| 1996-10-07 | Fox News Launches with Rupert Murdoch Funding and Roger Ailes Leadership Rupert Murdoch · Roger Ailes · News Corporation · +1 | 4 | |
| 1996-09-30 | Clinton Signs IIRIRA Expanding Deportation, Retroactive Aggravated Felonies Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service | 3 | |
| 1996-08-26 | Maria Farmer reports Epstein/Maxwell assault to FBI, ignored for decade Maria Farmer · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · +2 | 5 | |
| 1996-08-22 | Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act Ends Welfare Entitlement Bill Clinton · Newt Gingrich · Republican Congress | 3 |
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| 1996-08-22 | Welfare Reform Imposes Five-Year Lifetime Limit on Cash Assistance Bill Clinton · Republican Congress · Poor Families | 3 |
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| 1996-08-22 | Welfare Reform Mandates Work Requirements After Two Years of Assistance Bill Clinton · Republican Congress · Low-Income Workers | 3 |
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| 1996-08-21 | HIPAA Passes with Limited Portability Protections While Granting Healthcare Industry Control Over Patient Data Bill Clinton · Nancy Kassebaum · Edward Kennedy · +2 | 5 |
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| 1996-08-18 | Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" Exposes CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Connection Gary Webb | 1 |
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| 1996-07-03 | Oligarchs Bankroll Yeltsin Re-election Victory: 'Seven Bankers' Control 50-70% of Russia's Economy Through Loans-for-Shares Deal Boris Yeltsin · Boris Berezovsky · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · +5 | 8 | |
| 1996-07-01 | Nicky Hager Publishes Secret Power, First Detailed Public Description of ECHELON System Nicky Hager · Government Communications Security Bureau · National Security Agency · +2 | 5 |
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| 1996-06-30 | Clear Channel Begins Unprecedented Radio Consolidation Under Telecommunications Act Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays · FCC Federal Communications Commission · +1 | 4 |
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| 1996-06-20 | Trump Acquires Miss Universe Organization from ITT Corp Donald Trump · ITT Corporation · Madison Square Garden | 3 |
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| 1996-06-18 | Chinese Military Intelligence Funnels Campaign Donations Through Johnny Chung Johnny Chung · Ji Shengde · Bill Clinton · +2 | 5 |
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| 1996-04-29 | Buddhist Temple Fundraising Event Generates Illegal Campaign Contributions Al Gore · Maria Hsia · John Huang · +1 | 4 |
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| 1996-04-26 | Prison Litigation Reform Act Strips Prisoners' Access to Courts: Constitutional Rights Made Practically Unenforceable Newt Gingrich · Republican Congress · National Association of Attorneys General | 3 |
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| 1996-04-24 | Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · +1 | 4 |
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| 1996-04-24 | Clinton Signs AEDPA, Expands Federal Surveillance and Creates FTO Terrorism Framework Bill Clinton · Orrin Hatch · Bob Dole · +2 | 5 |
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| 1996-02-26 | Lincoln Bedroom Fundraising Scandal Reveals White House Donor Access Program Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee · Major Donors | 3 |
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| 1996-02-08 | Telecommunications Act of 1996 Eliminates Radio Ownership Caps and Raises TV Limits, Triggering Massive Media Consolidation Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · +3 | 6 |
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| 1996-01-28 | Hillary Clinton Delivers "Super-Predators" Speech Supporting 1994 Crime Bill Hillary Clinton · Bill Clinton | 2 |
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| 1996-01-11 | DOJ Drops Zimmermann PGP Investigation, Marks Crypto Wars Policy Inflection Phil Zimmermann · Department of Justice · U.S. Customs Service · +2 | 5 |
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| 1996-01-01 | Abramoff-Norquist-DeLay Network Defeats Native American Casino Tax Bill Jack Abramoff · Grover Norquist · Tom DeLay · +4 | 7 |
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| 1996-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Business Plan to "Function More Like a Business" - Formalizes Pay-to-Play Corporate Legislative Model American Legislative Exchange Council | 1 |
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| 1996-01-01 | George Friedman Founds Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), the "Shadow CIA" of Private Geopolitical Intelligence George Friedman · Stratfor · Matthew Baker | 3 |
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| 1996-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Launches Aggressive OxyContin Marketing Campaign Based on False Claims Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler | 3 |
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| 1995-12-20 | FDA Approves OxyContin with Unsubstantiated Safety Claims Food and Drug Administration · Purdue Pharma · Dr. Curtis Wright · +1 | 4 | |
| 1995-12-12 | FDA Approval of OxyContin Reveals Systemic Regulatory Capture by Purdue Pharma Curtis Wright IV · Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | 5 | |
| 1995-11-17 | Russia's Loans-for-Shares Auctions Transfer Major State Enterprises to Yeltsin-Aligned Bankers at Fraction-of-Value Prices, Creating the Oligarch Class Boris Yeltsin · Anatoly Chubais · Vladimir Potanin · +6 | 9 |
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| 1995-11-01 | Russia's 'Loans-for-Shares' Auctions Transfer $100 Billion in State Assets to Oligarchs for Pennies on the Dollar Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · +5 | 8 |
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| 1995-07-13 | Detroit Newspaper Strike Ends in Permanent Replacement, Transforms Media Industry Labor Relations Detroit Free Press · Detroit News · Gannett Company · +3 | 6 | |
| 1995-04-10 | McNamara Memoir Admits Vietnam War Was "Terribly Wrong" - Confession Comes 20 Years Too Late for 58,000 Dead Americans Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · Brian VanDeMark (co-author) | 2 |
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| 1995-04-01 | IMF Approves $6.8 Billion Russia Loan With Structural Adjustment Conditions: Second Largest Loan in IMF History Fails to Stabilize Economy International Monetary Fund · Boris Yeltsin · Bill Clinton · +3 | 6 | |
| 1995-02-01 | Gingrich-DeLay Formalize K Street Project Coordination Structure Newt Gingrich · Tom DeLay · Grover Norquist | 3 |
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| 1995-01-10 | CIA Director James Woolsey Departs, Begins Three-Decade Career Monetizing Intelligence Credentials James Woolsey · Booz Allen Hamilton · Paladin Capital Group · +2 | 5 |
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| 1995-01-10 | Robert Rubin Appointed Treasury Secretary After 26 Years at Goldman Sachs Robert Rubin · Bill Clinton · Goldman Sachs | 3 |
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| 1995-01-04 | Tom DeLay Elected Majority Whip - Creates K Street PAC Tracking System Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Rick Santorum · +1 | 4 |
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| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Criminal Justice Task Force Promotes Truth-in-Sentencing Model Legislation Written by Private Prison Industry American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · +1 | 4 |
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| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Develops Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act - Model Bill to Restrict State Revenue and Manufacture Fiscal Crisis American Legislative Exchange Council · Colorado General Assembly · Corporate funders | 3 |
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| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Environment Task Force Passes 100+ Anti-Regulation Bills Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +4 | 7 |
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| 1995-01-01 | K Street Project Systematically Transforms Washington Lobbying Infrastructure Tom DeLay · Rick Santorum · Grover Norquist | 3 |
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| 1994-11-08 | California Proposition 187 Passes 59-41, Galvanizes Latino Voter Mobilization Pete Wilson · California voters · Latino civil rights organizations · +1 | 4 | |
| 1994-11-08 | Republicans Win Historic Midterm Election with Contract with America Newt Gingrich · Dick Armey · Richard Mellon Scaife · +3 | 6 |
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| 1994-10-25 | Clinton Signs CALEA Requiring Telecom Networks to Be Wiretap-Ready By Design Bill Clinton · Louis Freeh · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +3 | 6 |
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| 1994-10-01 | Operation Gatekeeper Launches Clinton Border Militarization, Funneling Migrants to Deadly Terrain Bill Clinton · Janet Reno · Doris Meissner · +2 | 5 |
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| 1994-09-29 | Riegle-Neal Act Enables Nationwide Bank Consolidation, Mortgage Market Transformation President Bill Clinton · Senator Donald Riegle · Representative Stephen Neal · +3 | 6 |
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| 1994-09-27 | Dellinger OLC Haiti Memo Establishes 'Consultation-Not-Authorization' Framework for War Powers — the Clinton-Era Doctrinal Bridge Walter Dellinger · Bill Clinton · U.S. Office of Legal Counsel · +4 | 7 |
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| 1994-09-26 | Clinton Healthcare Reform Dies After Insurance Industry Lobbying Campaign Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Health insurance industry · +2 | 5 |
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| 1994-09-13 | Crime Bill Allocates $8.7 Billion for Prison Construction With Truth-in-Sentencing Requirements Bill Clinton · State Governors · Prison Construction Industry | 3 |
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| 1994-09-13 | Federal Three Strikes Law Mandates Life Imprisonment for Third Violent Felony Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · U.S. Congress | 3 |
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| 1994-09-13 | Intelligence Community Deploys Intelink, Classified Web-Based Network Enabling Bulk Information Sharing James Woolsey · R. James Woolsey · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 | 6 |
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| 1994-09-13 | Violent Crime Control Act Expands Federal Wiretap Predicates and Roving Wiretap Authority Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · Department of Justice · +1 | 4 |
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| 1994-09-13 | Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act Fuels Mass Incarceration Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · Jack Brooks | 3 |
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| 1994-08-05 | Kenneth Starr Replaces Robert Fiske as Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr · Robert Fiske · Special Division Court · +1 | 4 |
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| 1994-07-01 | Wackenhut Corrections (Later GEO Group) Goes Public on NASDAQ, Second Major Private Prison Company Enters Wall Street Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) · GEO Group · George C. Zoley · +2 | 5 |
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| 1994-06-02 | Matt Blaze Publishes Clipper Chip Security Flaw, Demonstrates Key-Escrow Bypassability Matt Blaze · AT&T Bell Labs · National Security Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 1994-06-01 | FISA Court Annual Report Reveals 99%+ Approval Rate Over 15 Years, Rubber-Stamp Critique Crystallizes Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court · Department of Justice · Office of Intelligence Policy and Review · +1 | 4 |
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| 1994-01-12 | Whitewater Investigation Launches Under Special Counsel Robert Fiske Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Robert Fiske · +1 | 4 |
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| 1994-01-01 | ALEC Passes Three Strikes Model Legislation Co-Sponsored by Private Prison Industry and NRA American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · +3 | 6 |
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| 1994-01-01 | Jack Abramoff Joins Preston Gates - Launches Tribal Lobbying Practice Jack Abramoff · Preston Gates & Ellis · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · +2 | 5 |
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| 1994-01-01 | NAFTA Implementation Begins Manufacturing Job Hemorrhage Bill Clinton · George H.W. Bush · Carlos Salinas de Gortari · +2 | 5 |
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| 1994-01-01 | NAFTA Takes Effect as Zapatista Uprising Protests Privatization of Indigenous Lands EZLN Zapatista Army · Mexican Government · Indigenous Campesinos · +2 | 5 |
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| 1993-12-20 | Epstein Attends Trump's Wedding to Marla Maples Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump · Marla Maples | 3 | |
| 1993-12-08 | Clinton Signs NAFTA Creating Corporate Tribunals to Override National Laws Bill Clinton · Al Gore · Robert Rubin · +3 | 6 |
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| 1993-06-01 | $25 Million Corporate Lobbying Blitz Drives NAFTA Passage Despite Labor Opposition Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · +4 | 7 |
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| 1993-05-20 | National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter): Expands Registration Access Despite Republican Opposition and Implementation Resistance Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Republican Governors · +2 | 5 |
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| 1993-04-16 | Clinton White House Announces Clipper Chip, NSA-Designed Backdoor Encryption with Government Key Escrow Bill Clinton · Al Gore · National Security Agency · +3 | 6 |
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| 1993-02-26 | Port Authority Hires Kroll Associates After 1993 World Trade Center Bombing -- Private Intelligence Enters Counterterrorism Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Brian Michael Jenkins · +1 | 4 |
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| 1993-02-01 | US Customs Opens Criminal Investigation of Phil Zimmermann Over PGP Encryption Export Phil Zimmermann · U.S. Customs Service · RSA Security · +2 | 5 |
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| 1993-01-22 | Zoe Baird Nomination Collapses Over Undocumented Nanny, Launching Immigration Enforcement Politicization Bill Clinton · Zoe Baird · U.S. Senate · +2 | 5 | |
| 1993-01-14 | CFTC Chair Wendy Gramm Exempts Enron from Derivatives Regulation, Joins Board Five Weeks Later Wendy Gramm · Phil Gramm · Enron Corporation · +2 | 5 |
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| 1993-01-01 | Grover Norquist Wednesday Meetings Begin - Conservative Coordination Hub Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Republican Congressional Leadership · +1 | 4 |
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| 1993-01-01 | Philip Morris Creates TASSC Front Group, Exporting Tobacco Doubt Tactics to Climate Denial Philip Morris · The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition · Frederick Seitz · +3 | 6 | |
| 1993-01-01 | Sean Combs founds Bad Boy Records with strategic Arista Records investment Sean Combs · Bad Boy Records · Clive Davis · +3 | 6 | |
| 1993-01-01 | Trump appears in Epstein aircraft logbooks multiple times (DOJ exhibits) Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein | 2 | |
| 1992-12-24 | Bush Pardons Six Iran-Contra Officials on Christmas Eve, Completing Cover-Up George H.W. Bush · Caspar Weinberger · Robert McFarlane · +2 | 5 |
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| 1992-11-03 | Oregon Voters Defeat Measure 9, Anti-LGBTQ Constitutional Amendment Backed by Christian Right Oregon Citizens Alliance · Lon Mabon · Christian Coalition · +1 | 4 |
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| 1992-11-01 | Trump and Epstein at Mar-a-Lago Party with NFL Cheerleaders Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein | 2 | |
| 1992-11-01 | Trump Plaza Hotel in Manhattan Files for Bankruptcy Protection Donald Trump | 1 |
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| 1992-10-29 | FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Creates Financial Dependence on Pharmaceutical Industry Food and Drug Administration · PhRMA · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 |
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| 1992-10-01 | Russia Begins Mass Voucher Privatization: 148 Million Citizens Given Certificates Worth 'Two Volga Cars' That Become Worthless Anatoly Chubais · Boris Yeltsin · State Committee for State Property Management · +1 | 4 | |
| 1992-06-16 | Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Indicted on Five Iran-Contra Felonies Caspar Weinberger · Lawrence Walsh · Ronald Reagan · +1 | 4 |
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| 1992-06-13 | Clinton Uses 'Sister Souljah Moment' to Distance Democrats from Black Community Bill Clinton · Sister Souljah · Jesse Jackson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1992-05-01 | Los Angeles Riots Trigger Immigration Enforcement Intensification, 1,000 Deportations Immigration and Naturalization Service · Los Angeles Police Department · Pete Wilson · +1 | 4 | |
| 1992-04-06 | Caterpillar Defeats UAW Strike Using Permanent Replacement Threat, Pattern Bargaining Collapses Caterpillar Inc. · United Automobile Workers · Donald Fites | 3 | |
| 1992-03-09 | Trump Castle and Trump Plaza File Simultaneous Bankruptcies Donald Trump | 1 |
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| 1992-03-01 | FBI Launches Digital Telephony Initiative Demanding Wiretap-Ready Design in New Networks William Sessions · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Louis Freeh · +2 | 5 |
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| 1992-01-02 | Russia Launches 'Shock Therapy' Economic Reforms: Price Liberalization Triggers 2,520% Inflation and Economic Collapse Boris Yeltsin · Yegor Gaidar · Jeffrey Sachs · +3 | 6 | |
| 1992-01-01 | Christian Coalition Distributes 40 Million Voter Guides Through Churches: Electoral Infrastructure Embedded in Religious Institutions Pat Robertson · Ralph Reed · Christian Coalition | 3 |
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| 1992-01-01 | Harvard Receives $40 Million USAID Contract to Advise Russia's Economic Transition: 'Harvard's Blank Check from Uncle Sam' Harvard Institute for International Development · Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · +3 | 6 |
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| 1992-01-01 | SEC Investigates Madoff Feeder Fund Avellino & Bienes, Misses $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme in First Regulatory Failure Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff · Avellino & Bienes · +1 | 4 |
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| 1991-12-01 | Harvard's Sachs Becomes Yeltsin Economic Advisor After 'Grand Bargain' for Soviet Support Rejected by Bush Administration Jeffrey Sachs · Boris Yeltsin · Mikhail Gorbachev · +5 | 8 | |
| 1991-11-20 | Keating Five Ethics Findings: Cranston Reprimanded, Systemic Corruption Exposed Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · Donald Riegle · +4 | 7 |
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| 1991-07-05 | BCCI Bank Shut Down After Exposing CIA Drug Money Laundering Network William Casey · Manuel Noriega · Adnan Khashoggi · +1 | 4 |
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| 1991-07-05 | Kroll Associates Investigates BCCI Collapse, Demonstrating Private Intelligence Capability Rivaling Government Agencies Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Bank of Credit and Commerce International · +4 | 7 |
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| 1991-07-01 | Trump Taj Mahal Files First Bankruptcy After Junk Bond Collapse Donald Trump | 1 |
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| 1991-07-01 | Trump's Six Bankruptcies: Pattern of Borrowing Heavily and Walking Away Donald Trump | 1 |
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| 1991-06-15 | FBI Cellular Surveillance Pilot Programs Establish Mass-Collection Template Before CALEA Federal Bureau of Investigation · William Sessions · Harris Corporation · +1 | 4 |
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| 1991-06-05 | Trump Plaza Fined $200,000 for Removing Black Employees from Gaming Floor Donald Trump · Robert LiButti · Kip Brown | 3 |
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| 1991-06-04 | Minnesota Enacts First Charter School Law, Creating Template for Education Privatization Governor Arne Carlson · Minnesota Legislature · Citizens League · +2 | 5 |
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| 1991-01-01 | George C. Marshall Institute Becomes Central Node in Fossil Fuel-Funded Climate Denial George C. Marshall Institute · Frederick Seitz · Fred Singer · +4 | 7 |
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