Corporate Capture
The Corporate Capture capture lane traces 562 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Scaife Begins Major Funding of Heritage Foundation as Primary Donor Richard Mellon Scaife · Scaife Family Charitable Trust · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-08 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Powell Memo Task Force Recommendations U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. · Lewis F. Powell Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Founded as Systematic State-Level Corporate Influence Platform Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-12-01 | Business Roundtable Established as CEO Coordination Body for Corporate Political Power John Connally · Arthur Burns · Reginald Jones · John Harper · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-11-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-28 | Powell Memo Leaked to Public, Exposing Corporate Institutional Capture Blueprint Jack Anderson · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-01 | Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1971-10-22 | Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1971-01-01 | Corporate Lobbying Expansion Begins, Growing From 175 to 2,500 Firms by 1982 U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate America | confirmed | |
| 1970-09-13 | Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine Milton Friedman · Chicago School economists | confirmed | |
| 1967-07-23 | Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline Detroit Police Department · Michigan National Guard · Insurance Industry · Corporate interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-07-30 | Medicare and Medicaid Signed Into Law After Defeating Decades of AMA Opposition and Reagan Propaganda Campaign President Lyndon B. Johnson · President Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-01-01 | Bell Helicopter Profits Surge from $150 Million to $2 Billion During Vietnam War - Huey Production Defines "Helicopter War" Bell Helicopter · U.S. Department of Defense · Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association | confirmed | |
| 1964-07-02 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes After Filibuster Defeats Corporate Southern Resistance President Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democratic Senators · Richard Russell · Strom Thurmond · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Bureau of Public Roads · General Motors · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1955-01-01 | National Right to Work Committee Founded to Coordinate Anti-Union Corporate Lobbying Fred A. Hartley · National Right to Work Committee · Corporate funders · Conservative donors | confirmed | |
| 1954-08-02 | Housing Act of 1954 Expands Urban Renewal, Intensifies Destruction of Black Communities Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Urban Renewal Administration · Real estate industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-27 | CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · United Fruit Company · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1953-08-19 | CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship Central Intelligence Agency · Kermit Roosevelt Jr. · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation U.S. Congress · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator Estes Kefauver · Harry Truman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-22 | Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket American Business Consultants · John G. Keenan · Kenneth M. Bierly · Theodore C. Kirkpatrick · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1950-05-23 | Treaty of Detroit - GM-UAW Contract Establishes Labor Containment Model General Motors · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther · Charles Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1947-11-25 | Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten Motion Picture Association of America · Eric Johnston · Louis B. Mayer · Eddie Mannix · +17 | confirmed | |
| 1946-11-09 | Price Controls End After Corporate Decontrol Campaign, Inflation Spikes Office of Price Administration · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1946-02-20 | Employment Act of 1946 Gutted, Full Employment Guarantee Abandoned U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1945-11-19 | Truman Proposes National Health Insurance, AMA Mobilizes Unprecedented Opposition Campaign Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Morris Fishbein · Robert Taft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1945-09-20 | Truman Signs Executive Order 9621 Dissolving OSS: Wall Street Intelligence Elite Returns to Private Sector Harry Truman · William Donovan · Allen Dulles · William Casey | confirmed | |
| 1945-09-06 | Truman 21-Point Program Defeated, Corporate Backlash Against New Deal Begins Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1942-04-28 | Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Navy Department · Defense contractors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1942-03-26 | Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason Standard Oil of New Jersey · IG Farben · Harry Truman · Thurman Arnold · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1940-10-08 | Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-06-19 | Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation Republic Steel · Tom Girdler · Bethlehem Steel · Youngstown Sheet and Tube · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1936-09-01 | Mohawk Valley Formula Exposed as Corporate Blueprint for Breaking Unions and Evading Wagner Act Remington Rand · James Rand Jr. · National Association of Manufacturers · La Follette Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-19 | Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power U.S. Congress · Senator Joseph T. Robinson · Representative Wright Patman · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage Robert La Follette Jr. · U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-15 | La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network La Follette Committee · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · Corporations Service Bureau · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Electric utility industry · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation Franklin D. Roosevelt · Hugh Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Recovery Administration · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1915-05-07 | Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed RMS Lusitania · German Navy · British Government · JP Morgan & Co. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1915-01-25 | Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre John D. Rockefeller Jr. · Frank Walsh · Commission on Industrial Relations · Colorado Fuel and Iron Company | confirmed | |
| 1914-09-26 | Wilson Signs Federal Trade Commission Act, Creating Expert Antitrust Enforcement Agency Woodrow Wilson · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1912-11-05 | Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending Montana voters · William A. Clark · F. Augustus Heinze · Marcus Daly · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1911-05-15 | Supreme Court Orders Standard Oil Breakup in Landmark Antitrust Decision U.S. Supreme Court · John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Chief Justice Edward White | confirmed | |
| 1903-10-29 | Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes Amalgamated Copper Company · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · F. Augustus Heinze · Judge William Clancy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-01 | J.P. Morgan Creates Northern Securities: $400 Million Railroad Monopoly J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · Edward H. Harriman · Northern Securities Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1895-01-21 | U.S. v. E.C. Knight: Supreme Court Shields Sugar Trust and Eviscerates Antitrust Law U.S. Supreme Court · Melville Fuller · American Sugar Refining Company · E.C. Knight Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1892-01-04 | Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad v. Gibbes: Corporate Personhood Reaffirmed U.S. Supreme Court · Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company · South Carolina Legislature · State Railroad Commission | confirmed | |
| 1891-08-18 | People's Party Officially Forms in Texas, Launching Populist Movement Farmers' Alliance · Knights of Labor · People's Party | confirmed | |
| 1889-01-07 | Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway v. Beckwith: Corporate Personhood Doctrine Becomes Settled Law U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Stephen Field · Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company | confirmed | |
| 1888-01-07 | Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania: Court Explicitly Affirms Corporate Personhood U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Stephen Field · Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining and Milling Company · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania | confirmed | |
| 1887-02-04 | Interstate Commerce Act: First Federal Regulatory Response to Corporate Monopoly U.S. Congress · Interstate Commerce Commission · Granger Movement · Railroad Industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1886-10-25 | Wabash v. Illinois: Supreme Court Shields Interstate Monopolies from Regulation U.S. Supreme Court · Wabash Railroad · Illinois Legislature · Interstate Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1886-05-10 | Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The Corporate Personhood Precedent That Never Was U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Morrison Waite · J.C. Bancroft Davis (Court Reporter) · Southern Pacific Railroad · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1886-03-25 | Railroad Commission Cases: State Regulation Affirmed with Corporate Property Rights Caveat U.S. Supreme Court · Mississippi Legislature · Farmers' Loan & Trust Company · Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1885-07-01 | J.P. Morgan Yacht Meeting: Ending Railroad Competition Through Financial Coercion J.P. Morgan · New York Central Railroad · Pennsylvania Railroad · Railroad Executives | confirmed | |
| 1884-06-03 | Mugwump Republicans Bolt Party Over Blaine Nomination, Citing Corruption James G. Blaine · Grover Cleveland · Carl Schurz · Mark Twain · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1882-12-19 | Roscoe Conkling's Fraudulent Argument for Corporate Personhood in San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific Roscoe Conkling · U.S. Supreme Court · Southern Pacific Railroad · San Mateo County · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1872-09-04 | Credit Mobilier Scandal: The Birth of the Gilded Age Oakes Ames · Schuyler Colfax · Union Pacific Railroad · Credit Mobilier of America · +1 | confirmed |