International Kleptocracy
The International Kleptocracy capture lane traces 260 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-12 | Orbán Concedes Defeat After 16 Years, Ending Authoritarian Rule Despite Last-Minute Vance Campaign Visit Viktor Orbán · Péter Magyar · JD Vance · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-07 | VP Vance Campaigns for Orbán in Budapest Days Before Hungary Election, Securing $1.2B in Hungarian Arms and Oil Purchases JD Vance · Viktor Orbán · Péter Magyar · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | WLFI Governance Vote Passes 99% — $5M Super Node Tier Buys "Direct Access" to Trump-Family Crypto Team World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Barron Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-06 | Trump Lifts Russia-Related Tariff on India After Oil Purchase Pledge Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce · Department of State · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Exxon CEO Tells Trump Venezuela Is 'Uninvestible' at White House Oil Summit Donald Trump · Darren Woods · Marco Rubio · Chris Wright · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Iranian Security Forces Massacre Thousands of Protesters in Largest Killing Since 1979 Revolution Ali Khamenei · Ali Larijani · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | Stephen Miller Articulates 'Might Makes Right' Foreign Policy Doctrine on Venezuela and Greenland Stephen Miller · Thom Tillis · CNN | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | US Navy Seizes Two Venezuelan Oil Tankers Including Russian-Flagged Vessel Near Iceland Donald Trump · US Navy · Navy SEALs · Russia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-30 | Bannon Reveals He Is Organizing 'Irish National Party,' Promises 'Irish Trump' Steve Bannon | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-27 | Russia Launches Massive Attack on Kyiv with 500 Drones and 40 Missiles Vladimir Putin · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 8335 Codifies EO 14033 Western Balkans Sanctions, Creates Regulatory Frame Around Kushner Belgrade/Sazan Architecture U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jeanne Shaheen · +14 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-09 | FBI Director Kash Patel Signs Qatar Security Agreements Despite Recent Lobbying History and Ethics Waiver Controversy Kash Patel · Qatar government · Craig Holman · Public Citizen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-02 | Voice of America Bureau Closures Surrender Strategic Information Space to Russia and China Donald Trump · Kari Lake · Voice of America · Federal Judiciary · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-19 | Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act, but Active Investigation Loophole May Enable Redactions Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-12 | House Democrats Release Epstein Estate Emails Documenting Trump-Victim Contact and Trafficking Knowledge Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Michael Wolff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-06 | Trump Announces Kazakhstan Joining Abraham Accords Despite Existing Diplomatic Relations with Israel Since 1992 Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | reported | |
| 2025-10-27 | Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grokipedia to Challenge Wikipedia with AI-Generated Content Elon Musk · xAI | reported | |
| 2025-10-25 | Tech Billionaires Block Trump Military Deployment to San Francisco Jensen Huang · Marc Benioff · Mayor Daniel Lurie · Sam Altman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Billionaire Timothy Mellon's $130M Military Donation During Shutdown Raises Oligarchy Concerns Timothy Mellon · Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Pentagon | reported | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Seeks Government Equity Stakes in Quantum Computing Firms Paul Dabbar · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration · quantum computing companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Pledges $40 Billion Argentina Bailout Tied to Milei Reelection Donald Trump · Javier Milei · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-13 | Budget Chief Russell Vought Seizes Congressional Spending Authority Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Indonesian President Caught Asking Trump to Arrange Eric Trump Business Meeting Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Prabowo Subianto · Trump Organization | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Trump Authorizes Foreign Construction of Arctic Security Cutters via Presidential Memorandum Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Coast Guard · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Erdogan Says Trump Promised to End Halkbank Sanctions Prosecution Donald Trump · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Halkbank · U.S. Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Palantir Senior Advisor Jacob Helberg Confirmed as Under Secretary of State (51-47) Jacob Helberg · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-01 | ProPublica: Trump Ambassador Ronald Johnson Shielded El Salvador's Bukele From Law Enforcement Ronald Johnson · Nayib Bukele · State Department · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | ProPublica Reveals Russell Vought as 'Shadow President' Orchestrating Government Dismantling Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget · Project 2025 | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | Trump Grants Qatar Unprecedented NATO-Like Security Guarantee via Executive Order Donald Trump · White House · State of Qatar · Benjamin Netanyahu | reported | |
