| 2015-03-17 | Rep. Aaron Schock Resigns Amid Luxury Spending and Mileage Fraud Scandal Aaron Schock |
| 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 Standard & Poor's · Moody's Investors Service · Fitch Ratings · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-01 | Model Files Federal Lawsuit Against Trump Model Management for Wage Theft Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2014-09-02 | Eric Cantor Joins Wall Street Investment Bank for $3.4M After House Leadership Eric Cantor · Moelis & Company · House Republicans |
| confirmed |
| 2014-07-16 | EU and US Impose Sectoral Sanctions on Russia European Union · United States · Sberbank · VEB · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-05-01 | Eric Trump says all funding comes from Russia, not U.S. banks Eric Trump · James Dodson · Trump Organization |
| reported |
| 2014-03-18 | Putin Formally Signs Treaty Annexing Crimea, Escalating International Conflict Vladimir Putin · Sergey Aksyonov · Joe Biden · Angela Merkel · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-03-01 | Trump Foundation Buys $20,000 Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction, Hangs in Trump Golf Club Donald Trump · Trump Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-26 | Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats Dave Camp · House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group · Cerberus Capital Management · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-01 | Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate US Treasury · FinCEN · Russian Oligarchs · US real estate industry |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-01 | Francisco Partners Acquires 70% Stake in NSO Group for $130 Million Francisco Partners · NSO Group · Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-23 | Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf · Scott Reckard (LA Times Reporter) |
| confirmed |
| 2013-11-11 | Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill 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 · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-02 | Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed Yahoo · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-01 | Healthcare.gov Launch Disaster Costs $1.7B from $93M Contract CGI Federal · Healthcare.gov · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · CMS · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-09-30 | Darnell Earley Appointed as Flint Emergency Manager, Will Oversee Disastrous Water Switch Darnell Earley · Rick Snyder |
| confirmed |
| 2013-09-17 | Pam Bondi Receives Illegal $25,000 Trump Foundation Donation During Trump University Investigation Pam Bondi · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-24 | New York Attorney General Sues Trump University for $40 Million, Calls It "Straight Up Fraud" Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-01 | Retired General James Mattis Joins General Dynamics Board Five Months After Marine Corps Retirement James Mattis · General Dynamics · Marine Corps |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-01 | Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum After 39 Days in Moscow Airport Edward Snowden · Russia · Vladimir Putin · Anatoly Kucherena · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-17 | Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Solvay Pharmaceuticals · Actavis · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-01 | Elliptic Founded as First Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Firm Elliptic · Adam Joyce · Tom Robinson · James Smith |
| confirmed |
| 2013-05-21 | Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-04-23 | CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program 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 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 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 Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi |
| 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 Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 |
| 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 Barack Obama · Joe Biden · Mitch McConnell · John Boehner · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers Google · Online publishers · Advertisers · News Organizations |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt |
| confirmed |
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed HSBC · Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Mexican Drug Cartels · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Vidrine · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-07-30 | Senate Harkin Report Documents Massive Fraud and Abuse in For-Profit College Industry Senator Tom Harkin · Senate HELP Committee · University of Phoenix · Corinthian Colleges · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-07 | 38 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss Curt Schilling · 38 Studios LLC · Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation · Lincoln Chafee · +2 |
| 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 Sam Brownback · Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · Kansas Legislature · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley · Facebook · William Galvin · James Gorman |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-03-09 | Greece Accepts Second Troika Bailout of €130 Billion with 53.5% Private Debt Haircut European Financial Stability Facility · International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank · Greek private creditors | | confirmed |
| 2012-03-01 | Trump Foundation Illegally Used $158,000 in Charity Funds to Settle Mar-a-Lago Legal Dispute Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Town of Palm Beach |
| confirmed |
| 2012-02-09 | 25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Provides Banks Immunity for Minimal Payments Eric Holder · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates Kaiser Permanente · Ascension Health · Tower Health · Bernard Tyson |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Patent Trolls Dominate U.S. Patent Litigation: 61% of All Cases, Systematic Small Business Extraction Santa Clara University School of Law · U.S. Government Accountability Office · Patent Assertion Entities |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Stock Buybacks Reach $500 Billion Annually as S&P 500 Companies Return 91% of Earnings to Shareholders S&P 500 companies · Shareholders · Workers |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-12 | Erik Prince Sells Xe Services (formerly Blackwater), Rebranded as Academi with John Ashcroft on Board Erik Prince · Xe Services · Academi · John Ashcroft · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-11-29 | Michigan Emergency Manager Seizes Control of Flint, Stripping Democratic Governance Rick Snyder · Michael Brown · Flint City Government |
| confirmed |
| 2011-11-13 | STOCK Act Gains Momentum After 60 Minutes Exposes Congressional Insider Trading Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · Brian Baird |
| confirmed |
| 2011-06-13 | Department of Education Issues Gainful Employment Rule to Regulate For-Profit Colleges, Industry Immediately Challenges in Court 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 Judd Gregg · Goldman Sachs · Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association |
| confirmed |
| 2011-05-01 | Pam Bondi Fires Foreclosure Fraud Investigators After Campaign Donations from Lender Processing Services Pam Bondi |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-17 | CIA Drone Strike Massacres 42 Civilians at Pakistani Tribal Council Meeting Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-01 | Chris Dodd Becomes Hollywood's Chief Lobbyist After Promising No Lobbying Chris Dodd · MPAA · Motion Picture Association |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Patent Troll Explosion: Non-Practicing Entities Impose $29 Billion Annual Cost on U.S. Economy, Targeting Small Businesses Intellectual Ventures · Nathan Myhrvold · Edward Jung · James Bessen · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Wells Fargo Employees Begin Creating 3.5 Million Fake Accounts Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt |
| confirmed |
| 2010-10-13 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposes Systematic Foreclosure Fraud by Major Banks Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · GMAC Mortgage · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-08-04 | GAO Investigation Exposes Systemic For-Profit College Fraud - Industry Takes 25% of Federal Aid U.S. Government Accountability Office · Tom Harkin |
| confirmed |
| 2010-07-21 | Dodd-Frank Act Creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulate Predatory Lending 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 Anna Chapman · US Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-18 | Vice President Biden Credits Palantir Software for Detecting Stimulus Fraud Joe Biden · Peter Orszag · Palantir Technologies · Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-02 | European Commission, ECB, and IMF Form 'Troika' and Impose First Greek Bailout with Harsh Austerity European Commission · European Central Bank · International Monetary Fund · George Papandreou · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2010-05-01 | Better Business Bureau Drops Trump University Rating to D- After Flood of Consumer Complaints Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-14 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposed Systematic Foreclosure Document Fraud Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · Citigroup · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-05 | Purdue Reformulates OxyContin as "Abuse-Deterrent" After 14 Years, Drives Users to Heroin Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Sackler Family |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-15 | Northrop B-2 Bomber Operating Costs Reach $150,000 Per Flight Hour 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 American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Republican State Leadership Committee Launches REDMAP Gerrymandering Project Republican State Leadership Committee · Ed Gillespie · Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-21 | Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President Dr. Julie Gerberding · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck · Gardasil vaccine |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-14 | University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation University of Phoenix · Apollo Group · Mary Hendow · Julie Albertson · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-07-24 | Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms President Barack Obama · Secretary of Education Arne Duncan · Bill Gates · Gates Foundation · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-05-20 | Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism Federal Bureau of Investigation · Shahed Hussain · James Cromitie · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2009-04-15 | Tax Day Tea Party Protests Organized by Koch Network Groups Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · David Koch · Charles Koch · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-19 | Koch Network Prepares Tea Party Mobilization After Santelli Rant Rick Santelli · David Koch · Charles Koch · Eric Odom · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-19 | Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response Rick Santelli · David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-17 | SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Leroy King · Stanford International Bank · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-17 | Trump Entertainment Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Resigns from Board Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Wall Street Banks · Lanny Breuer · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Carl Icahn Partners with Andrew Beal in Trump Entertainment Resorts Bankruptcy Restructuring Carl Icahn · Andrew Beal · Donald Trump · Trump Entertainment Resorts · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-12-11 | Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission · Harry Markopolos |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Creates $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to Bail Out Wall Street Banks with Minimal Oversight or Executive Accountability Requirements, Leading to Just One Criminal Prosecution Compared to 900+ in 1980s Savings & Loan Crisis Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +6 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-29 | Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money Barney Frank · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street · TARP |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-19 | Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs Henry Paulson · Lloyd Blankfein · Don Jester |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-16 | Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis American International Group · Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-07 | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Placed in Federal Conservatorship, $187 Billion Taxpayer Bailout U.S. Treasury Department · Henry Paulson · Federal Housing Finance Agency · Fannie Mae · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-24 | Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · Clear Channel Communications · iHeartMedia · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-16 | Trump sells Palm Beach 'Maison de L'Amitié' to Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95M Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump · Trump Organization |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-01 | Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-06-30 | Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · Kenneth Starr · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · Pamela Jones Harbour (dissenting FTC Commissioner) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-03-16 | Bear Stearns Collapse and Federal Reserve-Facilitated Fire Sale to JPMorgan with $29 Billion Taxpayer Guarantee Establishes 'Too Big to Fail' Precedent with Zero Criminal Prosecutions Despite Fraud-Driven Collapse Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-10-01 | Trump Foundation Pays $258,000 for Six-Foot Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction Donald Trump · Trump Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2007-09-01 | FBI Inspector General Reports 35% Error Rate on Terror Watchlist Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice Inspector General · Terrorist Screening Center |
| confirmed |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · Humana · +2 |
| confirmed |