| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis
5 src 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
4 src Matt Bevin · Kentucky Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2016-05-01 | Puerto Rico Defaults on $422 Million Bond Payment, Triggering Largest Municipal Debt Crisis in U.S. History
12 src Puerto Rico Government | | confirmed |
| 2016-04-03 | Panama Papers Expose Global Offshore Financial Networks
3 src Vladimir Putin · King Salman · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists |
| confirmed |
| 2016-04-01 | JD Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal
3 src J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital |
| confirmed |
| 2016-03-01 | Trump Model Management Lawsuit Dismissed on Technicality Despite Evidence
4 src Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump · Federal Courts |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-28 | Trump Uses Charity Foundation for Iowa Campaign Event, Violating Tax Law
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Corey Lewandowski |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | Deutsche Bank Flags Suspicious Trump-Russia Transactions
4 src Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Vladimir Putin |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | J.D. Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal
4 src J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | NRA Spends Record $30-55 Million Supporting Trump, FBI Investigates Russian Money Laundering
4 src 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
4 src Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Johnson & Johnson · AstraZeneca · +2 |
| 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
3 src Education Management Corporation (EDMC) · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2015-10-28 | Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty to Federal Banking Violations
3 src Dennis Hastert |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-01 | Chainalysis Secures First Federal Contract with FBI for $9,000
2 src 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
3 src International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank · European Commission · Angela Merkel | | confirmed |
| 2015-07-05 | Greeks Vote 61% 'Oxi' (No) to Reject Troika Austerity in Historic Referendum
3 src European Commission · International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank | | confirmed |
| 2015-05-28 | Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted for Bank Fraud and Lying to FBI
3 src Dennis Hastert |
| confirmed |
| 2015-03-17 | Rep. Aaron Schock Resigns Amid Luxury Spending and Mileage Fraud Scandal
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-03 | S&P Settles for $1.375 Billion Over Fraudulent AAA Ratings on Junk Mortgage Securities, While Moody's Pays $864 Million, Exposing 'Issuer-Pays' Conflict of Interest Model Where 73% of 2006 AAA-Rated Securities Were Downgraded to Junk by 2010
3 src Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-01 | Model Files Federal Lawsuit Against Trump Model Management for Wage Theft
3 src Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2014-09-02 | Eric Cantor Joins Wall Street Investment Bank for $3.4M After House Leadership
3 src House Republicans |
| confirmed |
| 2014-07-16 | EU and US Impose Sectoral Sanctions on Russia
4 src European Union · United States · Rosneft |
| confirmed |
| 2014-05-01 | Eric Trump says all funding comes from Russia, not U.S. banks
3 src Eric Trump · Trump Organization |
| reported |
| 2014-03-18 | Putin Formally Signs Treaty Annexing Crimea, Escalating International Conflict
3 src Vladimir Putin · Joe Biden · Angela Merkel |
| confirmed |
| 2014-03-01 | Trump Foundation Buys $20,000 Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction, Hangs in Trump Golf Club
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-26 | Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats
3 src House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-01 | Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate
4 src U.S. Treasury · FinCEN · Russian Oligarchs |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-01 | Francisco Partners Acquires 70% Stake in NSO Group for $130 Million
3 src NSO Group · Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-23 | Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins
3 src Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf |
| confirmed |
| 2013-11-11 | Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill
3 src Citigroup · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2013-11-01 | Cantor Fitzgerald Signs Referral Agreement with Prince Andrew's Urramoor Limited Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick · Prince Andrew · Jeffrey Epstein |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-02 | Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed
4 src Yahoo · National Security Agency · FISA Court |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-01 | Healthcare.gov Launch Disaster Costs $1.7B from $93M Contract
3 src U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · CMS · Accenture |
| confirmed |
| 2013-09-30 | Darnell Earley Appointed as Flint Emergency Manager, Will Oversee Disastrous Water Switch
3 src Darnell Earley · Rick Snyder |
| confirmed |
| 2013-09-17 | Pam Bondi Receives Illegal $25,000 Trump Foundation Donation During Trump University Investigation
3 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-24 | New York Attorney General Sues Trump University for $40 Million, Calls It "Straight Up Fraud"
3 src Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-01 | Retired General James Mattis Joins General Dynamics Board Five Months After Marine Corps Retirement
3 src James Mattis · General Dynamics |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-01 | Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum After 39 Days in Moscow Airport
3 src Edward Snowden · Russia · Vladimir Putin |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-17 | Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-01 | Elliptic Founded as First Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Firm
2 src |
| confirmed |
| 2013-05-21 | Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate
4 src Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-04-23 | CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program
4 src James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet |
| confirmed |
| 2013-03-15 | Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Drone Costs Surge to $222 Million Per Aircraft
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-03-01 | Trump Foundation Paid $25,000 to Settle Trump University Legal Claim Using Charity Funds
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-29 | DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis
4 src Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · Obama Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-02 | Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Making 82% of Bush Tax Cuts Permanent - 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Locks in $2.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts for Wealthy
5 src Barack Obama · Joe Biden · Mitch McConnell · Nancy Pelosi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers
4 src Google |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt |
| confirmed |
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed
3 src Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Eric Holder · Covington & Burling |
| confirmed |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement
3 src BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Eric Holder · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-07-30 | Senate Harkin Report Documents Massive Fraud and Abuse in For-Profit College Industry
3 src Senate HELP Committee · University of Phoenix · Corinthian Colleges · Education Management Corporation (EDMC) |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-07 | 38 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss
4 src Wells Fargo · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-22 | Kansas Governor Brownback Signs ALEC-Laffer Tax Plan Eliminating Pass-Through Business Income Taxes - 'Kansas Experiment' Becomes Test Case for Supply-Side Economics
4 src Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley
3 src Morgan Stanley · Facebook |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law
3 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2012-03-09 | Greece Accepts Second Troika Bailout of €130 Billion with 53.5% Private Debt Haircut
3 src International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank | | confirmed |
| 2012-03-01 | Trump Foundation Illegally Used $158,000 in Charity Funds to Settle Mar-a-Lago Legal Dispute
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2012-02-09 | 25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Provides Banks Immunity for Minimal Payments
3 src Eric Holder · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Patent Trolls Dominate U.S. Patent Litigation: 61% of All Cases, Systematic Small Business Extraction
3 src U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Stock Buybacks Reach $500 Billion Annually as S&P 500 Companies Return 91% of Earnings to Shareholders
3 src Workers |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-12 | Erik Prince Sells Xe Services (formerly Blackwater), Rebranded as Academi with John Ashcroft on Board
3 src Erik Prince · John Ashcroft |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-11-29 | Michigan Emergency Manager Seizes Control of Flint, Stripping Democratic Governance
3 src Rick Snyder · Flint City Government |
| confirmed |
| 2011-11-13 | STOCK Act Gains Momentum After 60 Minutes Exposes Congressional Insider Trading
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-06-13 | Department of Education Issues Gainful Employment Rule to Regulate For-Profit Colleges, Industry Immediately Challenges in Court
3 src U.S. Department of Education · Barack Obama · Arne Duncan · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-05-27 | Judd Gregg Joins Goldman Sachs as International Advisor After Banking Committee Role
3 src Goldman Sachs |
| confirmed |
| 2011-05-01 | Pam Bondi Fires Foreclosure Fraud Investigators After Campaign Donations from Lender Processing Services
3 src Pam Bondi |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-17 | CIA Drone Strike Massacres 42 Civilians at Pakistani Tribal Council Meeting
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-01 | Chris Dodd Becomes Hollywood's Chief Lobbyist After Promising No Lobbying
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Patent Troll Explosion: Non-Practicing Entities Impose $29 Billion Annual Cost on U.S. Economy, Targeting Small Businesses
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Wells Fargo Employees Begin Creating 3.5 Million Fake Accounts
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt |
| confirmed |
| 2010-10-13 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposes Systematic Foreclosure Fraud by Major Banks
3 src Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-08-04 | GAO Investigation Exposes Systemic For-Profit College Fraud - Industry Takes 25% of Federal Aid
3 src U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 2010-07-21 | Dodd-Frank Act Creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulate Predatory Lending
4 src Barack Obama · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Cordray · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-27 | DOJ charges 'Illegals Program' (including Anna Chapman); 10 plead guilty and are swapped
4 src Anna Chapman · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-18 | Vice President Biden Credits Palantir Software for Detecting Stimulus Fraud
3 src Joe Biden · Palantir Technologies |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-02 | European Commission, ECB, and IMF Form 'Troika' and Impose First Greek Bailout with Harsh Austerity
3 src European Commission · European Central Bank · International Monetary Fund · Angela Merkel | | confirmed |
| 2010-05-01 | Better Business Bureau Drops Trump University Rating to D- After Flood of Consumer Complaints
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-14 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposed Systematic Foreclosure Document Fraud
3 src Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · Citigroup |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-05 | Purdue Reformulates OxyContin as "Abuse-Deterrent" After 14 Years, Drives Users to Heroin
3 src Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Sackler Family |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-15 | Northrop B-2 Bomber Operating Costs Reach $150,000 Per Flight Hour
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Republican State Leadership Committee Launches REDMAP Gerrymandering Project
4 src Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-21 | Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President
3 src Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-14 | University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation
3 src University of Phoenix · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Education |
| confirmed |
| 2009-07-24 | Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms
3 src Barack Obama · Bill Gates |
| confirmed |
| 2009-05-20 | Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2009-04-15 | Tax Day Tea Party Protests Organized by Koch Network Groups
3 src Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · David Koch · Charles Koch · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-19 | Koch Network Prepares Tea Party Mobilization After Santelli Rant
4 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-19 | Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response
3 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-17 | SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-17 | Trump Entertainment Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Resigns from Board
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Lanny Breuer · Covington & Burling |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Carl Icahn Partners with Andrew Beal in Trump Entertainment Resorts Bankruptcy Restructuring
3 src Carl Icahn · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2008-12-11 | Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years
5 src Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight
3 src George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions
3 src Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 |
| confirmed |