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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-02 | DOT announces enforcement grace period for new emissions standards
4 src Department of Transportation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Two more law firms reach deals with Trump to avoid executive orders: 'they're all bending'
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Scott Edelman · Milbank LLP | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's Mansion Set on Fire, Family Forced to Flee
3 src Josh Shapiro (Governor, victim) · Unknown arsonist | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Rural internet program on hold as Musk's satellites get new consideration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | State Department plans $400 million payment to Tesla after regulatory firings
5 src State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP impeachment effort
3 src Donald Trump · Jason Galanis · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Family Launches American Bitcoin Corp. with Hut 8
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval
4 src Donald Trump · Travis Hill · Trump Administration · FDIC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | SEC Launches Crypto Task Force with Significant Staffing Changes
3 src 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
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | DOGE cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink government contracts
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Mikie Sherrill · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Announces USD1 Stablecoin with Binance Backing
4 src Donald Trump · Zachary Folkman · Chase Herro · Zach Witkoff · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-21 | FinCEN interim final rule exempts all U.S.-formed entities and U.S. persons from Corporate Transparency Act beneficial-ownership reporting 8 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | SEC Drops Landmark Lawsuit Against Ripple Labs After Political Shifts
3 src Brad Garlinghouse · Donald Trump · Mark Uyeda · SEC Chair · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | DOGE Audit Controversy: Inflated Savings Claims and Potential Conflicts of Interest
3 src 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
8 src Bill Pulte · FHFA · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac · +19 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-17 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Raises $550 Million in Crypto Token Sales
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial · Justin Sun | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Supreme Court Conducts Unprecedented Hearing on Presidential Emoluments
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Constitutional Scholars | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Trump administration coerces law firms into $940 million of free legal work
5 src Trump Administration · Major law firms · Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-14 | AG Pam Bondi Announces Federal Investigation into Tesla Vandalism
4 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-13 | Inside Elon Musk's 'Digital Coup' in Trump Administration
3 src 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
4 src 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
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Amazon pays $40 million for Melania documentary in apparent quid pro quo arrangement
3 src 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
7 src Department of Government Efficiency · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Legal Resistance Network Litigation Summit
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Elon Musk · SpaceX · Starlink · Donald Trump · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-06 | Trump Issues Border Tariff Executive Orders Using Drug Enforcement Pretext
8 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-03 | DOGE Demands $4 Million from OPM for Workforce Reduction Planning
3 src 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
12 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-02 | Treasury announces suspension of Corporate Transparency Act enforcement against U.S. citizens and domestic reporting companies 6 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-02 | Trump Establishes Strategic Crypto Reserve, Expanding U.S. Digital Asset Strategy
4 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Russell Vought · Jonathan McKernan · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | SEC Declares Meme Coins Not Subject to Securities Regulations
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-24 | SEC Closes Investigation into Robinhood Crypto Division Without Enforcement Action
3 src 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
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | CFPB Drops Lawsuit Against Solo Funds, Signaling Regulatory Capture
3 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Travis Holoway · Lauren Saunders | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | Coinbase says SEC intends to drop lawsuit against crypto exchange
3 src 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
5 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Barron Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | 154,000 Federal Employees Accept Deferred Resignation Program Buyouts
7 src Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Federal employees | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Capital One CFPB case dropped after $1 million inauguration donation
6 src Capital One · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Courts Grapple with Unprecedented Emoluments Enforcement Challenge
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal District Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump systematically fires federal officials investigating Elon Musk's companies
3 src 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
4 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Explores Consolidating Banking Regulators
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Signs Executive Order for Large-Scale Federal Workforce Cuts Under DOGE
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump pardons multiple financial criminals and white-collar offenders
3 src Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Todd Chrisley · Julie Chrisley · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-09 | CFPB Headquarters Shuttered as Staff Ordered to Stop All Work
5 src Russell Vought · Mark Paoletta · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Attorney General Bondi Dramatically Narrows FARA Prosecutorial Scope
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-02 | Trump administration purges 8,000+ climate web pages from federal agencies
4 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | U.S. Global Change Research Program dismantled with staff removed
4 src 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
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | DOJ moves to drop charges against former GOP lawmaker in case criticized by Trump
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Dark money groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump Fires 17 Independent Watchdogs Across Multiple Federal Agencies
5 src Donald Trump · Sergio Gor · Sen. Chuck Grassley | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump pardons financial criminals including wire fraud convict and money launderers
3 src Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Financial criminals · Republican donors | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Trump fires 18 Inspectors General in unprecedented purge of government watchdogs
7 src 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
5 src Doug Burgum · Department of Interior · continental-resources · Microsoft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | Sacks Sells $74K Bitwise ETF Position One Day After Inauguration — 44 Days Before EO Designating Same Five Assets
7 src David Sacks · Craft Ventures · Bitwise Asset Management · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Maintains $600 Million Tether Stake Despite DOJ Investigation and Senate Scrutiny
5 src Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · tether · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Coordinated Federal Workforce Purge: Schedule F and DOJ Personnel Removal
4 src Donald Trump · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · Anne McNamara · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders
3 src 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
4 src Melania Trump · Cryptocurrency traders · World Liberty Financial · Sen. Chris Murphy | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration
12 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Northern Mariana Islands in "Very Dire" Fiscal Crisis as Tourism Collapse and Federal Aid Ends
2 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-15 | Anthropic Secures Comprehensive FedRAMP High Certification for Government AI Deployment
3 src Anthropic · Palantir · U.S. intelligence agencies · Defense agencies · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Crypto Industry Advances Self-Regulatory Framework Amid Global Compliance Push
3 src 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
4 src Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Tom Homan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-04 | Meta Provides Llama AI Models to US Government and Military Contractors
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
4 src Tenet Media · Tayler Hansen · Lauren Chen · Tim Pool · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement
3 src 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
3 src Kylian Mbappé · Unknown Hackers · Sahil Arora | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-13 | JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book
3 src 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
3 src DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-17 | SEC Files Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against Former DWAC CEO Patrick Orlando
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy
4 src Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-30 | EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices
3 src 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
3 src Bill Pruitt · Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-29 | Treasury Releases First NFT Illicit Finance Risk Assessment Warning of Money Laundering Vulnerabilities
3 src U.S. Treasury Department · FinCEN | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | Michael Cohen Testifies Trump Personally Directed Hush Money Scheme and Reimbursement Cover-Up
4 src 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
3 src Steward Health Care · Ralph de la Torre · Cerberus Capital Management · Medical Properties Trust · +1 | confirmed |