Capture lane

Financial Capture

The Financial Capture capture lane traces 838 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

838 events From Jan 1, 1142 To May 6, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-05-06Pre-decision baseline: OCC 120-day decision window for WLTC Holdings national trust bank charter expires May 7, 2026 with no decision announced
WLTC Holdings LLC · World Liberty Financial · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · +4
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2026-03-16Bank of America Settles Epstein Survivor Lawsuit Over $170M in Suspicious Transactions
Bank of America · Leon Black · Judge Jed S. Rakoff · Sen. Ron Wyden
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2026-03-16WLFI Governance Vote Passes 99% — $5M Super Node Tier Buys "Direct Access" to Trump-Family Crypto Team
World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Barron Trump · +2
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2026-03-12$TRUMP Memecoin Team Announces Second Mar-a-Lago Gala Selling Presidential Access to Top Holders
Donald Trump · Bill Zanker
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2026-03-11Report Finds Trump Crypto Ventures Propelled by UAE Investment, Preferential Treatment, and Regulatory Shielding
Democracy Defenders Fund · Lee Reiners · World Liberty Financial · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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2026-03-11Warren Warns Institutional Investors of 'Tsunami of Corruption' Threatening Financial Markets
Sen. Elizabeth Warren · SEC
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2026-03-08ProPublica Reveals Top DOJ, DOD Officials Hold Financial Interests in Sectors They Regulate
Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Steve Feinberg · ProPublica
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2026-02-26American Bitcoin Trump Family Venture Reports $59M Loss as Stock Collapses 90%
Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · American Bitcoin · Hut 8
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2026-02-26Warren Grills OCC Comptroller Gould on WLFI UAE Ownership Disclosure at Senate Banking Hearing
Elizabeth Warren · Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · World Liberty Financial · +3
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2026-02-24D.C. Circuit Upholds IRS-ICE Taxpayer Data Sharing, Weaponizing Tax Compliance Against Immigrants
Harry T. Edwards · Scott Bessent · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1
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2026-02-24Trump Administration Considers Requiring Banks to Collect Customer Citizenship Information
Donald Trump · Department of the Treasury
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2026-02-24Trump Properties Remain Epicenter of Conflicts and Corruption in Second Term
Donald Trump · CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)
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2026-02-24Trump State of the Union Calls for Second Reconciliation, Celebrates Venezuela as "New Friend"
Donald Trump · United States Congress
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2026-02-23Binance Dismantled Internal Investigation After Flagging $1B+ to Iranian Networks
Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump
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2026-02-23Epstein Files Reveal Lutnick Maintained Multi-Year Business Relationship
Howard Lutnick · Jeffrey Epstein · Cantor Fitzgerald
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2026-02-20Ambassador Bridge Owner Donated $1M to MAGA Before Trump Attacked Rival Bridge
Donald Trump · Manuel Moroun · MAGA Inc.
