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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-02 | Trump Organization Launches 21 International Projects During Second Presidential Term
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Eric Trump · Jared Kushner | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | MVM Inc. detains mother and infant at O'Hare Sonesta hotel for five days
4 src MVM Inc. · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Palantir builds $30M AI surveillance system linking IRS, Social Security, and immigration data for ICE
3 src Palantir Technologies · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Peter Thiel · Ron Wyden | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem directive demands 3,000 daily ICE arrests
5 src Stephen Miller · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | CMS Rescinds EMTALA Guidance Requiring Emergency Abortion Care
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · 22 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | SEC dismisses lawsuit against Binance
6 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Trump Pardons Criminals with MAGA Credentials or Big Money
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Ed Martin | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Who won a seat at Trump's crypto dinner?
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-27 | Donald Trump’s media conglomerate is becoming a bitcoin reserve
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | FTC probes Media Matters over Musk's X boycott claims, document shows
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | SCOTUS 6-3 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. Wilcox greenlights presidential removal of NLRB and MSPB members, effectively narrowing Humphrey's Executor 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | Trump Hosts Controversial $TRUMP Memecoin Crypto Dinner
4 src Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Sean Casten · Adam Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | Target Hospitality Secures Seat on $4 Billion DHS Emergency Detention Strategic Sourcing Vehicle
2 src DHS · ICE | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | Trump Administration Officially Accepts $400-500 Million Luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar as Air Force One Gift, Sparking Constitutional Crisis Over Foreign Emoluments and Bribery
5 src Donald Trump · Qatar · Chuck Schumer · Pam Bondi · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-19 | Sean Duffy Sold Stocks Before Trump's Tariff Announcement, Revealing Potential Insider Trading
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sean Duffy | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-18 | Supreme Court Hearing Challenges Presidential National Guard Federalization Powers
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · State Governors · U.S. Department of Defense · New York Attorney General Letitia James · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | EPA Rolls Back PFAS Drinking Water Protections, Delays Enforcement, Terminates Research Grants
5 src EPA · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Musk adviser may make as much as $1 million a year while helping to dismantle agency that regulates Tesla and X
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Russell Vought | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Trump Commerce Secretary's Crypto Firm Ties to El Salvador Reveal Complex Business Networks
4 src Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Brandon Lutnick · Bo Hines | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sells Over $1 Million in Trump Media Shares Amid Tariff Announcement
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-12 | Elon Musk's Boring Company Enters Negotiations for $8.5B Amtrak Tunnel Project
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-12 | FCC Launches Inquiry into EchoStar's Satellite Spectrum Utilization
3 src Brendan Carr · SpaceX · EchoStar · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-12 | US-China Geneva Deal: Both Sides Slash Tariffs by 115 Percentage Points for 90 Days After Weekend Negotiations
7 src Scott Bessent · Jamieson Greer · Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-11 | Trump Administration Systematically Drops Regulatory Cases Against Elon Musk
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-10 | Legal Scholars Warn of Erosion in Judicial Review Mechanisms
3 src Federal Judiciary · Executive Branch | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | SEC Reaches Controversial Settlement with Ripple Labs
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | Trump to sign order discouraging criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-07 | Trump Administration Moves to Eliminate Space and Rocket Launch Environmental Research
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-07 | U.S. Pushes Nations Facing Tariffs to Approve Musk's Starlink
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Marco Rubio | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-06 | US SEC's new chief says 15% of staff have left, contract cuts to come
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Congressional Hearing Exposes Systematic Judicial Intimidation Tactics
4 src Senate Judiciary Committee · John Roberts · U.S. Marshals Service · Supreme Court Justices · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Trump Justice Dept. to settle Babbitt family lawsuit in fatal Jan. 6 shooting
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Jamie Raskin | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | 100,000+ emails from Israeli Defense Minister Barak hacked, revealing Epstein partnership and global surveillance technology network
4 src Ehud Barak · Distributed Denial of Secrets · Jeffrey Epstein · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | Ryan T. Anderson (EPPC) Appointed to Presidential Religious Liberty Commission — Catholic-Integralist Stream Pipeline
3 src Donald Trump · Dan Patrick · Ben Carson | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-30 | FEC Loses Policymaking Quorum After Commissioner Resignation
3 src Federal Election Commission · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | DOGE Aide Dismantling CFPB Owns Substantial Stock in Regulated Companies During Mass Layoffs
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Elizabeth Warren reads 100 acts of Trump corruption into Congressional Record on 100th day
3 src Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | It was supposed to be a tax and border bill. It could also hand Trump vast new executive powers
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · House Judiciary Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Tether Gains Political Influence Amid Trump Administration's Crypto Expansion
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Bo Hines · Howard Lutnick | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Trump Orders DOJ Investigation into ActBlue Fundraising Platform
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Reveals Major Foreign Crypto Investments
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-28 | Nexo Capital Announces U.S. Market Re-entry at Conference with Donald Trump Jr.
3 src Donald Trump Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | Pentagon Prepared and Then Canceled Classified Briefing for Musk on China War Plans
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-24 | Indicted 'Bitcoin Jesus' Pays Roger Stone $600,000 to Lobby Against Tax Charges
3 src Roger Stone · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Coordinated Constitutional Challenge Filed
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy · League of Women Voters | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Crypto ally Paul Atkins sworn in to replace Gary Gensler atop U.S. SEC
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Atkins · Mark Uyeda | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Legal Resistance Technology Platform Launch
3 src Lawyers for Good Government | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Politically Connected Firms Exploit Trump Tariff Exemptions Through Opaque Process
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Reyes Holdings · Ballard Partners | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Rapid Response Litigation Protocol Developed
3 src Constitutional Defense Network · Lawyers for Good Government · Democracy Forward | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Trump-linked Lobbying Firms Dramatically Increase Q1 2025 Revenues
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Brian Ballard · Susie Wiles · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business
3 src Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Mass Layoffs Hit Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Judicial Intervention Emerges
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Amy Berman Jackson · Gavin Kliger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Trump Team Targets Politically Connected Startup Ramp for $700B Government Payments Overhaul
3 src Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · J.D. Vance | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Trump Fires Democratic Board Members of the NCUA
4 src Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · Judge Amir H. Ali | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Under Trump, consumer watchdog to slash industry supervision
5 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Russell Vought · National Treasury Employees Union · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Pulte Appoints 1789 Capital's Omeed Malik to Fannie Mae Board; Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Seat Alongside FHFA Director as Chair
15 src Bill Pulte · Donald Trump Jr. · 1789 Capital · Fannie Mae · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-04-14 | Wolff Reports Trump Team's Media Leverage Attempt with Warner Bros. Discovery
3 src Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Michael Wolff · Steven Cheung | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-13 | ICE terminates $73 million no-bid contract after improper influence allegations
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Binance seeks to curb U.S. oversight while in deal talks with Trump’s crypto company
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | CFPB Dismisses Lawsuit Against Comerica Bank Over Federal Benefits Card Program
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Rohit Chopra | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Meta adds former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to its board
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Mark Zuckerberg | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | The US is turning a blind eye to crypto crimes
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Fired US Federal Trade Commissioners Sound Alarm on Potential Data Access Misuse
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Rebecca Slaughter | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Judicial System Struggles with Presidential Accountability Mechanisms
3 src Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Labor leaders fear Elon Musk and DOGE could gain access to whistleblower files
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · AFL-CIO · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Mass Judicial Removal Attempt Triggers Constitutional Emergency
3 src Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump Signs Bill Nullifying Expanded IRS Crypto Broker Rule
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | Trump Reverses Course with 90-Day Tariff Pause After Bond Market Crisis; China Excluded, Tariffs Escalate to 145%
8 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | US DOGE Service Agreement with Department of Labor Reveals $1.3 Million Fee
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | US-China Tariff Escalation Reaches 145% as Tit-for-Tat Retaliation Nears Total Decoupling
7 src Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
3 src Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Launch of Integrated Legal Technology Platform for Collaborative Resistance 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Legal Resistance Tech Collaboration Platform Launch
4 src Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Department of Education v. California clears termination of DEI-flagged teacher-training grants 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | World Liberty Financial Sells $25 Million in Tokens Days Before DOJ Crypto Unit Disbanded
5 src Trump Family · World Liberty Financial · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum
6 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Liberation Day Market Crash: S&P 500 Drops 10.5% in Two Days, $6.6 Trillion Wiped Out in Largest Two-Day Loss in History
7 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Federal Reserve · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | DOT announces enforcement grace period for new emissions standards
4 src Department of Transportation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | SEC Restructures Enforcement Division Under Trump Administration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Atkins | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Top Anti-Corruption Officials Depart SEC Following Enforcement Pause
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | U.S. lifts sanctions on wife of Putin’s childhood friend Boris Rotenberg
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial
5 src Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | EPA reverses bans on TCE, asbestos, and ethylene oxide under industry executives
3 src Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · American Chemistry Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | HHS Lays Off 10,000 Federal Health Workers at NIH, FDA, and CDC in RFK Jr. Restructuring
5 src U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | State Department plans $400 million payment to Tesla after regulatory firings
5 src State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Administration Continues Systematic DOJ Prosecutor Purge
3 src Trump Administration · Department of Justice · James McHenry | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Administration Freezes Title X Funding to Planned Parenthood Affiliates
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Planned Parenthood | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · FDIC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | SEC Launches Crypto Task Force with Significant Staffing Changes
3 src Paul Atkins · Hester Peirce | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons four founders of BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange convicted of money laundering
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case
3 src Donald Trump · Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | Trump EPA Creates Email Portal for Clean Air Act Exemption Requests
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | US Virgin Islands Loses $3.3 Million in Federal Health Funding Amid National Public Health Cuts
2 src U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-26 | How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
3 src Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | DOGE cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink government contracts
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Mikie Sherrill | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Thiel Capital Chief of Staff Michael Kratsios Confirmed as OSTP Director (74-25)
5 src Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · Office of Science and Technology Policy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Trump SEC pick discloses family fortune of more than $328 million
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-24 | Government contractor who received $179M in federal contracts buys VP Vance's home for $170K over asking
3 src J.D. Vance · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-22 | First Major Court Battle Over National Guard Deployment Authority
6 src U.S. Department of Defense · State Governors · Donald Trump · Charles Breyer · +1 | confirmed |