Regulatory Capture
The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1534 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-21 | DOGE put him in the Treasury Department. His company has federal contracts worth millions Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | DOJ drops immigration discrimination case against SpaceX Department of Justice · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Consensys SEC case dropped after $100,000 inauguration donation 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 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 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 Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Signs Order to Claim Power Over Independent Agencies 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 Pam Bondi · Weaponization Working Group · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Capital One CFPB case dropped after $1 million inauguration donation Capital One · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | CFPB ordered to close offices and cease all work Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Courts Grapple with Unprecedented Emoluments Enforcement Challenge U.S. Supreme Court · Federal District Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Judges Address Escalating Threats to Judicial Independence 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 U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · State Governors · Brian Schwalb · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump Administration Systematically Removes DOJ Prosecutors James McHenry · Michael Ben'Ary · Jack Smith · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump systematically fires federal officials investigating Elon Musk's companies 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 Chris Wright · Department of Energy · Commonwealth LNG · Venture Global · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOJ Public Corruption Division Systematic Dismantling Coordinated Across Agencies 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 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 Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | How the Trumps Turned Social Media Platform Litigation into a Profitable Strategy 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 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' Danielle Sassoon · Emil Bove · John Keller · Kevin Driscoll · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-12 | DOJ Moves to Undermine Independence of Regulatory Agencies Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sarah Harris · Richard Durbin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-12 | State Department Plans $400 Million Purchase of Tesla Cybertrucks State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Explores Consolidating Banking Regulators 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 Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Administration Systematically Halts Regulatory Investigations into Musk's Business Empire 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 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 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 Troy Meink · Elon Musk · SpaceX · National Reconnaissance Office · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Phyllis Fong · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Attorney General Bondi Dramatically Narrows FARA Prosecutorial Scope Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · DOJ National Security Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Administration Disbands Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs 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 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 Marko Elez · Elon Musk · Scott Bessent · David Lebryk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump implements massive tariffs as concerns mount over market manipulation Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Senate Democrats · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-02 | Trump administration purges 8,000+ climate web pages from federal agencies 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 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 Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Cantor Fitzgerald | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | DOJ and FBI gut public corruption enforcement teams 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 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 Donald Trump · Justin Trudeau · Claudia Sheinbaum · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 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" Doug Collins · Department of Veterans Affairs · va-employees · veterans | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Federal Prosecutors Withdraw from Andy Ogles Criminal Investigation 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 Suleiman Kerimov · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | CBP Journalist Watchlist and Border Surveillance Program Documented 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Donald Trump · Robert Storch · Michael Missal · Hannibal Ware · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration 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 Doug Burgum · Department of Interior · continental-resources · Microsoft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | AG Pam Bondi Eliminates DOJ KleptoCapture Unit and Foreign Influence Task Force Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization 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 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 Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · tether · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Coordinated Federal Workforce Purge: Schedule F and DOJ Personnel Removal 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 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 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 Donald Trump · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | J.D. Vance Inaugurated as 50th Vice President 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 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 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 Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Federal Worker Purge and Civil Service Dismantling 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 Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump eliminates ethics requirements and lobbying restrictions Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Public Citizen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Project 2025 authors · Tom Homan · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Replaces Lina Khan with Andrew Ferguson, Signals Antitrust Rollback 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 Donald Trump · Chris Wright · Doug Burgum | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs Executive Order 14148 rescinding 78 Biden directives Donald Trump · JD Vance · Domestic Policy Council · National Economic Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Kraken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | RFK Jr. Absent from CDC Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Exercise During Transition 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Federal Trade Commission · Kroger Company · Albertsons Companies · Judge Nelson | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | USDA Issues Federal Order Requiring Mandatory Raw Milk Testing for H5N1 USDA · APHIS · Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | President Biden Issues Full Pardon for Son Hunter Despite Repeated Promises Not To Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-15 | Anthropic Secures Comprehensive FedRAMP High Certification for Government AI Deployment Anthropic · Palantir · U.S. intelligence agencies · Defense agencies · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Crypto Industry Advances Self-Regulatory Framework Amid Global Compliance Push Cryptocurrency Industry Consortium · Financial Stability Board · European Securities and Markets Authority · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-13 | NLRB Rules Captive Audience Meetings Are Illegal Employer Coercion (Likely Reversed 2025) National Labor Relations Board · Biden Administration · Workers · Union organizers | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-04 | Meta Provides Llama AI Models to US Government and Military Contractors Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · US government agencies · Lockheed Martin · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-31 | HHS Watchdog Finds Health Risk Assessments Drove $7.5 Billion in Medicare Advantage Overpayments Without Additional Patient Care Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Medicare Advantage insurers | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-31 | ICE detention chief Daniel Bible joins GEO Group days before election Daniel Bible · GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump PACs | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-24 | Treasury Reveals $1.1 Billion in Epstein Wire Transfers to Russian Banks Jeffrey Epstein · Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Russian banks | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-16 | Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Settle Charges of Defrauding Pentagon, Bribing Qatar, and Patriot Contract Fraud Raytheon · Department of Justice · Qatar · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-15 | Linda McMahon named in lawsuit alleging WWE covered up child sexual abuse Linda McMahon · Vince McMahon · Melvin Phillips · WWE | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Biden Uses Emergency Drawdown Authority 55 Times to Send $31.7B in Weapons to Ukraine Joe Biden · Pentagon · U.S. Congress · Ukraine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FDA Commissioner Califf's Pharmaceutical Industry Revolving Door Scrutinized Robert Califf · Food and Drug Administration · Verily Life Sciences · Joe Manchin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4 | confirmed |