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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-01 | Commerce Department changes broadband policies benefiting Starlink up to $20B
4 src Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Elon Musk · Starlink | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | FAA approves 4,000 Starlink terminals worth $400 million
4 src Federal Aviation Administration · Starlink · Tesla · State Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Investigation Finds 58% of Accounts Supporting Far-Right Portuguese Parties Were Fake
3 src Cyabra (investigator) · Far-right Portuguese parties · Fake account networks · Russian disinformation operations | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Project 2025 Authors Fill Key Administration Positions
3 src Brendan Carr · Tom Homan · Linda McMahon · Karoline Leavitt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | SEC offers $50,000 buyouts to staff investigating Elon Musk
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-28 | Trump Misses Transition Donor Disclosure Deadline, Declines Federal Funding
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Susie Wiles · General Services Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | CFPB Drops Major Lawsuits Against Capital One and Other Financial Firms
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Russell Vought · Jonathan McKernan · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | SEC Declares Meme Coins Not Subject to Securities Regulations
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC Division of Corporation Finance | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | US SEC, Tron founder Justin Sun explore resolution of civil fraud case
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | Musk's DOGE leads systematic CFPB shutdown, raising regulatory conflict concerns
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Linda Yaccarino · Russell Vought · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-24 | SEC Closes Investigation into Robinhood Crypto Division Without Enforcement Action
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Dan Gallagher · Robinhood Crypto Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | CFPB Drops Lawsuit Against Solo Funds, Signaling Regulatory Capture
3 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Travis Holoway · Lauren Saunders | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | Coinbase says SEC intends to drop lawsuit against crypto exchange
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Gary Gensler · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | DOGE put him in the Treasury Department. His company has federal contracts worth millions
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | DOJ drops immigration discrimination case against SpaceX
4 src Department of Justice · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Consensys SEC case dropped after $100,000 inauguration donation
5 src Consensys · Donald Trump · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Study Finds 50% Spike in Pregnancy-Related Sepsis and Deaths in Texas After Abortion Ban
3 src Texas Department of Health · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · University of Texas | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-19 | SpaceX Engineers Onboarded to FAA During Mass Staff Firings
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Sean Duffy · Brady Glantz · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Administration Terminates Critical Privacy Officials at OPM, Blocking Public Information Access
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Signs Order to Claim Power Over Independent Agencies
4 src Donald Trump · Federal Trade Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Attorney General Bondi Establishes 'Weaponization Working Group' to Target Prosecutors
3 src Pam Bondi · Weaponization Working Group · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Capital One CFPB case dropped after $1 million inauguration donation
6 src Capital One · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | CFPB ordered to close offices and cease all work
3 src Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Courts Grapple with Unprecedented Emoluments Enforcement Challenge
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal District Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Judges Address Escalating Threats to Judicial Independence
3 src Chief Justice John Roberts · Chief Judge James Boasberg · Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Supreme Court Confronts Unprecedented National Guard Federalization Crisis
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · State Governors · Brian Schwalb · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump Administration Systematically Removes DOJ Prosecutors
3 src James McHenry · Michael Ben'Ary · Jack Smith · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump systematically fires federal officials investigating Elon Musk's companies
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · FDA officials · EEOC officials · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOE Resumes LNG Export Approvals: Commonwealth LNG First Permit, Five Major Facilities Approved by September
7 src Chris Wright · Department of Energy · Commonwealth LNG · Venture Global · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOJ Public Corruption Division Systematic Dismantling Coordinated Across Agencies
5 src Emil Bove · Danielle Sassoon · Hagan Scotten (Assistant US Attorney) · Eric Adams · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted After Mass Resignations Over Adams Case
3 src Department of Justice · Emil Bove · Eric Adams · Danielle Sassoon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | How Trump's Justice Department has Gutted the Government's Ability to Chase Public Corruption
4 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | How the Trumps Turned Social Media Platform Litigation into a Profitable Strategy
3 src Donald Trump · Alphabet Inc. · Google · YouTube · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | OPM Orders Mass Firing of Nearly 25,000 Probationary Federal Employees Across All Agencies
4 src Office of Personnel Management · Charles Ezell · Donald Trump · DOGE · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | Seven SDNY Prosecutors Resign in 36 Hours Rather Than Drop Adams Corruption Charges: 'Thursday Afternoon Massacre'
6 src Danielle Sassoon · Emil Bove · John Keller · Kevin Driscoll · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-12 | DOJ Moves to Undermine Independence of Regulatory Agencies
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sarah Harris · Richard Durbin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-12 | State Department Plans $400 Million Purchase of Tesla Cybertrucks
4 src State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Explores Consolidating Banking Regulators
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Halts CFPB Operations, Freezing Consumer Protection Investigations
3 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Systematically Halts Regulatory Investigations into Musk's Business Empire
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Federal Regulatory Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | White House will not release visitor logs during Trump's second term
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Tom Blanton · National Security Archive | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | EPA Administrator Zeldin Plans 65% Workforce Cut While Terminating $20 Billion Climate Grants
3 src Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · JBS · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX
4 src Troy Meink · Elon Musk · SpaceX · National Reconnaissance Office · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Phyllis Fong · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Attorney General Bondi Dramatically Narrows FARA Prosecutorial Scope
3 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · DOJ National Security Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Administration Disbands Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs
4 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Task Force KleptoCapture · Russian Oligarchs | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | McMahon OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing TMTG Independent-Director Employment Agreements — 25,946 DJT RSUs, $55,200 Cash Retainer, $18,400/Quarter Forward
6 src Linda McMahon · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | 25-Year-Old Musk Aide Given Write Access to $6 Trillion Treasury Payment System
3 src Marko Elez · Elon Musk · Scott Bessent · David Lebryk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump implements massive tariffs as concerns mount over market manipulation
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Senate Democrats · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-02 | Trump administration purges 8,000+ climate web pages from federal agencies
4 src Trump Administration · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · NOAA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | ALEC Publishes 'Essential Policy Solutions 2025' Playbook - State-Level Corporate and Income Tax Elimination Agenda, Coordination with Federal Project 2025
54 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Lisa Nelson · Arthur Laffer · State Policy Network · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick faces 106 conflicts of interest requiring recusal
3 src Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Cantor Fitzgerald | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | DOJ and FBI gut public corruption enforcement teams
5 src Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Energy Secretary Wright owns $54 million in fracking company stock
3 src Chris Wright · Liberty Energy · Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Trump Announces 25% Tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Opening Salvo of Trade War; Canada Retaliates; 30-Day Pause After 3 Days
6 src Donald Trump · Justin Trudeau · Claudia Sheinbaum · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
3 src Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | VA Secretary Doug Collins Announces 72,000 Job Cuts While Claiming "No Cuts to Benefits"
5 src Doug Collins · Department of Veterans Affairs · va-employees · veterans | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Federal Prosecutors Withdraw from Andy Ogles Criminal Investigation
4 src Andy Ogles · U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee · Department of Justice · John P. Taddei · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Russian Oligarch Held SpaceX Stake While Under U.S. Sanctions
4 src Suleiman Kerimov · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | CBP Journalist Watchlist and Border Surveillance Program Documented
3 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Targeted Journalists · Immigration Advocates · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | DOJ moves to drop charges against former GOP lawmaker in case criticized by Trump
3 src Donald Trump · Jeff Fortenberry · Trump Administration · U.S. Justice Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Palantir Veteran Gregory Barbaccia Named Federal CIO, Controls $100B+ IT Budget
5 src Gregory Barbaccia · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · Office of Management and Budget · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Trump DOJ Fires Jack Smith Special Counsel Team in Systematic Purge
3 src James McHenry · Jack Smith · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-26 | DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Secretly Received $80,000 Dark Money Cut While Governor
4 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Dark money groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | DNI Tulsi Gabbard's Secret Assad Meeting and Russian Ties Alarm Intelligence Allies
5 src Tulsi Gabbard · Bashar al-Assad · Russian Intelligence · DNI · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars
4 src michael-waltz · metis-solutions · pacific-architects-and-engineers · Defense Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote
3 src Pete Hegseth · JD Vance · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Trump fires 18 Inspectors General in unprecedented purge of government watchdogs
7 src Donald Trump · Robert Storch · Michael Missal · Hannibal Ware · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Division · Journalists · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Interior Secretary Doug Burgum Signs Ethics Agreement to Divest Oil and Gas Interests
5 src Doug Burgum · Department of Interior · continental-resources · Microsoft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit's nationwide injunction of Corporate Transparency Act in McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop (shadow-docket order) 6 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | Sacks Sells $74K Bitwise ETF Position One Day After Inauguration — 44 Days Before EO Designating Same Five Assets
7 src David Sacks · Craft Ventures · Bitwise Asset Management · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | AG Pam Bondi Eliminates DOJ KleptoCapture Unit and Foreign Influence Task Force
3 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization
3 src Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Brings 42 Corporate Lobbying Clients into White House
3 src Susie Wiles · republic-services · swisher-international · northern-dynasty-minerals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Maintains $600 Million Tether Stake Despite DOJ Investigation and Senate Scrutiny
5 src Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · tether · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Coordinated Federal Workforce Purge: Schedule F and DOJ Personnel Removal
4 src Donald Trump · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · Anne McNamara · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Ed Coristine, 19, given access to critical government systems despite cybercrime links
3 src Edward Coristine · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · State Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Confirmed with Ongoing Vaccine Litigation Referral Fees
6 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · childrens-health-defense · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Initial Rescissions order revokes 78 Biden-era executive orders
4 src Donald Trump · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | J.D. Vance Inaugurated as 50th Vice President
3 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun Becomes First White House Crypto Dinner Guest After $75 Million Investment
3 src Justin Sun · Donald Trump · Trump Family · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun's $75 Million Crypto Investment Signals Complex Trump Financial Network
4 src Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025: Trump Administration Launches Massive Federal Civil Service Restructuring
3 src Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Federal Worker Purge and Civil Service Dismantling
4 src Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation · Office of Personnel Management · Federal Employee Unions · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Declares National Energy Emergency on First Day to Bypass Environmental Regulations
2 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump eliminates ethics requirements and lobbying restrictions
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Public Citizen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders
3 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Project 2025 authors · Tom Homan · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Replaces Lina Khan with Andrew Ferguson, Signals Antitrust Rollback
3 src Donald Trump · Andrew Ferguson · Lina Khan · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs 'Unleashing American Energy' EO on Day One: Lifts LNG Export Pause, Opens Federal Lands, Targets EV Mandates
5 src Donald Trump · Chris Wright · Doug Burgum | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs Executive Order 14148 rescinding 78 Biden directives
3 src Donald Trump · JD Vance · Domestic Policy Council · National Economic Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Kraken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | RFK Jr. Absent from CDC Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Exercise During Transition
2 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Patrizia Cavazzoni's FDA to Pfizer Move Epitomizes Regulatory Capture
3 src Patrizia Cavazzoni · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Bondi OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing 106,250 DJT Shares + 31,250 DJT Warrants ($1M-$5M Each) From Renatus LLC Consulting Merger with DWAC-TMTG
4 src Pam Bondi · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Digital World Acquisition Corp · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-06 | First U.S. H5N1 Bird Flu Death Reported in Louisiana Patient
3 src Louisiana Department of Health · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-31 | Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million
4 src PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-19 | SEC Charges Cantor Fitzgerald $6.75 Million for Misleading SPAC Disclosures
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick · View, Inc. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-13 | McKinsey Agrees to $650 Million Criminal Settlement for Role in 'Turbocharging' Opioid Sales for Purdue Pharma
3 src McKinsey & Company · U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Martin Elling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-10 | FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons $24.6B Grocery Merger, Citing Labor and Consumer Harm
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Kroger Company · Albertsons Companies · Judge Nelson | confirmed |