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2026-02-19House Democrats Probe World Liberty Financial UAE Bank Charter and Trump Family Conflicts
Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · United Arab Emirates
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2026-02-11SEC Chair Atkins Grilled by Congress Over 60% Crypto Enforcement Decline
Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Maxine Waters · House Financial Services Committee · +2
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2026-02-09NCRC and AFREF File OCC Comment Letters Opposing WLTC Trust Bank Charter
National Community Reinvestment Coalition · Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · World Liberty Financial · +1
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2026-02-07IRS Admits Unlawfully Sharing Thousands of Taxpayer Records with DHS for Immigration Enforcement
Internal Revenue Service · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Scott Bessent · +1
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2026-02-07SEC Denies All Whistleblower Award Claims in First Quarter of FY2026
Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins
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2026-02-01SEC Cuts PCAOB Budget 9.4%, Slashes Board Compensation by Half
Securities and Exchange Commission · Public Company Accounting Oversight Board · Paul Atkins
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2026-01-31SEC Chair Atkins Appoints Trump Loyalists to PCAOB Accounting Oversight Board
Paul Atkins · Securities and Exchange Commission · Public Company Accounting Oversight Board · Demetrios Logothetis · +3
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2026-01-30Analysis Shows DOGE Savings Claims Fall Short of $1 Trillion Target, Cost Taxpayers Billions
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Russell Vought
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2026-01-23OCC Comptroller Gould Refuses Warren Demand to Pause WLFI Charter Review
Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Elizabeth Warren · World Liberty Financial · +1
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2026-01-17Trump Financial Disclosure Reveals Netflix and Warner Bros. Bond Purchases After Merger Announcement
Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Office of Government Ethics
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2026-01-13Warren Presses OCC to Halt WLFI Bank Charter Review Until Trump Divests
Elizabeth Warren · Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · World Liberty Financial · +1
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2026-01-07World Liberty Financial Applies for OCC Bank Charter
World Liberty Financial · Trump Organization · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Donald Trump
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2026-01-01Medicaid Expansion Funding Cuts Take Effect, Threatening 1.3 Million
Donald Trump · Congressional Republicans
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2025-12-23Botched DOJ Redactions Allow Public to Copy-Paste Hidden Epstein File Text
Department of Justice · Richard Indyke · Virgin Islands · Jeffrey Epstein
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2025-12-19Epstein Victims' Attorneys Confirm DOJ Released Zero Financial Documents
Brad Edwards · Brittany Henderson · Department of Justice · Jeffrey Epstein
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2025-12-16California Governor Newsom Launches Official State Website Tracking Trump's "Top 10 Criminal Cronies" as Direct Political Confrontation Escalates
Gavin Newsom · Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Ross Ulbricht · +7
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2025-12-11Federal Reserve Board Unanimously Reappoints Regional Bank Presidents in 'Trump-Proofing' Move
Federal Reserve Board · Jerome Powell · Stephen Miran
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2025-12-08ProPublica Reveals Trump Committed Same Mortgage Fraud He Now Calls Criminal
Donald Trump · Bill Pulte · ProPublica · Merrill Lynch · +1
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2025-12-06Trump DOT waives $11 million Southwest Airlines fine, dismantling corporate accountability
Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Department of Transportation · Southwest Airlines · +2
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2025-12-04Bondi Directive Weaponizes Tax Enforcement Against Groups Labeled "Antifa"
Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service · +6
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2025-12-04Trump Reduces Work Permit Validity to 18 Months Citing Single DC Shooting
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Joseph Edlow · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Rahmanullah Lakanwal · +2
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2025-12-02Dell Family Announces $6.25 Billion Donation to Trump Accounts in Largest Private Child Investment
Michael Dell · Susan Dell · Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department
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2025-11-25House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing
Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22
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2025-11-19Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act, but Active Investigation Loophole May Enable Redactions
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +4
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2025-11-1660 Minutes Investigation: Former DOJ Officials Call Trump's Binance Pardon 'Unprecedented Corruption'
CBS News · 60 Minutes · Scott Pelley · Elizabeth Oyer · +6
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2025-11-14ProPublica Investigation Exposes Hidden Corruption in Noem's $220M DHS Ad Campaign
Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · The Strategy Group · Ben Yoho · +4
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2025-11-10Trump Issues Veterans Day 2025 Proclamation Emphasizing Tax Cuts and Homeless Veteran Housing
Donald Trump
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2025-11-09Trump Promises $2,000 'Tariff Dividend' Payments Despite Insufficient Revenue and Treasury Secretary Skepticism
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent
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2025-11-06FAA Announces 10% Air Traffic Reduction at 40 Airports Due to Shutdown
Sean Duffy · Federal Aviation Administration · Air Traffic Controllers · Department of Transportation
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2025-11-06Trump Pardons Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and Chief of Staff Convicted of Federal Corruption
Donald Trump · Glen Casada · Cade Cothren
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2025-11-05FAA Reduces Air Traffic by 10% at Major Airports as Unpaid Controllers Face Staffing Crisis During 40-Day Shutdown
Federal Aviation Administration · Bryan Bedford · Sean Duffy
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2025-11-05Government Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History at Day 36
Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · Senate Republicans · Congressional Democrats
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2025-11-03Trump Administration Announces Partial SNAP Benefits After Court Orders
Trump · USDA
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2025-11-03Trump Admits on 60 Minutes He Doesn't Know Changpeng Zhao, the Binance Founder He Pardoned
Donald Trump · Norah O'Donnell · Changpeng Zhao · CBS News · +3
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2025-10-30ICE Agents Shoot U.S. Citizen Carlos Jimenez Near Los Angeles School
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Carlos Jimenez
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2025-10-29Binance.US Lists Trump's USD1 Stablecoin Days After Presidential Pardon of Binance Founder
Binance · Binance.US · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · +3
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2025-10-27Trump Family Crypto Platform Tied to Pardoned Binance Executive Generated $500M
Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · Trump Family · +1
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2025-10-27Trump Terminates SNAP Benefits for 42 Million Americans Despite Available Funds
Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · Trump Administration
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2025-10-25Binance Paid $450K to Trump Jr. Ally for Zhao Pardon Lobbying
Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Ches McDowell · Donald Trump Jr. · +2
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2025-10-25Kash Patel Uses $60M FBI Jet for Date Night with Girlfriend After Calling Wray "Government Gangster" for Same
Kash Patel
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2025-10-23Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign
Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +5
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2025-10-22DHS Uses Multi-Year Reconciliation Funding to Pay 70,000 Immigration Enforcement Officers During Shutdown While 700,000 Federal Workers Go Unpaid
Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3
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2025-10-21Ethics Probe Launched into Border Czar's Contract Ties with Detention Firms
Tom Homan · Mark Hall · Campaign Legal Center · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1
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2025-10-21Trump Fires Export-Import Bank Inspector General as Oversight Purge Continues
Donald Trump · Parisa Salehi · Inspectors General
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2025-10-18DHS Purchases $172 Million in Luxury Jets for Kristi Noem During Shutdown
Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Trump Administration
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2025-10-17OMB Director Russell Vought Consolidates Authoritarian Control Over Federal Government
Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Office of Management and Budget
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2025-10-17Trump Commutes George Santos Prison Sentence After 3 Months
Donald Trump · White House · George Santos
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2025-10-15Trump Administration Plans IRS Overhaul to Target Liberal Donors and Nonprofits
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Gary Shapley · Internal Revenue Service · +1
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2025-10-13Pro-Trump Fund Fraudulently Markets Fake Treasury Event, Sells Sponsorships
1789 Capital · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Corporate Sponsors
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2025-10-13Trump Administration Unveils Gaza GREAT Trust Reconstruction Plan at Egypt Summit with Kushner and Witkoff
Trump · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · Elon Musk
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2025-10-13U.S. Executes Extraordinary $20 Billion Argentina Bailout for Political Ally
Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Javier Milei · Hedge Funds
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2025-10-11Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Amasses $141M War Chest to Shape 2026 Elections After Defeating Sherrod Brown
Fairshake · Coinbase · Sherrod Brown · Crypto industry
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2025-10-10Trump Administration Systematically Uses Mortgage Fraud Charges Against Political Adversaries
Letitia James · Lisa Cook · Adam Schiff · William Pulte · +2
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2025-10-09Crypto Investor 'Bitcoin Jesus' Reaches $48 Million Deal After Hiring Trump Associates
Roger Ver · Roger Stone · David Schoen · Trump Administration · +1
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2025-10-09NY Attorney General Letitia James Indicted on Questionable Mortgage Fraud Charges
Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice
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2025-10-09Treasury's $20 Billion Argentina Bailout Benefits Bessent's Hedge Fund Colleagues
Scott Bessent · Stanley Druckenmiller · Robert Citrone · Elizabeth Warren · +1
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2025-10-08Erdogan Says Trump Promised to End Halkbank Sanctions Prosecution
Donald Trump · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Halkbank · U.S. Department of Justice
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2025-10-07White House Withdraws CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz After Winklevoss Conflict
Brian Quintenz · Tyler Winklevoss · Cameron Winklevoss · White House · +2
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2025-10-06Tether Loan to Lutnick Children Revealed via UCC Filing
Tether · Brandon Lutnick · Kyle Lutnick · Howard Lutnick · +2
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2025-10-05Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts
CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress
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2025-10-05RFK Jr.'s Legal Associate Aaron Siri Advances Anti-Vaccine Lawsuits While Influencing HHS
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Aaron Siri · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2025-10-05Trump Administration Cancels $500 Million in Food Aid, Affecting 94 Million Pounds
Trump Administration · USDA · Food Banks
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2025-10-05Trump Family's USD1 Stablecoin Fails to Publish Attestation Reports, Raising Transparency Concerns
World Liberty Financial · NYDIG · Greg Cipolaro · BitGo Trust · +2
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2025-09-30SpaceX and xAI Purchase Thousands of Unsold Cybertrucks Before Tax Credit Deadline
SpaceX · xAI · Tesla · Elon Musk
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2025-09-26Grover Norquist and 35 Conservative Groups Urge Trump to Let ACA Tax Credits Expire While Opposing Corporate Tax Credit Expirations
Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Club for Growth · Americans for Prosperity · +3
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2025-09-24ACA Enhanced Subsidies Set to Expire, Threatening 20M with 114% Premium Increases
Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Kaiser Family Foundation
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2025-09-24Bessent Announces $20B Argentina Bailout for Trump Ally Milei, Enriching Connected Billionaire
Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · Javier Milei · Rob Citrone · +1
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2025-09-23Senator Markey Alleges Energy Secretary Wright Using Position to Benefit Former Nuclear Firm Oklo
Chris Wright · Oklo Inc. · Ed Markey · Department of Energy
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2025-09-23Trump Demands 10% Equity Stake in Lithium Americas During $2.26B Federal Loan Renegotiation
Donald Trump · Lithium Americas · Department of Energy · General Motors
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2025-09-15NYT Reveals UAE $2B Crypto Investment Tied to AI Chip Deal Approval
Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · David Sacks · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · +3
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2025-09-15Wall Street Journal: FEMA Paralyzed by Noem's Approval Requirements as Disaster Victims Wait
Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency
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2025-09-14Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff Divests $120M Real Estate Stake While Retaining $350M in Assets Including Trump Crypto
Steve Witkoff · Trump · Adam Schiff · World Liberty Financial
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2025-09-11Bloomberg Obtains 18,000+ Epstein Emails Revealing Maxwell Relationship and Trump Name Removal Request
Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Bloomberg News
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2025-09-11Ten Senate Democrats Demand Banking Committee Hearings on Epstein Financial Ties
Elizabeth Warren · Jamie Dimon · JPMorgan · Deutsche Bank · +2
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2025-09-10Senator Wyden Introduces Legislation to Force Treasury Release of Epstein Records
Ron Wyden · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1
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2025-09-10Treasury Secretary Bessent Eliminates Climate Risk Assessment Panels
Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Financial Stability Oversight Council
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2025-09-09Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Warns of Job Cuts After Congress Halves Funding Cap
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra
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2025-09-09Trump Signs Anti-Debanking Order While Gutting Agency That Could Investigate It
Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · JPMorgan · Citibank
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2025-09-03Treasury Department Refuses to Release $1.5 Billion in Epstein Financial Records
Ron Wyden · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1
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2025-09-01Mass Inspector General Firings Implement Project 2025 Plan
Donald Trump · Chuck Grassley · Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · +3
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2025-08-27US Imposes 50% Tariff on India for Buying Russian Oil, Exempts Apple
Donald Trump · india-government · Apple Inc. · Russia
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2025-08-26Trump Media Announces $1 Billion Crypto.com Partnership While Trump Holds Presidential Office
Trump · Trump Media · Crypto.com · Yorkville Advisors
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2025-08-21NY Appeals Court Throws Out $527 Million Trump Fraud Judgment as "Excessive"
New York State Appellate Division · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Letitia James · +3
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2025-08-20FHFA's Pulte Expands Mortgage Fraud Accusations to Schiff and Letitia James
William Pulte · Adam Schiff · Letitia James · fhfa · +2
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