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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-13 | Michael Flynn Resigns After 24 Days as National Security Advisor - Shortest Tenure Ever - Following Russia Lies to Pence and FBI
2 src Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Sally Yates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-08 | Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General After Lying Under Oath About Russia Contacts
2 src Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · Sergey Kislyak · Al Franken | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-27 | Trump Demands Loyalty from FBI Director Comey at Private White House Dinner
2 src Donald Trump · James Comey · Michael Flynn · Sally Yates · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Records show at least ~$1.75–$2.0M in Secret Service spending at Trump properties during presidency
3 src U.S. Secret Service · DHS Office of Inspector General · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Erik Prince Establishes Kremlin Backchannel in Seychelles Meeting with Putin Ally
3 src Erik Prince · Kirill Dmitriev · George Nader · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-11 | Rex Tillerson Confirmation Hearing Reveals ExxonMobil-Russia Conflicts and Sanctions Violations
3 src Rex Tillerson · Donald Trump · Igor Sechin · Vladimir Putin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Clearview AI Founded to Build Mass Facial Recognition Database
2 src Hoan Ton-That · Richard Schwartz · Peter Thiel · Clearview AI | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Essential Consultants Receives Over $2M from Multiple Corporate Entities and Oligarch-Linked Firms
3 src Essential Consultants LLC · Columbus Nova · Viktor Vekselberg · Novartis · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Reports: Sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov held ~1% SpaceX stake via Heritage Trust
4 src Suleyman Kerimov (Russian Federation Council member) · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-08 | Saudi Coalition Uses US-Made Bombs to Kill 155 at Yemen Funeral Hall in Sanaa
4 src Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-01 | Rybolovlev demolishes Trump's former Palm Beach mansion; property later subdivided and sold
3 src Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-10 | Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 31 Civilians at Yemen Water Drilling Site in Apparent War Crime
4 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Human Rights Watch | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-15 | Raytheon Paveway Bomb Strikes MSF Hospital in Yemen, Killing 11 Including Healthcare Workers
4 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Doctors Without Borders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-14 | Black Ledger Reveals $12.7 Million in Secret Cash Payments to Trump Campaign Chair Manafort
4 src Paul Manafort · Viktor Yanukovych · Oleg Deripaska · Trump Campaign · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-27 | Trump Publicly Calls on Russia to Hack Clinton Emails, GRU Begins Targeting Clinton Servers Same Day
4 src Donald Trump · Russian GRU · Hillary Clinton · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-22 | WikiLeaks Releases 20,000 Stolen DNC Emails Three Days Before Democratic Convention
4 src WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Russian GRU · Democratic National Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-15 | Guccifer 2.0 (Russian GRU) Begins Leaking Stolen DNC Emails Hours After Hack Exposure
4 src Russian GRU · Guccifer 2.0 · Democratic National Committee · WikiLeaks · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-09 | Trump Jr. Accepts Meeting Explicitly Framed as "Russia and Its Government's Support"
3 src Donald Trump Jr. · Jared Kushner · Paul Manafort · Natalia Veselnitskaya · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-20 | Russian Official Alexander Torshin Meets Donald Trump Jr. at NRA Convention After Requesting Trump Meeting
2 src Alexander Torshin · Maria Butina · Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-01 | Paul Manafort Shares Trump Campaign Data with Russian Agent Konstantin Kilimnik
4 src Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Trump Campaign · Russian Intelligence (GRU) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Deutsche Bank Flags Suspicious Trump-Russia Transactions
4 src Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Russian money launderers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-12-10 | NRA Leaders Travel to Moscow on Trip Arranged by Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, Meet High-Level Russian Officials
3 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · David Clarke · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | Trump Signs Letter of Intent for $1 Billion Moscow Tower While Running for President
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Cohen · Felix Sater · VTB Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-07-11 | Russian Agent Maria Butina Questions Trump About Sanctions at FreedomFest, Trump Promises to "Get Along" with Putin
4 src Maria Butina · Donald Trump · Alexander Torshin · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2015-04-08 | Russian Agents Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin Attend NRA Annual Meeting, Meet Federal Reserve Vice Chairman
2 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · Stanley Fischer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-03-26 | Saudi Arabia Launches Yemen Intervention Armed with Billions in Raytheon Weapons, Beginning Eight-Year Atrocity
4 src Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-16 | Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited
4 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Management · Republic of Argentina · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-03-18 | Putin Formally Signs Treaty Annexing Crimea, Escalating International Conflict
3 src Vladimir Putin · Sergey Aksyonov · Joe Biden · Angela Merkel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Erik Prince Founds Frontier Services Group with Chinese State Investment from CITIC, Controlled by Chang Zhenming
4 src Erik Prince · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group · Frontier Services Group | confirmed | |
| 2013-11-09 | Trump Holds Miss Universe in Moscow, Partners with Putin-Connected Agalarovs for Trump Tower Moscow
4 src Donald Trump · Aras Agalarov · Emin Agalarov · Vladimir Putin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-09-17 | Brazil's President Cancels US State Visit Over NSA Spying on Dilma Rousseff
4 src Dilma Rousseff · Barack Obama · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-23 | Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Moscow Seeking Asylum Amid U.S. Diplomatic Pressure
3 src Edward Snowden · WikiLeaks · Sarah Harrison · Hong Kong government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-01 | Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · IBM | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Erik Prince Receives $529M Contract to Build Secret Mercenary Army for UAE Crown Prince
3 src Erik Prince · Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan · Reflex Responses · United Arab Emirates | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin Begin Systematic NRA Infiltration Operation
4 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · David Keene · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | NYPD Counterterrorism Unit Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance Operations
2 src New York Police Department · Palantir Technologies · Richard Falkenrath · New York City Police Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Trump SoHo money laundering operation - 77% shell company sales
4 src Trump Organization · Bayrock Group · Felix Sater · Tevfik Arif · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-01 | Harlan Crow Begins Paying Private School Tuition for Thomas's Grandnephew
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Mark Martin · Hidden Lake Academy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-01 | Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer
4 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo · Robin Arkley II | confirmed | |
| 2008-06-28 | Model Ruslana Korshunova dies in suspicious fall two years after Epstein island visit
4 src Ruslana Korshunova · Jeffrey Epstein · Virginia Giuffre · Valentina Kutenkova | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Shell companies spend $890M on Trump condos during financial crisis
7 src Trump Organization · Anonymous shell companies · Delaware LLCs · British Virgin Islands corporations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-30 | Trump Outbids Epstein for Palm Beach Mansion, Ending Friendship
3 src Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Judge Steven Friedman · Joseph Luzinski (bankruptcy trustee) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Begins Undisclosed Luxury Trips on Harlan Crow's Yacht and Private Jets
4 src Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Rochelle Charter (Crow's yacht company) | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | Google Establishes "Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich" Tax Avoidance Structure
4 src Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Irish government · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-09-17 | CIA Authorized to Conduct Extraordinary Rendition - Kidnapping Suspects for Torture Abroad
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · George W. Bush · George Tenet · Cofer Black | confirmed | |
| 2001-02-22 | Clinton Pardon Scandal Reveals Payments to President's Brother and Brother-in-Law
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Roger Clinton · Hugh Rodham · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2000-02-01 | Halliburton Opens Tehran Office While Cheney Still CEO, Completing $40 Million Annual Iran Business Through Cayman Islands Subsidiary Designed to Circumvent U.S. Sanctions
3 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Halliburton Products and Services · Bill Clinton | 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 | |
| 1991-07-05 | BCCI Bank Shut Down After Exposing CIA Drug Money Laundering Network
3 src William Casey · Manuel Noriega · Adnan Khashoggi · Manucher Ghorbanifar | 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 | |
| 1990-10-01 | Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly Begins Lobbying for Kashmiri American Council, Later Revealed as Pakistani ISI Front
5 src Paul Manafort · Black Manafort Stone and Kelly · Kashmiri American Council · Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1989-12-20 | U.S. Invades Panama to Capture Former CIA Asset Manuel Noriega
3 src George H.W. Bush · Manuel Noriega | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-01 | Executive Outcomes Founded in South Africa: First Modern Private Military Company Conducts Combat Operations
2 src Eeben Barlow · Executive Outcomes · Tony Buckingham · Simon Mann · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1987-05-05 | Televised Iran-Contra Congressional Hearings Begin, Riveting Nation
3 src Oliver North · John Poindexter · George Shultz · Caspar Weinberger | confirmed | |
| 1986-11-25 | Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public
3 src Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Oliver North · John Poindexter | confirmed | |
| 1985-12-04 | NSC Running Shadow Foreign Policy Through McFarlane and Poindexter
3 src Robert McFarlane · John Poindexter · Oliver North · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1985-08-20 | First Secret Arms Shipment to Iran Initiates Iran-Contra Scandal
3 src Ronald Reagan · Robert McFarlane · Oliver North · Manucher Ghorbanifar | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Bradley Foundation Transformation - Coordinated Conservative Infrastructure Funding
3 src Michael S. Joyce · Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation · Heritage Foundation · Federalist Society · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1984-10-12 | Boland Amendment Explicitly Prohibits All U.S. Funding for Contras
3 src Edward Boland · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1984-06-01 | CIA Director Casey and Oliver North Create "The Enterprise" -- A Private Intelligence Operation Template
4 src William Casey · Oliver North · Richard Secord · Albert Hakim · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1980-03-24 | U.S. Backs El Salvador Death Squad Government Through 12-Year Civil War
3 src Ronald Reagan · Roberto D'Aubuisson · Oscar Romero | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | Black, Manafort & Stone lobbying firm founded, nicknamed 'Torturers' Lobby'
3 src Charlie Black · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone | confirmed | |
| 1942-10-20 | Alien Property Custodian Seizes Bush-Thyssen Nazi Banking Assets
3 src Office of Alien Property Custodian · Prescott Bush · Union Banking Corporation · Fritz Thyssen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1893-01-17 | U.S. Marines Land in Honolulu, American Businessmen Overthrow Hawaiian Kingdom and Depose Queen Liliuokalani in Illegal Coup
5 src Queen Liliuokalani · John L. Stevens · Committee of Safety · Sanford B. Dole · +5 | confirmed |