Regulatory Capture
The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1591 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
4 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 | 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 | |
| 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 · Americans for Tax Reform · Grover Norquist · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-13 | Bremer's CPA Orders and the Disaster-Capitalism Privatization of Occupied Iraq, 2003–2004
12 src Donald Rumsfeld · George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Coalition Provisional Authority Loses .8B in Iraqi Oil Revenue
3 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Halliburton · Iraqi Government | 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) · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +1 | 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 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-15 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Opposition Research and Critic Monitoring Apparatus
3 src Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Condoleezza Rice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-07 | OCC Preempts Georgia Fair Lending Law, Blocking State Consumer Protections
3 src Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · National City Bank · American Bankers Association | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | ExxonMobil Channels Millions to Climate Denial Think Tanks and Front Groups
4 src ExxonMobil · American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Competitive Enterprise Institute | 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 · +4 | 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 · Karl Rove · +3 | 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 · +4 | 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 · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-05 | WHIG Systematically Withholds Contradictory Intelligence from Congress
3 src White House Iraq Group · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · George Tenet · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-01 | Powell Memorandum Media Infrastructure Coordinates with WHIG for Crisis-Accelerated Propaganda Implementation
3 src White House Iraq Group | 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 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-15 | WHIG Coordinates Systematic Deception in Classified Congressional Intelligence Briefings
3 src Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Senate Intelligence Committee | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-12 | Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski Indicted for $600 Million Fraud 3 src | 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 Armitage · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Executes Coordinated Media Blitz Demonstrating Crisis Template
5 src Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · George W. Bush · Colin Powell | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-05 | Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances
3 src Karen Hughes | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Pentagon Creates Office of Special Plans for Iraq Intelligence Manipulation
3 src Douglas Feith · Pentagon · Central Intelligence Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-30 | Bartlett and Fleischer Establish Rapid Response Media Coordination Infrastructure
3 src Ari Fleischer · White House Iraq Group | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-25 | CBS Executives Implement Corporate Policy Changes to Accommodate WHIG Propaganda Distribution
3 src George W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Coordinate with WHIG to Facilitate September Propaganda Rollout
3 src White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Meet with White House on Iraq Coverage
3 src Condoleezza Rice · Karen Hughes · CNN | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | Cheney Establishes Legal Framework and Authorization for CIA Torture Program
6 src Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · David Addington · John Yoo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution
2 src United Nations | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | White House Iraq Group Formed to Coordinate WMD Propaganda Campaign
3 src Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · Stephen Hadley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-31 | Entergy Purchases Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant for $180 Million, Memorandum of Understanding Creates Decade of Regulatory Conflict 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-25 | WorldCom Announces $3.8 Billion Accounting Fraud Discovery
3 src Bernard Ebbers | confirmed | |
| 2002-05-17 | Bush Administration Redefines Mining Waste as Fill Material to Enable Mountaintop Removal
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | confirmed | |
| 2002-04-01 | United States Incarceration Reaches 2 Million: Highest Imprisonment Rate in World History 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff | confirmed | |
| 2002-02-14 | Bush Administration's Systematic Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure Enables WHIG Constitutional Crisis Operations
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2002-02-12 | Tigua Casino Closes After Abramoff Double-Dealing Scheme Success
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tigua Tribe · Ralph Reed · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-09 | Arthur Andersen Admits to Shredding Tons of Enron Documents
3 src Arthur Andersen | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-08 | No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime
3 src George W. Bush · Ted Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | Abramoff-Reed Execute Double-Dealing Scheme Against Tigua Tribe
3 src Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Michael Scanlon · Grover Norquist | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC's Corporate 'Scholarship' Program Funds Legislator Trips to Luxury Resort Conferences
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · PhRMA · Eli Lilly · State Legislatures | confirmed | |
| 2001-12-13 | Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Systematically Subordinated to Corporate Input
3 src Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2001-12-02 | Enron Bankruptcy After Energy Task Force Meetings
3 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow | confirmed | |
| 2001-11-01 | Microsoft Antitrust Settlement Establishes Weak Precedent for Tech Monopolies
4 src U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · George W. Bush · John Ashcroft · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-11-01 | NSA Launches MAINWAY Database for Mass Metadata Collection
3 src National Security Agency · AT&T · Verizon · T-Mobile · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-26 | Bush Signs PATRIOT Act After 45-Day Rush with Minimal Debate
3 src George W. Bush · Tom Daschle | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-22 | SEC Launches Investigation Into Enron's Related-Party Transactions
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Andrew Fastow · Kenneth Lay | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-04 | Bush Authorizes NSA Stellar Wind Program Bypassing FISA Court
4 src George W. Bush · Michael Hayden · National Security Agency · Dick Cheney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2001-09-21 | AT&T Establishes Mass Internet Surveillance Infrastructure for NSA
3 src National Security Agency · Bush Administration | confirmed | |
| 2001-06-29 | Patients Bill of Rights Dies After HMO Industry Spends $60 Million Lobbying Against Managed Care Accountability
3 src George W. Bush · Health Insurance Association of America · John McCain · Edward Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 2001-06-07 | Bush Signs EGTRRA Tax Cuts - Top Rate Reduced from 39.6% to 35%, Estate Tax Phased Out, Beginning $1.5 Trillion Debt Increase
4 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Dennis Hastert · Trent Lott · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-06-01 | Abramoff-Reed Casino Scheme: Evangelical Infrastructure Monetized as Lobbying Weapon, Exposing Movement-Money Entanglement
3 src Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Grover Norquist · Michael Scanlon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-06-01 | Choctaw Tribe Contract Reveals Abramoff-Scanlon Lobbying Fraud
3 src Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Michael Scanlon · Jack Abramoff | confirmed | |
| 2001-05-17 | National Energy Policy Adopts Enron Recommendations Verbatim
3 src Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron · Kenneth Lay · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-05-16 | National Energy Policy Report Released Reflecting Oil Industry Priorities
3 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · Shell Oil · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2001-04-17 | Kenneth Lay's Influence on Cheney Energy Task Force: Corporate Policy Capture
4 src Kenneth Lay · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2001-03-13 | Bush Administration Begins Systematic EPA Rollbacks with Withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol
3 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-02-09 | Cheney Energy Task Force Begins Secret Meetings with Enron Executives
4 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · George W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-29 | Bush Administration Establishes Faith-Based Initiative Infrastructure for Systematic Constitutional Transformation
3 src George W. Bush · Pat Robertson · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-29 | Cheney Creates Secret Energy Task Force with Oil Executives
3 src Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · Shell Oil · BP America · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-20 | Bush Administration Hires 150 Regent University Graduates
3 src Pat Robertson · Monica Goodling · Kay Coles James · George W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-12 | Clinton Roadless Rule Protects 58 Million Acres of National Forests from Logging
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Forest Service | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-01 | Abramoff Moves to Greenberg Traurig, Partners with Michael Scanlon
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tom DeLay | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-01 | Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation
4 src George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-21 | Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation
6 src Bill Clinton · Lawrence Summers · Phil Gramm · Alan Greenspan | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-09 | Supreme Court Grants Bush Emergency Stay with Scalia's "Irreparable Harm" Logic
6 src Antonin Scalia · William Rehnquist · Clarence Thomas · Sandra Day O'Connor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-11-26 | Katherine Harris Certifies Bush Victory While Serving as Campaign Co-Chair
5 src George W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 2000-11-08 | James Baker Coordinates Bush Supreme Court Election Strategy from Day One
4 src George W. Bush · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Acquires AMFM Inc. Creating Radio Monopoly with Over 1,200 Stations
4 src Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays | confirmed | |
| 2000-05-03 | FCC Approves $35.6 Billion Viacom-CBS Merger Despite Ownership Concentration Violations
4 src Viacom · FCC Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2000-03-10 | Dot-Com Bubble Peaks, Exposes IPO Fraud and Analyst Conflicts
4 src Investment banks · Securities and Exchange Commission · Nasdaq | confirmed | |
| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System
3 src George W. Bush · Karl Rove | confirmed | |
| 2000-02-01 | Halliburton Opens Tehran Office While Cheney Still CEO, Completing $40 Million Annual Iran Business Through Cayman Islands Subsidiary Designed to Circumvent U.S. Sanctions
3 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bill Clinton | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-21 | Bolivia's Cochabamba Water War: Indigenous-Led Uprising Forces Reversal of World Bank-Mandated Bechtel Privatization
3 src World Bank | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-11 | AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History
4 src FCC Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Major Strikes Collapse to 16 Annually, Down 95% from Pre-PATCO Era
2 src American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley
5 src Supreme Court Justices | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Top 10% of Firms Capture 90% of Profit Growth Between 1980-2000, Documenting Monopolization 3 src | disputed | |
| 1999-11-12 | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retroactively Legalizes Citigroup Merger, Repeals Glass-Steagall
6 src Bill Clinton · Phil Gramm · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1999-11-05 | President's Working Group Recommends Exempting $80 Trillion Derivatives Market from Regulation
4 src Lawrence Summers · Robert Rubin · Alan Greenspan · Arthur Levitt | confirmed | |
| 1999-10-26 | Robert Rubin Joins Citigroup for $126 Million After Engineering Glass-Steagall Repeal
4 src Robert Rubin · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · Goldman Sachs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1999-09-01 | Fannie Mae Eases Credit Requirements Under HUD Affordable Housing Pressure
3 src Fannie Mae · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Andrew Cuomo | confirmed | |
| 1999-07-02 | Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign
4 src Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 1999-04-06 | Abramoff and Reed Formalize Tribal Money Laundering Subcontractor Scheme
3 src Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Americans for Tax Reform · +1 | confirmed |