Financial Capture
The Financial Capture capture lane traces 848 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1142–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | CoreCivic Q1 2026 Earnings Confirm Operational Ramp ($614.7M Revenue, ICE Doubled to $261.3M) but Disclose Temporary ICE Population Decline; No Mention of Warren-Raskin Letter, Mullin Pause, or In-Custody Death Litigation CoreCivic · Patrick Swindle · David Garfinkle · Damon Hininger · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-05-06 | Pre-decision baseline: OCC 120-day decision window for WLTC Holdings national trust bank charter expires May 7, 2026 with no decision announced
9 src WLTC Holdings LLC · World Liberty Financial · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-05-02 | WLFI Token Hits All-Time Low $0.052 (–85% from Peak) After Bloomberg Exposes 5.9 Billion Secret Token Sale Routing Proceeds to Trump-Affiliated Entities
10 src World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | Bank of America Settles Epstein Survivor Lawsuit Over $170M in Suspicious Transactions
4 src Bank of America · Leon Black · Judge Jed S. Rakoff · Sen. Ron Wyden | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | WLFI Governance Vote Passes 99% — $5M Super Node Tier Buys "Direct Access" to Trump-Family Crypto Team
8 src World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Barron Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | $TRUMP Memecoin Team Announces Second Mar-a-Lago Gala Selling Presidential Access to Top Holders
4 src Donald Trump · Bill Zanker | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Report Finds Trump Crypto Ventures Propelled by UAE Investment, Preferential Treatment, and Regulatory Shielding
1 src Democracy Defenders Fund · Lee Reiners · World Liberty Financial · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Warren Warns Institutional Investors of 'Tsunami of Corruption' Threatening Financial Markets
2 src Sen. Elizabeth Warren · SEC | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | ProPublica Reveals Top DOJ, DOD Officials Hold Financial Interests in Sectors They Regulate
1 src Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Steve Feinberg · ProPublica | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | SEC Settles Tron Fraud Case — Rainberry Pays $10M, Justin Sun Personal Charges Dismissed With Prejudice
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Justin Sun · Rainberry Inc. · Tron Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-26 | American Bitcoin Trump Family Venture Reports $59M Loss as Stock Collapses 90%
3 src Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · American Bitcoin · Hut 8 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-26 | Warren Grills OCC Comptroller Gould on WLFI UAE Ownership Disclosure at Senate Banking Hearing
2 src Elizabeth Warren · Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · World Liberty Financial · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-24 | D.C. Circuit Upholds IRS-ICE Taxpayer Data Sharing, Weaponizing Tax Compliance Against Immigrants
3 src Harry T. Edwards · Scott Bessent · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-24 | Trump Administration Considers Requiring Banks to Collect Customer Citizenship Information
3 src Donald Trump · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-24 | Trump Properties Remain Epicenter of Conflicts and Corruption in Second Term
3 src Donald Trump · CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-24 | Trump State of the Union Calls for Second Reconciliation, Celebrates Venezuela as "New Friend"
3 src Donald Trump · United States Congress | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-23 | Binance Dismantled Internal Investigation After Flagging $1B+ to Iranian Networks
3 src Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-23 | Epstein Files Reveal Lutnick Maintained Multi-Year Business Relationship
3 src Howard Lutnick · Jeffrey Epstein · Cantor Fitzgerald | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-20 | Ambassador Bridge Owner Donated $1M to MAGA Before Trump Attacked Rival Bridge
3 src Donald Trump · Manuel Moroun · MAGA Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | House Democrats Probe World Liberty Financial UAE Bank Charter and Trump Family Conflicts
3 src Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · United Arab Emirates | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-11 | SEC Chair Atkins Grilled by Congress Over 60% Crypto Enforcement Decline
2 src Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Maxine Waters · House Financial Services Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-09 | NCRC and AFREF File OCC Comment Letters Opposing WLTC Trust Bank Charter
3 src National Community Reinvestment Coalition · Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · World Liberty Financial · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-07 | IRS Admits Unlawfully Sharing Thousands of Taxpayer Records with DHS for Immigration Enforcement
3 src Internal Revenue Service · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Scott Bessent · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-07 | SEC Denies All Whistleblower Award Claims in First Quarter of FY2026
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-01 | SEC Cuts PCAOB Budget 9.4%, Slashes Board Compensation by Half
2 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Public Company Accounting Oversight Board · Paul Atkins | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-31 | SEC Chair Atkins Appoints Trump Loyalists to PCAOB Accounting Oversight Board
3 src Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Public Company Accounting Oversight Board · Demetrios Logothetis · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Analysis Shows DOGE Savings Claims Fall Short of $1 Trillion Target, Cost Taxpayers Billions
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Russell Vought | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-23 | OCC Comptroller Gould Refuses Warren Demand to Pause WLFI Charter Review
3 src Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Elizabeth Warren · World Liberty Financial · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-17 | Trump Financial Disclosure Reveals Netflix and Warner Bros. Bond Purchases After Merger Announcement
3 src Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Office of Government Ethics | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Warren Presses OCC to Halt WLFI Bank Charter Review Until Trump Divests
1 src Elizabeth Warren · Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · World Liberty Financial · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | World Liberty Financial Applies for OCC Bank Charter
3 src World Liberty Financial · Trump Organization · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | Medicaid Expansion Funding Cuts Take Effect, Threatening 1.3 Million
6 src Donald Trump · Congressional Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-23 | Botched DOJ Redactions Allow Public to Copy-Paste Hidden Epstein File Text
2 src Department of Justice · Richard Indyke · Virgin Islands · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | Epstein Victims' Attorneys Confirm DOJ Released Zero Financial Documents
2 src Brad Edwards · Brittany Henderson · Department of Justice · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-16 | California Governor Newsom Launches Official State Website Tracking Trump's "Top 10 Criminal Cronies" as Direct Political Confrontation Escalates
4 src Gavin Newsom · Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Ross Ulbricht · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-11 | Federal Reserve Board Unanimously Reappoints Regional Bank Presidents in 'Trump-Proofing' Move
2 src Federal Reserve Board · Jerome Powell · Stephen Miran | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | ProPublica Reveals Trump Committed Same Mortgage Fraud He Now Calls Criminal
2 src Donald Trump · Bill Pulte · ProPublica · Merrill Lynch · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-06 | Trump DOT waives $11 million Southwest Airlines fine, dismantling corporate accountability
6 src Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Department of Transportation · Southwest Airlines · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Directive Weaponizes Tax Enforcement Against Groups Labeled "Antifa"
5 src Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | Trump Reduces Work Permit Validity to 18 Months Citing Single DC Shooting
5 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Joseph Edlow · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Rahmanullah Lakanwal · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-02 | Dell Family Announces $6.25 Billion Donation to Trump Accounts in Largest Private Child Investment
4 src Michael Dell · Susan Dell · Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department | reported | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing
4 src Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-11-19 | Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act, but Active Investigation Loophole May Enable Redactions
4 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-16 | 60 Minutes Investigation: Former DOJ Officials Call Trump's Binance Pardon 'Unprecedented Corruption'
3 src CBS News · 60 Minutes · Scott Pelley · Elizabeth Oyer · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-11-14 | ProPublica Investigation Exposes Hidden Corruption in Noem's $220M DHS Ad Campaign
4 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · The Strategy Group · Ben Yoho · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-10 | Trump Issues Veterans Day 2025 Proclamation Emphasizing Tax Cuts and Homeless Veteran Housing
3 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-09 | Trump Promises $2,000 'Tariff Dividend' Payments Despite Insufficient Revenue and Treasury Secretary Skepticism
