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
2021-02-08Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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2021-02-02Saudi Dissident Omar Abdulaziz's Lawsuit Against McKinsey Filed in Federal Court 3 src
Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · +1
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2021-01-28Raytheon 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
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2021-01-21Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Vaccine Production on First Full Day in Office 3 src
Joe Biden
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2021-01-07Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook
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2021-01-01440 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
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2020-12-31Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted 3 src
Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice
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2020-12-27No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction 3 src
U.S. Congress · KKR · Private Equity Industry
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2020-12-16Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion 4 src
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +1
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2020-12-14NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths 4 src
Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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2020-12-09FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +1
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2020-12-01Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal 3 src
Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska
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2020-11-20CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM 3 src
Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2
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2020-11-03Facebook Rolls Back Election Safety Measures Immediately After 2020 Vote, Enabling "Stop the Steal" Misinformation 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump
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2020-10-21DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler
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2020-10-15Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged 3 src
Wells Fargo
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2020-10-01Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-09-08Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Nuclear ICBMs 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook
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2020-05-08AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly 3 src
AbbVie · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-04-28Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths 3 src
Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · Cargill · U.S. Department of Agriculture
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2020-04-03Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power 4 src
Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice
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2020-04-03Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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2020-03-30Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls
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2020-03-27Trump Orders General Motors to Produce Ventilators Under DPA After Nine-Day Delay Costs Lives 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · General Motors
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2020-03-18Trump Invokes Defense Production Act but Refuses to Compel PPE Production as Corporate Lobbying Blocks Emergency Powers 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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2020-03-01Facebook Internal Research Confirms Instagram Toxic for Teen Girls, Conceals Findings While Targeting Youth 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · Wall Street Journal · +1
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2020-02-21DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives 3 src
Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo
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2020-02-21Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged 3 src
Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2020-01-09Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys" 3 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · Richard Blumenthal
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2020-01-07Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches Congressional Inquiry Into McKinsey's ICE Contracts and Detention Recommendations 2 src
Pramila Jayapal · McKinsey & Company · Kevin Sneader · House Judiciary Committee · +1
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2020-01-01ALEC's Education Privatization Campaign Achieves Dominance - Model Legislation Controls Voucher Landscape Nationwide 5 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · DeVos family · +3
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2020-01-01CEO Pay Ratio Reaches 351-to-1 Versus Average Worker, Up from 21-to-1 in 1965 3 src
Workers
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2020-01-01Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance 4 src
DaVita · Richard Blumenthal · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-01-01McKinsey Advised Purdue on "Turbocharging" OxyContin Sales, Targeting High-Volume Prescribers 3 src
McKinsey & Company · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family
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2019-12-23Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Fired Over 737 MAX Disasters, Keeps $62 Million Despite 346 Deaths 4 src
346 crash victims
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2019-12-10New York Loses ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Lawsuit in Major Accountability Failure 4 src
Letitia James · ExxonMobil · Eric Schneiderman
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2019-12-03ProPublica Exposes McKinsey's ICE Work Through FOIA Lawsuit: 1,500 Pages Reveal Detention Cost-Cutting Proposals 7 src
ProPublica · New York Times · McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2019-11-15Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns 3 src
Federal Trade Commission
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2019-10-17Zuckerberg Georgetown Speech Announces Facebook Will Not Fact-Check Political Ads, Licensing Trump Campaign Lies 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump · Joe Biden · +1
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2019-10-07Sutter Health Settles Antitrust Case for $575 Million, Admits to All-or-Nothing Contracting and Price Concealment 3 src
California Attorney General
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2019-10-01Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Big Four Meatpackers Conspired to Fix Beef Prices and Manipulate Markets 3 src
Tyson Foods · Cargill
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2019-09-30WeWork Withdraws IPO After Valuation Collapses from $47 Billion to $10 Billion, Exposing Massive Corporate Governance Failure 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · New York Attorney General
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2019-09-15Purdue Pharma Files Bankruptcy to Shield Sackler Family from Civil Lawsuits 3 src
Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler
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2019-09-12France Orders Google to Pay €1B for Tax Fraud, Settles for €945M 4 src
Google
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2019-09-02Amazon Warehouse Worker Billy Foister Dies on Warehouse Floor After Heart Attack 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2019-08-26Oklahoma Wins $572 Million Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson for Opioid Public Nuisance 3 src
Johnson & Johnson
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2019-07-24FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra
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2019-05-21FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Department of Justice
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2019-05-15Utah adopts ALEC model legislation requiring legislative approval for "major" agency rules 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council
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2019-03-13FAA Finally Grounds 737 MAX After 51 Other Countries Act First, Exposing Regulatory Capture 3 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing
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2019-03-10Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crashes Due to MCAS Malfunction, Killing All 157 Aboard 4 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration
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2019-03-01McKinsey Managing Director Says Firm Would 'Walk' from Murderer Client, Then Increases Saudi Revenue 3 src
Kevin Sneader · McKinsey & Company · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · +1
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2019-02-17YouTube Pedophile Ring Enabled by Recommendation Algorithm Exposed by Matt Watson 4 src
YouTube · Google · Disney
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2019-01-01State Corporate Tax Rates Decline 33% Over Three Decades - ALEC's Interstate Race-to-Bottom Costs States $43-57 Billion Annually in Lost Revenue 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
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2018-12-15New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments 6 src
McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Saudi Arabia · China · +1
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2018-11-13Amazon Selects NYC and Arlington for HQ2—Extracting at Least $4.6 Billion in Subsidies 3 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Andrew Cuomo
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2018-11-06Facebook Admits Platform Used to "Incite Offline Violence" in Myanmar Genocide, Implements No Systemic Changes 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations
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2018-10-29Lion Air Flight 610 Crashes Due to Boeing 737 MAX MCAS System Malfunction 4 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration
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2018-10-21McKinsey Claims It's 'Horrified' After Saudi Dissident Report Made Public 3 src
McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Saudi Arabia · Omar Abdulaziz
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2018-10-16AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition 4 src
AbbVie · Mylan · Food and Drug Administration
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2018-10-02Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 But Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Options 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2018-09-17Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly 2 src
Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice
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2018-09-06McKinsey Holds Lavish Corporate Retreat in Kashgar Four Miles from Uyghur Concentration Camps 3 src
McKinsey & Company · China
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2018-09-05Bernie Sanders Introduces "Stop BEZOS Act" Targeting Amazon Wages 3 src
Bernie Sanders · Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ro Khanna
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2018-08-02SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · ExxonMobil · Donald Trump · Rex Tillerson
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2018-07-06McKinsey Agrees to Repay $74 Million to South Africa's Eskom After State Capture Scandal 3 src
McKinsey & Company · Eskom · Kevin Sneader
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2018-06-26New York Times Discloses McKinsey's $20 Million ICE Contract: Employee Outrage and Internal Crisis 2 src
McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kevin Sneader
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2018-06-07Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly 3 src
Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · European Commission
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2018-06-06Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion, Creating Solid Rocket Motor Monopoly 3 src
Northrop Grumman · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing
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2018-05-14Seattle Passes Head Tax on Large Employers—Amazon Threatens Expansion Halt, Washington Post Editorial Aligns with Owner's Interests 3 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Washington Post
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2018-05-04Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market 3 src
Axon · NYPD
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2018-02-27Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network 3 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Ring
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2018-02-02Federal Reserve Imposes Unprecedented Asset Cap on Wells Fargo 3 src
Federal Reserve · Janet Yellen · Wells Fargo Board
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2018-02-01Former CIA Director John Brennan Joins NBC/MSNBC as Analyst and WestExec Advisors, Building Intelligence-Media-Consulting Pipeline 4 src
John Brennan · NBC News · Antony Blinken · Avril Haines
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2018-01-01Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Again on $11.2 Billion Profit—Receives $129 Million Tax Rebate 3 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
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2017-12-18Great Northern Paper Bankruptcy Leaves 1,000 Maine Workers with Pennies on Dollar of Promised Pensions 3 src confirmed
2017-12-03CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power 3 src
CVS Health · Department of Justice
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2017-11-20Nebraska PSC Approves Keystone XL Pipeline Route Despite Eminent Domain Controversy and Landowner Opposition 7 src confirmed
2017-10-01ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time 5 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2017-09-07Amazon Launches HQ2 Bidding War—238 Cities Compete to Offer Billions in Subsidies 4 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos
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2017-08-25Facebook Algorithm Amplifies Myanmar Military Hate Speech Enabling Rohingya Genocide 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations · Amnesty International
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2017-07-31V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors 5 src confirmed
2017-06-01WestExec Advisors Founded by Blinken and Flournoy: The Revolving Door Becomes a Business Model 2 src
Antony Blinken · Avril Haines
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2017-05-16Boeing Delivers First 737 MAX Despite Internal Safety Concerns About MCAS 3 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration
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2017-05-15FCC Begins Investigation into Massive Fake Comments Campaign on Net Neutrality Repeal 4 src
Ajit Pai · Federal Communications Commission
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2017-05-01Epstein Attempts to Blackmail Bill Gates Over Russian Affair 3 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Bill Gates · Anna Chapman
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2017-05-01McKinsey Ghostwrites Its Own $2.2 Million ICE Contract Extension: Consulting Firm Defines Its Own Scope of Work 5 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2017-04-07Taser International Rebrands as Axon, Offers Free Body Cameras to Every US Police Officer in Aggressive Market Expansion 3 src
Axon · Rick Smith
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2017-04-01McKinsey Delivers Final Rikers Report After Violence Soars Nearly 50% During Contract Period 2 src
McKinsey & Company
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2017-03-30McKinsey Proposes 'Detention Savings Opportunities': Cuts to Food, Medical Care, and Guard Supervision for Migrants 5 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2017-03-30Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Political Donation Controversy 2 src
Palmer Luckey · Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump
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2017-03-20YouTube Serves Ads on Terror, Hate, Child Exploitation Content; Massive Boycott 4 src
YouTube · Google · British Government
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2017-02-07Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary in Historic VP Tie-Breaking Vote - First Ever for Cabinet Nominee 2 src
Betsy DeVos · Mike Pence · Susan Collins · Lisa Murkowski · +1
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2017-02-01McKinsey Redirected from Obama-Era ICE Reform to Trump Immigration Crackdown Consulting 6 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2017-01-20McKinsey's ICE Contract Redirected Toward Trump's Immigration Crackdown and Detention Cost-Cutting 18 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump
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2017-01-17CFPB Sues Navient for Systematically Cheating 12 Million Student Loan Borrowers Through Illegal Servicing Practices 4 src
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2017-01-17DeVos Confirmation Hearing Reveals Investments in Student Debt Collection - Ethics Review Incomplete 3 src
Betsy DeVos
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2017-01-10Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Sued for Insulin Price-Fixing Conspiracy as Prices Rise 300%+ 3 src
Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · CVS Caremark · +2
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2017-01-01Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax on $5.6 Billion Profit 3 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
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