Financial Capture
The Financial Capture capture lane traces 838 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-01 | Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation Phlow Corporation · Peter Navarro · Kodak · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-19 | Senators Burr and Loeffler Accused of Insider Trading After COVID-19 Briefings Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · Tucker Carlson | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-28 | Trump Calls Coronavirus "Their New Hoax" at South Carolina Rally Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-27 | Fed Vice Chair Clarida Trades Millions Before Rate Cuts Richard Clarida · Federal Reserve Board · Jerome Powell · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-20 | Axon Launches Axon Air Drone Platform, Integrating Aerial Surveillance into Police Evidence Ecosystem Axon · Escondido Police Department · DJI | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-14 | YouTube Terminates Nick Fuentes Channel for Hate Speech Violations Nick Fuentes | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-13 | 2020 Congressional COVID Insider Trading Scandal Exposes Systemic Corruption Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · James Inhofe · Dianne Feinstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-11 | Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn Bill Barr · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | OECD Estimates Google Avoids $7B+ Annually Through Tax Havens OECD · Google · Alphabet · Tax Justice Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-03 | Ecuador Indigenous Uprising Forces Moreno to Withdraw IMF-Backed Fuel Subsidy Cuts Lenín Moreno · CONAIE · International Monetary Fund · Rafael Correa | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-12 | France Orders Google to Pay €1B for Tax Fraud, Settles for €945M Google · French tax authority · French government · Bruno Le Maire (Finance Minister) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-26 | Trump Proposes Hosting G-7 Summit at His Doral Golf Resort Donald Trump · Trump National Doral · G-7 leaders · Mick Mulvaney | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-13 | Jeffrey Epstein Sent Letter to Larry Nassar from Prison Days Before Suicide, Revealing Sex Offender Network Jeffrey Epstein · Larry Nassar · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | disputed | |
| 2019-08-10 | Jeffrey Epstein Dies by Suicide in Federal Custody Jeffrey Epstein · William Barr · Bureau of Prisons · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-06 | Jeffrey Epstein Arrested on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges Jeffrey Epstein · Geoffrey Berman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · NYPD · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-01 | Betsy DeVos Repeals Gainful Employment Rule, Eliminating All Accountability for For-Profit College Job Outcomes Despite $1.3 Billion Projected Cost to Taxpayers Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Robert Eitel · Julian Schmoke Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-28 | Florida Legislature Enacts "Poll Tax" Requiring Payment of Fines to Undermine Amendment 4 Ron DeSantis · Florida Legislature · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-25 | U.S. Student Debt Surpasses $1.6 Trillion - 107% Increase in a Decade Federal Reserve | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-13 | Commerce Inspector General Finds Wilbur Ross Lied to Congress About Census Citizenship Question Wilbur Ross · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-15 | Russian Oligarch-Linked Rusal Invests $200 Million in Kentucky Braidy Plant After McConnell Blocks Sanctions Rusal · Oleg Deripaska · En+ Group · Braidy Industries · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | Trump Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · John Bolton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-07 | Paul Manafort Sentenced to Combined 7.5 Years in Federal Prison, Longest Mueller Investigation Sentence Paul Manafort · Donald Trump · Judge T.S. Ellis III · Judge Amy Berman Jackson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-21 | Federal Judge Rules Epstein Plea Deal Violated Crime Victims' Rights Act Kenneth Marra · Bradley Edwards · Paul Cassell · Alexander Acosta · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-05 | Trump Overrides 25+ Security Clearance Denials for Family and Allies Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Ivanka Trump · John Kelly · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-18 | Dream Center Education Holdings Enters Receivership, Art Institutes Collapse Leaves Thousands Stranded, $16 Million in Student Aid Disappeared Dream Center Education Holdings · Art Institutes · Argosy University · South University · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | State Corporate Tax Rates Decline 33% Over Three Decades - ALEC's Interstate Race-to-Bottom Costs States $43-57 Billion Annually in Lost Revenue American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Corporate Lobby · Good Jobs First · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-18 | New York Judge Orders Trump Foundation Dissolved, Assets Distributed to Charities Saliann Scarpulla · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Barbara Underwood | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-18 | Trump Foundation Admits to Misusing Charity Funds, Agrees to Dissolve Under Court Supervision Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Barbara Underwood · New York Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Resigns Facing 18 Federal Investigations Ryan Zinke · Donald Trump · Department of Interior · David Bernhardt | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-27 | Georgia Purges 1.4 Million Voters Under Exact Match System Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Georgia Secretary of State Office · Common Cause Georgia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-08 | Rep. Chris Collins Indicted for Insider Trading Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Stephen Zarsky · Innate Immunotherapeutics | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Kushner Receives $1.28B Qatar Bailout After Blockade Reversal Jared Kushner · Qatar Investment Authority · Brookfield Property Partners · Charles Kushner · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Qatar-Linked Brookfield Bails Out Kushner's 666 Fifth Avenue for $1.28 Billion Jared Kushner · Kushner Companies · Brookfield Asset Management · Qatar Investment Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Guo Wengui Begins Funding Steve Bannon Operations Guo Wengui · Miles Guo · Steve Bannon · Guo Media · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-20 | Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak Charged in 1MDB Scandal Najib Razak · Jho Low · Rosmah Mansor · Tim Leissner · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-18 | EU Fines Google Record €4.34B for Android Monopoly Abuse Through Bundling Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-05 | EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid 14 Federal Investigations Scott Pruitt · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Andrew Wheeler | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-01 | IRS Launches Virtual Currency Compliance Campaign Using Chainalysis Internal Revenue Service · Chainalysis · IRS Criminal Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-01 | Trump Family Separation Policy Detains 5,500 Children in Cages Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Jeff Sessions · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-24 | Trump Signs Dodd-Frank Rollback Raising 'Systemically Important' Bank Threshold from $50B to $250B After Industry Lobbying Blitz Donald Trump · Greg Becker · Silicon Valley Bank · Mike Crapo · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-16 | Michigan State University Agrees to $500 Million Settlement with 332 Nassar Survivors—Largest University Sexual Abuse Settlement in History Michigan State University · Lou Anna Simon · John Engler · Larry Nassar · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-15 | Kansas City Fed Approves Reserve Trust Master Account After Alleged Intervention Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-14 | Seattle Passes Head Tax on Large Employers—Amazon Threatens Expansion Halt, Washington Post Editorial Aligns with Owner's Interests Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Washington Post · Seattle City Council · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-01 | T-Mobile Executives Spend 95K at Trump Hotel During Merger Review T-Mobile · John Legere · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-15 | iHeartMedia Files for Bankruptcy with $20 Billion Debt - Conservative Radio Empire Collapses Under Leveraged Buyout Burden iHeartMedia · Clear Channel Communications · Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-15 | Toys 'R' Us Liquidation: PE Firms Extract $470 Million, 33,000 Workers Get Nothing Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · 33,000 Toys R Us workers | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | HUD Secretary Ben Carson Spends $31,000 in Taxpayer Funds on Dining Room Furniture, Violates Federal Law Ben Carson · Candy Carson · Helen Foster | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | James Biden Receives $600K from Distressed Healthcare Company, Pays Joe Biden $200K Same Day James Biden · Joe Biden · Americore Health · Sara Biden | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | TRM Labs Founded to Provide Blockchain Intelligence to Governments and Financial Institutions TRM Labs · Esteban Castano · Rahul Raina | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-02 | Federal Reserve Imposes Unprecedented Asset Cap on Wells Fargo Federal Reserve · Janet Yellen · Wells Fargo Board | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Again on $11.2 Billion Profit—Receives $129 Million Tax Rebate Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-31 | Google Moves $23B to Bermuda Tax Haven in Single Year Google · Alphabet · Sundar Pichai · Dutch authorities (disclosure) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-18 | Great Northern Paper Bankruptcy Leaves 1,000 Maine Workers with Pennies on Dollar of Promised Pensions Brookfield Asset Management · Cate Street Capital · Great Northern Paper Company | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-05 | Paradise Papers Expose Global Elite's Systematic Offshore Financial Manipulation Appleby · Estera · Queen Elizabeth II · Wilbur Ross · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-01 | Pete Hegseth accused of sexual assault at Republican conference Pete Hegseth · California Federation of Republican Women | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-26 | Ramaswamy's Axovant Alzheimer drug fails, stock crashes 75% after pump-and-dump Vivek Ramaswamy · Axovant Sciences · Roivant Sciences · GlaxoSmithKline | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-20 | Hurricane Maria Devastates Puerto Rico, Exposing Infrastructure Collapse While McKinsey Continues Advising on Privatization and Austerity McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority · Naomi Klein | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-31 | Wells Fargo Revises Fake Account Count to 3.5 Million, Up 67% Wells Fargo · Timothy Sloan | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-23 | FTC Approves Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Despite Monopolization Concerns Amazon.com Inc. · Jeff Bezos · Whole Foods Market Inc. · Federal Trade Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-01 | Equifax Executives Sell $1.8 Million in Stock Days After Discovering Massive Data Breach John Gamble · Joseph Loughran · Rodolfo Ploder · Equifax · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-31 | V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors SCANA Corporation · Santee Cooper · Kevin Marsh · Stephen Byrne · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-27 | EU Fines Google Record €2.42B for Search Manipulation Favoring Google Shopping Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-15 | Kansas City Fed Denies Reserve Trust Master Account Amid Potential Regulatory Capture Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-28 | Kentucky Invests $15 Million in Braidy Industries on Final Day of Legislative Session Without Disclosure Matt Bevin · Craig Bouchard · Braidy Industries · Kentucky Legislature · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-08 | Trump Model Management Shuts Down Amid Federal Investigations Trump Model Management · Donald Trump · Alexia Palmer | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-13 | McKinsey-Designed Fiscal Plan Mandates Devastating Austerity: Pension Cuts, School Closures, Healthcare Privatization, Furloughs McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government · Rafael Torregrosa | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-02 | Ryan Zinke Opens Public Lands to Extraction While Profiting Ryan Zinke · David Bernhardt · Department of Interior · Halliburton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-01 | Peter Thiel Hires Vance at Mithril Capital Peter Thiel · J.D. Vance · Ajay Royan | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-08 | Kellyanne Conway Commits 50+ Hatch Act Violations, No Consequences Kellyanne Conway · Donald Trump · Office of Special Counsel · White House · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-07 | Scott Pruitt Dismantles EPA While Taking Industry Money Scott Pruitt · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-31 | Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Donald Trump · Judicial Crisis Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-30 | Deutsche Bank fined $630 million for $10 billion Russian money laundering scheme Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · New York Department of Financial Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Goldman Sachs Alumni Take Control of Trump Economic Policy Gary Cohn · Steven Mnuchin · Goldman Sachs · Dina Powell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Trump Organization Receives 3.6M from Foreign Governments Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Saudi Arabia · China · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Rex Tillerson Confirmation Hearing Reveals ExxonMobil-Russia Conflicts and Sanctions Violations Rex Tillerson · Donald Trump · Igor Sechin · Vladimir Putin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Trump Announces Sham Business Conflicts Plan: Retains Ownership While Sons Run Company - Rejects Divestment Donald Trump · Sheri Dillon · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax on $5.6 Billion Profit Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Publishers · Advertisers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-01 | Banking Committee Chairman Shelby Advocates for Financial CHOICE Act to Gut Dodd-Frank Richard Shelby · U.S. Senate Banking Committee · Wall Street · Dodd-Frank Act | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-09 | Private Prison Stocks Surge After Trump Election Victory, CoreCivic Up 43% and GEO Group Up 21% in Single Day Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Wall Street investors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-04 | National Enquirer Shreds Trump Documents from Safe After WSJ Inquiry Dylan Howard · David Pecker · National Enquirer/AMI · Wall Street Journal · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-08 | Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating 2 Million Fake Accounts Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Richard Cordray | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-01 | Apollo Global Management Acquires Constellis Holdings (Blackwater Successor) for Approximately $1 Billion Constellis Holdings · Apollo Global Management · Blackwater · Triple Canopy | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-17 | Kentucky Governor Bevin Seizes Control of Pension Board Through Executive Order Matt Bevin · Kentucky Retirement Systems · Thomas K. Elliott · Kentucky Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-01 | Puerto Rico Defaults on $422 Million Bond Payment, Triggering Largest Municipal Debt Crisis in U.S. History Alejandro García Padilla · Puerto Rico Government Development Bank · Puerto Rico Government · Hedge Fund Creditors | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-03 | Panama Papers Expose Global Offshore Financial Networks Mossack Fonseca · Vladimir Putin · Petro Poroshenko · Nawaz Sharif · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-01 | JD Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal JD Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-01 | Trump Model Management Lawsuit Dismissed on Technicality Despite Evidence Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump · Federal Courts · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-28 | Trump Uses Charity Foundation for Iowa Campaign Event, Violating Tax Law Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Corey Lewandowski | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Deutsche Bank Flags Suspicious Trump-Russia Transactions Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Russian money launderers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | J.D. Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | NRA Spends Record $30-55 Million Supporting Trump, FBI Investigates Russian Money Laundering National Rifle Association · Donald Trump · Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-19 | Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases Johns Hopkins University · Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Roche · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-16 | Education Management Corporation (EDMC) Settles Largest-Ever For-Profit Education Fraud Case for $95.5 Million, Forgives $103 Million in Student Loans Education Management Corporation (EDMC) · Art Institutes · Argosy University · Brown Mackie College · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty to Federal Banking Violations Dennis Hastert | confirmed | |
| 2015-09-01 | Chainalysis Secures First Federal Contract with FBI for $9,000 Chainalysis · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service | confirmed | |
| 2015-08-19 | Greece Accepts Third Bailout of €86 Billion Despite 61% Referendum Rejection Six Weeks Earlier Alexis Tsipras · European Stability Mechanism · International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-07-05 | Greeks Vote 61% 'Oxi' (No) to Reject Troika Austerity in Historic Referendum Alexis Tsipras · Yanis Varoufakis · Syriza · European Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-05-28 | Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted for Bank Fraud and Lying to FBI Dennis Hastert | confirmed |