International Kleptocracy
The International Kleptocracy capture lane traces 264 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1893–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-31 | Swiss National Bank purchased 111,300 shares of Trump Media worth $1.78M, stake grows to $5.37M by February
3 src 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
4 src Charles Kushner · Kimberly Guilfoyle · Massad Boulos · Trump Family | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump inauguration raises record $251.4 million from corporations
3 src Trump Inaugural Committee · Pilgrim's Pride Corp. ($5 million) · Ripple Labs ($4.9 million) · Warren Stephens · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump's Foreign Business Partners and Corporate Leaders Converge at 2025 Inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Corporate Leaders · Foreign Business Partners | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun's $75 Million Crypto Investment Signals Complex Trump Financial Network
4 src Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump cabinet worth $450 billion, most concentrated wealth in US history
4 src Trump cabinet · Elon Musk · Howard Lutnick · Warren Stephens | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump eliminates ethics requirements and lobbying restrictions
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Public Citizen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Issues Mass Pardons to 1,500 January 6 Defendants Including Violent Offenders
3 src Donald Trump · Enrique Tarrio · Joe Biggs · Proud Boys · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Trump's Second Term Tariff Exemptions Made in Secret Without Public Process
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Industry lobbyists · Reyes Holdings · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-23 | North Carolina Republicans Strip Governor's Power to Appoint Election Board Members
3 src North Carolina Legislature · Josh Stein (Governor-elect) · Roy Cooper (Governor) · Dave Boliek (State Auditor) | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-11 | Trump Organization launches $530M Saudi Arabia tower weeks before inauguration
5 src Eric Trump · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Dar Global | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | McKinsey Africa Agrees to Pay $122 Million Settlement for Bribery of South African Officials
3 src McKinsey Africa · U.S. Department of Justice · Vikas Sagar · South African National Prosecuting Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-24 | Vitali Klitschko Confronts Joe Rogan for Promoting Russian Propaganda on Ukraine, Rogan Defends Kremlin Narratives
3 src Joe Rogan · Vitali Klitschko · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · RT (Russia Today) | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-05 | Record $1.9 Billion in Dark Money Floods 2024 Federal Election Cycle
3 src Dark money groups · Fidelity · Charles Schwab · Vanguard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-31 | ICE detention chief Daniel Bible joins GEO Group days before election
4 src Daniel Bible · GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump PACs | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-30 | Supreme Court Allows Virginia to Purge 1,600 Voters Days Before Election Despite Federal Law
3 src US Supreme Court · Glenn Youngkin (Governor) · Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | DOJ Unseals Indictment Revealing $10 Million Russian Funding of Tenet Media Influencers
4 src Department of Justice · RT (Russia Today) · Tenet Media · Tim Pool · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-12 | Georgia State Election Board Passes Illegal Rules to Disrupt 2024 Election
3 src Georgia State Election Board · Janelle King · Janice Johnston · Rick Jeffares · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-21 | Trump campaign begins accepting cryptocurrency donations
4 src Trump Campaign · Cryptocurrency industry | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-04 | House Oversight minority report: at least $7.8M from 20 foreign governments to Trump businesses (partial records)
4 src U.S. House Committee on Oversight (Minority Staff) · Donald J. Trump · Trump Organization · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Investigation Reveals $6.6 Million in Gifts to Supreme Court Justices
3 src Supreme Court Justices · Fix the Court · Harlan Crow · Paul Singer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-20 | ICIJ Cyprus Confidential Investigation Exposes Wyoming as Premier U.S. Tax Haven Overtaking Delaware
2 src International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · ConnectedSky · Wyoming Legislature · OpenCorporates · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-01 | Russian RT Employees Begin Funneling Money Through Tenet Media to US Influencers
4 src RT (Russia Today) · Tenet Media · Tim Pool · Benny Johnson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-26 | Unconfirmed Report of Trump, Musk, and MBS Meeting
2 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Mohammed bin Salman | reported | |
| 2023-03-15 | DOJ Arrests Guo Wengui in Landmark $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy
3 src Guo Wengui · Ho Wan Kwok · Kin Ming Je · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Treasury records reveal $1.1 billion in Epstein wire transfers through Russian banks
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Senator Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Russian banks | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-22 | January 6th Committee Reveals Social Media Platforms Gave Special Treatment to Conservatives
3 src Twitter · X · Facebook · Meta · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-15 | Trump launches first NFT collection one month after campaign announcement
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-01 | Elon Musk begins regular contact with Vladimir Putin
3 src Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-13 | January 6th Committee Exposes "Big Rip-Off" - $250 Million Fraudulent Fundraising Scheme
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Save America PAC · House January 6th Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-03 | Trump Org and Inaugural Committee pay $750,000 to settle D.C. AG lawsuit over hotel overcharges
3 src District of Columbia Office of Attorney General · Trump Organization · Presidential Inaugural Committee (2017) | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Trump Endorses Vance Following Thiel's $15 Million Strategic Political Investment
3 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-25 | French Senate Investigation Reveals 'McKinsey Gate' Scandal: Nearly €1 Billion in Government Consulting Fees
2 src McKinsey & Company · Emmanuel Macron · Karim Tadjeddine · French Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Peter Thiel Receives Second Putin Meeting Invitation
4 src Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-01 | Truth Social Receives $8 Million from Russian-Connected Entities While "On Brink of Collapse"
5 src Trump Media & Technology Group · Paxum Bank · Anton Postolnikov · ES Family Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Trump Media Founded with Chinese-Connected Financial Backer Patrick Orlando
4 src Donald Trump · Patrick Orlando · Trump Media & Technology Group · Yunhong International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | Trump calls Bitcoin 'a scam' competing with the dollar
5 src Donald Trump · Bitcoin | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-20 | FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions
3 src FinCEN · BuzzFeed News · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Jason Leopold · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-05 | State Department Report Reveals Trump Administration Ignored Civilian Casualty Risks in Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales
3 src Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-20 | Trump Fires Acting DNI Joseph Maguire After Intelligence Briefing That Russia Prefers Trump in 2020
4 src Joseph Maguire · Donald Trump · Shelby Pierson · Richard Grenell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-30 | Raytheon Profits Surge on Iran War Fears, CEO Cites Strong International Patriot Missile Demand
3 src Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Saudi Arabia · Iran · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-21 | Fiona Hill Testifies - Giuliani Ran Shadow Ukraine Policy for "Domestic Political Errand"
3 src Fiona Hill · Rudy Giuliani · John Bolton · Gordon Sondland · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-15 | Roger Stone Convicted on All Counts - Obstruction, Witness Tampering, and Lying to Congress
3 src Roger Stone · Donald Trump · Jerome Corsi · Randy Credico · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-26 | Pentagon Awards $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft Over Amazon
3 src Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-25 | Maria Butina Released from Federal Prison and Immediately Deported to Russia After 15 Months
3 src Maria Butina · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Federal Bureau of Prisons · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Anne Nelson Publishes "Shadow Network" - Exposing CNP as Conservative Coordination Hub
2 src Anne Nelson · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-27 | Senate Finance Committee Report Reveals NRA Misled Public About Russia Connections and 2015 Moscow Trip
3 src U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Ron Wyden · National Rifle Association · Maria Butina · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-14 | Raytheon's $15 Billion Patriot Missile System Fails Spectacularly, Allowing Drone Swarm to Cripple Saudi Oil Production
4 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Iran · Mohammed bin Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-13 | Air Force review finds ~6% of Scotland overnights at Trump Turnberry; DHS OIG tallies USSS spend at resort during 2018 visit
4 src U.S. Air Force · U.S. Secret Service · DHS Office of Inspector General · Trump Turnberry | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-28 | Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Resigns After Repeated Conflicts with Trump Over Russia
4 src Dan Coats · Donald Trump · John Ratcliffe · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | Trump Vetoes Congressional Resolutions Blocking Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales, Protecting Defense Contractor Profits
4 src Donald Trump · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Boeing · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-06 | Epstein arrested three weeks after money laundering revelations
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-28 | Raytheon GBU-12 Bomb Kills Six Civilians Including Three Children in Yemen Village Attack
3 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Amnesty International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-20 | Senate Votes to Block Raytheon Paveway Bomb Sales to Saudi Arabia in Bipartisan Rebuke
4 src Bob Menendez · Lindsey Graham · Chris Murphy · Rand Paul · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-13 | Commerce Inspector General Finds Wilbur Ross Lied to Congress About Census Citizenship Question
3 src Wilbur Ross · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-07 | Trump Administration Approves Unprecedented Raytheon Technology Transfer to Let Saudis Build Bombs Domestically
4 src Donald Trump · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-24 | Trump Declares Fake Emergency to Ram Through $8.1 Billion Raytheon Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
4 src Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-01 | Fireworks CEO Provides $750K-$1M Gift After Trump Delays Tariffs
4 src Donald Trump · Bruce Zoldan · Phantom Fireworks | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-26 | Federal Judge Sentences Russian Agent Maria Butina to 18 Months for Conspiracy to Infiltrate Conservative Movement
3 src Maria Butina · Tanya Chutkan · Department of Justice · National Rifle Association | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-18 | Mueller Report Released - 448 Pages Documenting Russian Interference and Obstruction Episodes
3 src Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · William Barr · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-16 | Trump Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution to End U.S. Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Protecting MBS After Khashoggi Murder
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · U.S. Congress · Saudi Arabia government | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-15 | Russian Oligarch-Linked Rusal Invests $200 Million in Kentucky Braidy Plant After McConnell Blocks Sanctions
4 src Rusal · Oleg Deripaska · En+ Group · Braidy Industries · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-13 | Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Conspiring as Russian Agent, Admits Years-Long Clandestine Influence Scheme
2 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · Paul Erickson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-29 | Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying to Congress About Trump Tower Moscow Timeline
4 src Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Dmitry Peskov · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-20 | Trump Defends Saudi Arabia Despite CIA High-Confidence Finding MBS Ordered Khashoggi Murder - "Maybe He Did, Maybe He Didn't"
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Central Intelligence Agency · King Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-11 | Trump Vows to Continue Raytheon, Lockheed Arms Sales Despite Khashoggi Murder and Yemen Atrocities
4 src Donald Trump · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Jamal Khashoggi Murdered Inside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by 15-Member Hit Squad Sent by Crown Prince MBS
4 src Jamal Khashoggi · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Turkish intelligence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-14 | Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Invests $15M in Carbyne, Connecting Epstein-Barak Surveillance Network to Erik Prince Operations
5 src Peter Thiel · Erik Prince · Lital Leshem · Jeffrey Epstein · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-09 | US-Made Bomb Kills 40 Children on School Bus in Yemen, Triggering International Outrage
4 src Lockheed Martin · Raytheon · General Dynamics · Saudi Arabia · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-19 | Senate Votes 98-0 to Reject Putin's Request to Interrogate U.S. Officials in Bipartisan Rebuke of Trump
4 src Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Chuck Schumer · Michael McFaul · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-17 | Trump Claims He Misspoke "Would" Instead of "Wouldn't" in Implausible Helsinki Walkback Attempt
3 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | Trump Sides with Putin Over U.S. Intelligence at Helsinki Summit, Attacks Own Agencies
4 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Dan Coats · John Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-15 | FBI Arrests Maria Butina for Conspiring to Act as Russian Agent to Infiltrate Conservative Organizations
3 src Maria Butina · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-13 | Mueller Indicts 12 GRU Officers for Hacking DNC and Democratic Campaign Infrastructure
3 src Robert Mueller · Russian Intelligence (GRU) · Russian Military Intelligence · Democratic National Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-28 | China grants waves of Ivanka Trump trademarks as she serves in White House; ethics watchdogs flag conflicts
4 src Ivanka Trump · Ivanka Trump Marks LLC · China National Intellectual Property Administration | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-01 | U.S. Lifts Argentina Tariffs While Trump Seeks Trademarks
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Argentina | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-22 | Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 23 at Yemen Wedding, Majority Women and Children
4 src Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-10 | Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress on Cambridge Analytica and Russian Interference
3 src Mark Zuckerberg · US Congress · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-08 | Major GOP Donors' Company Receives Unexplained Tariff Exemption
4 src Reyes Holdings · Trump Administration · Republican donors | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | Trump Tariff Exemption Process Shows Political Favoritism
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Veljko Fotak · Hye Seung Grace Lee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-16 | Mueller Indicts 13 Russians and Internet Research Agency for Election Interference
3 src Robert Mueller · Internet Research Agency · Yevgeny Prigozhin · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Putin-Linked Company Receives Tariff Exemption Until Public Outcry
4 src Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren · Russian oligarch · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-31 | Google Moves $23B to Bermuda Tax Haven in Single Year
4 src Google · Alphabet · Sundar Pichai · Dutch authorities (disclosure) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-01 | Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI About Russian Contacts
3 src Michael Flynn · Robert Mueller · Sergey Kislyak · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-20 | Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-05 | Paradise Papers Reveal Commerce Secretary Ross Concealed Stake in Russian-Linked Shipping Company
3 src Wilbur Ross · Kirill Shamalov · Gennady Timchenko · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-05 | George Papadopoulos Becomes First Trump Campaign Official to Plead Guilty in Mueller Probe
4 src George Papadopoulos · Joseph Mifsud · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-01 | Facebook Admits Russians Bought $100,000 in Ads to Influence 2016 Election
4 src Facebook · Internet Research Agency · US Congress · Russian Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-19 | Netanyahu Meets Visegrad Leaders in Budapest Before Hungary and Poland Purchase Pegasus
3 src Benjamin Netanyahu · Viktor Orban · Beata Szydło · Mateusz Morawiecki · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-17 | Trump Orders McGahn to Fire Mueller, Triggering Potential "Saturday Night Massacre"
3 src Donald Trump · Don McGahn · Rod Rosenstein · Rob Porter | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-17 | Rosenstein Appoints Robert Mueller as Special Counsel for Russia Investigation - Direct Response to Trump's Obstruction
3 src Robert Mueller · Rod Rosenstein · Donald Trump · James Comey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-11 | Trump Admits to Lester Holt He Fired Comey Because of This Russia Thing - Obstruction Confession on National TV
3 src Donald Trump · Lester Holt · James Comey · Rod Rosenstein | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-10 | Trump Reveals Israeli Classified Intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Oval Office - Day After Comey Firing
2 src Donald Trump · Sergei Lavrov · Sergey Kislyak · H.R. McMaster · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-09 | Trump Fires FBI Director Comey to Stop Russia Investigation, Tells Russians "Pressure Taken Off"
3 src Donald Trump · James Comey · Sergey Lavrov · Sergey Kislyak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-16 | Neil Gorsuch Sells Property to Law Firm CEO Days After Supreme Court Confirmation
4 src Neil Gorsuch · Brian Duffy · Greenberg Traurig | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-22 | Devin Nunes Makes Secret Midnight White House Visit to View Intel, Then Briefs Trump Before Committee - Obstruction of Investigation
3 src Devin Nunes · Donald Trump · Ezra Cohen-Watnick · Michael Ellis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-22 | Trump Asks Intelligence Chiefs Coats and Rogers to Publicly Deny Russia Collusion Evidence - Obstruction of Investigation
3 src Donald Trump · Dan Coats · Mike Rogers · James Comey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-20 | FBI Director Comey Publicly Confirms Russia Investigation into Trump Campaign in Historic House Testimony
3 src James Comey · Donald Trump · Mike Rogers · Devin Nunes · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-07 | Michael Flynn Retroactively Registers as Turkey Foreign Agent - $530K Lobbying During Campaign and as National Security Advisor
3 src Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · Recep Tayyip Erdogan · Ekim Alptekin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-02 | Jeff Sessions Forced to Recuse from Russia Investigation After Perjury About Kislyak Meetings Revealed
2 src Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · Sergey Kislyak · Dana Boente · +1 | confirmed |