| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations
4 src Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2012-08-10 | FTC Finalizes 2012 Consent Decree Against Facebook — Privacy Order That Did Not Stop Surveillance-Advertising Substrate
5 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg |
| confirmed |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings
4 src Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple |
| confirmed |
| 2012-07-30 | Senate Harkin Report Documents Massive Fraud and Abuse in For-Profit College Industry
3 src Senate HELP Committee · University of Phoenix · Corinthian Colleges · Education Management Corporation (EDMC) |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-28 | Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican Governors |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-07 | 38 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss
4 src Wells Fargo · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-04 | Bureau Investigation Exposes CIA Double-Tap Drone Strikes Killing Rescuers and Mourners
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-29 | New York Times Exposes Obama's Kill List and Terror Tuesday Assassination Meetings
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley
3 src Morgan Stanley · Facebook |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-01 | Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-09 | Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor
5 src Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law
3 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2012-02-09 | 25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Provides Banks Immunity for Minimal Payments
3 src Eric Holder · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices Enables Facility Fee Price Gouging, Driving 53% Increase in Outpatient Costs
3 src Hospital corporations · Private equity firms |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-12 | Erik Prince Sells Xe Services (formerly Blackwater), Rebranded as Academi with John Ashcroft on Board
3 src Erik Prince · John Ashcroft |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-11-13 | STOCK Act Gains Momentum After 60 Minutes Exposes Congressional Insider Trading
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-10-31 | MF Global Bankruptcy: $1.6 Billion in Customer Funds Missing Under Jon Corzine
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-08-06 | Rick Perry's "The Response" Prayer Rally: 30,000 at Reliant Stadium as NAR Leaders Launch a Presidential Campaign
3 src C. Peter Wagner |
| confirmed |
| 2011-07-13 | ALEC Exposed: Leaked Documents Reveal 800 Corporate-Written Model Bills
2 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 2011-07-01 | ALEC Achieves Systematic Legislative Capture: 200+ Corporate-Drafted Bills Enacted Annually Across States
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-07-01 | Wisconsin Republicans Pass Act 43 Gerrymandering Plan in Secret Process
4 src Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2011-06-13 | Department of Education Issues Gainful Employment Rule to Regulate For-Profit Colleges, Industry Immediately Challenges in Court
3 src 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
3 src Comcast Corporation · Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2011-05-01 | Pam Bondi Fires Foreclosure Fraud Investigators After Campaign Donations from Lender Processing Services
3 src Pam Bondi |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-11 | Wisconsin Act 10 Crushes Public Sector Unions Using ALEC Model Legislation
3 src Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-01 | Chris Dodd Becomes Hollywood's Chief Lobbyist After Promising No Lobbying
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-01 | Prison Labor at $0.12-$0.40/Hour Documented: The Thirteenth Amendment's Slavery Exception in Industrial Operation
3 src ACLU · CoreCivic · GEO Group |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-27 | Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Released, No Banker Prosecutions Follow
3 src Jamie Dimon · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 2011-01-19 | House Republicans Launch Six Years of Symbolic ACA Repeal Votes
5 src House Republicans · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | ALEC Grants Corporate Lobbyists 'Equal Vote' on Model Legislation for State Legislatures
3 src 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
3 src Erik Prince · United Arab Emirates |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Pam Bondi Serves as Florida AG 2011-2019, Never Prosecutes Epstein Despite Mounting Evidence
3 src Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Wells Fargo Employees Begin Creating 3.5 Million Fake Accounts
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-31 | Donors Trust Becomes Primary Climate Denial Dark Money Conduit
4 src Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · Heartland Institute · Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-21 | FCC Passes First Net Neutrality Rules with Major Wireless Exemption in 3-2 Party-Line Vote
3 src Federal Communications Commission · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · AT&T |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-15 | FDA Arthritis Drug Reviewer Jeffrey Siegel Joins Genentech After Approving Company Tocilizumab
4 src Food and Drug Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2010-11-02 | Republicans Gain Record 680 State Legislative Seats, Securing REDMAP Objectives
4 src Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2010-10-13 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposes Systematic Foreclosure Fraud by Major Banks
3 src Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-08-13 | Oracle Sues Google for Copyright Infringement Over Java APIs in Android
3 src Oracle · Google · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2010-08-04 | GAO Investigation Exposes Systemic For-Profit College Fraud - Industry Takes 25% of Federal Aid
3 src U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 2010-07-21 | Dodd-Frank Act Creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulate Predatory Lending
4 src Barack Obama · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Cordray · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-27 | DOJ charges 'Illegals Program' (including Anna Chapman); 10 plead guilty and are swapped
4 src Anna Chapman · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-24 | DISCLOSE Act Passes House But GOP Blocks Senate Vote on Citizens United Response
4 src Chuck Schumer · Chris Van Hollen · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-16 | BP Agrees to $20 Billion Gulf Coast Claims Fund Amid Deepwater Horizon Fallout
6 src BP (British Petroleum) · Barack Obama · Henry Waxman | | confirmed |
| 2010-06-01 | Trump University Changes Name to "Trump Entrepreneur Initiative" Under Pressure from NY Education Department
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-27 | Chelsea Manning Arrested for Leaking Classified Documents to WikiLeaks
3 src Chelsea Manning · WikiLeaks · U.S. Army · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-15 | Wells Fargo Hires SEC Enforcement Chief: Investigation Needed
3 src Wells Fargo |
| reported |
| 2010-04-23 | Arizona Passes SB 1070 Drafted by ALEC and Private Prison Companies
3 src Jan Brewer · Corrections Corporation of America · American Legislative Exchange Council · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2010-04-20 | Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Begins - Environmental Disaster and Corporate Negligence
3 src BP (British Petroleum) · Halliburton · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-16 | SEC 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
2 src Goldman Sachs · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-08 | Thomas Drake Indicted Under Espionage Act for NSA Whistleblowing
3 src Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-05 | Purdue Reformulates OxyContin as "Abuse-Deterrent" After 14 Years, Drives Users to Heroin
3 src Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Sackler Family |
| confirmed |
| 2010-03-23 | ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall
3 src Barack Obama · PhRMA · Max Baucus · Nancy Pelosi |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-27 | Oracle Completes Sun Microsystems Acquisition for $7.4 Billion, Gains Java and MySQL
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · European Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC Distributes Climate Denial Model Legislation to Kill Regional Climate Pacts
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · State Legislatures |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Chertoff Promotes Airport Body Scanners on Media While His Firm Represents Manufacturer Rapiscan
4 src Michael Chertoff · The Chertoff Group · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | CNP Coordinates Tea Party Movement Through Member Organizations
2 src Council for National Policy · Jenny Beth Martin · Tony Perkins · Ralph Reed |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest
3 src Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Foreclosure Crisis Extracts $200 Billion in Black Household Wealth: Largest Destruction of Black Assets in American History
3 src Wells Fargo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Gig Economy Emerges Using Worker Misclassification to Avoid Labor Protections and Unions
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | NYPD Counterterrorism Unit Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance Operations
2 src Palantir Technologies |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Republican State Leadership Committee Launches REDMAP Gerrymandering Project
4 src Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-21 | Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President
3 src Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck |
| confirmed |
| 2009-10-06 | Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity
3 src Al Franken · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · United States Senate · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-07-24 | Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms
3 src Barack Obama · Bill Gates |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill
3 src Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-08 | Wells Fargo Loan Officers Reveal "Ghetto Loans" and "Mud People" Targeting: Racial Predation in Subprime Lending Documented
3 src Wells Fargo · NAACP |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-01 | Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise
3 src Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin |
| confirmed |
| 2009-05-20 | Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2009-03-10 | Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory
3 src Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · AFL-CIO · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-17 | SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-13 | Blackwater Rebrands as Xe Services to Distance from Nisour Square Massacre and Iraq War Crimes
3 src Erik Prince · Blackwater |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-02 | Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff Founds The Chertoff Group, Immediately Monetizing Homeland Security Expertise
4 src Michael Chertoff · The Chertoff Group · Department of Homeland Security · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-23 | Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush
4 src Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · Leon Panetta |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Lanny Breuer · Covington & Burling |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Americans for Prosperity Organizational Profile: Koch Brothers' Astroturf Empire Manufacturing Fake Grassroots Movements
4 src Americans for Prosperity · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | CNP Member Ralph Reed Founds Faith and Freedom Coalition - Religious Right Coordination Expands
2 src Ralph Reed · Council for National Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate
3 src House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Pfizer · Merck |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | LAPD's Joint Regional Intelligence Center Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance
2 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2008-12-11 | Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years
5 src Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave
3 src Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight
3 src George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions
3 src Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Emergency 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
4 src Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Department of Labor · Health insurance industry |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-29 | Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money
3 src House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-19 | Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs
5 src Henry Paulson |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-16 | Federal 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
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · Henry Paulson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Lehman 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
2 src Lehman Brothers · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets
3 src Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-09 | Iowa 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
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-08-29 | Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors
3 src Bush Administration · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · National Security Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-08-01 | FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Throttling BitTorrent Traffic in Historic 3-2 Vote on Net Neutrality
3 src Federal Communications Commission · Comcast Corporation · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-31 | Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor
4 src Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · National Security Agency · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-29 | Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Felony Corruption Charges
3 src Eric Holder |
| confirmed |