Capture lane

Financial Capture

The Financial Capture capture lane traces 859 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

859 events From Jan 1, 1142 To Jun 17, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1142–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2024-08-13JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book 3 src
J.D. Vance · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans
confirmed
2024-07-18DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model 3 src
DaVita · Department of Justice
confirmed
2024-07-17SEC 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
2024-07-01Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy 4 src
Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland
confirmed
2024-06-30EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Irish Data Protection Commission
confirmed
2024-05-30Apprentice Producer Bill Pruitt's NDA Expires, Reveals Trump Used N-Word on Camera 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Burnett
confirmed
2024-05-29Treasury Releases First NFT Illicit Finance Risk Assessment Warning of Money Laundering Vulnerabilities 3 src
U.S. Treasury Department · FinCEN
confirmed
2024-05-13Michael Cohen Testifies Trump Personally Directed Hush Money Scheme and Reimbursement Cover-Up 4 src
Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Allen Weisselberg · Juan Merchan
confirmed
2024-05-06Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care 3 src
Senate HELP Committee
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2024-04-23Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio 5 src
Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation
confirmed
2024-04-23Biden Administration Finalizes Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule Despite Fierce Industry Opposition and Republican Backlash 4 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Republican Governors · Biden Administration · Trump Administration
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2024-03-26DJT Stock Begins Trading as Trump Owns Majority of $8.4 Billion Media Company 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Donald Trump Jr.
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2024-03-21DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions 3 src
Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook
confirmed
2024-03-05Treasury Department Sanctions Intellexa Consortium and Tal Dilian 4 src
U.S. Treasury Department
confirmed
2024-03-01Wyoming Legislature Passes Second Coal Tax Cut in Two Years, Sacrificing $20 Million Annually to Subsidize Declining Industry 9 src confirmed
2024-02-23Federal Agents Charge Two with $400,000 NFT 'Rug Pull' Money Laundering Scheme 3 src
HSI · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
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2024-02-22AI Regulatory Bodies Begin Scrutiny of xAI's Grok 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Federal Trade Commission · Irish Data Protection Commission
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2024-02-15Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism 3 src
ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department
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2024-01-26Jury Awards E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in Second Defamation Trial Against Trump 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan
confirmed
2024-01-03Jeffrey Epstein Associates Documents Released to Public 3 src
Virginia Giuffre · Ghislaine Maxwell · Bill Clinton · Alan Dershowitz
confirmed
2024-01-01New Hampshire LLC Structure Enables Corporate Tax Avoidance While 81% of Businesses Pay No State Business Tax 13 src confirmed
2023-12-31Biden Leaves 14 Inspector General Positions Vacant, Some for Over 2,000 Days 4 src
Joe Biden · Inspectors General
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2023-12-12Trump Launches Third 'Mugshot' NFT Collection Generating $9.9 Million Revenue 3 src
Donald Trump
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2023-11-20ICIJ Cyprus Confidential Investigation Exposes Wyoming as Premier U.S. Tax Haven Overtaking Delaware 2 src
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Transparency International
confirmed
2023-11-06Trump Takes Stand in NY Fraud Trial, Delivers Combative Testimony Calling Case "Witch Hunt" 4 src
Donald Trump · Arthur Engoron · Letitia James · Trump Organization · +1
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2023-08-12SEC Enforcement Actions Decline in FY 2024 After Peak in FY 2023 3 src confirmed
2023-07-01Trump Crypto Empire Raises Major Constitutional Conflict of Interest Concerns 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · World Liberty Financial · MGX · +1
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2023-06-27Supreme Court Rejects Dangerous "Independent State Legislature" Theory in Moore v. Harper 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · North Carolina Legislature
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2023-06-26SVB Executives Sold $84 Million in Stock Before Bank Collapse 4 src
Greg Becker
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2023-06-20ProPublica Reveals Samuel Alito's Undisclosed Luxury Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer 3 src
Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo · ProPublica
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2023-06-20Shell Company Network Analysis Links Cryptocurrency to Kleptocracy Infrastructure 4 src
Russian Oligarchs
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2023-06-15AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure 3 src
AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak
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2023-06-08Trump indicted on 37 federal charges for classified documents 3 src
Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Department of Justice
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2023-05-30Second Circuit Reverses District Court, Reinstates Sackler Immunity Deal 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice
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2023-05-10Senate Hearing Exposes PBM Insulin Profiteering: 75% of Sales Go to Rebates and Fees 3 src
Bernie Sanders · Senate HELP Committee · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4
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2023-04-12Yemeni Civilians File Lawsuit Against Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics for Enabling War Crimes 2 src
Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · General Dynamics · Saudi Arabia
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2023-03-30Trump Indicted by Manhattan DA on 34 Felony Counts - First Criminal Indictment of President in U.S. History 4 src
Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg · Michael Cohen · Stormy Daniels
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2023-03-22Digital World Acquisition Corp Fires CEO Patrick Orlando Amid SEC Investigation 3 src
Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2023-03-15DOJ Arrests Guo Wengui in Landmark $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy 3 src
Guo Wengui · Department of Justice · Steve Bannon
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2023-03-10Silicon Valley Bank Collapses in $212 Billion Bank Run, Third-Largest U.S. Bank Failure Caused by Regulatory Rollback 3 src
Greg Becker · FDIC · Federal Reserve · Elizabeth Warren · +1
confirmed
2023-01-03Federal Court Orders Unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein Case Documents 3 src
Virginia Giuffre · Ghislaine Maxwell
confirmed
2023-01-0190/10 Rule Loophole Closes, Ending For-Profit Colleges' Predatory Targeting of Veterans by Counting GI Bill and Military Tuition Assistance as Federal Aid 19 src
U.S. Department of Education · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · For-Profit College Industry · U.S. Congress
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2023-01-01Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale 3 src
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1
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2023-01-01Noem secretly accepts $80,000 from dark money nonprofit 4 src
Kristi Noem
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2022-12-31Arabella Advisors Network Raises Record $1.35 Billion in Dark Money 3 src confirmed
2022-12-30House Ways and Means Committee Releases Six Years of Trump Tax Returns 4 src
House Ways and Means Committee · Donald Trump · Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Treasury Department
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2022-12-15Trump Launches Massive NFT Collection Generating .4 Million in Initial Sales 4 src
Donald Trump
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2022-12-06Trump Organization Convicted on All 17 Criminal Counts in Tax Fraud Trial 4 src
Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · Donald Trump · +1
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2022-10-19France Fines Clearview AI €20 Million for GDPR Violations and Unlawful Biometric Surveillance 3 src
Clearview AI · France
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2022-09-21NY Attorney General Files $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump Organization 4 src
Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3
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2022-08-08Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis 3 src
OFAC · Chainalysis · U.S. Treasury
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2022-07-15Roger Stone settles DOJ civil lawsuit for $2.1 million 4 src
Roger Stone · Department of Justice
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2022-07-14DHS Inspector General Reveals Secret Service Deleted January 6th Texts After Oversight Request 3 src
U.S. Secret Service · Bennie Thompson · Liz Cheney
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2022-07-13Celsius Network Files Bankruptcy After Freezing $4.7 Billion in Customer Deposits, Exposing Crypto Regulatory Void 3 src
Celsius Network · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission · Three Arrows Capital · +1
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2022-07-05Voyager Digital Files Bankruptcy After Three Arrows Capital Collapse, Exposing Crypto Lending Contagion and Regulatory Failure 3 src
Voyager Digital · Three Arrows Capital · Securities and Exchange Commission · Celsius Network · +1
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2022-07-01Roger Stone Settles $2.1 Million Tax Fraud Case Over Drake Ventures Shell Company 3 src
Roger Stone · Department of Justice · Internal Revenue Service
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2022-06-24Sweet v. Cardona Settlement Approves $6 Billion in Automatic Debt Cancellation for 200,000 Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges, Ending Years of Trump-Era Delays 8 src
U.S. Department of Education · Miguel Cardona · Betsy DeVos
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2022-06-23Epic Charter Schools Founders Arrested on $22 Million Embezzlement Charges in Oklahoma's Largest Education Fraud 4 srcconfirmed
2022-05-11Grand jury issues subpoena demanding all classified documents from Trump 3 src
Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2022-05-10Chainalysis Raises $170 Million at $8.6 Billion Valuation in Series F 3 src
Chainalysis
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2022-04-26Warren Report Reveals 672 Pentagon and Congressional Officials Now Lobby for Defense Contractors 3 src
Elizabeth Warren · Boeing · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2
confirmed
2022-03-01Task Force KleptoCapture Launched: US Expands Anti-Kleptocracy Operations 3 src
Merrick Garland · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Secret Service · +1
confirmed
2022-02-18Thousands Strike Across Puerto Rico Demanding End to PROMESA, Austerity, and Privatization in National Day of Action 4 src
United Auto Workers · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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2022-02-01Flock Safety Reaches $3.5 Billion Valuation with 1,000+ Police Departments Using Surveillance Network 3 src
Flock Safety · Andreessen Horowitz · Garrett Langley
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2022-01-21Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 80 at Yemen Detention Center in Worst Attack in Three Years 3 src
Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Amnesty International · +3
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2022-01-18NY Attorney General James Files Motion Revealing Evidence of Trump Organization Fraud 4 src
Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3
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2022-01-17National Archives retrieves 15 boxes with 184 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago 3 src
Donald Trump · National Archives · Department of Justice
confirmed
2022-01-13Navient Settles for $1.85 Billion Over Student Loan Servicing Fraud - Steered Borrowers Into Costly Forbearances 3 src
Letitia James
confirmed
2022-01-13Supreme Court Blocks Biden OSHA Vaccine Mandate as Executive Overreach 4 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Joe Biden · U.S. Department of Labor
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2022-01-03Virginia Giuffre Lawsuit Against Prince Andrew Proceeds Despite Sealed Settlement Documents 3 src
Virginia Giuffre · Prince Andrew · Lewis Kaplan · Jeffrey Epstein
confirmed
2021-12-29Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges 3 src
Ghislaine Maxwell · Southern District of New York · Federal Bureau of Investigation
confirmed
2021-12-16Federal Judge Overturns Sackler Immunity Deal, Rules Bankruptcy Law Violated 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice
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2021-12-16Melania Trump Launches NFT Platform with "Melania's Vision" Collection 4 src
Melania Trump
confirmed
2021-12-13USA Gymnastics Emerges from Bankruptcy with $380 Million Settlement for 500+ Nassar Survivors 5 src
USA Gymnastics · Aly Raisman
confirmed
2021-11-23Federal Jury Finds CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Liable for Fueling Ohio Opioid Crisis 3 src
Walgreens
confirmed
2021-10-21Fed Implements Strict Trading Restrictions After Major Ethics Scandal 3 src
Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve Board · Elizabeth Warren · Robert Kaplan · +1
confirmed
2021-10-15Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin 4 src
CFTC · Securities and Exchange Commission
confirmed
2021-10-03Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks 4 src
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Tony Blair
confirmed
2021-10-01Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering 4 src
Food and Drug Administration
confirmed
2021-09-27Dallas and Boston Fed Presidents Resign Over Trading Scandal 4 src
Robert Kaplan · Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Elizabeth Warren
confirmed
2021-09-08Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal 3 src
Eric Rosengren · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell
confirmed
2021-09-07Dallas Fed President Kaplan Resigns Over Trading Controversy 3 src
Robert Kaplan · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Jerome Powell · Eric Rosengren
confirmed
2021-08-26Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action 4 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden
confirmed
2021-08-15ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case 3 src
ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department
confirmed
2021-07-21Clearview AI Raises $30 Million Series B Funding Despite Widespread Privacy Violations 3 src
Clearview AI · Peter Thiel
confirmed
2021-07-04Jason Miller Launches Gettr with Hidden Guo Wengui Funding 3 src
Guo Wengui · Steve Bannon
confirmed
2021-07-01Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Indicted for $1.7M Tax Fraud Scheme 4 src
Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Manhattan District Attorney · Donald Trump
confirmed
2021-07-01Twitter Permanently Suspends Nick Fuentes, Completing Major Platform Deplatforming 3 src
Nick Fuentes
confirmed
2021-06-24Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation in Series E 2 src
Chainalysis
confirmed
2021-06-01LUMA Energy Assumes Control of Puerto Rico's Grid Amid Massive 'Fuera LUMA' Protests Against McKinsey-Designed Privatization 9 src
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
confirmed
2021-05-28Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate
confirmed
2021-05-21Alden Global Capital Completes $633 Million Tribune Publishing Acquisition - "Vulture" Hedge Fund Becomes Second-Largest U.S. Newspaper Publisher 5 src confirmed
2021-04-15Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons 4 src
Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Donald Trump
confirmed
2021-03-01Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy 4 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
confirmed
2021-02-13McConnell Says Trump "Practically and Morally Responsible" Minutes After Voting to Acquit 4 src
Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans
confirmed
2021-02-05Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout 3 src confirmed
2021-02-04Biden Administration Pauses $760 Million Raytheon and Boeing Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Over Yemen 4 src
Joe Biden · Raytheon · Boeing · Saudi Arabia · +1
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2021-01-28Raytheon CEO Hayes Tells Investors "Peace Not Going to Break Out" in Middle East, Sees Solid Growth 3 src
Greg Hayes · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Joe Biden
confirmed
2021-01-19Navalny Investigation Reveals Putin's Palace Complex 4 src
Vladimir Putin · Gennady Timchenko
confirmed
2021-01-19Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy 4 src
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · +1
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