| 1998-04-06 | Citicorp-Travelers $70 Billion Merger Directly Violates Glass-Steagall Act
3 src Citicorp · Federal Reserve Board · Sandy Weill · John Reed · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1998-02-07 | James Dobson Threatens to Lead Evangelical Exodus from GOP: Focus on the Family Demonstrates Political Leverage
2 src James Dobson · Focus on the Family · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-01 | ALEC's 'Economic Impact Statement Act' Uses Cost-Benefit Analysis to Kill Environmental Regulations
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · State Legislatures |
| confirmed |
| 1997-11-21 | FDA Modernization Act Accelerates Drug Approvals and Expands Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Under Pharma Pressure
3 src Bill Clinton · PhRMA · Food and Drug Administration | | confirmed |
| 1997-10-23 | IMF Imposes Harsh Structural Adjustment on Indonesia
3 src International Monetary Fund · Indonesian Government · World Bank · McKinsey & Company |
| confirmed |
| 1997-08-01 | Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger Approved: Defense Contractor Consolidation Creates Oligopoly
3 src Boeing · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1997-01-01 | Koch Industries Launches Massive Climate Denial Funding Network
3 src Koch Industries · Charles Koch · David Koch · Cato Institute · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 1997-01-01 | SEC Fort Worth Examiners Identify Allen Stanford Ponzi Scheme, Enforcement Division Ignores Warnings for 12 Years
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-21 | HIPAA Passes with Limited Portability Protections While Granting Healthcare Industry Control Over Patient Data
3 src Bill Clinton · Edward Kennedy · Health Insurance Association of America · American Hospital Association |
| confirmed |
| 1996-06-30 | Clear Channel Begins Unprecedented Radio Consolidation Under Telecommunications Act
4 src Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays · FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1996-06-18 | Chinese Military Intelligence Funnels Campaign Donations Through Johnny Chung
4 src Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1996-04-26 | Prison Litigation Reform Act Strips Prisoners' Access to Courts: Constitutional Rights Made Practically Unenforceable
3 src Newt Gingrich · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1996-02-08 | Telecommunications Act of 1996 Eliminates Radio Ownership Caps and Raises TV Limits, Triggering Massive Media Consolidation
10 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · Clear Channel Communications · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-01 | Abramoff-Norquist-DeLay Network Defeats Native American Casino Tax Bill
3 src Jack Abramoff · Grover Norquist · Tom DeLay · Ralph Reed · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Business Plan to "Function More Like a Business" - Formalizes Pay-to-Play Corporate Legislative Model
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Launches Aggressive OxyContin Marketing Campaign Based on False Claims
4 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler |
| confirmed |
| 1995-12-20 | FDA Approves OxyContin with Unsubstantiated Safety Claims
5 src Food and Drug Administration · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family | | confirmed |
| 1995-12-12 | FDA Approval of OxyContin Reveals Systemic Regulatory Capture by Purdue Pharma
3 src Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1995-01-10 | Robert Rubin Appointed Treasury Secretary After 26 Years at Goldman Sachs
4 src Robert Rubin · Bill Clinton · Goldman Sachs |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-04 | Tom DeLay Elected Majority Whip - Creates K Street PAC Tracking System
4 src Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Environment Task Force Passes 100+ Anti-Regulation Bills Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1994-09-29 | Riegle-Neal Act Enables Nationwide Bank Consolidation, Mortgage Market Transformation
3 src Bill Clinton · Donald Riegle · American Bankers Association |
| confirmed |
| 1994-09-26 | Clinton Healthcare Reform Dies After Insurance Industry Lobbying Campaign
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Health insurance industry · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-01 | Jack Abramoff Joins Preston Gates - Launches Tribal Lobbying Practice
3 src Jack Abramoff · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1993-12-08 | Clinton Signs NAFTA Creating Corporate Tribunals to Override National Laws
4 src Bill Clinton · Al Gore · Robert Rubin · Mexican Government |
| confirmed |
| 1993-01-14 | CFTC Chair Wendy Gramm Exempts Enron from Derivatives Regulation, Joins Board Five Weeks Later
4 src Phil Gramm · Enron Corporation · Kenneth Lay |
| confirmed |
| 1992-10-29 | FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Creates Financial Dependence on Pharmaceutical Industry
3 src Food and Drug Administration · PhRMA · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1992-01-01 | Christian Coalition Distributes 40 Million Voter Guides Through Churches: Electoral Infrastructure Embedded in Religious Institutions
2 src Pat Robertson · Ralph Reed · Christian Coalition |
| confirmed |
| 1992-01-01 | SEC Investigates Madoff Feeder Fund Avellino & Bienes, Misses $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme in First Regulatory Failure
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff |
| confirmed |
| 1991-11-20 | Keating Five Ethics Findings: Cranston Reprimanded, Systemic Corruption Exposed
3 src Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · Donald Riegle · John Glenn · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1991-06-05 | Trump Plaza Fined $200,000 for Removing Black Employees from Gaming Floor
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 1991-06-04 | Minnesota Enacts First Charter School Law, Creating Template for Education Privatization
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1991-01-01 | George C. Marshall Institute Becomes Central Node in Fossil Fuel-Funded Climate Denial
4 src ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 1990-11-15 | Clean Air Act Amendments Pass with Industry-Preferred Market Mechanisms Over Direct Regulation
3 src George H.W. Bush · Environmental Defense Fund · Edison Electric Institute · American Petroleum Institute · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1990-10-01 | Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly Begins Lobbying for Kashmiri American Council, Later Revealed as Pakistani ISI Front
5 src Paul Manafort |
| confirmed |
| 1990-05-01 | Putin's Transition from KGB to St. Petersburg Government: Early Regulatory Personnel Shift
4 src Vladimir Putin | | confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | Federal Reserve Begins Systematic Dismantling of Glass-Steagall Restrictions
3 src Federal Reserve Board · Alan Greenspan · JP Morgan & Co. · Morgan Stanley |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | Hoover Institution Organizational Profile: Leveraging Stanford Prestige for Conservative Policy Legitimacy
4 src Hoover Institution · Herbert Hoover · Ronald Reagan · George Shultz · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | S&L Crisis Lessons Documented But Ignored: Stage Set for 2008 Repeat
3 src U.S. Congress · Banking industry |
| confirmed |
| 1989-08-09 | FIRREA Signed: $160 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of S&L Industry Fraud
4 src George H.W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Resolution Trust Corporation · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 1989-05-25 | Reagan HUD Scandal Exposed, Samuel Pierce Influence Peddling Investigation
3 src James Watt · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | | confirmed |
| 1989-01-20 | Reagan Leaves Office: Domestic Corruption and Policy Failure Legacy
3 src Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 1989-01-01 | Federal Reserve Expands Section 20 Powers to Include Corporate Debt Securities
5 src Federal Reserve Board · JP Morgan & Co. | | confirmed |
| 1989-01-01 | S&L Industry Collapse: Over 1,000 Institutions Failed by 1989
3 src Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Resolution Trust Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 1988-12-01 | Silverado S&L Collapses: Neil Bush Conflict of Interest Costs Taxpayers $1 Billion
4 src George H.W. Bush · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 1988-11-23 | IBP Settles Record OSHA Case for Systematic Injury Underreporting at Dakota City Meatpacking Plant
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1988-08-01 | Rush Limbaugh National Syndication Begins - Conservative Talk Radio Ecosystem Created
3 src Rush Limbaugh |
| confirmed |
| 1988-01-01 | S&L Crisis Prosecutions: 1,000+ Bankers Convicted, Contrasts Sharply with 2008
3 src Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Thrift Supervision |
| confirmed |
| 1987-10-23 | Senate Rejects Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination 42-58, First Ideological Rejection in Nearly a Century
4 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · Edward Kennedy · Lewis Powell · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-08-04 | Reagan FCC Abolishes Fairness Doctrine in 4-0 Vote, Eliminating Balanced Coverage Requirements for Broadcasters
6 src Federal Communications Commission · Ronald Reagan | | confirmed |
| 1987-04-01 | Federal Reserve Approves Section 20 Subsidiaries for JP Morgan, Citicorp, and Bankers Trust
3 src Federal Reserve Board · JP Morgan & Co. · Citicorp · Paul Volcker · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Cato Institute Organizational Profile: 'Libertarian' Cover for Corporate Deregulation Agenda
4 src Cato Institute · Charles Koch · Murray Rothbard · Koch Industries · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1986-11-06 | Immigration Reform and Control Act Grants Amnesty to 3 Million, Employer Sanctions Fail
3 src Ronald Reagan · Alan Simpson · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1986-10-22 | Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Corporate Lobbying Secures Massive Rate Reductions
3 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1986-04-07 | EMTALA Passes as Unfunded Mandate, Enabling Insurance Industry to Shift Emergency Care Costs to Hospitals
3 src Ronald Reagan · American Hospital Association · Health Insurance Association of America |
| confirmed |
| 1985-05-01 | Carl Icahn TWA Hostile Takeover - Asset Stripping Blueprint
3 src Carl Icahn · American Airlines |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Murdoch Strategic Media Empire Expansion and U.S. Media Regulatory Navigation
3 src Rupert Murdoch |
| confirmed |
| 1984-12-03 | Bhopal Disaster Kills Thousands, Exposes Union Carbide Safety Negligence and Regulatory Failure
3 src Chemical Manufacturers Association |
| confirmed |
| 1984-10-30 | Cable Communications Policy Act - Media Deregulation and Consolidation Enabled
3 src Ronald Reagan · Barry Goldwater · Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1984-09-24 | Hatch-Waxman Act Grants Pharma Patent Extensions While Creating Loopholes to Block Generics
3 src Orrin Hatch · Henry Waxman · Ronald Reagan · PhRMA |
| confirmed |
| 1984-01-01 | ALEC Corporate Membership Explodes as Major Corporations Overwhelm Organization with Requests for Legislative Access
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Edison Electric Institute · Eli Lilly · Donald Rumsfeld |
| confirmed |
| 1983-12-01 | Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1983-10-09 | James Watt Resigns After Racist Remarks: Interior Department Corruption Ends
4 src James Watt · Ronald Reagan · Department of Interior |
| confirmed |
| 1983-07-01 | South Dakota abolishes Rule Against Perpetuities, enabling dynasty trusts and tax haven status
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1983-04-20 | Medicare Adopts DRG Prospective Payment System Creating Hospital Profit Incentives for Reduced Care
3 src Ronald Reagan · American Hospital Association | | confirmed |
| 1983-03-09 | Anne Gorsuch Resigns EPA After Contempt of Congress: Regulatory Capture Exposed
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Neil Gorsuch |
| confirmed |
| 1982-11-17 | SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-10-14 | Reagan Declares Intensified War on Drugs: Federal Drug Enforcement Budget Skyrockets as Incarceration Becomes National Policy
3 src Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · Edwin Meese |
| confirmed |
| 1982-04-22 | Berkeley Pit Mine Closes on Earth Day, Pumps Shut Off, Creating Toxic Lake Superfund Site
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| confirmed |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court
3 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-01-01 | S&L Deregulation Creates Moral Hazard: Recipe for Systematic Fraud
3 src Ronald Reagan · Federal Home Loan Bank Board |
| confirmed |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) - Top Rate Slashed from 70% to 50%, Corporate Tax Cuts Total $150 Billion Over Five Years
5 src Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · William Roth · Heritage Foundation · +3 | | confirmed |
| 1981-05-01 | Council for National Policy Founded - Secret Conservative Coordination Network
3 src Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · Nelson Bunker Hunt · Howard Phillips |
| confirmed |
| 1981-05-01 | Tim LaHaye Founds Council for National Policy: The Shadow Network That Coordinates the American Right
3 src Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-01 | Epstein leaves Bear Stearns amid SEC insider trading investigation
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Bear Stearns · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-28 | Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture
5 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Robert Bork · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | ALEC Establishes Cabinet Task Forces and Partners with Reagan's Task Force on Federalism
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" Becomes Reagan Administration Blueprint
4 src Heritage Foundation · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Meese · James Watt | | confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Supply-Side Economics Failure: Empirical Evidence Debunks Trickle-Down Theory
4 src Ronald Reagan · Arthur Laffer · Congressional Budget Office |
| confirmed |
| 1980-12-11 | Superfund Law Passes But Industry Successfully Builds In Weaknesses and Delays
3 src Jimmy Carter · Chemical Manufacturers Association · American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1980-07-01 | Carter Signs Motor Carrier Act, Completing Bipartisan Transportation Deregulation
2 src Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-07 | Carter Signs Chrysler Bailout, Corporate Welfare Precedent Set
3 src Jimmy Carter | | confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Banking Industry Launches Systematic Campaign to Erode Glass-Steagall Act
3 src Federal Reserve Board · Alan Greenspan |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Black, Manafort & Stone lobbying firm founded, nicknamed 'Torturers' Lobby'
3 src Paul Manafort · Roger Stone |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting
3 src National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Reagan Administration |
| confirmed |
| 1979-12-27 | Soviet Afghanistan Invasion Positions BCCI for CIA Covert Operations Expansion
4 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins
3 src Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-08 | Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-02 | Federation for American Immigration Reform Founded, Launching Modern Nativist Movement Infrastructure
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 1978-11-09 | Natural Gas Policy Act Begins Energy Sector Deregulation
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins
5 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-05 | Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy Established, Framework for 1986 Reform
3 src Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress · Alan Simpson |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-07 | Love Canal Disaster Exposes Decades of Corporate Toxic Dumping Cover-Up
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Clark Clifford and Robert Altman Begin Representing BCCI in US Operations
3 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Manhattan Institute Founded by CIA Director William Casey - Intelligence-Policy Crossover
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1977-10-12 | Community Reinvestment Act Passed to Combat Redlining, Banking Industry Resists
3 src Jimmy Carter · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve · FDIC |
| confirmed |