Regulatory Capture
The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1534 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-27 | Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment Elon Musk · Prince Alwaleed bin Talal · Kingdom Holding Company · Qatar Investment Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-19 | France Fines Clearview AI €20 Million for GDPR Violations and Unlawful Biometric Surveillance CNIL · Clearview AI · European Data Protection Board · France | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-18 | Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty to 15 Felonies, Agrees to Testify Against Trump Organization Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Merrick Garland · Bruce Reinhart · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis OFAC · Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · Lazarus Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-14 | DHS Inspector General Reveals Secret Service Deleted January 6th Texts After Oversight Request U.S. Secret Service · Joseph Cuffari · James Murray (Secret Service Director) · Bennie Thompson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Celsius Network Files Bankruptcy After Freezing $4.7 Billion in Customer Deposits, Exposing Crypto Regulatory Void Celsius Network · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission · Three Arrows Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-05 | Voyager Digital Files Bankruptcy After Three Arrows Capital Collapse, Exposing Crypto Lending Contagion and Regulatory Failure Voyager Digital · Three Arrows Capital · Securities and Exchange Commission · BlockFi · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-01 | Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-01 | Roger Stone Settles $2.1 Million Tax Fraud Case Over Drake Ventures Shell Company Roger Stone · Department of Justice · Internal Revenue Service · drake-ventures-llc | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-30 | Supreme Court Establishes Major Questions Doctrine in West Virginia v. EPA, Limiting Regulatory Power U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Kennedy v. Bremerton: Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Public School Prayer, Effectively Overturning Lemon Test Joseph Kennedy · Neil Gorsuch · First Liberty Institute | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion Three Arrows Capital · Kyle Davies · Su Zhu · Monetary Authority of Singapore · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-24 | Dobbs v. Jackson: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade — The 49-Year Institutional Capture Project Succeeds Samuel Alito · Leonard Leo · Federalist Society · Neil Gorsuch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-14 | FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy Federal Trade Commission · JAB Consumer Partners · JAB Holding Company · National Veterinary Associates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-07 | FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · Maria Cantwell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-06 | Nine of Thirteen Axon Ethics Board Members Resign After Company Announces Taser-Equipped Drones Without Consultation Axon · Barry Friedman · Wael Abd-Almageed · Miles Brundage · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-01 | Ed Coristine fired from cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets Edward Coristine · Path Network · Marshal Webb · EGodly | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-01 | Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-24 | UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws Information Commissioner's Office · Clearview AI · United Kingdom | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-18 | Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Baby Formula After Abbott Recall Exposes Dangerous Monopoly Joe Biden · Abbott Nutrition · Food and Drug Administration · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-13 | Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-12 | House Investigation Reveals Meatpacking Industry Drafted Trump DPA Order While 59,000 Workers Infected James Clyburn · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-10 | Chainalysis Raises $170 Million at $8.6 Billion Valuation in Series F Chainalysis · GIC · Singapore | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-26 | Warren Report Reveals 672 Pentagon and Congressional Officials Now Lobby for Defense Contractors Elizabeth Warren · Boeing · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · OFAC | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-12 | Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers Amazon · Strategic Organizing Center | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy Robert Califf · United States Senate · FDA Leadership · Pharmaceutical Industry Executives | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-25 | National $26 Billion Opioid Settlement with Distributors and J&J, Zero Executive Prosecutions McKesson · Cardinal Health · AmerisourceBergen · Johnson & Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-17 | National Archives retrieves 15 boxes with 184 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago Donald Trump · National Archives · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Peter Thiel Receives Second Putin Meeting Invitation Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Starbucks Executes Systematic Union-Busting Campaign with Record NLRB Violations Starbucks · Howard Schultz · Starbucks Workers United · National Labor Relations Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-29 | Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges Ghislaine Maxwell · Alison Nathan · Southern District of New York · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-21 | SEC Charges Nikola Corporation $125 Million for SPAC-Related Fraud and False Claims Securities and Exchange Commission · Nikola Corporation · Trevor Milton · VectoIQ Acquisition Corp (SPAC) | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-15 | Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10% Private Equity Industry · Blackstone Group · KKR · TeamHealth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-10 | Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-16 | Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-03 | US Commerce Department Adds Candiru and NSO Group to Entity List US Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · Candiru · NSO Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-02 | Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History Pfizer · BioNTech · U.S. government | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-01 | In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids' Christopher Darby · Stephen Bowsher · Michael Morell · Jeremy Bash · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-21 | Fed Implements Strict Trading Restrictions After Major Ethics Scandal Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve Board · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Clarida · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Announces Trump Media SPAC Merger Donald Trump · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-15 | Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-03 | Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · King Abdullah II of Jordan · Andrej Babiš · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-01 | Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering Stephen Hahn · Flagship Pioneering · Moderna · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-15 | Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols Testify Before Senate on FBI's Betrayal in Nassar Case Simone Biles · McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Maggie Nichols · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-08 | Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-29 | Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted for Securities Fraud, Exposing How SPAC Loophole Enabled Investor Deception Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-27 | Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes Daniel Hale · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Clearview AI Raises $30 Million Series B Funding Despite Widespread Privacy Violations Clearview AI · Kirenaga Partners · Peter Thiel · Naval Ravikant | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Trump shows classified Iran attack plan at Bedminster, admits can't declassify Donald Trump · Mark Meadows · Trump staffers | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · White House Competition Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-24 | Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation in Series E Chainalysis · Coatue | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-18 | Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-25 | Georgia SB 202 Enacts Comprehensive Voter Suppression with Multiple ALEC Provisions Governor Brian Kemp · Georgia Republican Legislature · Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger · American Legislative Exchange Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-05 | Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-01 | Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy Genesis Healthcare · ReGen Healthcare · Joel Landau · David Gefner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-05 | Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout Robinhood Financial · DTCC · Dan Gallagher · U.S. House Committee on Financial Services | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-03 | Canadian Privacy Commissioners Declare Clearview AI Represents "Mass Surveillance" of Citizens Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Clearview AI · RCMP | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-20 | Trump Environmental Rollbacks Cause 80,000 Excess Deaths Per Decade Donald Trump · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Scott Pruitt · Andrew Wheeler · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-13 | Trump Pardons Kwame Kilpatrick After Serving 7 of 28 Years for Detroit Corruption Donald Trump · Kwame Kilpatrick · Bobby Ferguson · Alveda King | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | January 6 Capitol Insurrection Represents Culmination of WHIG Constitutional Crisis Template Implementation for Oligarchic Governance Establishment Donald Trump · Proud Boys · Oath Keepers · Roger Stone · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Trump says "So what?" when told Pence evacuated for safety during Capitol riot Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Nick Luna · Dan Scavino | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-04 | Jeffrey Clark admits in Signal messages that classified briefing yielded "nothing helpful" for Trump Jeffrey Clark · Scott Perry · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-03 | Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | Trump Calls Georgia Secretary of State to Find 11,780 Votes Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Mark Meadows · Cleta Mitchell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Hospital Price Transparency Rule Takes Effect with Widespread Non-Compliance and Weak CMS Enforcement Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Hospital corporations · Northside Hospital | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Larry Ellison Donates $30 Million to Tim Scott's Super PAC Over 2021-2022 Larry Ellison · Tim Scott · Oracle · Opportunity Matters Fund | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction U.S. Congress · TeamHealth · Envision Healthcare · Blackstone Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | DOJ Secret Court Order Targets Washington Post Journalists Days Before Barr's Resignation William Barr · Michael R. Sherwin · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Courts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | Trump Pardons Manafort, Stone, Flynn, Kushner in Corruption Spree Donald Trump · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths National Bureau of Economic Research · Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-09 | FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-26 | Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett 52-48 Eight Days Before Election, Creating 6-3 Conservative Supermajority Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-21 | DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-20 | DOJ Sues Google for Search Monopoly Through Exclusionary Contracts Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-05 | COVID-Positive Trump Leaves Hospital for SUV Joyride, Endangering Secret Service in Sealed Vehicle Donald Trump · James Phillips · Sean Conley | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-01 | Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-20 | FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions FinCEN · BuzzFeed News · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Jason Leopold · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-16 | House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Representative Peter DeFazio · Representative Rick Larsen · Federal Aviation Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-14 | Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-08 | Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Nuclear ICBMs Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-01 | CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed Council for National Policy · Documented | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-21 | Trump Speaks at CNP Meeting - President Addresses Conservative Coordination Hub Donald Trump · Council for National Policy · Bob McEwen · Kelly Shackelford · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-13 | Epic Games Sues Apple Over App Store Monopoly and 30% Commission Tax on Developers Epic Games · Tim Sweeney · Apple · Tim Cook | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-05 | State Department Report Reveals Trump Administration Ignored Civilian Casualty Risks in Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-10 | Trump Commutes Roger Stone Sentence Days Before Prison Donald Trump · Roger Stone · William Barr · Randy Credico · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-07 | Deutsche Bank fined $150 million for processing Epstein transactions including payments to co-conspirators Deutsche Bank · Jeffrey Epstein · New York Department of Financial Services · Federal Reserve · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-01 | During Title 42, unaccompanied children were held in hotels by contractors (e.g., Hampton Inn) before expulsion attempts Texas Civil Rights Project · MVM Inc. · ICE contractors · Detained families | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-25 | Wirecard Files for Insolvency After €1.9 Billion Goes Missing, Exposing Decade of EY Audit Failure and German Regulatory Capture Wirecard · