Capture lane

Corporate Capture

The Corporate Capture capture lane traces 562 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

562 events From Sep 4, 1872 To Mar 12, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2020-11-20CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM
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
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-10-21DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth
U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · +5
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2020-10-15Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged
Wells Fargo
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2020-10-01Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-09-08Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Nuclear ICBMs
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing · +1
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1
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2020-05-08AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-04-28Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths
Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2
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2020-04-03Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power
Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1
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2020-04-03Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · 3M · +1
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2020-03-30Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · David Zapolsky
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2020-03-27Trump Orders General Motors to Produce Ventilators Under DPA After Nine-Day Delay Costs Lives
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
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
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · Wall Street Journal · +1
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2020-02-21DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives
Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo
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2020-02-21Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged
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"
Boeing employees · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · House Transportation Committee · +1
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2020-01-07Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches Congressional Inquiry Into McKinsey's ICE Contracts and Detention Recommendations
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
American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education and Workforce Development Task Force · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · +6
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2020-01-01CEO Pay Ratio Reaches 351-to-1 Versus Average Worker, Up from 21-to-1 in 1965
CEOs · Corporate boards · Workers
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2020-01-01Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance
DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +1
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2020-01-01McKinsey Advised Purdue on "Turbocharging" OxyContin Sales, Targeting High-Volume Prescribers
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
Dennis Muilenburg · Boeing Board of Directors · David Calhoun · 346 crash victims · +1
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2019-12-10New York Loses ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Lawsuit in Major Accountability Failure
Barry Ostrager · Letitia James · ExxonMobil · New York Supreme Court · +1
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2019-12-03ProPublica Exposes McKinsey's ICE Work Through FOIA Lawsuit: 1,500 Pages Reveal Detention Cost-Cutting Proposals
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
Bristol-Myers Squibb · Celgene · Federal Trade Commission · Amgen · +1
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2019-10-17Zuckerberg Georgetown Speech Announces Facebook Will Not Fact-Check Political Ads, Licensing Trump Campaign Lies
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
Sutter Health · Xavier Becerra · California Attorney General
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2019-10-01Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Big Four Meatpackers Conspired to Fix Beef Prices and Manipulate Markets
Tyson Foods · JBS · Cargill · National Beef · +1
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2019-09-30WeWork Withdraws IPO After Valuation Collapses from $47 Billion to $10 Billion, Exposing Massive Corporate Governance Failure
Adam Neumann · WeWork · Securities and Exchange Commission · SoftBank · +2
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2019-09-15Purdue Pharma Files Bankruptcy to Shield Sackler Family from Civil Lawsuits
Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · David Sackler · +3
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2019-09-12France Orders Google to Pay €1B for Tax Fraud, Settles for €945M
Google · French tax authority · French government · Bruno Le Maire (Finance Minister) · +1
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2019-09-02Amazon Warehouse Worker Billy Foister Dies on Warehouse Floor After Heart Attack
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Billy Foister
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2019-08-26Oklahoma Wins $572 Million Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson for Opioid Public Nuisance
Thad Balkman · Johnson & Johnson · State of Oklahoma
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2019-07-24FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra · +2
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2019-05-21FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal
Federal Trade Commission · Lucy Koh · Qualcomm · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2
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2019-05-15Utah adopts ALEC model legislation requiring legislative approval for "major" agency rules
Ryan Wilcox · Daniel McCay · American Legislative Exchange Council · Utah State Legislature
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2019-03-13FAA Finally Grounds 737 MAX After 51 Other Countries Act First, Exposing Regulatory Capture
Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell · European Union Aviation Safety Agency · +3
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2019-03-10Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crashes Due to MCAS Malfunction, Killing All 157 Aboard
Ethiopian Airlines · Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · MCAS system · +2
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2019-03-01McKinsey Managing Director Says Firm Would 'Walk' from Murderer Client, Then Increases Saudi Revenue
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
YouTube · Google · Matt Watson (investigative YouTuber) · Pedophile networks · +4
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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
American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Corporate Lobby · Good Jobs First · +2
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2018-12-15New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments
McKinsey & Company · Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · The New York Times · +5
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2018-11-13Amazon Selects NYC and Arlington for HQ2—Extracting at Least $4.6 Billion in Subsidies
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Andrew Cuomo · Bill de Blasio · +1
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2018-11-06Facebook Admits Platform Used to "Incite Offline Violence" in Myanmar Genocide, Implements No Systemic Changes
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations · Rohingya Muslims · +1
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2018-10-29Lion Air Flight 610 Crashes Due to Boeing 737 MAX MCAS System Malfunction
Lion Air · Boeing · MCAS system · 189 victims · +2
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2018-10-21McKinsey Claims It's 'Horrified' After Saudi Dissident Report Made Public
McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · Saudi Arabia · Omar Abdulaziz · +1
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2018-10-16AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition
AbbVie · Amgen · Samsung Bioepis · Mylan · +4
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2018-10-02Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 But Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Options
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2018-09-17Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly
Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice · Makan Delrahim · +1
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2018-09-06McKinsey Holds Lavish Corporate Retreat in Kashgar Four Miles from Uyghur Concentration Camps
McKinsey & Company · China · Xinjiang · Uyghurs
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2018-09-05Bernie Sanders Introduces "Stop BEZOS Act" Targeting Amazon Wages
Bernie Sanders · Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ro Khanna
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2018-08-02SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration
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
McKinsey & Company · Eskom · South Africa · Gupta Family · +5
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2018-06-26New York Times Discloses McKinsey's $20 Million ICE Contract: Employee Outrage and Internal Crisis
McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kevin Sneader · +1
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2018-06-07Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly
Bayer AG · Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · +2
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2018-06-06Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion, Creating Solid Rocket Motor Monopoly
Northrop Grumman · Orbital ATK · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +1
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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
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Washington Post · Seattle City Council · +1
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2018-05-04Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market
Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2
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2018-02-27Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Jamie Siminoff · Ring
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2018-02-02Federal Reserve Imposes Unprecedented Asset Cap on Wells Fargo
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
John Brennan · NBC News · MSNBC · WestExec Advisors · +3
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2018-01-01Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Again on $11.2 Billion Profit—Receives $129 Million Tax Rebate
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
Brookfield Asset Management · Cate Street Capital · Great Northern Paper Company
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2017-12-03CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power
CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1
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2017-11-20Nebraska PSC Approves Keystone XL Pipeline Route Despite Eminent Domain Controversy and Landowner Opposition
Nebraska Public Service Commission · TransCanada Corporation · Bold Nebraska · Jane Kleeb · +2
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2017-10-01ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Migrant detainees
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2017-09-07Amazon Launches HQ2 Bidding War—238 Cities Compete to Offer Billions in Subsidies
Amazon · Jeff Bezos
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2017-08-25Facebook Algorithm Amplifies Myanmar Military Hate Speech Enabling Rohingya Genocide
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Myanmar Military · Rohingya Muslims · +2
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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
SCANA Corporation · Santee Cooper · Kevin Marsh · Stephen Byrne · +3
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2017-06-01WestExec Advisors Founded by Blinken and Flournoy: The Revolving Door Becomes a Business Model
Antony Blinken · Michèle Flournoy · Avril Haines · WestExec Advisors
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2017-05-16Boeing Delivers First 737 MAX Despite Internal Safety Concerns About MCAS
Boeing · Malindo Air · Southwest Airlines · Federal Aviation Administration · +2
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2017-05-15FCC Begins Investigation into Massive Fake Comments Campaign on Net Neutrality Repeal
Ajit Pai · Federal Communications Commission · New York Attorney General's Office
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2017-05-01Epstein Attempts to Blackmail Bill Gates Over Russian Affair
Jeffrey Epstein · Bill Gates · Mila Antonova · 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
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · ICE contracting officers
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2017-04-07Taser International Rebrands as Axon, Offers Free Body Cameras to Every US Police Officer in Aggressive Market Expansion
Axon · Rick Smith · Law Enforcement
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2017-04-01McKinsey Delivers Final Rikers Report After Violence Soars Nearly 50% During Contract Period
McKinsey & Company · New York City Department of Correction · Bill de Blasio
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2017-03-30McKinsey Proposes 'Detention Savings Opportunities': Cuts to Food, Medical Care, and Guard Supervision for Migrants
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · ICE career staff · Migrant detainees
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2017-03-30Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Political Donation Controversy
Palmer Luckey · Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump
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2017-03-20YouTube Serves Ads on Terror, Hate, Child Exploitation Content; Massive Boycott
YouTube · Google · Times of London · Major advertisers · +2
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2017-02-07Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary in Historic VP Tie-Breaking Vote - First Ever for Cabinet Nominee
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
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
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO)
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2017-01-17CFPB Sues Navient for Systematically Cheating 12 Million Student Loan Borrowers Through Illegal Servicing Practices
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Navient Corporation · Sallie Mae
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2017-01-17DeVos Confirmation Hearing Reveals Investments in Student Debt Collection - Ethics Review Incomplete
Betsy DeVos · Performant Financial · RDV Corporation
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2017-01-10Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Sued for Insulin Price-Fixing Conspiracy as Prices Rise 300%+
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
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
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2017-01-01Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange
Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Publishers · Advertisers · +1
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2016-11-20Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures
Morton County Sheriff's Department · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Mandan Rural Fire Department · Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council · +4
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2016-11-01Boeing Obtains FAA Approval to Conceal MCAS System from Pilot Manuals and Training
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing pilots · Airline pilots · +1
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2016-10-12Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation
John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan
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2016-10-10Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly
Anheuser-Busch InBev · SABMiller · Molson Coors · Department of Justice · +1
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2016-10-10Carl Icahn Closes Trump Taj Mahal Casino After Prolonged Labor Dispute
Carl Icahn · Donald Trump · Unite-HERE Local 54 union · Hard Rock International
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2016-10-01Council of Economic Advisers: Market Power Suppresses Wages, Contributes to $1+ Trillion in Lost Worker Income
Council of Economic Advisers · Workers · Dominant firms
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2016-09-27Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation
John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board
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2016-09-06ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees
ITT Technical Institute · Kevin Modany · Daniel Fitzpatrick · U.S. Department of Education · +1
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2016-09-01Facebook Embeds Staff in Trump Campaign Headquarters to Optimize Targeting for Voter Manipulation
Facebook · Brad Parscale · Trump Campaign · Mark Zuckerberg · +1
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2016-08-24Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress
Mylan · Heather Bresch · U.S. Congress
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2016-03-29Seventeen State Attorneys General Announce ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Investigations
Eric Schneiderman · Maura Healey · Claude Walker · ExxonMobil · +3
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