Capture lane

Corporate Capture

The Corporate Capture capture lane traces 575 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

575 events From Sep 4, 1872 To May 7, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1142–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-01-13Trump Inauguration Raises Record $245 Million with $161 Million from Corporations Facing Federal Enforcement 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Inaugural Committee · Amazon · Meta · +3
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2024-12-19SEC Charges Cantor Fitzgerald $6.75 Million for Misleading SPAC Disclosures 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick
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2024-12-13McKinsey Agrees to $650 Million Criminal Settlement for Role in 'Turbocharging' Opioid Sales for Purdue Pharma 3 src
McKinsey & Company · U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration
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2024-12-10FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons $24.6B Grocery Merger, Citing Labor and Consumer Harm 3 src
Federal Trade Commission
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2024-12-06McKinsey Pays $73 Million Final Settlement to South Africa in State Capture Resolution 3 src
McKinsey & Company · U.S. Department of Justice · Eskom
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2024-12-05McKinsey Africa Agrees to Pay $122 Million Settlement for Bribery of South African Officials 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Eskom
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2024-09-20FDA Commissioner Califf's Pharmaceutical Industry Revolving Door Scrutinized 3 src
Food and Drug Administration · Joe Manchin · Bernie Sanders
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2024-09-19General Dynamics Virginia-Class Submarine Program Revealed to Be $17 Billion Over Budget with 2-3 Year Delays 3 src
General Dynamics · U.S. Navy
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2024-08-20Defense Contractors Market Ukraine War as "Battle-Tested" Surveillance Technology Proving Ground 3 src
Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Clearview AI
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2024-08-16Humana Pays $90 Million to Settle First-of-Its-Kind Medicare Part D Fraud Case for Fraudulent Bidding 3 src
Humana · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice
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2024-08-09Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage 3 src
Oracle
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2024-08-05Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision 3 src
Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1
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2024-07-15xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations 4 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak
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2024-06-27Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice
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2024-06-27Supreme Court Rejects Sackler Immunity in 5-4 Decision, Blocks Bankruptcy Shield 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2
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2024-05-30Apprentice Producer Bill Pruitt's NDA Expires, Reveals Trump Used N-Word on Camera 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Burnett
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2024-05-14DOJ Finds Boeing Breached Deferred Prosecution Agreement After Door Plug Blowout 3 src
Department of Justice · Boeing
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2024-05-06Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care 3 src
Senate HELP Committee
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2024-05-01Second Boeing Whistleblower Joshua Dean Dies Suddenly at 45 from MRSA Infection 4 src
Boeing · John Barnett
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2024-04-24Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority 3 src
U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Business Roundtable
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2024-04-23Biden Administration Finalizes Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule Despite Fierce Industry Opposition and Republican Backlash 4 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Republican Governors · Biden Administration · Trump Administration
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2024-03-09Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead During Deposition, Ruled Suicide 4 src
John Barnett · Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration
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2024-02-27DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions 3 src
Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare
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2024-02-16Judge Engoron Issues $454 Million Fraud Judgment Against Trump, Bans NY Business Operations 4 src
Arthur Engoron · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Donald Trump Jr. · +3
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2024-01-16JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers 3 src
Department of Justice
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2024-01-05Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Door Plug Blows Out at 16,000 Feet, Exposing Continued Boeing Safety Failures 4 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration
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2024-01-05Boeing 737 MAX Scandal Summary - 346 Deaths, $2.5B Fine, Zero Executive Prosecutions 4 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · 346 crash victims · Department of Justice · +1
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2024-01-01Oracle Spends $11 Million on Federal Lobbying, Focuses on TikTok Data Storage Deal 3 src
Oracle · U.S. Senate · Senate Intelligence Committee
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2024-01-01Union Membership Collapses to 9.9%, Completing 70-Year Labor Destruction Campaign 3 src
American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics
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2023-12-18FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter
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2023-12-01Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency 3 src
U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan
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2023-11-21Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao Plead Guilty to Money Laundering in $4.3 Billion DOJ Settlement 5 src
Changpeng Zhao · Binance · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · +6
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2023-11-14Class Action Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth Uses AI with 90% Error Rate to Deny Medicare Advantage Claims, Causing Patient Deaths 3 src
UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare
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2023-10-02IronNet Cybersecurity Collapses Into Bankruptcy, Former NSA Director Alexander's $1.2B Venture Implodes 5 src
Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · Mike Rogers
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2023-10-02IronNet Files for Bankruptcy: Former NSA Director Keith Alexander's $1.2B Cybersecurity Venture Collapses, SEC Charges Follow 2 src
Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2023-09-26FTC Sues Amazon for Illegal Monopoly Maintenance Through Anti-Discounting and Seller Coercion 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy
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2023-09-01FTC Issues Policy Statement on Orange Book Patent Gaming: Pharmaceutical Evergreening as Unfair Competition Under Section 5 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Food and Drug Administration · Mylan
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2023-08-15Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community 3 src
Oracle · Intelligence Community · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency
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2023-07-10FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation
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2023-06-30Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief 3 src
John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan
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2023-06-29Shvartsman Brothers and Bruce Garelick Charged in $22.9 Million DWAC Insider Trading Scheme 5 src
Bruce Garelick · Southern District of New York · U.S. Department of Justice
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2023-06-01House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon 3 src
McKinsey & Company · Marco Rubio · Josh Hawley · China · +1
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2023-05-31FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos 3 src
Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission
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2023-05-30Second Circuit Reverses District Court, Reinstates Sackler Immunity Deal 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice
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2023-03-19Swiss Government Forces Emergency UBS Acquisition of Credit Suisse After Regulatory Failure, Ending 167 Years of Swiss Banking History 3 src confirmed
2023-03-13ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case 2 src
Cigna · ProPublica
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2023-02-15North Dakota Legislature Rejects Oil Royalty Protections, Creates Toothless Oversight Program 4 src confirmed
2023-02-03East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster 4 src
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Trump Administration
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2023-01-31FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan
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2023-01-24DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup 4 src
Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Jonathan Kanter
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2023-01-11Amazon Refuses to Negotiate with JFK8 Union After NLRB Certification - Stalls Contract for Over a Year 3 src
Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · Christian Smalls · National Labor Relations Board
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2023-01-01Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale 3 src
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1
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2023-01-01Cancer Drug Shortage Crisis Enables Gray Market Profiteering - Carboplatin Price Jumps from $50 to $500 Per Vial 4 src
Big Pharma · Food and Drug Administration
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2022-12-06Trump Organization Convicted on All 17 Criminal Counts in Tax Fraud Trial 4 src
Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · Donald Trump · +1
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2022-11-22Trump Hosts White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago Dinner 3 src
Donald Trump · Nick Fuentes
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2022-11-18Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures 3 src
Elizabeth Holmes · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · Food and Drug Administration · +1
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2022-11-11FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure 3 src
Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · +2
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2022-09-22Federal Court Dismisses Abdulaziz Lawsuit, Rules McKinsey Had No Duty to Protect Dissident 3 src
Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Second Circuit Court of Appeals
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2022-09-01Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting 3 src
McKinsey & Company · New York Times
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2022-08-19Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People 3 src
Oracle
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2022-08-18Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty to 15 Felonies, Agrees to Testify Against Trump Organization 4 src
Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · +1
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2022-07-01Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership 3 src
Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance
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2022-06-30Supreme Court Establishes Major Questions Doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA, Limiting Regulatory Power 5 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9
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2022-06-14FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy 3 src
Federal Trade Commission
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2022-06-06Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Solar Panels, Heat Pumps, and Grid Components 3 src
Joe Biden · Department of Energy
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2022-06-06Nine of Thirteen Axon Ethics Board Members Resign After Company Announces Taser-Equipped Drones Without Consultation 3 src
Axon · Rick Smith
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2022-06-01Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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2022-05-18Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Baby Formula After Abbott Recall Exposes Dangerous Monopoly 3 src
Joe Biden · Food and Drug Administration · U.S. Department of Defense
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2022-05-12House Investigation Reveals Meatpacking Industry Drafted Trump DPA Order While 59,000 Workers Infected 3 src
Tyson Foods · Cargill · U.S. Department of Agriculture
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2022-05-02Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380 3 src
Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union
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2022-04-15Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses 2 src
Chainalysis · OFAC
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2022-04-12Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers 3 src
Amazon
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2022-04-01Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union
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2022-03-25French Senate Investigation Reveals 'McKinsey Gate' Scandal: Nearly €1 Billion in Government Consulting Fees 2 src
McKinsey & Company · Emmanuel Macron
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2022-03-03Russian State Media Outlet RT America Ceases Operations and Lays Off All Staff After Major Distributors Drop Channel 4 src
RT (Russia Today)
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2022-02-25National $26 Billion Opioid Settlement with Distributors and J&J, Zero Executive Prosecutions 3 src
Johnson & Johnson · State Attorneys General
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2022-02-15Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions 3 src
Oracle · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Air Force
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2022-01-19Conservative Influencer Lauren Chen and Husband Liam Donovan Incorporate Tenet Media in Tennessee 2 src
Lauren Chen · Liam Donovan · Tenet Media
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2022-01-03Theranos 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
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2021-12-21SEC Charges Nikola Corporation $125 Million for SPAC-Related Fraud and False Claims 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Nikola Corporation · Trevor Milton
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2021-12-16Federal Judge Overturns Sackler Immunity Deal, Rules Bankruptcy Law Violated 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice
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2021-12-15Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10% 3 src
Private Equity Industry · KKR
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2021-12-10Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse 4 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2021-11-23Federal Jury Finds CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Liable for Fueling Ohio Opioid Crisis 3 src
Walgreens
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2021-11-16Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History 3 src
Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division
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2021-11-02Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History 3 src
Pfizer · U.S. government
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2021-11-01In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids' 2 src
In-Q-Tel
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2021-10-20Digital 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
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2021-10-05Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy 4 src
Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1
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2021-09-01Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · State Attorneys General
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2021-08-02NLRB Hearing Officer Rules Amazon Illegally Interfered in Bessemer Election, Recommends New Vote 3 src
National Labor Relations Board · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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2021-07-29Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted for Securities Fraud, Exposing How SPAC Loophole Enabled Investor Deception 3 src
Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
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2021-07-09Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR 3 src
Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice
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2021-07-06Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability 3 src
Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1
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2021-07-01Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Indicted for $1.7M Tax Fraud Scheme 4 src
Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Manhattan District Attorney · Donald Trump
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2021-06-15Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever 3 src
Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission
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2021-05-18Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos
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2021-04-09Amazon Defeats Bessemer Union Vote 1,798 to 738 After Intensive Anti-Union Campaign 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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2021-03-05Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense
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2021-03-01Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy 4 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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