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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-01 | Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal
3 src Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska · Rusal | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-20 | CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-03 | Facebook Rolls Back Election Safety Measures Immediately After 2020 Vote, Enabling "Stop the Steal" Misinformation
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-21 | DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-15 | Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged
3 src Wells Fargo | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-01 | Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-08 | Northrop 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 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-01 | Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
3 src AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-28 | Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths
3 src Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power
4 src Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures
3 src Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · 3M · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-30 | Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · David Zapolsky | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-27 | Trump Orders General Motors to Produce Ventilators Under DPA After Nine-Day Delay Costs Lives
3 src Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · General Motors | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-18 | Trump 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 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-01 | Facebook Internal Research Confirms Instagram Toxic for Teen Girls, Conceals Findings While Targeting Youth
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · Wall Street Journal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives
3 src Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged
3 src Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-09 | Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys"
3 src Boeing employees · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · House Transportation Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-07 | Rep. 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 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | ALEC's Education Privatization Campaign Achieves Dominance - Model Legislation Controls Voucher Landscape Nationwide
5 src American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education and Workforce Development Task Force · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | CEO Pay Ratio Reaches 351-to-1 Versus Average Worker, Up from 21-to-1 in 1965
3 src CEOs · Corporate boards · Workers | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance
4 src DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | McKinsey Advised Purdue on "Turbocharging" OxyContin Sales, Targeting High-Volume Prescribers
3 src McKinsey & Company · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-23 | Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Fired Over 737 MAX Disasters, Keeps $62 Million Despite 346 Deaths
4 src Dennis Muilenburg · Boeing Board of Directors · David Calhoun · 346 crash victims · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-10 | New York Loses ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Lawsuit in Major Accountability Failure
4 src Barry Ostrager · Letitia James · ExxonMobil · New York Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-03 | ProPublica 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) | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-15 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns
3 src Bristol-Myers Squibb · Celgene · Federal Trade Commission · Amgen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-17 | Zuckerberg Georgetown Speech Announces Facebook Will Not Fact-Check Political Ads, Licensing Trump Campaign Lies
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump · Joe Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-07 | Sutter Health Settles Antitrust Case for $575 Million, Admits to All-or-Nothing Contracting and Price Concealment
3 src Sutter Health · Xavier Becerra · California Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Big Four Meatpackers Conspired to Fix Beef Prices and Manipulate Markets
3 src Tyson Foods · JBS · Cargill · National Beef · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-30 | WeWork Withdraws IPO After Valuation Collapses from $47 Billion to $10 Billion, Exposing Massive Corporate Governance Failure
3 src Adam Neumann · WeWork · Securities and Exchange Commission · SoftBank · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-15 | Purdue Pharma Files Bankruptcy to Shield Sackler Family from Civil Lawsuits
3 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · David Sackler · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-12 | France Orders Google to Pay €1B for Tax Fraud, Settles for €945M
4 src Google · French tax authority · French government · Bruno Le Maire (Finance Minister) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-02 | Amazon Warehouse Worker Billy Foister Dies on Warehouse Floor After Heart Attack
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Billy Foister | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-26 | Oklahoma Wins $572 Million Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson for Opioid Public Nuisance
3 src Thad Balkman · Johnson & Johnson · State of Oklahoma | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-21 | FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Lucy Koh · Qualcomm · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-15 | Utah adopts ALEC model legislation requiring legislative approval for "major" agency rules
3 src Ryan Wilcox · Daniel McCay · American Legislative Exchange Council · Utah State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-13 | FAA Finally Grounds 737 MAX After 51 Other Countries Act First, Exposing Regulatory Capture
3 src Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell · European Union Aviation Safety Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-10 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crashes Due to MCAS Malfunction, Killing All 157 Aboard
4 src Ethiopian Airlines · Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · MCAS system · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-01 | McKinsey 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 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-17 | YouTube Pedophile Ring Enabled by Recommendation Algorithm Exposed by Matt Watson
4 src YouTube · Google · Matt Watson (investigative YouTuber) · Pedophile networks · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | State 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 · Corporate Lobby · Good Jobs First · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments
6 src McKinsey & Company · Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · The New York Times · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-13 | Amazon Selects NYC and Arlington for HQ2—Extracting at Least $4.6 Billion in Subsidies
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Andrew Cuomo · Bill de Blasio · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Facebook Admits Platform Used to "Incite Offline Violence" in Myanmar Genocide, Implements No Systemic Changes
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations · Rohingya Muslims · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-29 | Lion Air Flight 610 Crashes Due to Boeing 737 MAX MCAS System Malfunction
4 src Lion Air · Boeing · MCAS system · 189 victims · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-21 | McKinsey Claims It's 'Horrified' After Saudi Dissident Report Made Public
3 src McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · Saudi Arabia · Omar Abdulaziz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition
4 src AbbVie · Amgen · Samsung Bioepis · Mylan · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 But Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Options
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly
2 src Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice · Makan Delrahim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-06 | McKinsey Holds Lavish Corporate Retreat in Kashgar Four Miles from Uyghur Concentration Camps
3 src McKinsey & Company · China · Xinjiang · Uyghurs | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-05 | Bernie Sanders Introduces "Stop BEZOS Act" Targeting Amazon Wages
3 src Bernie Sanders · Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ro Khanna | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-02 | SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · ExxonMobil · Donald Trump · Rex Tillerson | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-06 | McKinsey Agrees to Repay $74 Million to South Africa's Eskom After State Capture Scandal
3 src McKinsey & Company · Eskom · South Africa · Gupta Family · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-26 | New 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 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-07 | Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly
3 src Bayer AG · Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-06 | Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion, Creating Solid Rocket Motor Monopoly
3 src Northrop Grumman · Orbital ATK · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-14 | Seattle 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 · Seattle City Council · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-04 | Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market
3 src Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-27 | Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Jamie Siminoff · Ring | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-02 | Federal Reserve Imposes Unprecedented Asset Cap on Wells Fargo
3 src Federal Reserve · Janet Yellen · Wells Fargo Board | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-01 | Former CIA Director John Brennan Joins NBC/MSNBC as Analyst and WestExec Advisors, Building Intelligence-Media-Consulting Pipeline
4 src John Brennan · NBC News · MSNBC · WestExec Advisors · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Amazon 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 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-18 | Great Northern Paper Bankruptcy Leaves 1,000 Maine Workers with Pennies on Dollar of Promised Pensions
3 src Brookfield Asset Management · Cate Street Capital · Great Northern Paper Company | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power
3 src CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-20 | Nebraska PSC Approves Keystone XL Pipeline Route Despite Eminent Domain Controversy and Landowner Opposition
7 src Nebraska Public Service Commission · TransCanada Corporation · Bold Nebraska · Jane Kleeb · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-01 | ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time
5 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Migrant detainees | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-07 | Amazon Launches HQ2 Bidding War—238 Cities Compete to Offer Billions in Subsidies
4 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-25 | Facebook Algorithm Amplifies Myanmar Military Hate Speech Enabling Rohingya Genocide
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Myanmar Military · Rohingya Muslims · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-31 | V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors
5 src SCANA Corporation · Santee Cooper · Kevin Marsh · Stephen Byrne · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-01 | WestExec Advisors Founded by Blinken and Flournoy: The Revolving Door Becomes a Business Model
2 src Antony Blinken · Michèle Flournoy · Avril Haines · WestExec Advisors | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-16 | Boeing Delivers First 737 MAX Despite Internal Safety Concerns About MCAS
3 src Boeing · Malindo Air · Southwest Airlines · Federal Aviation Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-15 | FCC Begins Investigation into Massive Fake Comments Campaign on Net Neutrality Repeal
4 src Ajit Pai · Federal Communications Commission · New York Attorney General's Office | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-01 | Epstein Attempts to Blackmail Bill Gates Over Russian Affair
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Bill Gates · Mila Antonova · Anna Chapman | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-01 | McKinsey 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) · ICE contracting officers | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-07 | Taser International Rebrands as Axon, Offers Free Body Cameras to Every US Police Officer in Aggressive Market Expansion
3 src Axon · Rick Smith · Law Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-01 | McKinsey Delivers Final Rikers Report After Violence Soars Nearly 50% During Contract Period
2 src McKinsey & Company · New York City Department of Correction · Bill de Blasio | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-30 | McKinsey Proposes 'Detention Savings Opportunities': Cuts to Food, Medical Care, and Guard Supervision for Migrants
5 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · ICE career staff · Migrant detainees | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-30 | Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Political Donation Controversy
2 src Palmer Luckey · Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-20 | YouTube Serves Ads on Terror, Hate, Child Exploitation Content; Massive Boycott
4 src YouTube · Google · Times of London · Major advertisers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-07 | Betsy 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 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-01 | McKinsey 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 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | McKinsey's ICE Contract Redirected Toward Trump's Immigration Crackdown and Detention Cost-Cutting
18 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | CFPB Sues Navient for Systematically Cheating 12 Million Student Loan Borrowers Through Illegal Servicing Practices
4 src Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Navient Corporation · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | DeVos Confirmation Hearing Reveals Investments in Student Debt Collection - Ethics Review Incomplete
3 src Betsy DeVos · Performant Financial · RDV Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-10 | Eli 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 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax on $5.6 Billion Profit
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange
4 src Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Publishers · Advertisers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-20 | Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures
4 src Morton County Sheriff's Department · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Mandan Rural Fire Department · Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-01 | Boeing Obtains FAA Approval to Conceal MCAS System from Pilot Manuals and Training
3 src Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing pilots · Airline pilots · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-12 | Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation
3 src John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-10 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly
3 src Anheuser-Busch InBev · SABMiller · Molson Coors · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-10 | Carl Icahn Closes Trump Taj Mahal Casino After Prolonged Labor Dispute
3 src Carl Icahn · Donald Trump · Unite-HERE Local 54 union · Hard Rock International | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-01 | Council of Economic Advisers: Market Power Suppresses Wages, Contributes to $1+ Trillion in Lost Worker Income
3 src Council of Economic Advisers · Workers · Dominant firms | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-27 | Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation
3 src John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-06 | ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees
4 src ITT Technical Institute · Kevin Modany · Daniel Fitzpatrick · U.S. Department of Education · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-01 | Facebook Embeds Staff in Trump Campaign Headquarters to Optimize Targeting for Voter Manipulation
4 src Facebook · Brad Parscale · Trump Campaign · Mark Zuckerberg · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress
3 src Mylan · Heather Bresch · U.S. Congress | confirmed |