Regulatory Capture
The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1551 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1819–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse
3 src Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement
3 src Cellebrite | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Israel Passes Defense Export Control Law, Creating Framework That Enables Pegasus as Diplomatic Weapon
3 src Israeli Ministry of Defense · Defense Export Control Agency (DECA) · Benjamin Netanyahu · NSO Group | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies
2 src Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-31 | New Century Financial Conceals Massive Early Payment Defaults Through Accounting Fraud in 2006
2 src New Century Financial Corporation · Brad Morrice · David Einhorn · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup
3 src AT&T Inc. · BellSouth Corporation · Federal Communications Commission · SBC Communications | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons
3 src Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · David Iglesias · Carol Lam · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-01 | Subprime Mortgage Delinquencies Surge to 13%, Nearly Double Mid-2005 Rates, as Crisis Accelerates
3 src Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest
3 src President George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · Moody's Investors Service · Standard & Poor's · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-29 | Federal Regulators Issue Weakened Mortgage Guidance After Year of Industry Lobbying, Ignoring Warnings
4 src Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Office of Thrift Supervision · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-06 | Bush Publicly Acknowledges CIA Secret Prisons for First Time, Transfers Detainees to Guantanamo
4 src George W. Bush · Central Intelligence Agency · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed · Abu Zubaydah · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-24 | ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight
3 src George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · David Addington · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-05 | Ken Lay Dies Before Sentencing, Conviction Later Vacated
3 src Kenneth Lay | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-01 | Housing Bubble Peaks as Predatory Subprime Lending Reaches Maximum, Setting Stage for Collapse
3 src Countrywide Financial · New Century Financial · Washington Mutual · Ameriquest · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-06-01 | Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to 5.25%, Triggering Payment Shock for Subprime Borrowers
2 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure
4 src 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
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Craig Monteilh · Muslim community · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal
3 src 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
3 src Science Applications International Corporation · National Security Agency · Michael Hayden · William Binney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-24 | KBR (Halliburton Subsidiary) Awarded $385M DHS/ICE Contingency Contract for Emergency Immigrant Detention Facilities
6 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Dick Cheney · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-23 | Ameriquest Agrees to $325 Million Settlement for Predatory Lending Practices with 49 States
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
2 src Palantir Technologies · Joint IED Defeat Organization · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
5 src 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
3 src 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
3 src House Energy and Commerce Committee · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Oil Executives Deny Task Force Participation Despite Documentary Evidence
3 src ExxonMobil · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · Shell Oil · +11 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-09 | CIA Destroys 92 Torture Interrogation Videotapes to Conceal Evidence
4 src 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
4 src Harry Markopolos · Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-02 | Washington Post Reveals CIA's Secret Prison Network in Eastern Europe
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Dana Priest · Washington Post · Poland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-30 | Investigation Reveals $15M in Lobbyist-Funded Congressional Travel and Fact-Finding Junkets
3 src Tom DeLay · Jack Abramoff · Susan Hirschmann · Robert Wexler | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-15 | FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program
3 src Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing Corporation · Aircraft manufacturers · FAA certification officials · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower
3 src Phil Cooney · Rick Piltz · James Hansen · ExxonMobil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-05-23 | Trump Launches "Trump University" Real Estate Seminars Without Academic License or Accreditation
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Bankruptcy Act Makes Private Student Loans Non-Dischargeable - Weaponizing Law Against Students
3 src George W. Bush · MBNA · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Armstrong Williams · Rod Paige · U.S. Department of Education · Ketchum Inc · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-17 | Intelligence Reform Act Creates DNI, Accelerates Contractor Dependence
3 src 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
3 src Billy Tauzin · PhRMA · Medicare | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-13 | Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Acquisition for $10.3 Billion After Defeating Antitrust Challenge
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-18 | FDA Whistleblower David Graham Testifies on Vioxx Cover-up Before Senate
4 src 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
4 src 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
2 src 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
3 src Merck · Food and Drug Administration · David Graham · Raymond Gilmartin | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto
4 src Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Eric Schmidt | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-22 | Koch Network Restructures: CSE Splits into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity
3 src 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
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-01 | Kroll Associates sold to Marsh & McLennan for $1.9 billion
3 src Kroll Associates · Marsh & McLennan · Jules Kroll | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-28 | WHIG-Enabled Torture Authorization Establishes Executive Immunity Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Governance
3 src John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Alberto Gonzales · White House Iraq Group · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy
3 src 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
4 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
9 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-03-10 | Hospital Confrontation Over NSA Surveillance Program
6 src John Ashcroft · James Comey · Alberto Gonzales · Andy Card · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-22 | Washington Post Exposes Abramoff Native American Lobbying Scandal
3 src Susan Schmidt · Washington Post · Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-01 | Accenture Awarded Competitive DHS US-VISIT Contract
4 src 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
4 src OCC · John Hawke Jr · Julie Williams · Eliot Spitzer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Medicare Part D Passes After Pharmaceutical Industry Writes Price Negotiation Ban
3 src 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
6 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Iyad Allawi | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Order 39 Privatizes Iraq Economy for Foreign Corporations
3 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Iraqi Government · BearingPoint Inc | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-14 | Robert Novak Exposes CIA Operative Valerie Plame
3 src 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
6 src Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Robert Novak · Dick Cheney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-07 | WHIG Coordinates Campaign to Discredit Joseph Wilson, Leading to Plame Leak
3 src 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
3 src HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-06 | Oracle Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for PeopleSoft Worth $5.1 Billion
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Attempts Massive Media Deregulation Under Michael Powell Despite 97% Public Opposition
3 src Michael K. Powell · Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Trent Lott · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Deregulation Enables Sinclair Broadcasting Expansion
3 src 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
4 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Bill Thomas · Charles Grassley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Coalition Provisional Authority Loses .8B in Iraqi Oil Revenue
3 src 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
6 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton Gets 9.5B Iraq Contracts with Cheney Ties
4 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Bunnatine Greenhouse · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-05 | Colin Powell Presents False WMD Evidence to UN Security Council
3 src Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-15 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Opposition Research and Critic Monitoring Apparatus
3 src Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-07 | OCC Preempts Georgia Fair Lending Law, Blocking State Consumer Protections
3 src 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
4 src ExxonMobil · American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Marshall Institute · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-25 | WHIG Establishes Executive Deception Infrastructure as Constitutional Precedent for Crisis Governance
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Election Assistance Commission | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-16 | WHIG Achieves Systematic Bypass of Constitutional Separation of Powers Through Congressional Deception
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Michael Gerson · Dick Cheney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-20 | WHIG Provides Fabricated Intelligence Briefings to Congressional Committees
3 src White House Iraq Group · George Tenet · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-15 | WHIG Coordinates Systematic Deception in Classified Congressional Intelligence Briefings
3 src Karl Rove · Nicholas E. Calio · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-12 | Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski Indicted for $600 Million Fraud
3 src Dennis Kozlowski · Mark Swartz · Mark Belnick | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-08 | WHIG Launches 'Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud' Propaganda Blitz
3 src White House Iraq Group · Condoleezza Rice · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Coordinates Sunday Show Booking Blitz
9 src Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · Donald Rumsfeld · Richard Myers · +6 | confirmed |