| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · +2 | 5 |
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| 2008-03-20 | Sprint Nextel GPS Location Data Sharing with Law Enforcement Sprint Nextel · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-03-16 | Bear Stearns Collapse and Federal Reserve-Facilitated Fire Sale to JPMorgan with $29 Billion Taxpayer Guarantee Establishes 'Too Big to Fail' Precedent with Zero Criminal Prosecutions Despite Fraud-Driven Collapse Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · +4 | 7 |
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| 2008-01-15 | Project Chanology: Anonymous Mobilizes Against Scientology, Proving Chan Culture Can Produce Real-World Action Anonymous · Church of Scientology | 2 |
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| 2008-01-02 | KBR's Faulty Electrical Work Kills Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, Part of Systematic Negligence Causing 18 Electrocution Deaths in Iraq with No Criminal Charges Despite Army Negligent Homicide Finding Ryan Maseth · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · +4 | 7 |
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| 2008-01-01 | Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · +2 | 5 |
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| 2008-01-01 | Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications Palantir Technologies · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community | 3 |
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| 2008-01-01 | Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed) Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · US Intelligence · +1 | 4 |
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| 2008-01-01 | Shell companies spend $890M on Trump condos during financial crisis Trump Organization · Anonymous shell companies · Delaware LLCs · +2 | 5 | |
| 2007-12-18 | Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law Trent Lott · John Breaux · Breaux Lott Leadership Group · +1 | 4 |
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| 2007-12-01 | DHS awards HBGary, Inc. $975,000 SBIR Phase II contract — maturation funding that ran concurrently with Team Themis planning HBGary, Inc. · Greg Hoglund · DHS Science and Technology Directorate | 3 | |
| 2007-11-15 | Thomas Drake Reports NSA Trailblazer Program Waste and Constitutional Violations Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · DOD Inspector General · +4 | 7 |
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| 2007-11-02 | CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide Gul Rahman · Central Intelligence Agency · Afghanistan | 3 |
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| 2007-10-19 | Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking Comcast Corporation · Associated Press · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 | 4 |
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| 2007-10-02 | Erik Prince Testifies Before Congress Defending Blackwater Despite Evidence of 195 Shooting Incidents Erik Prince · Blackwater · U.S. House Oversight Committee · +1 | 4 |
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| 2007-10-01 | Trump Foundation Pays $258,000 for Six-Foot Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction Donald Trump · Trump Foundation | 2 |
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| 2007-09-16 | Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation Blackwater Worldwide · Erik Prince · State Department · +5 | 8 |
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| 2007-09-15 | Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door U.S. Congress · K Street · Public Citizen | 3 |
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| 2007-09-01 | FBI Inspector General Reports 35% Error Rate on Terror Watchlist Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice Inspector General · Terrorist Screening Center | 3 |
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| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · +3 | 6 |
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| 2007-08-01 | Verizon's Deep Involvement in NSA Surveillance Programs Bush Administration · National Security Agency · Verizon Communications | 3 |
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| 2007-06-25 | DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression Alberto Gonzales · Hans von Spakovsky · Bradley Schlozman · +2 | 5 |
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| 2007-05-23 | Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · Regent University · +2 | 5 |
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| 2007-05-14 | ODNI Reveals 70% of Intelligence Budget Goes to Private Contractors Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Tim Shorrock · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 2007-05-10 | Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding, $600M Fine, Zero Executives Jailed Purdue Pharma · Michael Friedman · Howard R. Udell · +2 | 5 |
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| 2007-04-05 | Halliburton Completes Spin-Off of KBR to Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Fraud Investigations, and $2.7 Billion in Questioned Costs Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · David Lesar · +2 | 5 |
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| 2007-04-02 | New Century Financial Bankruptcy Signals Start of Subprime Mortgage Crisis New Century Financial · Brad Morrice · KPMG · +3 | 6 |
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| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion Roger Vinson · FISA Court · National Security Agency · +2 | 5 |
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| 2007-03-12 | Halliburton Moves CEO and Corporate Headquarters to Dubai for Tax Advantages and Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Weeks Before Completing KBR Spin-Off Halliburton · David Lesar · Dick Cheney · +1 | 4 |
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| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · +3 | 6 |
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| 2007-03-06 | Scooter Libby Convicted on Four Counts in CIA Leak Case Lewis 'Scooter' Libby · Patrick Fitzgerald · Dick Cheney · +3 | 6 |
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| 2007-03-01 | Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer Organize White Nationalist Speaker at Duke University Stephen Miller · Richard Spencer | 2 |
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| 2007-01-01 | ALEC Launches 'Rich States, Poor States' Report with Arthur Laffer - Annual Corporate Tax Competition Manifesto to Drive Interstate Race-to-Bottom American Legislative Exchange Council · Arthur Laffer · Stephen Moore · +2 | 5 |
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| 2007-01-01 | Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement Cellebrite | 1 |
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| 2007-01-01 | Israel Passes Defense Export Control Law, Creating Framework That Enables Pegasus as Diplomatic Weapon Israeli Ministry of Defense · Defense Export Control Agency (DECA) · Benjamin Netanyahu · +1 | 4 |
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| 2007-01-01 | Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +2 | 5 |
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| 2006-12-31 | New Century Financial Conceals Massive Early Payment Defaults Through Accounting Fraud in 2006 New Century Financial Corporation · Brad Morrice · David Einhorn · +2 | 5 |
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| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup AT&T Inc. · BellSouth Corporation · Federal Communications Commission · +1 | 4 |
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| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · David Iglesias · +3 | 6 |
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| 2006-12-01 | Subprime Mortgage Delinquencies Surge to 13%, Nearly Double Mid-2005 Rates, as Crisis Accelerates Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders · Federal Reserve · +1 | 4 |
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| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | 3 |
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| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest President George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · Moody's Investors Service · +3 | 6 |
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| 2006-09-29 | Federal Regulators Issue Weakened Mortgage Guidance After Year of Industry Lobbying, Ignoring Warnings Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · +9 | 12 |
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| 2006-09-15 | Congressman Bob Ney Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Corruption Scandal Bob Ney · Jack Abramoff · U.S. House of Representatives · +3 | 6 |
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| 2006-09-06 | Bush Publicly Acknowledges CIA Secret Prisons for First Time, Transfers Detainees to Guantanamo George W. Bush · Central Intelligence Agency · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed · +2 | 5 |
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| 2006-09-01 | DHS awards HBGary, Inc. $100,000 SBIR Phase I contract for botnet detection — the upstream R&D seed of the Team Themis pipeline HBGary, Inc. · Greg Hoglund · DHS Science and Technology Directorate | 3 | |
| 2006-07-27 | Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: 25-Year Extension Passes with Bipartisan Supermajority Before Conservative Legal Assault George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · James Sensenbrenner · +2 | 5 |
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| 2006-07-24 | ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · +2 | 5 |
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| 2006-07-05 | Ken Lay Dies Before Sentencing, Conviction Later Vacated Kenneth Lay | 1 |
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| 2006-07-01 | Housing Bubble Peaks as Predatory Subprime Lending Reaches Maximum, Setting Stage for Collapse Countrywide Financial · New Century Financial · Washington Mutual · +3 | 6 |
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| 2006-06-07 | Model Ruslana Korshunova, 18, flies to Epstein's island two years before suspicious death Ruslana Korshunova · Jeffrey Epstein | 2 | |
| 2006-06-01 | Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to 5.25%, Triggering Payment Shock for Subprime Borrowers Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Subprime borrowers · +1 | 4 |
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| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | 3 |
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| 2006-05-18 | Competitive Enterprise Institute Launches "CO2 is Life" Advertising Campaign Competitive Enterprise Institute · Myron Ebell · ExxonMobil · +1 | 4 |
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| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy · +2 | 5 |
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| 2006-05-08 | Michael Hayden Nominated as CIA Director Despite NSA Surveillance Controversy Michael Hayden · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · +3 | 6 |
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| 2006-05-01 | Magnetar Capital Launches $30 Billion CDO Strategy, Betting Against Housing While Encouraging Investor Purchases Magnetar Capital · JPMorgan Chase · Investment banks · +1 | 4 | |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure Dubai Ports World · House Appropriations Committee · Charles Schumer · +6 | 9 |
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| 2006-03-01 | FBI Infiltrates Orange County Mosques with Informant in Dragnet Surveillance Federal Bureau of Investigation · Craig Monteilh · Muslim community · +1 | 4 |
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| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal George W. Bush · Charles Schumer · Dubai Ports World · +4 | 7 |
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| 2006-01-29 | NSA Cancels Trailblazer Program After SAIC Wastes Over $1 Billion on Failed Surveillance System Science Applications International Corporation · National Security Agency · Michael Hayden · +5 | 8 |
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| 2006-01-24 | KBR (Halliburton Subsidiary) Awarded $385M DHS/ICE Contingency Contract for Emergency Immigrant Detention Facilities Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Dick Cheney · +5 | 8 |
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| 2006-01-23 | Ameriquest Agrees to $325 Million Settlement for Predatory Lending Practices with 49 States Ameriquest Mortgage Company · ACC Capital Holdings · State Attorneys General · +2 | 5 |
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| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Bob Ney · +4 | 7 |
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| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation Aspen Dental · Ares Management · Leonard Green & Partners · +1 | 4 |
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| 2006-01-01 | Countrywide Begins Process to Switch to Office of Thrift Supervision for Lighter Regulation Countrywide Financial · Angelo Mozilo · Office of Thrift Supervision · +2 | 5 |
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| 2006-01-01 | IndyMac and WaMu Drive Option ARM Mortgages to 42% of Adjustable-Rate Market in 2006 IndyMac Bank · Washington Mutual · Countrywide Financial · +4 | 7 |
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| 2006-01-01 | Palantir Wins First Major Contract with Joint IED Defeat Organization for Iraq and Afghanistan Palantir Technologies · Joint IED Defeat Organization · U.S. Department of Defense | 3 |
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| 2006-01-01 | Synthetic CDO Issuance Explodes to $61 Billion in 2006, Amplifying Housing Market Risk Exponentially Goldman Sachs · Deutsche Bank · Morgan Stanley · +4 | 7 | |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program James Risen · Eric Lichtblau · New York Times · +2 | 5 |
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| 2005-12-15 | Coast Guard Identifies Critical Intelligence Gaps in Dubai Ports World Deal US Coast Guard · Dubai Ports World · UAE · +3 | 6 |
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| 2005-12-15 | NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice Reports Illegal Domestic Surveillance Russell Tice · National Security Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee · +3 | 6 |
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| 2005-11-28 | Rep. Duke Cunningham Pleads Guilty to $2.4 Million Bribery Scheme Duke Cunningham · Mitchell Wade · Carol Lam · +1 | 4 |
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| 2005-11-16 | Energy Committee Hearings Expose Oil Industry Climate Denial Campaign and Regulatory Capture House Energy and Commerce Committee · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · +1 | 4 |
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| 2005-11-16 | Oil Executives Deny Task Force Participation Despite Documentary Evidence ExxonMobil · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · +12 | 15 |
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| 2005-11-09 | CIA Destroys 92 Torture Interrogation Videotapes to Conceal Evidence Jose Rodriguez · Central Intelligence Agency · Gina Haspel · +3 | 6 |
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| 2005-11-08 | Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban Dick Cheney · John McCain · Porter Goss · +2 | 5 |
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| 2005-11-07 | Harry Markopolos Submits 'The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud' to SEC, Agency Ignores Detailed Evidence for Third Time Harry Markopolos · Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff | 3 |
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| 2005-11-02 | Washington Post Reveals CIA's Secret Prison Network in Eastern Europe Central Intelligence Agency · Dana Priest · Washington Post · +3 | 6 |
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| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman Don Siegelman · Karl Rove · Jill Simpson · +3 | 6 |
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| 2005-10-15 | Dubai Ports World Initiates Controversial CFIUS Review for US Port Management Acquisition Dubai Ports World · Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum · CFIUS · +4 | 7 |
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| 2005-09-28 | House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted for Money Laundering and Conspiracy Tom DeLay | 1 |
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| 2005-08-29 | Hurricane Katrina Enables .4B No-Bid Disaster Capitalism Takeover Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bechtel · +3 | 6 | |
| 2005-08-25 | Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters Hans von Spakovsky · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Georgia Legislature · +2 | 5 |
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| 2005-08-11 | Jack Abramoff Indicted for Wire Fraud in SunCruz Casinos Purchase Jack Abramoff · Adam Kidan | 2 | |
| 2005-08-08 | Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · +4 | 7 |
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| 2005-08-03 | FBI Finds $90,000 in Cash Hidden in Rep. William Jefferson's Freezer William Jefferson · Lori Mody | 2 |
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| 2005-07-28 | KBR Employee Jamie Leigh Jones Alleges Gang Rape in Iraq, Exposes Systematic Use of Mandatory Arbitration to Shield Contractor Accountability Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · +4 | 7 |
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| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice | 2 |
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| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · +1 | 4 |
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| 2005-06-30 | Investigation Reveals $15M in Lobbyist-Funded Congressional Travel and Fact-Finding Junkets Tom DeLay · Jack Abramoff · Susan Hirschmann · +1 | 4 |
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| 2005-06-15 | FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing Corporation · Aircraft manufacturers · +4 | 7 |
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| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower Phil Cooney · Rick Piltz · James Hansen · +2 | 5 |
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| 2005-06-03 | L-3 Communications Acquires Titan Corporation for $2.65 Billion, Absorbing Abu Ghraib Contractor L-3 Communications · Titan Corporation · Department of Defense | 3 |
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| 2005-05-23 | Trump Launches "Trump University" Real Estate Seminars Without Academic License or Accreditation Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | 2 |
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| 2005-05-10 | Bradbury OLC Memos Reconstruct CIA Interrogation Authorization Post-Goldsmith Withdrawal — Three May 2005 Memos Re-authorize Waterboarding Steven G. Bradbury · Alberto Gonzales · John A. Rizzo · +5 | 8 |
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| 2005-04-20 | Bankruptcy Act Makes Private Student Loans Non-Dischargeable - Weaponizing Law Against Students George W. Bush · MBNA · Sallie Mae | 3 |
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| 2005-04-20 | Two Decades of Bankruptcy Weaponization: Students Crushed While Corporations Shield Billions (2005-2024) Corinthian Colleges · ITT Tech · University of Phoenix · +4 | 7 |
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| 2005-04-11 | Trump Admits to Entering Pageant Dressing Rooms on Howard Stern Donald Trump · Howard Stern | 2 | |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists Public Citizen · U.S. Congress · K Street | 3 |
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