Capture lane

Regulatory Capture

The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1534 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

1534 events From Jan 1, 1819 To May 6, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2010-12-15FDA Arthritis Drug Reviewer Jeffrey Siegel Joins Genentech After Approving Company Tocilizumab
Jeffrey Siegel · Food and Drug Administration · Genentech · Roche · +1
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2010-11-02Republicans Gain Record 680 State Legislative Seats, Securing REDMAP Objectives
Republican State Leadership Committee · Republican Party
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2010-10-13Robo-Signing Scandal Exposes Systematic Foreclosure Fraud by Major Banks
Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · GMAC Mortgage · +2
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2010-08-13Oracle Sues Google for Copyright Infringement Over Java APIs in Android
Oracle · Google · Larry Ellison · Sun Microsystems
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2010-08-04GAO Investigation Exposes Systemic For-Profit College Fraud - Industry Takes 25% of Federal Aid
U.S. Government Accountability Office · Tom Harkin
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2010-07-21Dodd-Frank Act Creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulate Predatory Lending
Barack Obama · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Cordray · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2010-06-27DOJ charges 'Illegals Program' (including Anna Chapman); 10 plead guilty and are swapped
Anna Chapman · US Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2010-06-24DISCLOSE Act Passes House But GOP Blocks Senate Vote on Citizens United Response
Chuck Schumer · Chris Van Hollen · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama · +2
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2010-06-16BP Agrees to $20 Billion Gulf Coast Claims Fund Amid Deepwater Horizon Fallout
BP (British Petroleum) · Barack Obama · Tony Hayward · Kenneth Feinberg · +3
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2010-06-01Trump University Changes Name to "Trump Entrepreneur Initiative" Under Pressure from NY Education Department
Donald Trump · Michael Sexton · Joseph Frey
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2010-05-27Chelsea Manning Arrested for Leaking Classified Documents to WikiLeaks
Chelsea Manning · WikiLeaks · U.S. Army · U.S. Department of Defense
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2010-05-15Wells Fargo Hires SEC Enforcement Chief: Investigation Needed
Wells Fargo
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2010-04-23Arizona Passes SB 1070 Drafted by ALEC and Private Prison Companies
Russell Pearce · Jan Brewer · Corrections Corporation of America · American Legislative Exchange Council · +2
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2010-04-20Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Begins - Environmental Disaster and Corporate Negligence
BP (British Petroleum) · Transocean Ltd · Halliburton · Minerals Management Service · +3
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2010-04-16SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Over ABACUS 2007-AC1 Synthetic CDO Deal Where Hedge Fund Manager John Paulson Selected Mortgage Securities to Bet Against While Goldman Sold Package to Investors, Resulting in $550 Million Settlement but No Criminal Charges
Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3
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2010-04-08Thomas Drake Indicted Under Espionage Act for NSA Whistleblowing
Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice
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2010-04-05Purdue Reformulates OxyContin as "Abuse-Deterrent" After 14 Years, Drives Users to Heroin
Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Sackler Family
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2010-03-23ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall
Barack Obama · America's Health Insurance Plans · PhRMA · Max Baucus · +2
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2010-01-27Oracle Completes Sun Microsystems Acquisition for $7.4 Billion, Gains Java and MySQL
Oracle · Sun Microsystems · Larry Ellison · European Commission
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2010-01-01ALEC Distributes Climate Denial Model Legislation to Kill Regional Climate Pacts
American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Clint Woods · +2
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2010-01-01ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions
American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +5
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2010-01-01Chertoff Promotes Airport Body Scanners on Media While His Firm Represents Manufacturer Rapiscan
Michael Chertoff · The Chertoff Group · Rapiscan Systems · Department of Homeland Security · +1
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2010-01-01CNP Coordinates Tea Party Movement Through Member Organizations
Council for National Policy · Jenny Beth Martin · Tea Party Patriots · Tony Perkins · +1
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2010-01-01Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest
Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2
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2010-01-01Foreclosure Crisis Extracts $200 Billion in Black Household Wealth: Largest Destruction of Black Assets in American History
Wells Fargo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase
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2010-01-01Gig Economy Emerges Using Worker Misclassification to Avoid Labor Protections and Unions
Uber · Lyft · DoorDash · Instacart · +2
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2010-01-01Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate
Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations
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2010-01-01NYPD Counterterrorism Unit Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance Operations
New York Police Department · Palantir Technologies · Richard Falkenrath · New York City Police Foundation
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2010-01-01Republican State Leadership Committee Launches REDMAP Gerrymandering Project
Republican State Leadership Committee · Ed Gillespie · Karl Rove
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2009-12-21Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President
Dr. Julie Gerberding · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck · Gardasil vaccine
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2009-10-06Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity
Al Franken · Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · +2
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2009-07-24Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms
President Barack Obama · Secretary of Education Arne Duncan · Bill Gates · Gates Foundation · +2
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2009-06-26Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill
Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5
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2009-06-08Wells Fargo Loan Officers Reveal "Ghetto Loans" and "Mud People" Targeting: Racial Predation in Subprime Lending Documented
Wells Fargo · NAACP · City of Baltimore
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2009-06-01Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise
Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin · Jim Messina · +2
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2009-05-20Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Shahed Hussain · James Cromitie · Department of Justice
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2009-03-10Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory
Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · AFL-CIO · +2
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2009-02-17SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings
Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Leroy King · Stanford International Bank · +1
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2009-02-13Blackwater Rebrands as Xe Services to Distance from Nisour Square Massacre and Iraq War Crimes
Erik Prince · Blackwater · Xe Services
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2009-02-02Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff Founds The Chertoff Group, Immediately Monetizing Homeland Security Expertise
Michael Chertoff · Chad Sweet · The Chertoff Group · Department of Homeland Security · +3
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2009-01-23Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush
Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · Leon Panetta
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2009-01-20Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud
Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Wall Street Banks · Lanny Breuer · +1
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2009-01-01Americans for Prosperity Organizational Profile: Koch Brothers' Astroturf Empire Manufacturing Fake Grassroots Movements
Americans for Prosperity · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Industries · +2
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2009-01-01CNP Member Ralph Reed Founds Faith and Freedom Coalition - Religious Right Coordination Expands
Ralph Reed · Council for National Policy · Faith and Freedom Coalition
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2009-01-01Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate
House Energy and Commerce Committee · Fred Upton · PhRMA · Pfizer · +1
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2009-01-01LAPD's Joint Regional Intelligence Center Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance
Joint Regional Intelligence Center · Los Angeles Police Department · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2008-12-11Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years
Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission · Harry Markopolos
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2008-10-29Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave
Delta Air Lines · Northwest Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division
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2008-10-03Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight
George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +3
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2008-10-03Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions
Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4
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2008-10-03Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Creates $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to Bail Out Wall Street Banks with Minimal Oversight or Executive Accountability Requirements, Leading to Just One Criminal Prosecution Compared to 900+ in 1980s Savings & Loan Crisis
Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +6
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2008-10-03Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance
George W. Bush · Paul Wellstone · Pete Domenici · U.S. Department of Labor · +2
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2008-09-29Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money
Barney Frank · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street · TARP
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2008-09-19Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs
Henry Paulson · Lloyd Blankfein · Don Jester
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2008-09-16Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis
American International Group · Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +3
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2008-09-15Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic
Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3
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2008-09-15Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets
Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization
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2008-09-09Iowa Attorney General Files Criminal Complaint Against Agriprocessors for 9,311 Child Labor Violations, Revealing Systematic Use of Minors as Young as 14 in Dangerous Meatpacking Operations with Harsh Chemicals and Power Equipment
Agriprocessors Inc. · Abraham Aaron Rubashkin · Sholom Rubashkin · Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller · +1
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2008-09-04Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution
Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +5
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2008-08-29Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors
Bush Administration · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · CACI · +3
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2008-08-01FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Throttling BitTorrent Traffic in Historic 3-2 Vote on Net Neutrality
Federal Communications Commission · Comcast Corporation · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Kevin Martin
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2008-07-31Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor
Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · National Security Agency · +2
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2008-07-29Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Felony Corruption Charges
Ted Stevens · Bill Allen · Eric Holder
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2008-07-09FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity
U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +3
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2008-07-01Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges
Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2
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2008-06-30Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein
Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · Kenneth Starr · +1
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2008-04-13Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly
Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · Pamela Jones Harbour (dissenting FTC Commissioner) · +1
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2008-03-16Bear Stearns Collapse and Federal Reserve-Facilitated Fire Sale to JPMorgan with $29 Billion Taxpayer Guarantee Establishes 'Too Big to Fail' Precedent with Zero Criminal Prosecutions Despite Fraud-Driven Collapse
Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3
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2008-01-02KBR's Faulty Electrical Work Kills Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, Part of Systematic Negligence Causing 18 Electrocution Deaths in Iraq with No Criminal Charges Despite Army Negligent Homicide Finding
Ryan Maseth · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · U.S. Department of Defense · +3
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2008-01-01Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed)
Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · US Intelligence · Department of Justice
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2007-12-18Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law
Trent Lott · John Breaux · Breaux Lott Leadership Group · Patton Boggs
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2007-11-15Thomas Drake Reports NSA Trailblazer Program Waste and Constitutional Violations
Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · DOD Inspector General · Trailblazer Program · +3
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2007-11-02CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide
Gul Rahman · Central Intelligence Agency · Afghanistan
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2007-10-19Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking
Comcast Corporation · Associated Press · Electronic Frontier Foundation · TorrentFreak
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2007-09-16Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation
Blackwater Worldwide · Erik Prince · State Department · Central Intelligence Agency · +4
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2007-09-15Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door
U.S. Congress · K Street · Public Citizen
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2007-09-01FBI Inspector General Reports 35% Error Rate on Terror Watchlist
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice Inspector General · Terrorist Screening Center
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2007-08-27Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · Humana · +2
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2007-06-25DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression
Alberto Gonzales · Hans von Spakovsky · Bradley Schlozman · John Tanner · +1
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2007-05-23Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers
Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · Regent University · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
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2007-05-14ODNI Reveals 70% of Intelligence Budget Goes to Private Contractors
Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Tim Shorrock · Defense Intelligence Agency · Stephen Shaw
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2007-05-10Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding, $600M Fine, Zero Executives Jailed
Purdue Pharma · Michael Friedman · Howard R. Udell · Paul D. Goldenheim · +1
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2007-04-02New Century Financial Bankruptcy Signals Start of Subprime Mortgage Crisis
New Century Financial · Brad Morrice · KPMG · Wall Street investment banks · +2
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2007-03-12Halliburton Moves CEO and Corporate Headquarters to Dubai for Tax Advantages and Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Weeks Before Completing KBR Spin-Off
Halliburton · David Lesar · Dick Cheney · Patrick Leahy
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2007-03-09DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse
Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +2
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2007-01-01Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement
Cellebrite
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2007-01-01Israel Passes Defense Export Control Law, Creating Framework That Enables Pegasus as Diplomatic Weapon
Israeli Ministry of Defense · Defense Export Control Agency (DECA) · Benjamin Netanyahu · NSO Group
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2007-01-01Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies
Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1
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2006-12-31New Century Financial Conceals Massive Early Payment Defaults Through Accounting Fraud in 2006
New Century Financial Corporation · Brad Morrice · David Einhorn · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1
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2006-12-29AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup
AT&T Inc. · BellSouth Corporation · Federal Communications Commission · SBC Communications
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2006-12-07Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons
Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · David Iglesias · Carol Lam · +2
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2006-12-01Subprime Mortgage Delinquencies Surge to 13%, Nearly Double Mid-2005 Rates, as Crisis Accelerates
Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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2006-10-23Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud
Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake
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2006-09-29Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest
President George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · Moody's Investors Service · Standard & Poor's · +2
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2006-09-29Federal Regulators Issue Weakened Mortgage Guidance After Year of Industry Lobbying, Ignoring Warnings
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Office of Thrift Supervision · +8
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2006-09-06Bush Publicly Acknowledges CIA Secret Prisons for First Time, Transfers Detainees to Guantanamo
George W. Bush · Central Intelligence Agency · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed · Abu Zubaydah · +1
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2006-07-24ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight
George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · David Addington · +1
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2006-07-05Ken Lay Dies Before Sentencing, Conviction Later Vacated
Kenneth Lay
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2006-07-01Housing Bubble Peaks as Predatory Subprime Lending Reaches Maximum, Setting Stage for Collapse
Countrywide Financial · New Century Financial · Washington Mutual · Ameriquest · +2
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2006-06-01Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to 5.25%, Triggering Payment Shock for Subprime Borrowers
Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders
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