| 2017-01-01 | Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange
4 src Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton |
| confirmed |
| 2016-11-20 | Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures
4 src Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Energy Transfer Partners · Al Franken · Cory Booker |
| confirmed |
| 2016-11-01 | Boeing Obtains FAA Approval to Conceal MCAS System from Pilot Manuals and Training
3 src Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-12 | Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation
3 src John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-10 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly
3 src Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-10 | Carl Icahn Closes Trump Taj Mahal Casino After Prolonged Labor Dispute
3 src Carl Icahn · Donald Trump |
| 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 |
| 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 U.S. Department of Education · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-01 | Facebook Embeds Staff in Trump Campaign Headquarters to Optimize Targeting for Voter Manipulation
4 src Facebook · Trump Campaign · Mark Zuckerberg · Cambridge Analytica |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress
3 src Mylan · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2016-03-29 | Seventeen State Attorneys General Announce ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Investigations
4 src Eric Schneiderman · ExxonMobil · New York Attorney General |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | YouTube Algorithm Optimizes for Watch Time, Systematically Amplifies Extremism
4 src YouTube · Google |
| confirmed |
| 2015-12-01 | McKinsey Develops Saudi Vision 2030 Economic Blueprint for Crown Prince MBS
7 src McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-31 | Valeant Pharmaceuticals Scandal Exposes Systematic Price Gouging Strategy - 3000% Increase on Syprine, Philidor Fraud Network
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-21 | Martin Shkreli Raises Daraprim Price by 5,000%, From $13.50 to $750 Per Pill
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-16 | InsideClimate News Launches
4 src ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 2015-07-01 | McKinsey and NYC Corrections Officials Rig 'Restart' Program Data at Rikers Island
2 src McKinsey & Company | | confirmed |
| 2015-05-06 | Oklahoma Governor Signs HB 1749 Banning State Payroll Deductions for Teachers Union Dues Despite Technical Flaws
3 src Oklahoma Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2015-04-27 | Corinthian Colleges Files Bankruptcy After Federal Crackdown on For-Profit College Fraud
4 src Corinthian Colleges · U.S. Department of Education · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities |
| confirmed |
| 2015-04-01 | Oklahoma Corporation Commission Orders 347 Disposal Wells to Prove Non-Contact with Basement Rock After Earthquake Surge
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2015-01-01 | Boeing Rushes 737 MAX Development to Beat Airbus, Cutting Development Time in Half
3 src Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-13 | GM Plant Stops Using Flint Water After It Corrodes Car Parts—But Residents Must Keep Drinking It
3 src General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government |
| confirmed |
| 2014-07-01 | Academi (formerly Blackwater) Merges with Triple Canopy to Form Constellis Holdings, Third Corporate Rebranding
3 src Triple Canopy · Constellis Holdings · Blackwater |
| confirmed |
| 2014-05-01 | Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Founds IronNet Cybersecurity, Charges $1 Million/Month for Intelligence Expertise
4 src Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican National Committee · Anthony Kennedy · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-09 | American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market
3 src American Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2013-09-27 | SAIC Splits into Leidos and New SAIC, Restructuring the Largest Intelligence Contractor
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-05 | Jeff Bezos Purchases Washington Post for $250 Million
3 src Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2013-07-01 | ALEC Coordinates 139 Education Privatization Bills Across States - Systematic Public School Defunding Campaign
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-21 | Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-01 | Former CIA Director David Petraeus Becomes Chairman of KKR Global Institute, Converting Intelligence Access Into Private Equity Value
3 src David Petraeus · KKR · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2013-05-21 | Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate
4 src Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-04-23 | CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program
4 src James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet |
| confirmed |
| 2013-03-01 | Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · IBM |
| confirmed |
| 2012-08-10 | FTC Finalizes 2012 Consent Decree Against Facebook — Privacy Order That Did Not Stop Surveillance-Advertising Substrate
5 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg |
| confirmed |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings
4 src Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple |
| confirmed |
| 2012-07-30 | Senate Harkin Report Documents Massive Fraud and Abuse in For-Profit College Industry
3 src Senate HELP Committee · University of Phoenix · Corinthian Colleges · Education Management Corporation (EDMC) |
| confirmed |
| 2012-07-25 | Congress Overrides Army to Fund $255 Million in Unwanted Abrams Tank Upgrades to Protect General Dynamics Ohio Plant
3 src General Dynamics · Rob Portman · Sherrod Brown · Jim Jordan |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-22 | Kansas Governor Brownback Signs ALEC-Laffer Tax Plan Eliminating Pass-Through Business Income Taxes - 'Kansas Experiment' Becomes Test Case for Supply-Side Economics
4 src Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-13 | Major Corporate Exodus from ALEC: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald's, Wendy's, Mars, and Intuit Drop Membership After Public Pressure Campaign
3 src Color of Change · American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · Common Cause |
| confirmed |
| 2012-03-02 | Iowa Governor Branstad Signs Nation's First Modern Ag-Gag Law Criminalizing Undercover Documentation of Agricultural Facility Abuses, Using ALEC Model Legislation to Shield Corporate Factory Farms from Whistleblower Investigations
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2012-02-27 | WikiLeaks Publishes 5 Million Stratfor Emails Revealing Private Intelligence Firm's Surveillance of Activists and Corporate Espionage
4 src WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Anonymous · Lockheed Martin · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Amazon Implements Automated Worker Surveillance and Tracking System
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices Enables Facility Fee Price Gouging, Driving 53% Increase in Outpatient Costs
3 src Hospital corporations · Private equity firms |
| confirmed |
| 2011-09-18 | Amazon Lehigh Valley Warehouse Heat Exhaustion Scandal Exposed
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2011-08-30 | Boeing Abandons New Aircraft Design, Chooses to Re-Engine 737 to Compete with Airbus
4 src American Airlines | | confirmed |
| 2011-07-01 | ALEC Achieves Systematic Legislative Capture: 200+ Corporate-Drafted Bills Enacted Annually Across States
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-05-11 | FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker Joins Comcast Four Months After Approving NBC Universal Merger
3 src Comcast Corporation · Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-03 | Evan Bayh Joins Apollo Global Management and Five Corporate Boards After Senate
3 src Apollo Global Management |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | 34 States Introduce ALEC Voter ID Bills in Coordinated Suppression Campaign
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Republican state legislators · Heritage Foundation · State Policy Network |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | ALEC Grants Corporate Lobbyists 'Equal Vote' on Model Legislation for State Legislatures
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Arizona Becomes First State to Enact ALEC-Inspired Education Savings Accounts - Pioneering Universal Voucher Path
4 src Jan Brewer · American Legislative Exchange Council · K12 Inc. |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Erik Prince Receives $529M Contract to Build Secret Mercenary Army for UAE Crown Prince
3 src Erik Prince · United Arab Emirates |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Patent Troll Explosion: Non-Practicing Entities Impose $29 Billion Annual Cost on U.S. Economy, Targeting Small Businesses
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-31 | Donors Trust Becomes Primary Climate Denial Dark Money Conduit
4 src Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · Heartland Institute · Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-03 | ALEC Coordinates Right-to-Work Push After 2010 GOP Midterm Wave
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2010-07-19 | Washington Post Publishes "Top Secret America," Revealing 1,931 Private Companies in Intelligence Work and Massive Revolving Door
4 src Washington Post · Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-21 | Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Election Commission · Anthony Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Chertoff Promotes Airport Body Scanners on Media While His Firm Represents Manufacturer Rapiscan
4 src Michael Chertoff · The Chertoff Group · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-01 | Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law Drafted at ALEC Meeting with CCA Executives - Direct Quid Pro Quo for Immigrant Detention Profits
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Jan Brewer · GEO Group |
| confirmed |
| 2009-07-17 | ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill
3 src Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-19 | Koch Network Prepares Tea Party Mobilization After Santelli Rant
4 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-15 | Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Enters Private Sector, Joins Chertoff Group and Corporate Boards
3 src Michael Hayden · The Chertoff Group · Michael Chertoff |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-02 | Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff Founds The Chertoff Group, Immediately Monetizing Homeland Security Expertise
4 src Michael Chertoff · The Chertoff Group · Department of Homeland Security · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Americans for Prosperity Organizational Profile: Koch Brothers' Astroturf Empire Manufacturing Fake Grassroots Movements
4 src Americans for Prosperity · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave
3 src Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-31 | Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor
4 src Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · National Security Agency · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-10-02 | Erik Prince Testifies Before Congress Defending Blackwater Despite Evidence of 195 Shooting Incidents
3 src Erik Prince · Blackwater · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Henry Waxman |
| confirmed |
| 2007-05-10 | Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding, $600M Fine, Zero Executives Jailed
3 src Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-12 | Halliburton Moves CEO and Corporate Headquarters to Dubai for Tax Advantages and Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Weeks Before Completing KBR Spin-Off
3 src Halliburton · Dick Cheney · Patrick Leahy |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-31 | New Century Financial Conceals Massive Early Payment Defaults Through Accounting Fraud in 2006
2 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Rating agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup
3 src Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-07-05 | Ken Lay Dies Before Sentencing, Conviction Later Vacated
3 src Kenneth Lay |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
3 src Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-30 | Investigation Reveals $15M in Lobbyist-Funded Congressional Travel and Fact-Finding Junkets
3 src Tom DeLay · Jack Abramoff |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-03 | L-3 Communications Acquires Titan Corporation for $2.65 Billion, Absorbing Abu Ghraib Contractor
3 src Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2005-03-14 | Tom Daschle Joins Private Equity Firm and Lobbying After Senate Majority Leadership
3 src Tom Daschle |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Approves 'Great Schools Tax Credit' Model - Launches Systematic Education Privatization Campaign
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · DeVos family · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Models Achieve Nationwide Adoption, Guaranteeing Private Prison Profits
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | CIA's In-Q-Tel Makes Strategic Investment in Palantir Technologies
2 src In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Palantir Technologies |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | Private Equity Assets Under Management Reach $1 Trillion, Enabling Systematic Extraction Across Economy
3 src Blackstone · KKR · Bain Capital |
| confirmed |
| 2004-12-13 | Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Acquisition for $10.3 Billion After Defeating Antitrust Challenge
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-21 | Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Removed as CEO
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2004-10-27 | Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth
3 src Google · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto
4 src Google · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-11 | CIA Director George Tenet Departs After Iraq Intelligence Failures, Joins Investment Bank and Intelligence Company Boards
5 src George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-07 | Enron Founder Ken Lay Indicted on 11 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-01 | Kroll Associates sold to Marsh & McLennan for $1.9 billion
3 src Kroll Associates · Jules Kroll |
| confirmed |
| 2004-06-01 | The Apprentice Serves as 14-Season Promotional Vehicle for Trump Properties and Brand
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Burnett · NBC |
| reported |
| 2004-03-31 | Four Blackwater Contractors Killed in Fallujah Ambush, Bodies Hung from Bridge, Triggering First Battle of Fallujah
4 src Erik Prince · Blackwater |
| confirmed |
| 2004-02-26 | Department of Justice Files Antitrust Lawsuit to Block Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger
3 src Department of Justice · Oracle · PeopleSoft · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-30 | General Dynamics Acquires Veridian for $1.5 Billion, Entering Intelligence Technology Market
2 src General Dynamics · Department of Defense · National Security Agency · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-26 | HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History
3 src Rick Scott · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-06 | Oracle Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for PeopleSoft Worth $5.1 Billion
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft |
| confirmed |