| 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
4 src Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-29 | Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money
3 src House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-19 | Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs
5 src Henry Paulson |
| 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
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · Henry Paulson · +1 |
| 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
2 src Lehman Brothers · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets
3 src Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-07 | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Placed in Federal Conservatorship, $187 Billion Taxpayer Bailout
3 src U.S. Treasury Department · Henry Paulson · Federal Housing Finance Agency · Fannie Mae · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-24 | Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis
4 src Bain Capital · Clear Channel Communications · Mitt Romney · Lowry Mays |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-16 | Trump sells Palm Beach 'Maison de L'Amitié' to Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95M
5 src 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
4 src Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-06-30 | Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein
3 src Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · Kenneth Starr · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly
4 src Google · Federal Trade Commission |
| 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
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2007-09-01 | FBI Inspector General Reports 35% Error Rate on Terror Watchlist
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Humana · U.S. Congress · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2007-05-23 | Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers
3 src Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2007-04-05 | Halliburton Completes Spin-Off of KBR to Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Fraud Investigations, and $2.7 Billion in Questioned Costs
2 src Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Dick Cheney · Senate Armed Services Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2007-04-02 | New Century Financial Bankruptcy Signals Start of Subprime Mortgage Crisis
3 src Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-12 | Halliburton Moves CEO and Corporate Headquarters to Dubai for Tax Advantages and Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Weeks Before Completing KBR Spin-Off
3 src Halliburton · Dick Cheney · Patrick Leahy |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | ALEC Launches 'Rich States, Poor States' Report with Arthur Laffer - Annual Corporate Tax Competition Manifesto to Drive Interstate Race-to-Bottom
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Arthur Laffer · Stephen Moore · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies
2 src Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-31 | New Century Financial Conceals Massive Early Payment Defaults Through Accounting Fraud in 2006
2 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Rating agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-01 | Subprime Mortgage Delinquencies Surge to 13%, Nearly Double Mid-2005 Rates, as Crisis Accelerates
3 src Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest
3 src George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-29 | Federal Regulators Issue Weakened Mortgage Guidance After Year of Industry Lobbying, Ignoring Warnings
4 src Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Office of Thrift Supervision · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-15 | Congressman Bob Ney Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Corruption Scandal
3 src Jack Abramoff · U.S. House of Representatives · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-07-01 | Housing Bubble Peaks as Predatory Subprime Lending Reaches Maximum, Setting Stage for Collapse
3 src Countrywide Financial · Washington Mutual · Federal Reserve · Rating agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2006-06-01 | Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to 5.25%, Triggering Payment Shock for Subprime Borrowers
2 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-01 | Magnetar Capital Launches $30 Billion CDO Strategy, Betting Against Housing While Encouraging Investor Purchases
3 src JPMorgan Chase · Investment banks | | confirmed |
| 2006-01-24 | KBR (Halliburton Subsidiary) Awarded $385M DHS/ICE Contingency Contract for Emergency Immigrant Detention Facilities
6 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Dick Cheney · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-23 | Ameriquest Agrees to $325 Million Settlement for Predatory Lending Practices with 49 States
3 src State Attorneys General |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tom DeLay · U.S. Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Countrywide Begins Process to Switch to Office of Thrift Supervision for Lighter Regulation
3 src Countrywide Financial · Office of Thrift Supervision · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | IndyMac and WaMu Drive Option ARM Mortgages to 42% of Adjustable-Rate Market in 2006
3 src Washington Mutual · Countrywide Financial · Office of Thrift Supervision |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Synthetic CDO Issuance Explodes to $61 Billion in 2006, Amplifying Housing Market Risk Exponentially
3 src Goldman Sachs · Deutsche Bank · Morgan Stanley · JPMorgan Chase · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2005-11-16 | Oil Executives Deny Task Force Participation Despite Documentary Evidence
3 src ExxonMobil · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · Shell Oil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-07 | Harry Markopolos Submits 'The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud' to SEC, Agency Ignores Detailed Evidence for Third Time
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff |
| confirmed |
| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman
3 src Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt
3 src Bain Capital · KKR |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-15 | FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program
3 src Federal Aviation Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2005-05-23 | Trump Launches "Trump University" Real Estate Seminars Without Academic License or Accreditation
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2005-04-20 | Two Decades of Bankruptcy Weaponization: Students Crushed While Corporations Shield Billions (2005-2024)
3 src Corinthian Colleges · University of Phoenix · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-07 | Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda
3 src U.S. Department of Education |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-03 | Dick Gephardt Founds Lobbying Firm After 28 Years as House Democratic Leader
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Approves 'Great Schools Tax Credit' Model - Launches Systematic Education Privatization Campaign
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · DeVos family · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | Private Equity Assets Under Management Reach $1 Trillion, Enabling Systematic Extraction Across Economy
3 src Blackstone · KKR · Bain Capital |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-21 | Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Removed as CEO
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto
4 src Google · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt |
| confirmed |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy
3 src Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Creates Consolidated Supervised Entities Program Allowing Unlimited Investment Bank Leverage
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Bear Stearns · Lehman Brothers · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Net Capital Rule Change Enables Investment Bank Leverage Explosion Fueling Housing Bubble
9 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-02-22 | Washington Post Exposes Abramoff Native American Lobbying Scandal
3 src Washington Post · Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes |
| confirmed |
| 2004-01-22 | DC Opportunity Scholarship Program - First Federally-Funded School Voucher System
3 src George W. Bush · Heritage Foundation · American Federation for Children |
| confirmed |
| 2004-01-13 | OCC Federal Preemption Blocks State Anti-Predatory Lending Protections
4 src National City Bank · Wells Fargo · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 2004-01-05 | Scott Bloch Dismisses 1,000+ Whistleblower Cases at OSC
3 src Office of Special Counsel · U.S. Congress · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2003-11-25 | Bush Administration Hides 39B Medicare Part D Cost from Congress
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Issues CPA Order 39 Imposing Radical Free Market Restructuring on Occupied Iraq
6 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Order 39 Privatizes Iraq Economy for Foreign Corporations
3 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Iraqi Government |
| confirmed |
| 2003-05-06 | Coalition Provisional Authority Loses .8B in Iraqi Oil Revenue
3 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Halliburton · Iraqi Government |
| confirmed |
| 2003-05-06 | Paul Bremer Begins Issuing 'CPA 100 Orders' to Restructure Iraq's Economy Under Military Occupation
6 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-05-01 | Powell-WHIG Template Establishes Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture Blueprint for Ongoing Democratic Transformation
3 src George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · Heritage Foundation · Federalist Society |
| confirmed |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton Gets 9.5B Iraq Contracts with Cheney Ties
4 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton KBR Receives $7 Billion No-Bid Iraq Contract Through Systematic Corporate-State Fusion Infrastructure Coordination
3 src Dick Cheney · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Douglas Feith · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-01-01 | Google Establishes "Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich" Tax Avoidance Structure
4 src Google · Larry Page |
| confirmed |
| 2002-11-15 | Federalist Society Provides WHIG with Crisis-Accelerated Legal Justification Infrastructure for Powell Memorandum Implementation
3 src Federalist Society · John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Steven Calabresi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-15 | Powell Memorandum Institutional Network Establishes Systematic Crisis Coordination with WHIG Operations
3 src American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Hoover Institution · Federalist Society · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-25 | CBS Executives Implement Corporate Policy Changes to Accommodate WHIG Propaganda Distribution
3 src George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2002-06-27 | Zelman v. Simmons-Harris - Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers for Religious Schools
3 src William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · Clarence Thomas · Institute for Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-08 | No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime
3 src George W. Bush · Ted Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | Abramoff-Reed Execute Double-Dealing Scheme Against Tigua Tribe
3 src Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Michael Scanlon · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 2001-12-22 | Argentina Declares Largest Sovereign Default in History on $100+ Billion Debt After IMF Austerity Collapse
3 src International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa | | confirmed |
| 2001-12-13 | Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Systematically Subordinated to Corporate Input
3 src Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · Federal Agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2001-12-01 | Argentina Imposes 'Corralito' Bank Account Freeze Under IMF Austerity, Triggering Mass Protests
3 src International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa | | confirmed |
| 2001-10-16 | Enron Reports $618 Million Loss and Reveals CFO Partnership Schemes
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow |
| confirmed |
| 2001-07-13 | Argentina Passes 'Zero Deficit Law' Under IMF Pressure, Cutting Salaries and Pensions 13%
3 src International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa | | confirmed |
| 2001-01-29 | Bush Administration Establishes Faith-Based Initiative Infrastructure for Systematic Constitutional Transformation
3 src George W. Bush · Pat Robertson · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-20 | Bush Administration Hires 150 Regent University Graduates
3 src Pat Robertson · Monica Goodling · Kay Coles James · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-20 | Clinton Pardons Fugitive Marc Rich Amid Corruption Allegations
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Bonus System Incentivizes Sales Reps to Target Highest Opioid Prescribers
3 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-21 | Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation
6 src Bill Clinton · Lawrence Summers · Phil Gramm · Alan Greenspan |
| confirmed |
| 2000-10-10 | Clinton Signs China PNTR Ending Annual Review, Enabling WTO Entry and Manufacturing Exodus
4 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Radio Empire Reaches 1,240 Stations After AMFM Acquisition - Conservative Talk Radio Infrastructure Dominates American Airwaves
5 src Clear Channel Communications · Rush Limbaugh · Lowry Mays · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2000-05-03 | FCC Approves $35.6 Billion Viacom-CBS Merger Despite Ownership Concentration Violations
4 src Viacom · FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2000-03-10 | Dot-Com Bubble Peaks, Exposes IPO Fraud and Analyst Conflicts
4 src Investment banks · Securities and Exchange Commission · Nasdaq |
| confirmed |
| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System
3 src George W. Bush · Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2000-03-01 | Subprime Lending Explodes as Predatory Practices Spread to Minority Communities
3 src Citigroup |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-11 | AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History
4 src FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-09 | Ecuador President Mahuad Announces Dollarization 'Jump Into the Abyss' Amid Economic Crisis
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank | | confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Top 10% of Firms Capture 90% of Profit Growth Between 1980-2000, Documenting Monopolization
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1999-12-31 | Yeltsin Resigns, Oligarchs Elevate Putin to President: KGB Officer Chosen to Protect 'The Family' Transforms Russia into Kleptocracy
5 src Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Putin · Boris Berezovsky · Vladimir Gusinsky · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1999-11-12 | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retroactively Legalizes Citigroup Merger, Repeals Glass-Steagall
6 src Bill Clinton · Phil Gramm · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1999-11-05 | President's Working Group Recommends Exempting $80 Trillion Derivatives Market from Regulation
4 src Lawrence Summers · Robert Rubin · Alan Greenspan · Arthur Levitt |
| confirmed |
| 1999-10-26 | Robert Rubin Joins Citigroup for $126 Million After Engineering Glass-Steagall Repeal
4 src Robert Rubin · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · Goldman Sachs · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1999-09-01 | Fannie Mae Eases Credit Requirements Under HUD Affordable Housing Pressure
3 src Fannie Mae · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Andrew Cuomo |
| confirmed |
| 1999-07-02 | Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign
4 src Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 1999-03-25 | Long-term Geopolitical Consequences of IMF Structural Adjustment
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Asian Development Bank · China · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1999-02-15 | Time Magazine Celebrates "Committee to Save the World" While They Block Derivatives Regulation
4 src Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · Brooksley Born |
| confirmed |