Corporate Capture
The Corporate Capture capture lane traces 564 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
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10 actors · 1142–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-05 | Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision
3 src Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations
4 src Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme 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 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme 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 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Apprentice Producer Bill Pruitt's NDA Expires, Reveals Trump Used N-Word on Camera
3 src Bill Pruitt · Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-14 | DOJ Finds Boeing Breached Deferred Prosecution Agreement After Door Plug Blowout
3 src Department of Justice · Boeing · Federal District Court · Criminal Division Fraud Section · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-06 | Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care
3 src Steward Health Care · Ralph de la Torre · Cerberus Capital Management · Medical Properties Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-01 | Second Boeing Whistleblower Joshua Dean Dies Suddenly at 45 from MRSA Infection
4 src Joshua Dean · Spirit AeroSystems · Boeing · John Barnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber 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 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Biden Administration Finalizes Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule Despite Fierce Industry Opposition and Republican Backlash
4 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · American Health Care Association · LeadingAge · Kim Reynolds · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-09 | Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead During Deposition, Ruled Suicide
4 src John Barnett · Boeing · Charleston County Coroner · Charleston Police Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-27 | DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions
3 src Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Optum | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-16 | Judge Engoron Issues $454 Million Fraud Judgment Against Trump, Bans NY Business Operations
4 src Arthur Engoron · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Donald Trump Jr. · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-16 | JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers
3 src Department of Justice · JetBlue Airways · Spirit Airlines · Judge William Young | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Door Plug Blows Out at 16,000 Feet, Exposing Continued Boeing Safety Failures
4 src Alaska Airlines · Boeing · Spirit AeroSystems · Federal Aviation Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Boeing 737 MAX Scandal Summary - 346 Deaths, $2.5B Fine, Zero Executive Prosecutions
4 src Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · 346 crash victims · Dennis Muilenburg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Oracle Spends $11 Million on Federal Lobbying, Focuses on TikTok Data Storage Deal
3 src Oracle · U.S. Senate · Senate Commerce Committee · Senate Intelligence Committee | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Union Membership Collapses to 9.9%, Completing 70-Year Labor Destruction Campaign
3 src American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. unions | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-18 | FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Suzanne Clark | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-21 | Binance 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 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-14 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth Uses AI with 90% Error Rate to Deny Medicare Advantage Claims, Causing Patient Deaths
3 src UnitedHealth Group · NaviHealth · UnitedHealthcare | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-02 | IronNet Cybersecurity Collapses Into Bankruptcy, Former NSA Director Alexander's $1.2B Venture Implodes
5 src Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · LGL Systems Acquisition Corp · C5 Capital · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-02 | IronNet 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 · Matthew Olsen | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-26 | FTC Sues Amazon for Illegal Monopoly Maintenance Through Anti-Discounting and Seller Coercion
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy · 17 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-01 | FTC Issues Policy Statement on Orange Book Patent Gaming: Pharmaceutical Evergreening as Unfair Competition Under Section 5
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Andrew N. Ferguson · Food and Drug Administration · Amphastar · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community
3 src Oracle · Intelligence Community · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-10 | FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation · Activision Blizzard · Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief
3 src John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Shvartsman Brothers and Bruce Garelick Charged in $22.9 Million DWAC Insider Trading Scheme
5 src Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Rocket One Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-01 | House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon
3 src McKinsey & Company · House Select Committee on the CCP · John Moolenaar · Marco Rubio · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-31 | FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos
3 src Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-30 | Second Circuit Reverses District Court, Reinstates Sackler Immunity Deal
3 src U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-19 | Swiss Government Forces Emergency UBS Acquisition of Credit Suisse After Regulatory Failure, Ending 167 Years of Swiss Banking History
3 src Credit Suisse · UBS · FINMA · Swiss Federal Council · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-13 | ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case
2 src Cigna · ProPublica · House Committee on Energy and Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2023-02-15 | North Dakota Legislature Rejects Oil Royalty Protections, Creates Toothless Oversight Program
4 src North Dakota Legislature · Brad Bekkedahl · Don Longmuir · Ron Ness · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-02-03 | East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster
4 src Norfolk Southern Railway · National Transportation Safety Board · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-31 | FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Meta Platforms · Judge Edward Davila · Lina Khan | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-24 | DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup
4 src Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Jonathan Kanter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-11 | Amazon 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 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Cancer Drug Shortage Crisis Enables Gray Market Profiteering - Carboplatin Price Jumps from $50 to $500 Per Vial
4 src Big Pharma · Teva Pharmaceuticals · Food and Drug Administration · Gray Market Vendors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-06 | Trump Organization Convicted on All 17 Criminal Counts in Tax Fraud Trial
4 src Trump Organization · Trump Corporation · Trump Payroll Corporation · Alvin Bragg · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-22 | Trump Hosts White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago Dinner
3 src Donald Trump · Nick Fuentes · Kanye West | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-22 | Federal Court Dismisses Abdulaziz Lawsuit, Rules McKinsey Had No Duty to Protect Dissident
3 src Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · U.S. District Court Southern District of New York · Second Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-01 | Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting
3 src Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-19 | Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People
3 src Oracle · Irish Council for Civil Liberties · Johnny Ryan · Mike Katz-Lacabe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-18 | Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty to 15 Felonies, Agrees to Testify Against Trump Organization
4 src Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | 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 | |
| 2022-06-30 | 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 | |
| 2022-06-14 | 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 | |
| 2022-06-06 | Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Solar Panels, Heat Pumps, and Grid Components
3 src Joe Biden · Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-06 | 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 | |
| 2022-06-01 | Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine
3 src Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-18 | 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 | |
| 2022-05-12 | 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 | |
| 2022-05-02 | Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380
3 src Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses
2 src Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · OFAC | 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 | |
| 2022-03-25 | 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 | |
| 2022-03-03 | 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 | |
| 2022-02-25 | National $26 Billion Opioid Settlement with Distributors and J&J, Zero Executive Prosecutions
3 src McKesson · Cardinal Health · AmerisourceBergen · Johnson & Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-15 | 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 | |
| 2022-01-19 | Conservative Influencer Lauren Chen and Husband Liam Donovan Incorporate Tenet Media in Tennessee
2 src Lauren Chen · Liam Donovan · Tenet Media | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2021-12-15 | Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10%
3 src Private Equity Industry · Blackstone Group · KKR · TeamHealth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-10 | Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse
4 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | 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 | |
| 2021-11-16 | 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 | |
| 2021-11-02 | 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 | |
| 2021-10-20 | 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 | |
| 2021-10-05 | Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy
4 src Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-01 | Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition
3 src Robert Drain · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-02 | NLRB 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 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-29 | Nikola 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 · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR
3 src Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · White House Competition Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-06 | Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability
3 src Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Indicted for $1.7M Tax Fraud Scheme
4 src Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Cyrus Vance Jr. · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever
3 src Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-18 | Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls
4 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-09 | Amazon Defeats Bessemer Union Vote 1,798 to 738 After Intensive Anti-Union Campaign
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-05 | Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics
3 src Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-01 | Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy
4 src Genesis Healthcare · ReGen Healthcare · Joel Landau · David Gefner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-08 | Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union · Morgan Lewis | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-02 | Saudi Dissident Omar Abdulaziz's Lawsuit Against McKinsey Filed in Federal Court
3 src Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-28 | Raytheon CEO Hayes Tells Investors "Peace Not Going to Break Out" in Middle East, Sees Solid Growth
3 src Greg Hayes · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Joe Biden | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-21 | Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Vaccine Production on First Full Day in Office
3 src Joe Biden · Jeff Zients | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Oversight Board | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | 440 Voter Restriction Bills Introduced in 49 States - ALEC's Largest Suppression Wave
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · Republican state legislators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-31 | Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction
3 src U.S. Congress · TeamHealth · Envision Healthcare · Blackstone Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion
4 src Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths
4 src National Bureau of Economic Research · Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-09 | FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +2 | confirmed |