| 2008-07-09 | FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity
3 src U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-01 | Bank 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
4 src Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-06-30 | Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein
3 src Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · Kenneth Starr · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly
4 src Google · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2008-03-16 | Bear 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
3 src Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-02 | KBR'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
3 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed)
4 src Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · US Intelligence · Department of Justice |
| reported |
| 2007-12-18 | Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law
3 src Trent Lott |
| confirmed |
| 2007-11-15 | Thomas Drake Reports NSA Trailblazer Program Waste and Constitutional Violations
3 src Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · SAIC · Michael Hayden |
| confirmed |
| 2007-11-02 | CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide
4 src Gul Rahman · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2007-10-19 | Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking
3 src Comcast Corporation · Associated Press · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2007-09-16 | Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation
6 src Erik Prince · State Department · Central Intelligence Agency · Iraqi Government · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-09-15 | Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door
3 src U.S. Congress · Public Citizen |
| confirmed |
| 2007-09-01 | FBI Inspector General Reports 35% Error Rate on Terror Watchlist
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Humana · U.S. Congress · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2007-06-25 | DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression
3 src Alberto Gonzales · Hans von Spakovsky · Monica Goodling |
| confirmed |
| 2007-05-23 | Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers
3 src Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2007-05-14 | ODNI Reveals 70% of Intelligence Budget Goes to Private Contractors
4 src Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Defense Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2007-05-10 | Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding, $600M Fine, Zero Executives Jailed
3 src Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2007-04-02 | New Century Financial Bankruptcy Signals Start of Subprime Mortgage Crisis
3 src Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-12 | Halliburton Moves CEO and Corporate Headquarters to Dubai for Tax Advantages and Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Weeks Before Completing KBR Spin-Off
3 src Halliburton · Dick Cheney · Patrick Leahy |
| confirmed |
| 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 · +1 |
| 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 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 Securities and Exchange Commission · Rating agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup
3 src Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons
3 src Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-01 | Subprime Mortgage Delinquencies Surge to 13%, Nearly Double Mid-2005 Rates, as Crisis Accelerates
3 src 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest
3 src George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Congress |
| 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 · +3 |
| 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 · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri |
| 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 · Washington Mutual · Federal Reserve · Rating agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2006-06-01 | Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to 5.25%, Triggering Payment Shock for Subprime Borrowers
2 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke |
| 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 · Dennis Hastert · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2006-03-01 | FBI Infiltrates Orange County Mosques with Informant in Dragnet Surveillance
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal
3 src George W. Bush · Dubai Ports World · UAE · Republican Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-29 | NSA Cancels Trailblazer Program After SAIC Wastes Over $1 Billion on Failed Surveillance System
3 src National Security Agency · Michael Hayden |
| 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) · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-23 | Ameriquest Agrees to $325 Million Settlement for Predatory Lending Practices with 49 States
3 src State Attorneys General |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tom DeLay · U.S. Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Countrywide Begins Process to Switch to Office of Thrift Supervision for Lighter Regulation
3 src Countrywide Financial · Office of Thrift Supervision · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | IndyMac and WaMu Drive Option ARM Mortgages to 42% of Adjustable-Rate Market in 2006
3 src Washington Mutual · Countrywide Financial · Office of Thrift Supervision |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Palantir Wins First Major Contract with Joint IED Defeat Organization for Iraq and Afghanistan
2 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
5 src James Risen · New York Times · George W. Bush · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2005-12-15 | Coast Guard Identifies Critical Intelligence Gaps in Dubai Ports World Deal
3 src U.S. Coast Guard · Dubai Ports World · UAE · Susan Collins |
| 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 · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-09 | CIA Destroys 92 Torture Interrogation Videotapes to Conceal Evidence
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Gina Haspel · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri · +1 |
| 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 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 · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman
3 src Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2005-10-15 | Dubai Ports World Initiates Controversial CFIUS Review for US Port Management Acquisition
3 src Dubai Ports World · U.S. Coast Guard · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2005-08-08 | Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review
3 src Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +1 |
| 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 Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · State Department · Al Franken |
| 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-15 | FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program
3 src Federal Aviation Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower
3 src ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute |
| 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists
3 src Public Citizen · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2005-03-01 | Palm Beach police investigation begins after parent reports $300 payment to 14-year-old
3 src Jeffrey Epstein | | confirmed |
| 2005-01-07 | Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda
3 src U.S. Department of Education |
| confirmed |
| 2004-12-17 | Intelligence Reform Act Creates DNI, Accelerates Contractor Dependence
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-12-13 | Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Acquisition for $10.3 Billion After Defeating Antitrust Challenge
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-18 | FDA Whistleblower David Graham Testifies on Vioxx Cover-up Before Senate
4 src Food and Drug Administration · Merck · U.S. Senate Finance Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-02 | Diebold Voting Machine Irregularities in Ohio 2004 Presidential Election
4 src John Conyers |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-02 | Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc
2 src George W. Bush |
| 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 | | confirmed |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto
4 src Google · Larry Page · 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 · FreedomWorks · +1 |
| 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 · 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 · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy
3 src Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-04-28 | Abu Ghraib Photos Reveal Private Contractors Conducted Interrogations at Military Prison
4 src U.S. Army · CBS News |
| 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 · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 |
| 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 · Robert Mueller |
| confirmed |
| 2004-02-22 | Washington Post Exposes Abramoff Native American Lobbying Scandal
3 src Washington Post · Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes |
| confirmed |
| 2004-02-01 | Accenture Awarded Competitive DHS US-VISIT Contract
4 src Accenture · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2004-01-13 | OCC Federal Preemption Blocks State Anti-Predatory Lending Protections
4 src National City Bank · Wells Fargo · Bank of America |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Order 39 Privatizes Iraq Economy for Foreign Corporations
3 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Iraqi Government |
| confirmed |
| 2003-07-14 | Robert Novak Exposes CIA Operative Valerie Plame
3 src Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Richard Armitage · Karl Rove · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-07-14 | Valerie Plame's CIA Identity Leaked in Retaliation for Wilson's Iraq WMD Criticism
6 src Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Dick Cheney · Scooter Libby · +2 |
| 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 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Attempts Massive Media Deregulation Under Michael Powell Despite 97% Public Opposition
3 src Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Trent Lott |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Deregulation Enables Sinclair Broadcasting Expansion
3 src Federal Communications Commission · David Smith · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |