays $325 Million for Decade of Defective Spy Satellite Parts Northrop Grumman · TRW Inc. · Department of Justice · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-04-01 | FinCEN and OCC Assess Concurrent $5 Million Civil Money Penalties Against Doha Bank New York Branch for BSA Violations FinCEN · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) · Doha Bank New York Branch · +1 | 4 | |
| 2009-03-10 | Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-02-19 | Koch Network Prepares Tea Party Mobilization After Santelli Rant Rick Santelli · David Koch · Charles Koch · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-02-19 | Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response Rick Santelli · David Koch · Charles Koch · +6 | 9 |
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| 2009-02-17 | SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Leroy King · +2 | 5 |
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| 2009-02-17 | Trump Entertainment Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Resigns from Board Donald Trump | 1 |
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| 2009-02-15 | Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Enters Private Sector, Joins Chertoff Group and Corporate Boards Michael Hayden · The Chertoff Group · Motorola Solutions · +1 | 4 |
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| 2009-02-13 | Blackwater Rebrands as Xe Services to Distance from Nisour Square Massacre and Iraq War Crimes Erik Prince · Blackwater · Xe Services | 3 |
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| 2009-02-02 | Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff Founds The Chertoff Group, Immediately Monetizing Homeland Security Expertise Michael Chertoff · Chad Sweet · The Chertoff Group · +4 | 7 |
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| 2009-01-23 | Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · +1 | 4 |
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| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Wall Street Banks · +2 | 5 |
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| 2009-01-01 | Americans for Prosperity Organizational Profile: Koch Brothers' Astroturf Empire Manufacturing Fake Grassroots Movements Americans for Prosperity · Charles Koch · David Koch · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-01-01 | Carl Icahn Partners with Andrew Beal in Trump Entertainment Resorts Bankruptcy Restructuring Carl Icahn · Andrew Beal · Donald Trump · +3 | 6 |
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| 2009-01-01 | CNP Member Ralph Reed Founds Faith and Freedom Coalition - Religious Right Coordination Expands Ralph Reed · Council for National Policy · Faith and Freedom Coalition | 3 |
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| 2009-01-01 | Dataminr Founded to Provide Real-Time Social Media Surveillance, Later Backed by CIA Venture Capital Ted Bailey · Sam Hendel · Jeff Kinsey · +2 | 5 |
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| 2009-01-01 | Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate House Energy and Commerce Committee · Fred Upton · PhRMA · +2 | 5 |
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| 2009-01-01 | Harlan Crow Begins Paying Private School Tuition for Thomas's Grandnephew Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Mark Martin · +2 | 5 |
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| 2009-01-01 | LAPD's Joint Regional Intelligence Center Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance Joint Regional Intelligence Center · Los Angeles Police Department · Palantir Technologies · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-12-11 | Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-12-09 | Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested for Attempting to Sell Obama's Senate Seat Rod Blagojevich · Barack Obama · Patrick Fitzgerald · +1 | 4 | |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave Delta Air Lines · Northwest Airlines · Department of Justice · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-10-06 | Citigroup Managing Director Froman Emails Podesta Cabinet List; Virtually Entire Obama Cabinet Matches Recommendations Michael Froman · John Podesta · Barack Obama · +8 | 11 |
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| 2008-10-03 | Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · +4 | 7 |
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| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · +5 | 8 |
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| 2008-10-03 | Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Creates $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to Bail Out Wall Street Banks with Minimal Oversight or Executive Accountability Requirements, Leading to Just One Criminal Prosecution Compared to 900+ in 1980s Savings & Loan Crisis Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · +7 | 10 |
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| 2008-10-03 | Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance George W. Bush · Paul Wellstone · Pete Domenici · +3 | 6 |
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| 2008-09-29 | Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money Barney Frank · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-09-19 | Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs Henry Paulson · Lloyd Blankfein · Don Jester | 3 |
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| 2008-09-16 | Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis American International Group · Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · +4 | 7 |
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| 2008-09-15 | Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · +4 | 7 |
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| 2008-09-15 | Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization | 2 |
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| 2008-09-11 | Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers Mark Ciavarella · Michael Conahan · PA Child Care · +3 | 6 |
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| 2008-09-09 | Iowa Attorney General Files Criminal Complaint Against Agriprocessors for 9,311 Child Labor Violations, Revealing Systematic Use of Minors as Young as 14 in Dangerous Meatpacking Operations with Harsh Chemicals and Power Equipment Agriprocessors Inc. · Abraham Aaron Rubashkin · Sholom Rubashkin · +2 | 5 |
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| 2008-09-07 | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Placed in Federal Conservatorship, $187 Billion Taxpayer Bailout U.S. Treasury Department · Henry Paulson · Federal Housing Finance Agency · +4 | 7 |
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| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · +6 | 9 |
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| 2008-09-01 | Sarah Palin's NAR Pastors Exposed: New Apostolic Reformation Theology Enters National Electoral Politics Sarah Palin · Thomas Muthee · Mary Glazier · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-08-29 | Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors Bush Administration · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · +4 | 7 |
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| 2008-08-18 | General Dynamics Pays $4 Million to Settle Fraud Charges for Defective Submarine and Aircraft Parts General Dynamics · Benton J. Campbell · Defense Criminal Investigative Service · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-08-01 | FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Throttling BitTorrent Traffic in Historic 3-2 Vote on Net Neutrality Federal Communications Commission · Comcast Corporation · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-07-31 | Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · +3 | 6 |
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| 2008-07-31 | FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional FISA Court · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · +3 | 6 |
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| 2008-07-29 | Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Felony Corruption Charges Ted Stevens · Bill Allen · Eric Holder | 3 |
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| 2008-07-24 | Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · Clear Channel Communications · +3 | 6 |
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| 2008-07-16 | Trump sells Palm Beach 'Maison de L'Amitié' to Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95M Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump · Trump Organization | 3 |
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| 2008-07-09 | FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · +4 | 7 |
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| 2008-07-01 | Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · +3 | 6 |
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| 2008-07-01 | Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-06-30 | Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · +2 | 5 |
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| 2008-06-30 | Epstein Non-Prosecution Agreement Closes — Re-emergence as Financial-Intelligence Broker Begins Phase 1 Gulf Cultivation Jeffrey Epstein · Alexander Acosta · U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Florida | 3 |
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| 2008-06-28 | Model Ruslana Korshunova dies in suspicious fall two years after Epstein island visit Ruslana Korshunova · Jeffrey Epstein · Virginia Giuffre · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-05-12 | ICE Conducts Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. History at Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors Plant, Arresting 389 Workers While Management Faces No Criminal Charges Despite Systematic Labor Law Violations and Exploitation Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Agriprocessors Inc. · +2 | 5 |
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| 2008-05-08 | Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarm Over Intelligence Contractor Revolving Door, Requires Workforce Reporting Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Government Accountability Office · Department of Defense · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-05-06 | Tim Shorrock Publishes "Spies for Hire," First Comprehensive Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Tim Shorrock · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · +4 | 7 | |
| 2008-04-28 | Crawford v. Marion County: Supreme Court Upholds Strict Voter ID Laws Despite No Evidence of In-Person Fraud U.S. Supreme Court · John Paul Stevens · Indiana Legislature · +2 | 5 |
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