| 2025-09-27 | UN Snapback Mechanism Reimposed Pre-2015 Sanctions on Iran France · Germany · United Kingdom · United Nations Security Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-26 | Envoy Witkoff's Son Pitches $4B Fund to Qatar and UAE While Father Negotiates Ceasefire Steve Witkoff · Alex Witkoff · Qatar Investment Authority · UAE · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump's Hand-Picked Prosecutor Indicts James Comey Days After Trump Demands DOJ Act 'Now' James Comey · Lindsey Halligan · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-15 | NYT Reveals UAE $2B Crypto Investment Tied to AI Chip Deal Approval Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · David Sacks · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Deputy Secretary Landau Announces Visa Sanctions for Foreign Comments on Charlie Kirk Death Christopher Landau · State Department · Charlie Kirk | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Foreign Governments Fund MAGA Influencers for Propaganda Without Proper Disclosure Israel · Hungary · South Korea · MAGA influencers · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-27 | India Hires Mercury Public Affairs for $75,000/Month Amid Trump Tariff Threats India · Mercury Public Affairs · Susie Wiles · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | DOJ Launches Probe Into FBI/CIA Officials Over Russia Investigation Records Under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino Kash Patel · Dan Bongino · Department of Justice · James Comey · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | Exxon Held Secret Negotiations With Sanctioned Russian Oil Giant Rosneft Over Sakhalin Return Exxon Mobil · Rosneft · Vladimir Putin · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | Trump Media Announces $1 Billion Crypto.com Partnership While Trump Holds Presidential Office Trump · Trump Media · Crypto.com · Yorkville Advisors | reported | |
| 2025-08-18 | Trump Pledges Executive Order to Ban Mail-In Voting After Putin Meeting Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-14 | Florida opens "Deportation Depot" at Baker prison after Alligator Alcatraz court defeat Ron DeSantis · Kevin Guthrie · Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-12 | Former Kazakhstan intelligence chief alleges Putin holds Trump-Epstein kompromat files Alnur Mussayev · Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-01 | Columbia University Agrees to Monitor Foreign Students for Trump Administration in $221 Million Settlement Columbia University · U.S. Department of Education · White House · Bart Schwartz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | Senate Investigation Reveals Epstein's Billion-Dollar Russian Bank Transfers Linked to Trafficking U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Jeffrey Epstein · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | GENIUS Act signed - first major pro-crypto legislation benefiting Trump holdings Donald Trump · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Musk Floods X with 35+ Posts Attacking Trump Over Epstein "Cover-up" Elon Musk · Donald Trump · X/Twitter · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Budget Bill Allocates $45 Billion for Private Immigration Detention Centers, 308% Increase Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) · Private prison contractors | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Budget Bill Attempts Schedule F Through Financial Coercion of Federal Employees House Republicans · Senate Republicans · American Federation of Government Employees · Partnership for Public Service | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Congress Eliminates $1.1 Billion in NPR and PBS Funding to "Silence Accurate Reporting" Republican Congress · Donald Trump · Anna Gomez · NPR · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | One Big Beautiful Bill Act Transfers $3.4 Trillion Upward Through Tax Cuts and Slush Funds Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · Republican Congress · Office of Management and Budget · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Florida opens "Alligator Alcatraz" tent detention camp in Everglades at $450 million annual cost Florida Division of Emergency Management · James Uthmeier · Ron DeSantis · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Texas Democrats Flee State to Block Trump-Requested Mid-Cycle Gerrymandering Greg Abbott · Donald Trump · Texas House Democrats · Texas Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Emergency contractor donates $10,000 to Florida GOP, receives $6.2 million in contracts hours later IRG Global Emergency Management · Ron DeSantis · Republican Party of Florida · Access Restoration Services (ARS) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-11 | Musk Deletes Post and Apologizes, Says Comments "Went Too Far" Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | DOJ Issues Transformative FCPA Guidelines Prioritizing U.S. National Interests Department of Justice · Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | Communist Party Adviser Purchases Trump Memecoin for VIP Dinner Access Donald Trump · He Tianying · Justin Sun · Adam Schiff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Musk Posts "Trump is in the Epstein Files" - 10 Million Views Before Deletion Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-02 | Trump Organization Launches 21 International Projects During Second Presidential Term Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Eric Trump · Jared Kushner | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-16 | Senate Permanent Subcommittee opens inquiry into Trump crypto corruption Richard Blumenthal · Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Donald Trump · Fight Fight Fight LLC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-07 | U.S. Pushes Nations Facing Tariffs to Approve Musk's Starlink Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Marco Rubio · State Department Officials | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-06 | Trump's Cryptocurrency Dinner Reveals Majority Foreign Buyers Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Jamie Raskin | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Abu Dhabi sovereign fund commits $2 billion to Trump-linked crypto venture MGX sovereign fund · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan · World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-30 | Trump Company Strikes $5.5 Billion Qatar Golf Resort Deal During Active Presidency Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Trump Organization · Qatari Diar · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-23 | Trump offers private dinner to top 220 investors in his memecoin Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Cryptocurrency Investors · Sean Casten · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-21 | Kremlin Explored Moscow Skyscraper Offer to Trump as Diplomatic Leverage Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-13 | ICE terminates $73 million no-bid contract after improper influence allegations Universal Strategic Advisors · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Brian DeMore · David Marin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | ICE cancels $3.8B Fort Bliss contract amid corruption concerns, awards to inexperienced firm Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Deployed Resources · Acquisition Logistics LLC · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | SpaceX wins $5.9 billion Space Force contract amid congressional conflict-of-interest investigation SpaceX · U.S. Space Force · Elon Musk · Rep. Stephen Lynch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Christopher Darby | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Multiple Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Exposing Systematic Kleptocratic Corruption Reuters · Wall Street Journal · Boston Globe · Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-26 | How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China Elon Musk · SpaceX Executives · Iqbaljit Kahlon | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-24 | Government contractor who received $179M in federal contracts buys VP Vance's home for $170K over asking JD Vance · Christopher Garcia · Health Supply US · 9 EDR LLC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-21 | Treasury lifts Tornado Cash sanctions benefiting crypto money laundering U.S. Treasury Department · OFAC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | Donald Trump Jr. meets Serbian president to promote Trump hotel amid massive protests Donald Trump Jr. · Aleksandar Vučić · Trump Organization · Affinity Global Development · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Russia Proposes Mars Exploration Collaboration with Elon Musk Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kirill Dmitriev · Elon Musk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Senator Blumenthal opens investigation into Trump crypto ventures Richard Blumenthal · Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Trump Administration Used Diplomatic Pressure to Advance Starlink in Gambia Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sharon Cromer · Lamin Jabbi · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-09 | Chinese Investors Secretly Invest Millions in Elon Musk's Private Companies Elon Musk · Chinese Investors · SpaceX | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-05 | Trump issues ethics waiver allowing crypto czar David Sacks to retain investments David Sacks · White House · David Warrington · Sen. Elizabeth Warren · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-04 | DAEO Ethics Waiver Abrogates Patel's One-Year Qatar Recusal 12 Days After FBI Confirmation Kash Patel · Jolene A. Lauria · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Abu Dhabi MGX commits $2 billion to Trump's WLF stablecoin Abu Dhabi MGX · World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Commerce Department changes broadband policies benefiting Starlink up to $20B Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Elon Musk · Starlink | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | HBO Documentary Exposes Systematic Corruption Through FBI Wiretaps of Officials Alex Gibney (filmmaker) · HBO · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Unnamed officials (wiretapped) | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | SEC offers $50,000 buyouts to staff investigating Elon Musk Securities and Exchange Commission · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Trump crypto ventures generate $350 million through March 2025 Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · CIC Digital LLC | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-28 | SEC pauses Justin Sun investigation after $75M Trump investment Securities and Exchange Commission · Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | FAA approves 4,000 Starlink terminals, considers canceling $2.4B Verizon contract Federal Aviation Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX/Starlink · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | DOJ drops immigration discrimination case against SpaceX Department of Justice · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That Resigns Amid Facial Recognition Controversies Hoan Ton-That · Clearview AI · Hal Lambert · Richard Schwartz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump Executive Order Pauses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Kash Patel Received Payments from Russian Filmmaker with Kremlin Ties Kash Patel · Igor Lopatonok · Global Tree Pictures · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Campaign Legal Center identifies 467 conflicts requiring recusal Campaign Legal Center · Trump Appointees · Ethics Watchdogs | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick faces 106 conflicts of interest requiring recusal Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Cantor Fitzgerald | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Education Department Civil Rights Division Slashed from 550 to 243 Employees U.S. Department of Education · Russell Vought · Office for Civil Rights | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Energy Secretary Wright owns $54 million in fracking company stock Chris Wright · Liberty Energy · Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Musk companies received $38 billion in government support over 20 years Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla · Starlink · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Over 70 Trump appointees hold $193+ million in cryptocurrency Trump Appointees · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Swiss National Bank purchased 111,300 shares of Trump Media worth $1.78M, stake grows to $5.37M by February Swiss National Bank · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Media & Technology Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | At least 20 families have multiple members in federal posts Charles Kushner · Kimberly Guilfoyle · Massad Boulos · Trump Family | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump inauguration raises record $251.4 million from corporations Trump Inaugural Committee · Pilgrim's Pride Corp. ($5 million) · Ripple Labs ($4.9 million) · Warren Stephens · +1 | confirmed |