Financial Capture
The Financial Capture capture lane traces 838 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-31 | Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP impeachment effort Donald Trump · Jason Galanis · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Family Launches American Bitcoin Corp. with Hut 8 Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Hut 8 Corp. · Mike Ho · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Family Takes Control of World Liberty Financial Crypto Venture Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval Donald Trump · Travis Hill · Trump Administration · FDIC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | SEC Launches Crypto Task Force with Significant Staffing Changes Paul Atkins · Mark T. Uyeda · Hester Peirce · SEC Crypto Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons four founders of BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange convicted of money laundering Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | DOGE cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink government contracts Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Mikie Sherrill · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Announces USD1 Stablecoin with Binance Backing Donald Trump · Zachary Folkman · Chase Herro · Zach Witkoff · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | SEC Drops Landmark Lawsuit Against Ripple Labs After Political Shifts Brad Garlinghouse · Donald Trump · Mark Uyeda · SEC Chair · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | DOGE Audit Controversy: Inflated Savings Claims and Potential Conflicts of Interest Elon Musk · U.S. Treasury Department · Democratic Senators | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-17 | Pulte Purges 14 Directors from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Boards, Installs Himself as Chairman of Both GSEs Bill Pulte · FHFA · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac · +19 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-17 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Raises $550 Million in Crypto Token Sales Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial · Justin Sun | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Supreme Court Conducts Unprecedented Hearing on Presidential Emoluments U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Constitutional Scholars | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Trump administration coerces law firms into $940 million of free legal work Trump Administration · Major law firms · Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-14 | AG Pam Bondi Announces Federal Investigation into Tesla Vandalism Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-13 | Inside Elon Musk's 'Digital Coup' in Trump Administration Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-13 | Top Trump official's crypto ties raise red flags as the administration touts digital assets Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Elizabeth Warren · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Trump calls Tesla boycott ‘illegal’ and says he’s buying one to support Musk Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Amazon pays $40 million for Melania documentary in apparent quid pro quo arrangement Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Melania Trump · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | It's 'shoot first and ask questions later' as DOGE tries to dismantle CFPB: Official Department of Government Efficiency · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Legal Resistance Network Litigation Summit National Association of Attorneys General · State Attorney General Networks · Civil Liberties Organizations · Constitutional Litigation Experts | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Pro Bono Legal Support Network Expansion Pro Bono Defense Network · Legal Aid Organizations · Constitutional Rights Funding Coalition · Pro Bono Net · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Strategic Litigation Coordination Summit: Multi-State Legal Resistance State Attorney General Networks · American Civil Liberties Union · Civil Liberties Defense Center · New Civil Liberties Alliance · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | Elon Musk's Starlink Expands Rapidly in Federal Government Infrastructure Elon Musk · SpaceX · Starlink · Donald Trump · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-06 | Trump Issues Border Tariff Executive Orders Using Drug Enforcement Pretext Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-03 | DOGE Demands $4 Million from OPM for Workforce Reduction Planning Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-03 | Trump Raises China Tariffs to 20 Percent Using Synthetic Opioid Justification Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-02 | Trump Establishes Strategic Crypto Reserve, Expanding U.S. Digital Asset Strategy Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Department of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Federal Agencies Fire 62,530 Workers in Two Months - 41,311% Increase Over 2024 Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Interior · forest-service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | CFPB Drops Major Lawsuits Against Capital One and Other Financial Firms Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Russell Vought · Jonathan McKernan · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | SEC Declares Meme Coins Not Subject to Securities Regulations Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC Division of Corporation Finance | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | US SEC, Tron founder Justin Sun explore resolution of civil fraud case Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | Trump order calls for creation of DOGE-linked agency payment-tracking systems Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-24 | SEC Closes Investigation into Robinhood Crypto Division Without Enforcement Action Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Dan Gallagher · Robinhood Crypto Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-22 | Musk’s cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | CFPB Drops Lawsuit Against Solo Funds, Signaling Regulatory Capture Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Travis Holoway · Lauren Saunders | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | Coinbase says SEC intends to drop lawsuit against crypto exchange Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Gary Gensler · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | DOGE put him in the Treasury Department. His company has federal contracts worth millions Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Kyle Lutnick Appointed to Newmark Group Board as Father Becomes Commerce Secretary Kyle Lutnick · Brandon Lutnick · Howard Lutnick · Newmark Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-17 | Coins, watches and more: A look at Trump's crypto-related ventures, by the numbers Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Barron Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | 154,000 Federal Employees Accept Deferred Resignation Program Buyouts Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Federal employees | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Capital One CFPB case dropped after $1 million inauguration donation Capital One · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Courts Grapple with Unprecedented Emoluments Enforcement Challenge U.S. Supreme Court · Federal District Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump systematically fires federal officials investigating Elon Musk's companies Donald Trump · Elon Musk · FDA officials · EEOC officials · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | How Trump's Justice Department has Gutted the Government's Ability to Chase Public Corruption Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Explores Consolidating Banking Regulators Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Halts CFPB Operations, Freezing Consumer Protection Investigations Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Signs Executive Order for Large-Scale Federal Workforce Cuts Under DOGE Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump pardons multiple financial criminals and white-collar offenders Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Todd Chrisley · Julie Chrisley · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-09 | CFPB Headquarters Shuttered as Staff Ordered to Stop All Work Russell Vought · Mark Paoletta · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Attorney General Bondi Dramatically Narrows FARA Prosecutorial Scope Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · DOJ National Security Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Makes Massive Ethereum Purchases Amid Market Volatility Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-02 | Trump administration purges 8,000+ climate web pages from federal agencies Trump Administration · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · NOAA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | U.S. Global Change Research Program dismantled with staff removed U.S. Global Change Research Program · White House · Russ Vought · David Legates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Paramount in settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | DOJ moves to drop charges against former GOP lawmaker in case criticized by Trump Donald Trump · Jeff Fortenberry · Trump Administration · U.S. Justice Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Trump Media Launches Truth.Fi FinTech Brand with $250M Investment Strategy Donald Trump · Devin Nunes · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-26 | DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Secretly Received $80,000 Dark Money Cut While Governor Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Dark money groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump Fires 17 Independent Watchdogs Across Multiple Federal Agencies Donald Trump · Sergio Gor · Sen. Chuck Grassley | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump pardons financial criminals including wire fraud convict and money launderers Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Financial criminals · Republican donors | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Trump fires 18 Inspectors General in unprecedented purge of government watchdogs Donald Trump · Robert Storch · Michael Missal · Hannibal Ware · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Interior Secretary Doug Burgum Signs Ethics Agreement to Divest Oil and Gas Interests Doug Burgum · Department of Interior · continental-resources · Microsoft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Maintains $600 Million Tether Stake Despite DOJ Investigation and Senate Scrutiny Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · tether · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Coordinated Federal Workforce Purge: Schedule F and DOJ Personnel Removal Donald Trump · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · Anne McNamara · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Project 2025 authors · Tom Homan · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-19 | Melania Trump launches $MELANIA coin with suspicious trading netting insiders $99.6M Melania Trump · Cryptocurrency traders · World Liberty Financial · Sen. Chris Murphy | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration Donald Trump · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Northern Mariana Islands in "Very Dire" Fiscal Crisis as Tourism Collapse and Federal Aid Ends Government Accountability Office (GAO) · Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Government · US Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Patrizia Cavazzoni's FDA to Pfizer Move Epitomizes Regulatory Capture Patrizia Cavazzoni · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-19 | SEC Charges Cantor Fitzgerald $6.75 Million for Misleading SPAC Disclosures Securities and Exchange Commission · Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick · View, Inc. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | President Biden Issues Full Pardon for Son Hunter Despite Repeated Promises Not To Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-15 | Anthropic Secures Comprehensive FedRAMP High Certification for Government AI Deployment Anthropic · Palantir · U.S. intelligence agencies · Defense agencies · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Crypto Industry Advances Self-Regulatory Framework Amid Global Compliance Push Cryptocurrency Industry Consortium · Financial Stability Board · European Securities and Markets Authority · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-06 | Private Prison Stocks Soar After Trump's 2024 Victory: CoreCivic Up 29%, GEO Group Up 42% in Single Session Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Tom Homan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-04 | Meta Provides Llama AI Models to US Government and Military Contractors Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · US government agencies · Lockheed Martin · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-24 | Treasury Reveals $1.1 Billion in Epstein Wire Transfers to Russian Banks Jeffrey Epstein · Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Russian banks | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-19 | General Dynamics Virginia-Class Submarine Program Revealed to Be $17 Billion Over Budget with 2-3 Year Delays General Dynamics · Huntington Ingalls Industries · Ken Calvert · Carlos Del Toro · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-16 | Sean Combs arrested on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges Sean Combs · Department of Justice · SDNY · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-13 | State Department Exposes RT as Fully Integrated Russian Intelligence Operation with Embedded Cyber Capabilities State Department · Antony Blinken · RT (Russia Today) · U.S. Treasury Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-05 | Tenet Media Shuts Down, YouTube Terminates Channels, Blaze Media Fires Lauren Chen After DOJ Indictment Exposure Tenet Media · Tayler Hansen · Lauren Chen · Tim Pool · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. AI Safety Institute · NIST · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-29 | Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Hacked to Promote $464M Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam Kylian Mbappé · Unknown Hackers · Sahil Arora | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-13 | JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book JD Vance · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-18 | DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-17 | SEC Files Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against Former DWAC CEO Patrick Orlando Securities and Exchange Commission · Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-30 | EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Irish Data Protection Commission · European Data Protection Board · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Apprentice Producer Bill Pruitt's NDA Expires, Reveals Trump Used N-Word on Camera Bill Pruitt · Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-29 | Treasury Releases First NFT Illicit Finance Risk Assessment Warning of Money Laundering Vulnerabilities U.S. Treasury Department · FinCEN | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | Michael Cohen Testifies Trump Personally Directed Hush Money Scheme and Reimbursement Cover-Up Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Allen Weisselberg · Juan Merchan | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-06 | Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care Steward Health Care · Ralph de la Torre · Cerberus Capital Management · Medical Properties Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Biden Administration Finalizes Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule Despite Fierce Industry Opposition and Republican Backlash Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · American Health Care Association · LeadingAge · Kim Reynolds · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-26 | DJT Stock Begins Trading as Trump Owns Majority of $8.4 Billion Media Company Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · NYSE · Digital World Acquisition Corp · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-21 | DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook · 16 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-05 | Treasury Department Sanctions Intellexa Consortium and Tal Dilian U.S. Treasury Department · Office of Foreign Assets Control · Tal Jonathan Dilian · Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Wyoming Legislature Passes Second Coal Tax Cut in Two Years, Sacrificing $20 Million Annually to Subsidize Declining Industry Wyoming Legislature · Mark Gordon · Black Hills Energy · Powder River Basin Coal Producers | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-23 | Federal Agents Charge Two with $400,000 NFT 'Rug Pull' Money Laundering Scheme Devin Alan Rhoden · Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr. · HSI · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-22 | AI Regulatory Bodies Begin Scrutiny of xAI's Grok Elon Musk · xAI · Federal Trade Commission · Irish Data Protection Commission · +1 | confirmed |