Regulatory Capture
The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1534 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-16 | Sean Combs arrested on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges Sean Combs · Department of Justice · SDNY · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. AI Safety Institute · NIST · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-22 | Former Rep. Mike Gallagher Joins Palantir as Head of Defense After Resigning Congress Mike Gallagher · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Peter Thiel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-20 | Defense Contractors Market Ukraine War as "Battle-Tested" Surveillance Technology Proving Ground Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Clearview AI · Defense Industry | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-16 | Humana Pays $90 Million to Settle First-of-Its-Kind Medicare Part D Fraud Case for Fraudulent Bidding Humana · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice · Steven Scott (whistleblower) | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-15 | Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Review Board · U.S. AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-05 | Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-30 | Paul Dans departs as Project 2025 director amid campaign controversy Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-23 | House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Adam Kautzner · David Joyner · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-18 | DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-17 | SEC Files Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against Former DWAC CEO Patrick Orlando Securities and Exchange Commission · Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-16 | xAI Faces Major Criticism Over Grok AI Safety Failures Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Judge Cannon dismisses Trump classified documents case, rules Jack Smith appointment unconstitutional Aileen Cannon · Jack Smith · Donald Trump · Clarence Thomas · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-13 | X Algorithm Modified to Amplify Musk and Right-Wing Content Following Trump Endorsement Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Timothy Graham · Mark Andrejevic · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Dans Departs Project 2025, Kevin Roberts Takes Leadership Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Donald Trump · Chris LaCivita · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Trump Immunity Ruling Institutionalizes WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent into Permanent Oligarchic Governance Framework Supreme Court of the United States · Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Justice Clarence Thomas · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-30 | EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Irish Data Protection Commission · European Data Protection Board · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | Academic Evidence Reveals Systematic Corruption in Hurricane Katrina Education Privatization Louisiana State Legislature · Charter School Advocates · Right-Wing Think Tanks · New Orleans School Board | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | xAI Implements Controversial AI Safety Framework Amid Industry Scrutiny Elon Musk · xAI · The Midas Project · AI Safety Experts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-29 | Treasury Releases First NFT Illicit Finance Risk Assessment Warning of Money Laundering Vulnerabilities U.S. Treasury Department · FinCEN | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | Regulatory Bodies Begin Investigating Grok AI Safety Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Senator Elizabeth Warren · Rep. Don Bacon · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-15 | xAI Announces Enhanced Safety Protocols for Grok Chatbot at AI Seoul Summit Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Consultants · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | French officials dispute Noem's claim about canceling Macron meeting Kristi Noem · Emmanuel Macron · Élysée Palace | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Business Roundtable | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Biden Administration Finalizes Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule Despite Fierce Industry Opposition and Republican Backlash Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · American Health Care Association · LeadingAge · Kim Reynolds · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Justice Department Pays $138.7 Million Settlement Over FBI's Failure to Investigate Nassar Allegations U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · W. Jay Abbott · Michael Langeman · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | H5N1 Bird Flu First Detected in U.S. Dairy Cattle in Texas USDA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration · Texas Department of Agriculture | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | UK Lawmakers Accuse Google of Breaking AI Safety Pledge with Gemini 2.5 Pro Release Google DeepMind · Baroness Beeban Kidron · Des Browne · UK AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-22 | Irish Data Protection Commission Launches Grok AI Regulatory Investigation Elon Musk · Irish Data Protection Commission · X Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-21 | DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook · 16 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-15 | State Department Develops Advanced Internal Resistance and Preservation Protocols State Department · Career Diplomats · Foreign Service Officers · Department of State Leadership | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-05 | Treasury Department Sanctions Intellexa Consortium and Tal Dilian U.S. Treasury Department · Office of Foreign Assets Control · Tal Jonathan Dilian · Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Wyoming Legislature Passes Second Coal Tax Cut in Two Years, Sacrificing $20 Million Annually to Subsidize Declining Industry Wyoming Legislature · Mark Gordon · Black Hills Energy · Powder River Basin Coal Producers | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-27 | DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Optum | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-23 | Federal Agents Charge Two with $400,000 NFT 'Rug Pull' Money Laundering Scheme Devin Alan Rhoden · Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr. · HSI · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-22 | AI Regulatory Bodies Begin Scrutiny of xAI's Grok Elon Musk · xAI · Federal Trade Commission · Irish Data Protection Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | xAI Grok AI Faces Initial Government Safety Scrutiny Elon Musk · Tech Regulators · xAI · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-16 | JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers Department of Justice · JetBlue Airways · Spirit Airlines · Judge William Young | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Door Plug Blows Out at 16,000 Feet, Exposing Continued Boeing Safety Failures Alaska Airlines · Boeing · Spirit AeroSystems · Federal Aviation Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Boeing 737 MAX Scandal Summary - 346 Deaths, $2.5B Fine, Zero Executive Prosecutions Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · 346 crash victims · Dennis Muilenburg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | New Hampshire LLC Structure Enables Corporate Tax Avoidance While 81% of Businesses Pay No State Business Tax New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration · New Hampshire Legislature · Limited Liability Companies | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Oracle Spends $11 Million on Federal Lobbying, Focuses on TikTok Data Storage Deal Oracle · U.S. Senate · Senate Commerce Committee · Senate Intelligence Committee | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Union Membership Collapses to 9.9%, Completing 70-Year Labor Destruction Campaign American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. unions | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Biden Leaves 14 Inspector General Positions Vacant, Some for Over 2,000 Days Joe Biden · Joseph Cuffari · Project on Government Oversight · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Northrop Grumman Spends $10.86 Million on Lobbying with 29 Revolving Door Officials Northrop Grumman · U.S. Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-18 | FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | Security Experts Raise Alarms About Grok AI's Lack of Safety Guardrails Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Kristian Hammond · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Suzanne Clark | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-21 | Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao Plead Guilty to Money Laundering in $4.3 Billion DOJ Settlement Changpeng Zhao · Binance · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-20 | ICIJ Cyprus Confidential Investigation Exposes Wyoming as Premier U.S. Tax Haven Overtaking Delaware International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · ConnectedSky · Wyoming Legislature · OpenCorporates · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-14 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth Uses AI with 90% Error Rate to Deny Medicare Advantage Claims, Causing Patient Deaths UnitedHealth Group · NaviHealth · UnitedHealthcare | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-09 | Senate Judiciary Subpoenas Harlan Crow Over Thomas Gifts After Resistance Senate Judiciary Committee · Dick Durbin · Harlan Crow · Clarence Thomas · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-02 | Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted on All Counts in 'One of the Biggest Financial Frauds in American History' Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · U.S. Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-25 | Mike Johnson Elected Speaker of the House: A Christian Nationalist Becomes Second in Line to the Presidency Mike Johnson · David Barton · WallBuilders | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-02 | IronNet Files for Bankruptcy: Former NSA Director Keith Alexander's $1.2B Cybersecurity Venture Collapses, SEC Charges Follow Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · Securities and Exchange Commission · Matthew Olsen | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-26 | FTC Sues Amazon for Illegal Monopoly Maintenance Through Anti-Discounting and Seller Coercion Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy · 17 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-08 | Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · White House · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-01 | FTC Issues Policy Statement on Orange Book Patent Gaming: Pharmaceutical Evergreening as Unfair Competition Under Section 5 Federal Trade Commission · Andrew N. Ferguson · Food and Drug Administration · Amphastar · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community Oracle · Intelligence Community · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-12 | Regulatory Enforcement Actions Drop Substantially in 2023: A Strategic Shift Regulatory Enforcement Division · Industry Trade Groups · Congressional Oversight | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-12 | SEC Enforcement Actions Decline in FY 2024 After Peak in FY 2023 SEC Division of Enforcement · Financial Regulatory Agencies · Congressional Oversight Committees | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-19 | IRS Whistleblowers Testify Hunter Biden Investigation Was Obstructed by DOJ Gary Shapley · Joseph Ziegler · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-18 | SEC Charges DWAC with Securities Fraud, Imposes $18 Million Penalty Securities and Exchange Commission · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-10 | FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation · Activision Blizzard · Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | US Adds Intellexa and Cytrox to Entity List for Cyber Exploit Trafficking US Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · Intellexa S.A. · Cytrox Holdings Crt · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | FBI Arrests Three in "Trust Social" Investigation for DWAC Insider Trading Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Shvartsman Brothers and Bruce Garelick Charged in $22.9 Million DWAC Insider Trading Scheme Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Rocket One Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-26 | SVB Executives Sold $84 Million in Stock Before Bank Collapse Greg Becker · Daniel Beck | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-14 | Commerce Department Designates Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group as National Security Threat for PLA Support—Five Years After Carbyne Co-Founder Worked There Bureau of Industry and Security · Frontier Services Group · Erik Prince · CITIC Group · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-31 | FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-09 | Tucker Carlson Announces Move to Twitter/X, Forgoes $25 Million to Break Non-Compete Tucker Carlson · Elon Musk · Twitter/X · Fox News · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-01 | Tennessee Renews $168 Million CoreCivic Prison Contract Despite Deaths and Fines, Exposing Corporate Capture CoreCivic · Bill Lee · Tennessee Department of Correction · Tennessee State Building Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-26 | Ukraine Launches Brave1 State-Backed Defense and Surveillance Technology Platform Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Brave1 Cluster | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-19 | Trump Second NFT Collection Sells Out While Revealing Substantial Digital Asset Income Donald Trump · NFT INT LLC · CIC Digital LLC | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-01 | Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025 initiative Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Mark Meadows · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-22 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Fires CEO Patrick Orlando Amid SEC Investigation Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · DWAC · Trump Media & Technology Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-19 | Swiss Government Forces Emergency UBS Acquisition of Credit Suisse After Regulatory Failure, Ending 167 Years of Swiss Banking History Credit Suisse · UBS · FINMA · Swiss Federal Council · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-13 | ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case Cigna · ProPublica · House Committee on Energy and Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-10 | Silicon Valley Bank Collapses in $212 Billion Bank Run, Third-Largest U.S. Bank Failure Caused by Regulatory Rollback Silicon Valley Bank · Greg Becker · FDIC · Federal Reserve · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-02-15 | North Dakota Legislature Rejects Oil Royalty Protections, Creates Toothless Oversight Program North Dakota Legislature · Brad Bekkedahl · Don Longmuir · Ron Ness · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-02-03 | East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster Norfolk Southern Railway · National Transportation Safety Board · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-31 | FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan Federal Trade Commission · Meta Platforms · Judge Edward Davila · Lina Khan | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-24 | DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Jonathan Kanter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-13 | Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite Cellebrite · Anonymous · Enlace Hacktivista | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-03 | Federal Court Orders Unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein Case Documents Loretta Preska · Virginia Giuffre · Ghislaine Maxwell · Miami Herald · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | 90/10 Rule Loophole Closes, Ending For-Profit Colleges' Predatory Targeting of Veterans by Counting GI Bill and Military Tuition Assistance as Federal Aid U.S. Department of Education · Veterans Education Success · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Holly Petraeus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Cancer Drug Shortage Crisis Enables Gray Market Profiteering - Carboplatin Price Jumps from $50 to $500 Per Vial Big Pharma · Teva Pharmaceuticals · Food and Drug Administration · Gray Market Vendors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Noem secretly accepts $80,000 from dark money nonprofit Kristi Noem · Lee Schoenbeck | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-31 | Arabella Advisors Network Raises Record $1.35 Billion in Dark Money Arabella Advisors · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hansjörg Wyss · Eric Kessler | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-27 | ICE whistleblower faces retaliation after reporting weapons violations at detention facility Carlo Jimenez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security OIG · Merit Systems Protection Board | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-23 | Bipartisan Inspector General protections enacted U.S. Congress · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-12 | FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-25 | FCC bans Huawei and ZTE as national security threats while Carbyne operates unchecked Federal Communications Commission · Huawei · ZTE Corporation · Jessica Rosenworcel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Jack Smith appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump Jack Smith · Merrick Garland · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed |