Capture lane

Regulatory Capture

The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1573 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

1573 events From Jan 1, 1819 To Jun 10, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1819–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2017-01-01Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange 4 src
Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
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2017-01-01Hacker Steals 900 GB of Data from Cellebrite, Exposing Customer Information and Technical Details 3 src
Cellebrite
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2017-01-01ICE relies on a sprawling, mostly contracted network of ~200 detention facilities; oversight fragmented 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · CoreCivic · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Marshals Service · +1
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2016-12-01Banking Committee Chairman Shelby Advocates for Financial CHOICE Act to Gut Dodd-Frank 3 src
U.S. Senate Banking Committee · Wall Street
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2016-11-01Boeing Obtains FAA Approval to Conceal MCAS System from Pilot Manuals and Training 3 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration
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2016-10-28ProPublica Exposes Facebook's Algorithmic Redlining: Digital Ad Platform Enables Housing Discrimination at Scale 3 src
Facebook · ProPublica
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2016-10-10Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly 3 src
Department of Justice · Antitrust Division
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2016-10-03New York Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation to Immediately Cease Fundraising 3 src
Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation
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2016-09-12Indianapolis Star Investigation Exposes Nassar Abuse After FBI Sat on Allegations for 14 Months 3 src
Larry Nassar · USA Gymnastics · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2016-09-08Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating 2 Million Fake Accounts 3 src
Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Richard Cordray
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2016-09-06ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees 4 src
U.S. Department of Education · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2016-09-03Standing Rock: Private Security and Police Attack Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protectors 3 src
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Energy Transfer Partners · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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2016-08-31Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation 4 src
Tom Price · Chris Collins · House Energy and Commerce Committee
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2016-08-24Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress 3 src
Mylan · U.S. Congress
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2016-07-01Harvey Weinstein Hires Black Cube to Suppress Rose McGowan Allegations 4 src confirmed
2016-06-30Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis 5 src
Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government
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2016-06-12Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results 3 src
Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1
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2016-05-17CNP's Secret 2014 Membership Directory Leaked - 413 Conservative Elite Exposed 2 src
Steve Bannon · Kellyanne Conway · Council for National Policy
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2016-03-15CDC Issues First Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Twenty Years After OxyContin Launch 3 src
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2016-01-26Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Trump Before Iowa: Liberty University President Makes the Transactional Bargain Explicit 2 src
Donald Trump · Ted Cruz
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2016-01-01ALEC Develops Comprehensive Government Union Reform Act as All-in-One Union Elimination Playbook 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council
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2016-01-01Illicit Fentanyl Overtakes Prescription Opioids as Leading Cause of Overdose Deaths 3 src
Drug Enforcement Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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2016-01-01Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme 5 src
DaVita · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission
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2015-11-19Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases 4 src
Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Johnson & Johnson · AstraZeneca · +2
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2015-10-27Northrop Grumman Wins $80 Billion B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Contract 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing · +2
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2015-10-15Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation 3 src
Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · Walgreens · +1
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2015-09-21Martin Shkreli Raises Daraprim Price by 5,000%, From $13.50 to $750 Per Pill 3 src confirmed
2015-09-18EPA Exposes Volkswagen Dieselgate: 11 Million Cars with Emissions Defeat Devices 4 src
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Department of Justice
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2015-06-25Supreme Court Rejects King v. Burwell Challenge to ACA Subsidies in Federal Exchanges 4 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Antonin Scalia
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2015-05-07Second Circuit Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Illegal Under Patriot Act 3 src
Second Circuit Court of Appeals · National Security Agency · American Civil Liberties Union
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2015-04-27Corinthian Colleges Files Bankruptcy After Federal Crackdown on For-Profit College Fraud 4 src
Corinthian Colleges · U.S. Department of Education · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities
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2015-04-26Corinthian Colleges Files Bankruptcy After Defrauding 72,000 Students - Executives Shield Assets 3 src
Corinthian Colleges
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2015-04-01Oklahoma Corporation Commission Orders 347 Disposal Wells to Prove Non-Contact with Basement Rock After Earthquake Surge 4 src confirmed
2015-02-26FCC Votes 3-2 for Strong Net Neutrality Protections Through Title II Reclassification After Record Public Engagement 3 src
Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Barack Obama
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2015-02-03S&P Settles for $1.375 Billion Over Fraudulent AAA Ratings on Junk Mortgage Securities, While Moody's Pays $864 Million, Exposing 'Issuer-Pays' Conflict of Interest Model Where 73% of 2006 AAA-Rated Securities Were Downgraded to Junk by 2010 3 src
Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2015-01-01Boeing Rushes 737 MAX Development to Beat Airbus, Cutting Development Time in Half 3 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration
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2015-01-01Epstein and Barak invest in Carbyne surveillance tech founded by Unit 8200 chief 5 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Ehud Barak · Pinchas Buchris · Peter Thiel · +6
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2015-01-01West Virginia Suffers Highest Per-Capita Opioid Rate, 67 Pills Per Person Annually 3 src
Purdue Pharma
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2014-12-16Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization 4 src
Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2014-10-22DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme 3 src
DaVita · Department of Justice
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2014-10-01Chainalysis Founded to Provide Blockchain Forensics to Governments and Banks 3 src
Chainalysis
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2014-09-02Eric Cantor Joins Wall Street Investment Bank for $3.4M After House Leadership 3 src
House Republicans
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2014-07-21Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion" 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice
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2014-07-16EU and US Impose Sectoral Sanctions on Russia 4 src
European Union · United States · Rosneft
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2014-06-12Federal Government Cuts Off Corinthian Colleges - 72,000 Students Trapped by Fraud 3 src
U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · Arne Duncan
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2014-06-01FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews 3 src
Food and Drug Administration · AstraZeneca
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2014-05-15FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash 3 src
Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Google · Microsoft · +4
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2014-05-12Hunter Biden Joins Burisma Board While Father Leads Ukraine Policy 3 src
Hunter Biden · Joe Biden · Devon Archer
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2014-02-26Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats 3 src
House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group
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2014-02-19Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Federal Trade Commission
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2014-02-06Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists 3 src
Max Baucus · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Merck · UnitedHealth Group
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2014-01-14Verizon Lawsuit Successfully Overturns FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Court Demands Title II Reclassification 3 src
Verizon Communications · D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Federal Communications Commission
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2014-01-01Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate 4 src
U.S. Treasury · FinCEN · Russian Oligarchs
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2014-01-01Candiru Spyware Company Founded by Israeli Veterans 3 src
Omri Lavie · Shalev Hulio · NSO Group
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2014-01-01Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak tries to avoid security detail for Epstein island visits 4 src
Ehud Barak · Jeffrey Epstein
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2013-12-23Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins 3 src
Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf
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2013-12-09American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market 3 src
American Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division
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2013-11-11Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill 3 src
Citigroup · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street
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2013-10-24NSA Monitored Angela Merkel's Phone and 35 Other World Leaders 3 src
National Security Agency · Angela Merkel · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden
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2013-10-21Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court 4 src
Microsoft · Google · Department of Justice · National Security Agency
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2013-10-20South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft 3 src confirmed
2013-10-02Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed 4 src
Yahoo · National Security Agency · FISA Court
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2013-10-01Healthcare.gov Launch Disaster Costs $1.7B from $93M Contract 3 src
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · CMS · Accenture
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2013-09-17Brazil's President Cancels US State Visit Over NSA Spying on Dilma Rousseff 4 src
Barack Obama · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald
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2013-09-17Pam Bondi Receives Illegal $25,000 Trump Foundation Donation During Trump University Investigation 3 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2013-08-21Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for WikiLeaks Disclosures 3 src
Chelsea Manning · U.S. Army · Department of Justice · Obama Administration
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2013-08-12Attorney General Holder Announces Smart on Crime Initiative: First Federal Retreat from Mandatory Minimums 3 src
Eric Holder · Barack Obama · DOJ
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2013-08-01FAA Safety Official Ali Bahrami Leaves for Aerospace Industries Association During Boeing 737 MAX Development 3 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing
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2013-08-01Retired General James Mattis Joins General Dynamics Board Five Months After Marine Corps Retirement 3 src
James Mattis · General Dynamics
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2013-08-01Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum After 39 Days in Moscow Airport 3 src
Edward Snowden · Russia · Vladimir Putin
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2013-07-02Director of National Intelligence Clapper Apologizes for "Clearly Erroneous" Testimony to Congress 3 src
James Clapper · Ron Wyden · Dianne Feinstein
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2013-07-01Reuters: AT&T nurtured and bankrolled OANN; founder says AT&T asked for a conservative network 4 src
AT&T · Donald Trump
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2013-06-25ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision 3 src
North Carolina Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · U.S. Supreme Court
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2013-06-23Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Moscow Seeking Asylum Amid U.S. Diplomatic Pressure 3 src
Edward Snowden · WikiLeaks · State Department
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2013-06-21Obama Prosecutes 8 Whistleblowers Under Espionage Act, More Than All Presidents 3 src
Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Edward Snowden · Chelsea Manning · +3
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2013-06-21Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion 3 src
Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice
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2013-06-17Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Big Pharma
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2013-06-10Booz Allen Fires Snowden, Exposing How a Contractor Employee of Three Months Accessed NSA's Deepest Secrets 5 src
Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · National Security Agency · Carlyle Group
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2013-06-09Edward Snowden Reveals Identity as NSA Whistleblower in Hong Kong Video 3 src
Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald
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2013-06-05Guardian Publishes First Snowden Leak on NSA Verizon Phone Records Collection 3 src
Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · National Security Agency · Verizon
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2013-06-01Aleksandr Kogan creates 'This Is Your Digital Life' Facebook app; data later used by Cambridge Analytica 3 src
Aleksandr Kogan · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica
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2013-06-01Elliptic Founded as First Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Firm 2 src confirmed
2013-05-02Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman 4 src
Tom Wheeler · Barack Obama
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2013-04-23CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program 4 src
James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet
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2013-04-15Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements 3 src
Barack Obama
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2013-03-06Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail 3 src
Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3
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2013-03-01Trump Foundation Paid $25,000 to Settle Trump University Legal Claim Using Charity Funds 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Foundation
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2013-01-29DOJ 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 4 src
Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +2
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2013-01-14Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen 3 src
James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice
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2013-01-03Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · Obama Administration
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2013-01-0170% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors 4 src
Intelligence Community · Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · National Security Agency
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2013-01-01Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure 3 src confirmed
2013-01-01Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers 4 src
Google
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2013-01-01Lance Wallnau Popularizes "Seven Mountains Mandate": The Theology of Institutional Capture Goes Mainstream 3 src
Lance Wallnau · C. Peter Wagner
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2013-01-01Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs 3 src
Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt
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2012-12-11HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed 3 src
Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Eric Holder · Covington & Burling
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2012-12-05ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation 4 src
Johnson & Johnson · Max Baucus · Barack Obama · U.S. Senate Finance Committee
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2012-11-15BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement 3 src
BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Eric Holder · +1
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2012-10-23John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program 3 src
John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice
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2012-10-01ALEC's 'Electricity Freedom Act' Systematically Attacks State Renewable Energy Standards 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · Edison Electric Institute · State Legislatures
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