Regulatory Capture
The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1534 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 | Epstein and Barak invest in Carbyne surveillance tech founded by Unit 8200 chief Jeffrey Epstein · Ehud Barak · Pinchas Buchris · Peter Thiel · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-01 | West Virginia Suffers Highest Per-Capita Opioid Rate, 67 Pills Per Person Annually Purdue Pharma · Drug Wholesalers · McKesson · Cardinal Health · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-16 | Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization Senator Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Insurance Companies | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme DaVita · Kent Thiry · Department of Justice · HHS Office of Inspector General | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-01 | Chainalysis Founded to Provide Blockchain Forensics to Governments and Banks Chainalysis · Michael Gronager · Jonathan Levin · Jan Møller | confirmed | |
| 2014-09-02 | Eric Cantor Joins Wall Street Investment Bank for $3.4M After House Leadership Eric Cantor · Moelis & Company · House Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-21 | Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion" Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-16 | EU and US Impose Sectoral Sanctions on Russia European Union · United States · Sberbank · VEB · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-12 | Federal Government Cuts Off Corinthian Colleges - 72,000 Students Trapped by Fraud U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · Arne Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-01 | FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews Joan Buenconsejo · Food and Drug Administration · AstraZeneca · Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-15 | FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Google · Microsoft · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-12 | Hunter Biden Joins Burisma Board While Father Leads Ukraine Policy Hunter Biden · Burisma Holdings · Joe Biden · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-26 | Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats Dave Camp · House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group · Cerberus Capital Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Jan Koum · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-06 | Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists Max Baucus · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Merck · UnitedHealth Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-14 | Verizon Lawsuit Successfully Overturns FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Court Demands Title II Reclassification Verizon Communications · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federal Communications Commission · Julius Genachowski | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate US Treasury · FinCEN · Russian Oligarchs · US real estate industry | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Candiru Spyware Company Founded by Israeli Veterans Eran Shorer · Yaakov Weizman · Isaac Zack · Omri Lavie · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak tries to avoid security detail for Epstein island visits Ehud Barak · Jeffrey Epstein · Israeli security detail | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-23 | Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf · Scott Reckard (LA Times Reporter) | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-09 | American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market American Airlines · US Airways · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2013-11-11 | Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill Citigroup · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-24 | NSA Monitored Angela Merkel's Phone and 35 Other World Leaders National Security Agency · Angela Merkel · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-21 | Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court Microsoft · Google · Brad Smith · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-20 | South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft Richard Benda · Joop Bollen · Marty Jackley · Mike Rounds | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-02 | Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed Yahoo · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-01 | Healthcare.gov Launch Disaster Costs $1.7B from $93M Contract CGI Federal · Healthcare.gov · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · CMS · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-09-17 | Brazil's President Cancels US State Visit Over NSA Spying on Dilma Rousseff Dilma Rousseff · Barack Obama · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-09-17 | Pam Bondi Receives Illegal $25,000 Trump Foundation Donation During Trump University Investigation Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-21 | Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for WikiLeaks Disclosures Chelsea Manning · U.S. Army · Department of Justice · Obama Administration | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-12 | Attorney General Holder Announces Smart on Crime Initiative: First Federal Retreat from Mandatory Minimums Eric Holder · Barack Obama · DOJ | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-01 | FAA Safety Official Ali Bahrami Leaves for Aerospace Industries Association During Boeing 737 MAX Development Ali Bahrami · Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Aerospace Industries Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-01 | Retired General James Mattis Joins General Dynamics Board Five Months After Marine Corps Retirement James Mattis · General Dynamics · Marine Corps | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-01 | Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum After 39 Days in Moscow Airport Edward Snowden · Russia · Vladimir Putin · Anatoly Kucherena · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-02 | Director of National Intelligence Clapper Apologizes for "Clearly Erroneous" Testimony to Congress James Clapper · Ron Wyden · Dianne Feinstein | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-01 | Reuters: AT&T nurtured and bankrolled OANN; founder says AT&T asked for a conservative network AT&T · One America News Network · Robert Herring Sr. · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-25 | ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott · North Carolina Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-23 | Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Moscow Seeking Asylum Amid U.S. Diplomatic Pressure Edward Snowden · WikiLeaks · Sarah Harrison · Hong Kong government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-21 | Obama Prosecutes 8 Whistleblowers Under Espionage Act, More Than All Presidents Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Edward Snowden · Chelsea Manning · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-21 | Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-17 | Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Solvay Pharmaceuticals · Actavis · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-10 | Booz Allen Fires Snowden, Exposing How a Contractor Employee of Three Months Accessed NSA's Deepest Secrets Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-09 | Edward Snowden Reveals Identity as NSA Whistleblower in Hong Kong Video Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Laura Poitras | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-05 | Guardian Publishes First Snowden Leak on NSA Verizon Phone Records Collection Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · National Security Agency · Verizon | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Aleksandr Kogan creates 'This Is Your Digital Life' Facebook app; data later used by Cambridge Analytica Aleksandr Kogan · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica · Global Science Research | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Elliptic Founded as First Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Firm Elliptic · Adam Joyce · Tom Robinson · James Smith | confirmed | |
| 2013-05-02 | Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler · Barack Obama · Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) · National Cable Television Association (NCTA) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-23 | CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-15 | Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-01 | Trump Foundation Paid $25,000 to Settle Trump University Legal Claim Using Charity Funds Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-29 | DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-14 | Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen Jeffrey Sterling · James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | 70% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors Intelligence Community · Private contractors · Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure Airlines · Telecom companies · Pharmaceutical companies · Agribusiness | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers Google · Online publishers · Advertisers · News Organizations | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Lance Wallnau Popularizes "Seven Mountains Mandate": The Theology of Institutional Capture Goes Mainstream Lance Wallnau · C. Peter Wagner · Loren Cunningham · Bill Bright | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed HSBC · Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Mexican Drug Cartels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-05 | ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation Elizabeth Fowler · Johnson & Johnson · WellPoint · Max Baucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Vidrine · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-23 | John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-01 | ALEC's 'Electricity Freedom Act' Systematically Attacks State Renewable Energy Standards American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · James Taylor · Edison Electric Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations New England Compounding Center · Barry Cadden · Food and Drug Administration · Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple · Jon Leibowitz (FTC Chairman) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-07-30 | Senate Harkin Report Documents Massive Fraud and Abuse in For-Profit College Industry Senator Tom Harkin · Senate HELP Committee · University of Phoenix · Corinthian Colleges · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-28 | Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · National Federation of Independent Business · Republican Governors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-07 | 38 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss Curt Schilling · 38 Studios LLC · Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation · Lincoln Chafee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-04 | Bureau Investigation Exposes CIA Double-Tap Drone Strikes Killing Rescuers and Mourners Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-29 | New York Times Exposes Obama's Kill List and Terror Tuesday Assassination Meetings Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · JSOC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley · Facebook · William Galvin · James Gorman | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-01 | Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-09 | Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor Facebook Inc. · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram Inc. · Kevin Systrom · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-09 | 25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Provides Banks Immunity for Minimal Payments Eric Holder · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices Enables Facility Fee Price Gouging, Driving 53% Increase in Outpatient Costs Hospital corporations · Private equity firms | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates Kaiser Permanente · Ascension Health · Tower Health · Bernard Tyson | confirmed | |
| 2011-12-12 | Erik Prince Sells Xe Services (formerly Blackwater), Rebranded as Academi with John Ashcroft on Board Erik Prince · Xe Services · Academi · John Ashcroft · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2011-11-13 | STOCK Act Gains Momentum After 60 Minutes Exposes Congressional Insider Trading Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · Brian Baird | confirmed | |
| 2011-10-31 | MF Global Bankruptcy: $1.6 Billion in Customer Funds Missing Under Jon Corzine Jon Corzine | confirmed | |
| 2011-08-06 | Rick Perry's "The Response" Prayer Rally: 30,000 at Reliant Stadium as NAR Leaders Launch a Presidential Campaign Rick Perry · C. Peter Wagner · Cindy Jacobs · John Hagee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-07-13 | ALEC Exposed: Leaked Documents Reveal 800 Corporate-Written Model Bills American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · The Nation · Corporate members · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-07-01 | ALEC Achieves Systematic Legislative Capture: 200+ Corporate-Drafted Bills Enacted Annually Across States American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-07-01 | Wisconsin Republicans Pass Act 43 Gerrymandering Plan in Secret Process Wisconsin Legislature · Republican Party · Michael Best & Friedrich | confirmed | |
| 2011-06-13 | Department of Education Issues Gainful Employment Rule to Regulate For-Profit Colleges, Industry Immediately Challenges in Court U.S. Department of Education · Barack Obama · Arne Duncan · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-11 | FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker Joins Comcast Four Months After Approving NBC Universal Merger Meredith Attwell Baker · Comcast Corporation · NBC Universal · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-01 | Pam Bondi Fires Foreclosure Fraud Investigators After Campaign Donations from Lender Processing Services Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-11 | Wisconsin Act 10 Crushes Public Sector Unions Using ALEC Model Legislation Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council · Wisconsin GOP · Koch brothers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-01 | Chris Dodd Becomes Hollywood's Chief Lobbyist After Promising No Lobbying Chris Dodd · MPAA · Motion Picture Association | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-01 | Prison Labor at $0.12-$0.40/Hour Documented: The Thirteenth Amendment's Slavery Exception in Industrial Operation ACLU · Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) · CoreCivic · GEO Group | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-27 | Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Released, No Banker Prosecutions Follow Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission · Phil Angelides · Lloyd Blankfein · Jamie Dimon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-19 | House Republicans Launch Six Years of Symbolic ACA Repeal Votes House Republicans · Speaker John Boehner · Rep. Joe Barton · Rep. Pat Meehan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | ALEC Grants Corporate Lobbyists 'Equal Vote' on Model Legislation for State Legislatures American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Erik Prince Receives $529M Contract to Build Secret Mercenary Army for UAE Crown Prince Erik Prince · Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan · Reflex Responses · United Arab Emirates | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Pam Bondi Serves as Florida AG 2011-2019, Never Prosecutes Epstein Despite Mounting Evidence Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Wells Fargo Employees Begin Creating 3.5 Million Fake Accounts Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt | confirmed | |
| 2010-12-31 | Donors Trust Becomes Primary Climate Denial Dark Money Conduit Donors Trust · Donors Capital Fund · Koch brothers · Knowledge and Progress Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2010-12-21 | FCC Passes First Net Neutrality Rules with Major Wireless Exemption in 3-2 Party-Line Vote Federal Communications Commission · Julius Genachowski · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · +1 | confirmed |