Financial Capture
The Financial Capture capture lane traces 848 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1142–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-06-12 | McKinsey Advises Comprehensive Asian Market Restructuring During Financial Crisis
3 src McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Southeast Asian Governments | confirmed | |
| 1998-06-12 | South Korea Completes IMF-Mandated Economic Restructuring
4 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · South Korean Government · Chaebol Corporations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-18 | DOJ Files Microsoft Antitrust Suit, Establishes Tech Monopoly Precedent
4 src U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · Bill Gates · Joel Klein · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-07 | Brooksley Born's Derivatives Regulation Warning Systematically Suppressed
4 src Brooksley Born · Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-07 | Coordinated Regulatory Opposition Suppresses CFTC Derivatives Oversight Inquiry
4 src Brooksley Born · Alan Greenspan · Robert Rubin · Arthur Levitt · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1998-03-15 | McKinsey and International Organizations Outline Restructuring Strategy for Asian Markets
3 src McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Multinational Corporations | confirmed | |
| 1998-02-15 | McKinsey Develops Corporate Restructuring Strategy for Asian Markets
3 src McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Asian Corporate Leaders | confirmed | |
| 1998-02-05 | IMF and World Bank Coordinate Massive Corporate Restructuring in Asian Markets
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Corporate Leadership · Asian Governments | confirmed | |
| 1998-02-05 | McKinsey Strategizes Corporate Capture in Asian Markets During Financial Crisis
3 src McKinsey & Company · World Bank · International Monetary Fund · Multinational Corporations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-01-15 | IMF Forces Massive Corporate Restructuring in South Korea
5 src International Monetary Fund · South Korean Government · Chaebol Corporations · World Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-01-01 | Deutsche Bank Loans Trump $2.5 Billion Despite Russian Money Laundering and Red Flags
4 src Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Russian Oligarchs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-24 | IMF Structural Adjustment Policies Implemented in Asian Economies
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · Goldman Sachs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-23 | IMF Imposes Harsh Structural Adjustment on Indonesia
3 src International Monetary Fund · Indonesian Government · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-15 | IMF Imposes Radical Structural Adjustment on Indonesia
5 src International Monetary Fund · Suharto Government · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-09-01 | USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments
4 src Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Harvard Institute for International Development · United States Agency for International Development · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1997-07-02 | Thai Baht Collapses, Triggering Asian Financial Crisis
3 src Thai Central Bank · International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Financial Industry Spends $300 Million on Deregulation Lobbying and Campaign Contributions
4 src Banking industry · Insurance Industry · Securities Industry · Democratic Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1996-12-31 | Telecommunications Act Triggers Mass Layoffs and Destruction of Local Journalism
4 src Media Conglomerates · Local News Stations · Radio Journalists · Newspaper Reporters · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1996-06-30 | Clear Channel Begins Unprecedented Radio Consolidation Under Telecommunications Act
4 src Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays · FCC Federal Communications Commission · Local Radio Stations | confirmed | |
| 1996-04-29 | Buddhist Temple Fundraising Event Generates Illegal Campaign Contributions
4 src Al Gore · Maria Hsia · John Huang · Democratic National Committee | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Business Plan to "Function More Like a Business" - Formalizes Pay-to-Play Corporate Legislative Model
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Launches Aggressive OxyContin Marketing Campaign Based on False Claims
4 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler | confirmed | |
| 1995-11-17 | Russia's Loans-for-Shares Auctions Transfer Major State Enterprises to Yeltsin-Aligned Bankers at Fraction-of-Value Prices, Creating the Oligarch Class
12 src Boris Yeltsin · Anatoly Chubais · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1995-11-01 | Russia's 'Loans-for-Shares' Auctions Transfer $100 Billion in State Assets to Oligarchs for Pennies on the Dollar
4 src Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Boris Berezovsky · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-10 | Robert Rubin Appointed Treasury Secretary After 26 Years at Goldman Sachs
4 src Robert Rubin · Bill Clinton · Goldman Sachs | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-29 | Riegle-Neal Act Enables Nationwide Bank Consolidation, Mortgage Market Transformation
3 src President Bill Clinton · Senator Donald Riegle · Representative Stephen Neal · American Bankers Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-13 | Crime Bill Allocates $8.7 Billion for Prison Construction With Truth-in-Sentencing Requirements
3 src Bill Clinton · State Governors · Prison Construction Industry | confirmed | |
| 1994-07-01 | Wackenhut Corrections (Later GEO Group) Goes Public on NASDAQ, Second Major Private Prison Company Enters Wall Street
3 src Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) · GEO Group · George C. Zoley · The Wackenhut Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1994-01-01 | NAFTA Implementation Begins Manufacturing Job Hemorrhage
4 src Bill Clinton · George H.W. Bush · Carlos Salinas de Gortari · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1994-01-01 | NAFTA Takes Effect as Zapatista Uprising Protests Privatization of Indigenous Lands
4 src EZLN Zapatista Army · Mexican Government · Indigenous Campesinos · Bill Clinton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1993-01-14 | CFTC Chair Wendy Gramm Exempts Enron from Derivatives Regulation, Joins Board Five Weeks Later
4 src Wendy Gramm · Phil Gramm · Enron Corporation · CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1992-11-01 | Trump Plaza Hotel in Manhattan Files for Bankruptcy Protection
3 src Donald Trump | reported | |
| 1992-10-29 | FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Creates Financial Dependence on Pharmaceutical Industry
3 src Food and Drug Administration · PhRMA · U.S. Congress · Pharmaceutical companies | confirmed | |
| 1992-10-01 | Russia Begins Mass Voucher Privatization: 148 Million Citizens Given Certificates Worth 'Two Volga Cars' That Become Worthless
7 src Anatoly Chubais · Boris Yeltsin · State Committee for State Property Management · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 1992-03-09 | Trump Castle and Trump Plaza File Simultaneous Bankruptcies
3 src Donald Trump | reported | |
| 1992-01-02 | Russia Launches 'Shock Therapy' Economic Reforms: Price Liberalization Triggers 2,520% Inflation and Economic Collapse
5 src Boris Yeltsin · Yegor Gaidar · Jeffrey Sachs · Harvard University · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1992-01-01 | Harvard Receives $40 Million USAID Contract to Advise Russia's Economic Transition: 'Harvard's Blank Check from Uncle Sam'
10 src Harvard Institute for International Development · Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Lawrence Summers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1991-07-05 | Kroll Associates Investigates BCCI Collapse, Demonstrating Private Intelligence Capability Rivaling Government Agencies
4 src Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Bank of Credit and Commerce International · Robert Morgenthau · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1991-07-01 | Trump Taj Mahal Files First Bankruptcy After Junk Bond Collapse
3 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 1991-07-01 | Trump's Six Bankruptcies: Pattern of Borrowing Heavily and Walking Away
3 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 1991-06-04 | Minnesota Enacts First Charter School Law, Creating Template for Education Privatization
3 src Governor Arne Carlson · Minnesota Legislature · Citizens League · Ted Kolderie · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1991-01-01 | Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal purchases Trump yacht during financial crisis
3 src Prince Alwaleed bin Talal · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Saudi Arabia | confirmed | |
| 1990-07-25 | Keating Lincoln Savings Civil RICO Fraud Indictment
3 src Charles H. Keating Jr. · Charles Keating III | confirmed | |
| 1990-03-27 | Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Creates First Publicly-Funded Private School Vouchers
3 src Governor Tommy Thompson · Representative Polly Williams · Bradley Foundation · Milwaukee Public Schools | confirmed | |
| 1990-01-01 | Federal Reserve Begins Systematic Dismantling of Glass-Steagall Restrictions
3 src Federal Reserve Board · Alan Greenspan · JP Morgan & Co. · Morgan Stanley | confirmed | |
| 1990-01-01 | Trump Taj Mahal Casino Opens with $675 Million Junk Bond Debt Crisis
3 src Donald Trump · Carl Icahn · Marvin Roffman · Trump Taj Mahal | confirmed | |
| 1989-08-09 | FIRREA Signed: $160 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of S&L Industry Fraud
4 src George H.W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Resolution Trust Corporation · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1989-04-14 | Lincoln Savings Collapse: $3.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout
5 src Lincoln Savings and Loan · American Continental Corporation · Charles Keating · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1989-02-09 | KKR's $31 Billion RJR Nabisco Leveraged Buyout Establishes Private Equity Wealth Extraction Model
3 src KKR · Henry Kravis · Ross Johnson · RJR Nabisco | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-01 | S&L Industry Collapse: Over 1,000 Institutions Failed by 1989
3 src Savings and Loan institutions · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation · Resolution Trust Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1988-01-01 | S&L Crisis Prosecutions: 1,000+ Bankers Convicted, Contrasts Sharply with 2008
3 src Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Thrift Supervision · S&L executives | confirmed | |
| 1987-12-01 | Keating Lincoln Savings Irvine Fraudulent Bond Scheme
4 src Charles H. Keating Jr. · Lincoln Savings and Loan Association | confirmed | |
| 1987-04-01 | Federal Reserve Approves Section 20 Subsidiaries for JP Morgan, Citicorp, and Bankers Trust
3 src Federal Reserve Board · JP Morgan & Co. · Citicorp · Bankers Trust · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1987-04-01 | Keating Five Senators Pressure FHLBB to Halt Lincoln Investigation
4 src Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · John Glenn · John McCain · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Budget Reaches $14.3 Million - Scale of Corporate Policy Investment
3 src Heritage Foundation · Joseph Coors · Richard Mellon Scaife · Edwin Feulner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | Wackenhut Corrections Wins First Federal Immigration Detention Contract in Aurora, Colorado
4 src Wackenhut Corporation · Wackenhut Corrections Corporation · George C. Zoley · George Wackenhut · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Corporate Lobbying Secures Massive Rate Reductions
3 src Ronald Reagan · Corporate lobbyists · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-01 | Corrections Corporation of America Goes Public on NASDAQ at $9 Per Share, Wall Street Bets on Mass Incarceration
3 src Corrections Corporation of America · Thomas W. Beasley · Nasdaq · Vanderbilt University Law School · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1985-05-01 | Carl Icahn TWA Hostile Takeover - Asset Stripping Blueprint
3 src Carl Icahn · Trans World Airlines · American Airlines | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Carl Icahn Phillips Petroleum Hostile Takeover Attempt
3 src Carl Icahn · Phillips Petroleum · Michael Milken · Drexel Burnham Lambert | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Ronald Perelman Receives $750 Million Drexel Blind Pool for Corporate Acquisitions
3 src Ronald Perelman · Michael Milken · Drexel Burnham Lambert | confirmed | |
| 1984-03-01 | Empire Savings Failure Exposes Land Flip Fraud Networks
4 src Empire Savings · Edwin Gray · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Texas Real Estate Networks · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1984-02-01 | Charles Keating Purchases Lincoln S&L: Systematic Fraud Network
6 src Charles Keating · American Continental Corporation · Lincoln Savings and Loan · Keating Five Senators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1984-01-01 | ALEC Corporate Membership Explodes as Major Corporations Overwhelm Organization with Requests for Legislative Access
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Kathleen Teague · Edison Electric Institute · Procter & Gamble · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1983-04-26 | A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization
3 src National Commission on Excellence in Education · Secretary of Education Terrel Bell · Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1982-11-17 | SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · John Shad · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-10-15 | Reagan Signs Garn-St Germain Act: Massive Thrift Deregulation
4 src Ronald Reagan · Jake Garn (R-UT) · Fernand St Germain (D-RI) · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | Reagan Deficit Explosion: National Debt Triples From $1T to $3T in Eight Years
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Office of Management and Budget · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 1981-04-01 | Epstein leaves Bear Stearns amid SEC insider trading investigation
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Bear Stearns · Securities and Exchange Commission · Edgar Bronfman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-04-01 | Jack Welch Becomes GE CEO, Launches 'Shareholder Value' Era and Mass Layoffs
3 src Jack Welch · General Electric | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-28 | Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture
5 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt · Mountain States Legal Foundation · Coors Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Corporate Tax Avoidance Explosion: Reagan Loopholes Slash Corporate Revenue
3 src Ronald Reagan · Corporate America · Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1980-11-05 | Edward Seaga Defeats Michael Manley in Jamaica Election, Immediately Re-Engages IMF Structural Adjustment
3 src Edward Seaga · Michael Manley · International Monetary Fund · Jamaica Labour Party · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | Banking Industry Launches Systematic Campaign to Erode Glass-Steagall Act
3 src Major commercial banks · Banking lobbyists · Federal regulators · Academic economists · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1979-12-27 | Soviet Afghanistan Invasion Positions BCCI for CIA Covert Operations Expansion
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · ISI Pakistan · General Zia ul-Haq · BCCI · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins
3 src Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter | confirmed | |
| 1978-11-09 | Natural Gas Policy Act Begins Energy Sector Deregulation
3 src Jimmy Carter | confirmed | |
| 1978-11-07 | Business Roundtable Coordinates First Major Corporate PAC Election Strategy
4 src Business Roundtable · Reginald Jones · Corporate PAC Committee · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins
5 src Jimmy Carter · Alfred Kahn · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-06 | Proposition 13 Passes, California Tax Revolt Spreads Nationally
5 src Howard Jarvis · Paul Gann | confirmed | |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · First National Bank of Boston · Francis X. Bellotti · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Clark Clifford and Robert Altman Begin Representing BCCI in US Operations
3 src Clark Clifford · Robert Altman · Bert Lance · Agha Hasan Abedi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1977-10-12 | Community Reinvestment Act Passed to Combat Redlining, Banking Industry Resists
3 src President Jimmy Carter · Senator William Proxmire · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | BCCI Establishes Partnership with Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq Military Regime
6 src General Zia ul-Haq · Agha Hasan Abedi · Pakistan military · BCCI Pakistan operations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Jack Kemp and William Roth Introduce Tax Cut Bill, Translating Supply-Side Theory to Legislation
2 src Jack Kemp · William Roth · Arthur Laffer · Jude Wanniski | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-01 | Richard Mellon Scaife Becomes Heritage Foundation's Primary Donor
3 src Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Scaife Family Charitable Trust · Joseph Coors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins
3 src Gerald Ford · William Simon · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-01 | ALEC Registers as Federal Nonprofit and Moves to Washington D.C.
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · American Conservative Union | confirmed | |
| 1974-12-01 | Arthur Laffer Sketches Curve on Napkin with Rumsfeld and Cheney, Creating Supply-Side Icon
2 src Arthur Laffer · Jude Wanniski · Donald Rumsfeld · Dick Cheney | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-01 | William Simon Establishes Petrodollar Recycling System
3 src William Simon · Ahmed Zaki Yamani · Richard Nixon · King Faisal · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1974-06-08 | US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed
3 src Henry Kissinger · Prince Fahd bin Abdulaziz · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy · Edgar Kaiser | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller
3 src David Rockefeller · Zbigniew Brzezinski · Jimmy Carter · Chase Manhattan Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship
3 src Milton Friedman · Arnold Harberger · Augusto Pinochet · The Chicago Boys · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | BCCI Begins Rapid International Expansion Strategy with 19 Branches Across Five Countries
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · BCCI management · Swaleh Naqvi · international regulators | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-01 | BCCI Founded with Bank of America Partnership and Regulatory Evasion Structure
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America · Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan · Abu Dhabi · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-30 | Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals
3 src Boys Town · Warren Buffett · Paul Williams · Stanford Lipsey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan · Bank of America | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-01 | Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates
4 src Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed |