| 2003-06-06 | Oracle Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for PeopleSoft Worth $5.1 Billion
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft |
| confirmed |
| 2003-05-01 | Palantir Technologies Founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and PayPal Engineers
3 src Peter Thiel · Alex Karp · Joe Lonsdale · John Poindexter · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-01-01 | Google Establishes "Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich" Tax Avoidance Structure
4 src Google · Larry Page |
| confirmed |
| 2003-01-01 | State Policy Network Organizational Profile: Coordinating 66 State Think Tanks for Synchronized Corporate Capture
4 src State Policy Network · Bradley Foundation · DonorsTrust · Mackinac Center · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-12 | Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski Indicted for $600 Million Fraud
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2002-07-31 | Entergy Purchases Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant for $180 Million, Memorandum of Understanding Creates Decade of Regulatory Conflict
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2002-07-30 | Sarbanes-Oxley Act Signed Into Law as Brief Reform Moment
3 src George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2002-07-21 | WorldCom Files for Bankruptcy with $107 Billion in Assets
3 src Bernard Ebbers |
| confirmed |
| 2002-06-25 | WorldCom Announces $3.8 Billion Accounting Fraud Discovery
3 src Bernard Ebbers |
| confirmed |
| 2002-06-15 | Arthur Andersen Convicted, Destroying 85,000 Jobs Worldwide
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-09 | Arthur Andersen Admits to Shredding Tons of Enron Documents
3 src Arthur Andersen |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-08 | No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime
3 src George W. Bush · Ted Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act to Block Local Minimum Wage Increases
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | Insulin Prices Begin Tripling 2002-2013 as Three Manufacturers Control 99% of Market - From $231 to $762 Annually
4 src Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2001-12-02 | Enron Bankruptcy After Energy Task Force Meetings
3 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow |
| confirmed |
| 2001-10-22 | SEC Launches Investigation Into Enron's Related-Party Transactions
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Andrew Fastow · Kenneth Lay |
| confirmed |
| 2001-10-16 | Enron Reports $618 Million Loss and Reveals CFO Partnership Schemes
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow |
| confirmed |
| 2001-09-04 | Oracle Hires CIA Executive Director David Carney, Establishes Information Assurance Center
3 src Oracle · Central Intelligence Agency · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2001-05-31 | Air Force Secretary James Roche Appointed After 17 Years as Northrop Grumman Executive
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2001-05-17 | National Energy Policy Adopts Enron Recommendations Verbatim
3 src Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron · Kenneth Lay · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-04-17 | Kenneth Lay's Influence on Cheney Energy Task Force: Corporate Policy Capture
4 src Kenneth Lay · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 2001-02-09 | Cheney Energy Task Force Begins Secret Meetings with Enron Executives
4 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation
4 src George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Bonus System Incentivizes Sales Reps to Target Highest Opioid Prescribers
3 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family |
| confirmed |
| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Acquires AMFM Inc. Creating Radio Monopoly with Over 1,200 Stations
4 src Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays |
| confirmed |
| 2000-05-05 | ALEC's 'Environmental Literacy Improvement Act' Mandates Teaching Climate Denial in Schools
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-02-01 | Halliburton Opens Tehran Office While Cheney Still CEO, Completing $40 Million Annual Iran Business Through Cayman Islands Subsidiary Designed to Circumvent U.S. Sanctions
3 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bill Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Promotes Private Correctional Facilities Act Written by CCA Executives on Criminal Justice Task Force
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Major Strikes Collapse to 16 Annually, Down 95% from Pre-PATCO Era
2 src American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Opioid Epidemic Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Americans Between 2000-2020
3 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Food and Drug Administration · Drug Enforcement Administration · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Stock Options Become Primary Executive Compensation, Aligning CEO Interests with Short-Term Stock Price Manipulation
3 src Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Top 10% of Firms Capture 90% of Profit Growth Between 1980-2000, Documenting Monopolization
3 src |
| disputed |
| 1999-09-01 | CIA Establishes In-Q-Tel as Revolutionary Venture Capital Arm
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet · In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 1998-06-30 | McKinsey Leverages Asian Financial Crisis for Consulting Expansion
3 src McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank |
| confirmed |
| 1998-06-15 | Corporate Exploitation of Asian Financial Crisis Structural Adjustment
3 src Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-01 | CIA Begins Developing In-Q-Tel Concept -- Intelligence Community Plans Entry Into Venture Capital
4 src George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · Lockheed Martin |
| confirmed |
| 1997-12-01 | Kroll Associates Merges with O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, Expanding Into Full-Service Security and Intelligence Firm
4 src Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates |
| confirmed |
| 1997-08-01 | Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger Approved: Defense Contractor Consolidation Creates Oligopoly
3 src Boeing · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-01 | George Friedman Founds Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), the "Shadow CIA" of Private Geopolitical Intelligence
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Launches Aggressive OxyContin Marketing Campaign Based on False Claims
4 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler |
| confirmed |
| 1995-04-10 | McNamara Memoir Admits Vietnam War Was "Terribly Wrong" - Confession Comes 20 Years Too Late for 58,000 Dead Americans
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-10 | CIA Director James Woolsey Departs, Begins Three-Decade Career Monetizing Intelligence Credentials
3 src Booz Allen Hamilton · Lux Capital |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Develops Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act - Model Bill to Restrict State Revenue and Manufacture Fiscal Crisis
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate funders |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | K Street Project Systematically Transforms Washington Lobbying Infrastructure
3 src Tom DeLay · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-01 | ALEC Passes Three Strikes Model Legislation Co-Sponsored by Private Prison Industry and NRA
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · National Rifle Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-01 | NAFTA Implementation Begins Manufacturing Job Hemorrhage
4 src Bill Clinton · George H.W. Bush · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · AFL-CIO |
| confirmed |
| 1993-12-08 | Clinton Signs NAFTA Creating Corporate Tribunals to Override National Laws
4 src Bill Clinton · Al Gore · Robert Rubin · Mexican Government |
| confirmed |
| 1993-06-01 | $25 Million Corporate Lobbying Blitz Drives NAFTA Passage Despite Labor Opposition
4 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · Mexican Government · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1993-02-26 | Port Authority Hires Kroll Associates After 1993 World Trade Center Bombing -- Private Intelligence Enters Counterterrorism
4 src Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates |
| confirmed |
| 1990-11-29 | Immigration Act of 1990 Expands Legal Immigration, Creates Diversity Visa Lottery
3 src George H.W. Bush · Edward Kennedy · Alan Simpson · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1990-07-25 | Keating Lincoln Savings Civil RICO Fraud Indictment
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | Hoover Institution Organizational Profile: Leveraging Stanford Prestige for Conservative Policy Legitimacy
4 src Hoover Institution · Herbert Hoover · Ronald Reagan · George Shultz · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | Union Avoidance Consulting Industry Emerges as $400+ Million Annual Business
3 src Corporate employers · National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1989-09-25 | Christian Coalition Founded - Grassroots Religious Right Electoral Infrastructure
3 src Pat Robertson · Ralph Reed · Christian Coalition |
| confirmed |
| 1989-03-04 | Eastern Airlines Strike Leads to Corporate Liquidation, Frank Lorenzo's Union Destruction Model
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1989-02-09 | KKR's $31 Billion RJR Nabisco Leveraged Buyout Establishes Private Equity Wealth Extraction Model
3 src KKR |
| confirmed |
| 1988-11-23 | IBP Settles Record OSHA Case for Systematic Injury Underreporting at Dakota City Meatpacking Plant
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1988-08-01 | Rush Limbaugh National Syndication Begins - Conservative Talk Radio Ecosystem Created
3 src Rush Limbaugh |
| confirmed |
| 1987-12-01 | Keating Lincoln Savings Irvine Fraudulent Bond Scheme
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Cato Institute Organizational Profile: 'Libertarian' Cover for Corporate Deregulation Agenda
4 src Cato Institute · Charles Koch · Murray Rothbard · Koch Industries · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Budget Reaches $14.3 Million - Scale of Corporate Policy Investment
3 src Heritage Foundation · Joseph Coors · Richard Mellon Scaife · Edwin Feulner |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Olin Foundation Law and Economics Programs Expand to Elite Law Schools
3 src John M. Olin Foundation · Yale Law School |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Philanthropy Roundtable Founded - Conservative Donor Coordination Infrastructure
3 src Koch Network |
| confirmed |
| 1986-04-07 | EMTALA Passes as Unfunded Mandate, Enabling Insurance Industry to Shift Emergency Care Costs to Hospitals
3 src Ronald Reagan · American Hospital Association · Health Insurance Association of America |
| confirmed |
| 1986-01-01 | State Policy Network (Madison Group) Founded - State-Level Think Tank Coordination
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heartland Institute |
| confirmed |
| 1985-08-17 | Hormel Strike Broken Through Permanent Replacement, Ending Pattern Bargaining in Meatpacking
3 src National Guard |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Trickle-Down Legacy: Reagan Policies Make Inequality Structural Feature
3 src Ronald Reagan · American workers |
| confirmed |
| 1984-10-30 | Cable Communications Policy Act - Media Deregulation and Consolidation Enabled
3 src Ronald Reagan · Barry Goldwater · Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1984-05-07 | Agent Orange Settlement - Chemical Companies Pay $180 Million to Veterans Without Admitting Liability - Victims Receive Average $3,800
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1984-01-01 | Manhattan Institute Organizational Profile: Urban Policy Infrastructure and CIA-Connected Think Tank
4 src Rudy Giuliani · Bradley Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1983-06-30 | Phelps Dodge Breaks Copper Strike Using Permanent Replacement Workers, Destroying Union
3 src United Steelworkers · National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1983-04-26 | A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization
3 src Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1982-11-17 | SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness
4 src William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-04-22 | Berkeley Pit Mine Closes on Earth Day, Pumps Shut Off, Creating Toxic Lake Superfund Site
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| confirmed |
| 1982-01-08 | AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades
3 src AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork |
| confirmed |
| 1982-01-01 | S&L Deregulation Creates Moral Hazard: Recipe for Systematic Fraud
3 src Ronald Reagan · Federal Home Loan Bank Board |
| confirmed |
| 1981-12-01 | CNP Completes "Three-Legged Stool" with Heritage and ALEC - Coordination Infrastructure Operational
2 src Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich |
| confirmed |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs ERTA: Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy Begin Inequality Explosion
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Jack Kemp · William Roth |
| confirmed |
| 1981-05-01 | Council for National Policy Founded - Secret Conservative Coordination Network
3 src Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · Nelson Bunker Hunt · Howard Phillips |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-01 | Jack Welch Becomes GE CEO, Launches 'Shareholder Value' Era and Mass Layoffs
3 src General Electric |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Robert Bork · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Corporate Tax Avoidance Explosion: Reagan Loopholes Slash Corporate Revenue
3 src Ronald Reagan · Corporate America · Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections
3 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Department of Interior |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Era Wage Stagnation: Real Wages Decline as Inequality Accelerates
4 src Ronald Reagan · American workers · Labor unions · Corporate America |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Wealth Inequality Explodes: Reagan Policies Accelerate Income Gap
4 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1980-07-01 | Reagan Aide Edwin Meese Coordinates with Heritage on "Mandate for Leadership"
2 src Edwin Meese III · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Charles Heatherly Produces "Mandate for Leadership" Outline, Assembling 300 Contributors
2 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Corporate Political Mobilization Accelerates Following Powell Memo and Business Roundtable Formation
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1979-06-01 | Falwell and Weyrich Found Moral Majority, Fusing Religious Right with Corporate Agenda
5 src Jerry Falwell · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1979-06-01 | Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare
3 src Paul Weyrich · Jerry Falwell · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-08 | Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Begins "Mandate for Leadership" Preparation for Reagan Transition
2 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Supreme Court Adopts Bork's "Consumer Welfare Standard," Transforming Antitrust Law
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Robert Bork |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Wage Stagnation Era Begins: Productivity-Pay Gap Opens as Union Power Collapses
3 src American workers · Federal Reserve · Business Roundtable |
| confirmed |
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Manhattan Institute Founded by CIA Director William Casey - Intelligence-Policy Crossover
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Robert Bork Publishes "The Antitrust Paradox," Revolutionizing Corporate Power
3 src Robert Bork · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |