Regulatory Capture
The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1534 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure Dubai Ports World · House Appropriations Committee · Charles Schumer · Dennis Hastert · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-01 | FBI Infiltrates Orange County Mosques with Informant in Dragnet Surveillance Federal Bureau of Investigation · Craig Monteilh · Muslim community · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal George W. Bush · Charles Schumer · Dubai Ports World · UAE · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-29 | NSA Cancels Trailblazer Program After SAIC Wastes Over $1 Billion on Failed Surveillance System Science Applications International Corporation · National Security Agency · Michael Hayden · William Binney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-23 | Ameriquest Agrees to $325 Million Settlement for Predatory Lending Practices with 49 States Ameriquest Mortgage Company · ACC Capital Holdings · State Attorneys General · California Attorney General Bill Lockyer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Bob Ney · Tom DeLay · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation Aspen Dental · Ares Management · Leonard Green & Partners · American Securities | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Countrywide Begins Process to Switch to Office of Thrift Supervision for Lighter Regulation Countrywide Financial · Angelo Mozilo · Office of Thrift Supervision · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | IndyMac and WaMu Drive Option ARM Mortgages to 42% of Adjustable-Rate Market in 2006 IndyMac Bank · Washington Mutual · Countrywide Financial · Wachovia · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Palantir Wins First Major Contract with Joint IED Defeat Organization for Iraq and Afghanistan Palantir Technologies · Joint IED Defeat Organization · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program James Risen · Eric Lichtblau · New York Times · George W. Bush · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-15 | Coast Guard Identifies Critical Intelligence Gaps in Dubai Ports World Deal US Coast Guard · Dubai Ports World · UAE · 9/11 Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Energy Committee Hearings Expose Oil Industry Climate Denial Campaign and Regulatory Capture House Energy and Commerce Committee · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Oil Executives Deny Task Force Participation Despite Documentary Evidence ExxonMobil · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · Shell Oil · +11 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-09 | CIA Destroys 92 Torture Interrogation Videotapes to Conceal Evidence Jose Rodriguez · Central Intelligence Agency · Gina Haspel · Abu Zubaydah · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-07 | Harry Markopolos Submits 'The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud' to SEC, Agency Ignores Detailed Evidence for Third Time Harry Markopolos · Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-02 | Washington Post Reveals CIA's Secret Prison Network in Eastern Europe Central Intelligence Agency · Dana Priest · Washington Post · Poland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman Don Siegelman · Karl Rove · Jill Simpson · Leura Canary · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-10-15 | Dubai Ports World Initiates Controversial CFIUS Review for US Port Management Acquisition Dubai Ports World · Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum · CFIUS · US Coast Guard · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-08 | Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-28 | KBR Employee Jamie Leigh Jones Alleges Gang Rape in Iraq, Exposes Systematic Use of Mandatory Arbitration to Shield Contractor Accountability Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Ted Poe · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-30 | Investigation Reveals $15M in Lobbyist-Funded Congressional Travel and Fact-Finding Junkets Tom DeLay · Jack Abramoff · Susan Hirschmann · Robert Wexler | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-15 | FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing Corporation · Aircraft manufacturers · FAA certification officials · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower Phil Cooney · Rick Piltz · James Hansen · ExxonMobil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-05-23 | Trump Launches "Trump University" Real Estate Seminars Without Academic License or Accreditation Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Bankruptcy Act Makes Private Student Loans Non-Dischargeable - Weaponizing Law Against Students George W. Bush · MBNA · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists Public Citizen · U.S. Congress · K Street | confirmed | |
| 2005-03-01 | Palm Beach police investigation begins after parent reports $300 payment to 14-year-old Palm Beach Police Department · Jeffrey Epstein · Unnamed parent · 14-year-old victim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-07 | Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda Armstrong Williams · Rod Paige · U.S. Department of Education · Ketchum Inc · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-17 | Intelligence Reform Act Creates DNI, Accelerates Contractor Dependence George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · 9/11 Commission · Office of the Director of National Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-15 | Billy Tauzin Joins PhRMA as CEO After Shepherding $200B Medicare Drug Bill Billy Tauzin · PhRMA · Medicare | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-13 | Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Acquisition for $10.3 Billion After Defeating Antitrust Challenge Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-18 | FDA Whistleblower David Graham Testifies on Vioxx Cover-up Before Senate Dr. David Graham · Food and Drug Administration · Merck · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Diebold Voting Machine Irregularities in Ohio 2004 Presidential Election Walden O'Dell · John Conyers · Kenneth Blackwell · Matt Damschroder | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc George W. Bush · Ken Blackwell · Rod Parsley · Russell Johnson | confirmed | |
| 2004-09-30 | Merck Withdraws Vioxx After Concealing Heart Attack Risk, FDA Failure Causes Estimated 28,000-55,000 Deaths Merck · Food and Drug Administration · David Graham · Raymond Gilmartin | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Eric Schmidt | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-22 | Koch Network Restructures: CSE Splits into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity David Koch · Charles Koch · Dick Armey · Nancy Pfotenhauer · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-07 | Enron Founder Ken Lay Indicted on 11 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-01 | Kroll Associates sold to Marsh & McLennan for $1.9 billion Kroll Associates · Marsh & McLennan · Jules Kroll | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-28 | WHIG-Enabled Torture Authorization Establishes Executive Immunity Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Governance John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Alberto Gonzales · White House Iraq Group · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | Abu Ghraib Photos Reveal Private Contractors Conducted Interrogations at Military Prison CACI International · Titan Corporation · U.S. Army · Steven Stephanowicz · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Creates Consolidated Supervised Entities Program Allowing Unlimited Investment Bank Leverage Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Bear Stearns · Lehman Brothers · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks Securities and Exchange Commission · Christopher Cox · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Net Capital Rule Change Enables Investment Bank Leverage Explosion Fueling Housing Bubble Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-03-10 | Hospital Confrontation Over NSA Surveillance Program John Ashcroft · James Comey · Alberto Gonzales · Andy Card · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-22 | Washington Post Exposes Abramoff Native American Lobbying Scandal Susan Schmidt · Washington Post · Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-01 | Accenture Awarded Competitive DHS US-VISIT Contract Accenture · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Asa Hutchinson · Smart Border Alliance | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-13 | OCC Federal Preemption Blocks State Anti-Predatory Lending Protections OCC · John Hawke Jr · Julie Williams · Eliot Spitzer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Medicare Part D Passes After Pharmaceutical Industry Writes Price Negotiation Ban Billy Tauzin · House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Medicare | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Issues CPA Order 39 Imposing Radical Free Market Restructuring on Occupied Iraq Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Iyad Allawi | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Order 39 Privatizes Iraq Economy for Foreign Corporations Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Iraqi Government · BearingPoint Inc | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-14 | Robert Novak Exposes CIA Operative Valerie Plame Robert Novak · Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Richard Armitage · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-14 | Valerie Plame's CIA Identity Leaked in Retaliation for Wilson's Iraq WMD Criticism Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Robert Novak · Dick Cheney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-07 | WHIG Coordinates Campaign to Discredit Joseph Wilson, Leading to Plame Leak White House Iraq Group · Karl Rove · Scooter Libby · Colin Powell · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-26 | HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-06 | Oracle Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for PeopleSoft Worth $5.1 Billion Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Attempts Massive Media Deregulation Under Michael Powell Despite 97% Public Opposition Michael K. Powell · Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Trent Lott · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Deregulation Enables Sinclair Broadcasting Expansion Michael Powell · Federal Communications Commission · Sinclair Broadcasting · David Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-28 | Bush Signs JGTRRA - Dividend and Capital Gains Rates Slashed to 15%, Massively Favoring Investment Income Over Wages George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Bill Thomas · Charles Grassley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Coalition Provisional Authority Loses .8B in Iraqi Oil Revenue Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Stuart Bowen · Halliburton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Paul Bremer Begins Issuing 'CPA 100 Orders' to Restructure Iraq's Economy Under Military Occupation Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton Gets 9.5B Iraq Contracts with Cheney Ties Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Bunnatine Greenhouse · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-05 | Colin Powell Presents False WMD Evidence to UN Security Council Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-15 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Opposition Research and Critic Monitoring Apparatus Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-07 | OCC Preempts Georgia Fair Lending Law, Blocking State Consumer Protections Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · John Hawke Jr · Georgia State Legislature · National City Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | ExxonMobil Channels Millions to Climate Denial Think Tanks and Front Groups ExxonMobil · American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Marshall Institute · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-25 | WHIG Establishes Executive Deception Infrastructure as Constitutional Precedent for Crisis Governance White House Iraq Group · Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Dick Cheney · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-20 | OSP Systematically Bypasses CIA Vetting to Feed Fabricated Intelligence to WHIG Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Harold Rhode · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-29 | Help America Vote Act Signed: Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, and Electronic Voting Vulnerabilities George W. Bush · U.S. Election Assistance Commission | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-16 | WHIG Achieves Systematic Bypass of Constitutional Separation of Powers Through Congressional Deception George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · U.S. Congress · Constitutional Framework · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-11 | Iraq War Authorization Vote Succeeds Through WHIG's Systematic Congressional Deception White House Iraq Group · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Hillary Clinton · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-05 | WHIG Systematically Withholds Contradictory Intelligence from Congress White House Iraq Group · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · George Tenet · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-01 | Powell Memorandum Media Infrastructure Coordinates with WHIG for Crisis-Accelerated Propaganda Implementation CNN Corporate Leadership · Fox News Corporation · CBS Corporate Structure · NBC Universal Coordination · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-28 | WHIG Launches Coordinated Pressure Campaigns Against Congressional War Authorization Skeptics Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Michael Gerson · Dick Cheney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-20 | WHIG Provides Fabricated Intelligence Briefings to Congressional Committees White House Iraq Group · George Tenet · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-15 | WHIG Coordinates Systematic Deception in Classified Congressional Intelligence Briefings Karl Rove · Nicholas E. Calio · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-12 | Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski Indicted for $600 Million Fraud Dennis Kozlowski · Mark Swartz · Mark Belnick | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-08 | WHIG Launches 'Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud' Propaganda Blitz White House Iraq Group · Condoleezza Rice · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Coordinates Sunday Show Booking Blitz Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · Donald Rumsfeld · Richard Myers · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Executes Coordinated Media Blitz Demonstrating Crisis Template Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · George W. Bush · Andrew H. Card Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-05 | Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances Network Booking Coordinators · Karen Hughes · White House Communications Staff · CNN Booking Producers · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Pentagon Creates Office of Special Plans for Iraq Intelligence Manipulation Douglas Feith · Abram Shulsky · Pentagon · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-30 | Bartlett and Fleischer Establish Rapid Response Media Coordination Infrastructure Dan Bartlett · Ari Fleischer · White House Iraq Group · television network reporters · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-25 | CBS Executives Implement Corporate Policy Changes to Accommodate WHIG Propaganda Distribution Leslie Moonves · CBS News Division · CBS Corporate Legal · George W. Bush · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Coordinate with WHIG to Facilitate September Propaganda Rollout Walter Isaacson · CNN Executives · White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Meet with White House on Iraq Coverage Walter Isaacson · Eason Jordan · Condoleezza Rice · Karen Hughes · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | Cheney Establishes Legal Framework and Authorization for CIA Torture Program Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · David Addington · John Yoo · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution DynCorp International · Kathryn Bolkovac · United Nations | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | White House Iraq Group Formed to Coordinate WMD Propaganda Campaign Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · Stephen Hadley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-31 | Entergy Purchases Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant for $180 Million, Memorandum of Understanding Creates Decade of Regulatory Conflict Entergy Corporation · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation · Vermont Public Service Board · Vermont Department of Public Service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-25 | WorldCom Announces $3.8 Billion Accounting Fraud Discovery Bernard Ebbers · Cynthia Cooper · Scott Sullivan · WorldCom | confirmed | |
| 2002-05-17 | Bush Administration Redefines Mining Waste as Fill Material to Enable Mountaintop Removal George W. Bush · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Coal Industry | confirmed | |
| 2002-04-01 | United States Incarceration Reaches 2 Million: Highest Imprisonment Rate in World History Bureau of Justice Statistics | confirmed | |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff | confirmed | |
| 2002-02-14 | Bush Administration's Systematic Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure Enables WHIG Constitutional Crisis Operations George W. Bush · Louise Jordan · Roberta Gross · Sean O'Keefe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-02-12 | Tigua Casino Closes After Abramoff Double-Dealing Scheme Success Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tigua Tribe · Ralph Reed · +1 | confirmed |