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent | reported | |
| 2025-11-06 | FAA Announces 10% Air Traffic Reduction at 40 Airports Due to Shutdown
2 src Sean Duffy · Federal Aviation Administration · Air Traffic Controllers · Department of Transportation | reported | |
| 2025-11-06 | Trump Pardons Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and Chief of Staff Convicted of Federal Corruption
3 src Donald Trump · Glen Casada · Cade Cothren | reported | |
| 2025-11-05 | FAA Reduces Air Traffic by 10% at Major Airports as Unpaid Controllers Face Staffing Crisis During 40-Day Shutdown
3 src Federal Aviation Administration · Bryan Bedford · Sean Duffy | reported | |
| 2025-11-05 | Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History at Day 36
3 src Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · Senate Republicans · Congressional Democrats | reported | |
| 2025-11-03 | Trump Administration Announces Partial SNAP Benefits After Court Orders
2 src Trump · USDA | reported | |
| 2025-11-03 | Trump Admits on 60 Minutes He Doesn't Know Changpeng Zhao, the Binance Founder He Pardoned
3 src Donald Trump · Norah O'Donnell · Changpeng Zhao · CBS News · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-10-30 | ICE Agents Shoot U.S. Citizen Carlos Jimenez Near Los Angeles School
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Carlos Jimenez | reported | |
| 2025-10-29 | Binance.US Lists Trump's USD1 Stablecoin Days After Presidential Pardon of Binance Founder
4 src Binance · Binance.US · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Trump Family Crypto Platform Tied to Pardoned Binance Executive Generated $500M
2 src Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · Trump Family · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Trump Terminates SNAP Benefits for 42 Million Americans Despite Available Funds
2 src Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Binance Paid $450K to Trump Jr. Ally for Zhao Pardon Lobbying
2 src Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Ches McDowell · Donald Trump Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Kash Patel Uses $60M FBI Jet for Date Night with Girlfriend After Calling Wray "Government Gangster" for Same
3 src Kash Patel | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign
5 src Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | DHS Uses Multi-Year Reconciliation Funding to Pay 70,000 Immigration Enforcement Officers During Shutdown While 700,000 Federal Workers Go Unpaid
3 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Ethics Probe Launched into Border Czar's Contract Ties with Detention Firms
2 src Tom Homan · Mark Hall · Campaign Legal Center · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Trump Fires Export-Import Bank Inspector General as Oversight Purge Continues
2 src Donald Trump · Parisa Salehi · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | DHS Purchases $172 Million in Luxury Jets for Kristi Noem During Shutdown
2 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | OMB Director Russell Vought Consolidates Authoritarian Control Over Federal Government
2 src Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Trump Commutes George Santos Prison Sentence After 3 Months
2 src Donald Trump · White House · George Santos | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Administration Plans IRS Overhaul to Target Liberal Donors and Nonprofits
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Gary Shapley · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-13 | Pro-Trump Fund Fraudulently Markets Fake Treasury Event, Sells Sponsorships
2 src 1789 Capital · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Corporate Sponsors | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Administration Unveils Gaza GREAT Trust Reconstruction Plan at Egypt Summit with Kushner and Witkoff
3 src Trump · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · Elon Musk | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | U.S. Executes Extraordinary $20 Billion Argentina Bailout for Political Ally
2 src Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Javier Milei · Hedge Funds | reported | |
| 2025-10-11 | Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Amasses $141M War Chest to Shape 2026 Elections After Defeating Sherrod Brown
3 src Fairshake · Coinbase · Sherrod Brown · Crypto industry | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Trump Administration Systematically Uses Mortgage Fraud Charges Against Political Adversaries
3 src Letitia James · Lisa Cook · Adam Schiff · William Pulte · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Crypto Investor 'Bitcoin Jesus' Reaches $48 Million Deal After Hiring Trump Associates
2 src Roger Ver · Roger Stone · David Schoen · Trump Administration · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | NY Attorney General Letitia James Indicted on Questionable Mortgage Fraud Charges
2 src Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-09 | Treasury's $20 Billion Argentina Bailout Benefits Bessent's Hedge Fund Colleagues
2 src Scott Bessent · Stanley Druckenmiller · Robert Citrone · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Erdogan Says Trump Promised to End Halkbank Sanctions Prosecution
2 src Donald Trump · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Halkbank · U.S. Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Withdraws CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz After Winklevoss Conflict
2 src Brian Quintenz · Tyler Winklevoss · Cameron Winklevoss · White House · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-06 | Tether Loan to Lutnick Children Revealed via UCC Filing Tether · Brandon Lutnick · Kyle Lutnick · Howard Lutnick · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-05 | Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts
2 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | RFK Jr.'s Legal Associate Aaron Siri Advances Anti-Vaccine Lawsuits While Influencing HHS
2 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Aaron Siri · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Cancels $500 Million in Food Aid, Affecting 94 Million Pounds
2 src Trump Administration · USDA · Food Banks | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Family's USD1 Stablecoin Fails to Publish Attestation Reports, Raising Transparency Concerns
4 src World Liberty Financial · NYDIG · Greg Cipolaro · BitGo Trust · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-30 | SpaceX and xAI Purchase Thousands of Unsold Cybertrucks Before Tax Credit Deadline
2 src SpaceX · xAI · Tesla · Elon Musk | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Grover Norquist and 35 Conservative Groups Urge Trump to Let ACA Tax Credits Expire While Opposing Corporate Tax Credit Expirations
4 src Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Club for Growth · Americans for Prosperity · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-24 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Set to Expire, Threatening 20M with 114% Premium Increases
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Kaiser Family Foundation | reported | |
| 2025-09-24 | Bessent Announces $20B Argentina Bailout for Trump Ally Milei, Enriching Connected Billionaire
2 src Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · Javier Milei · Rob Citrone · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Senator Markey Alleges Energy Secretary Wright Using Position to Benefit Former Nuclear Firm Oklo
2 src Chris Wright · Oklo Inc. · Ed Markey · Department of Energy | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Trump Demands 10% Equity Stake in Lithium Americas During $2.26B Federal Loan Renegotiation
2 src Donald Trump · Lithium Americas · Department of Energy · General Motors | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | NYT Reveals UAE $2B Crypto Investment Tied to AI Chip Deal Approval
2 src Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · David Sacks · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | Wall Street Journal: FEMA Paralyzed by Noem's Approval Requirements as Disaster Victims Wait
2 src Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | reported | |
| 2025-09-14 | Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff Divests $120M Real Estate Stake While Retaining $350M in Assets Including Trump Crypto
3 src Steve Witkoff · Trump · Adam Schiff · World Liberty Financial | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Bloomberg Obtains 18,000+ Epstein Emails Revealing Maxwell Relationship and Trump Name Removal Request
2 src Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Bloomberg News | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | Ten Senate Democrats Demand Banking Committee Hearings on Epstein Financial Ties
2 src Elizabeth Warren · Jamie Dimon · JPMorgan · Deutsche Bank · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Senator Wyden Introduces Legislation to Force Treasury Release of Epstein Records
2 src Ron Wyden · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Eliminates Climate Risk Assessment Panels
3 src Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Financial Stability Oversight Council | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Warns of Job Cuts After Congress Halves Funding Cap
3 src Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Trump Signs Anti-Debanking Order While Gutting Agency That Could Investigate It
2 src Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · JPMorgan · Citibank | reported | |
| 2025-09-03 | Treasury Department Refuses to Release $1.5 Billion in Epstein Financial Records
2 src Ron Wyden · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-01 | Mass Inspector General Firings Implement Project 2025 Plan
3 src Donald Trump · Chuck Grassley · Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-27 | US Imposes 50% Tariff on India for Buying Russian Oil, Exempts Apple
3 src Donald Trump · india-government · Apple Inc. · Russia | confirmed |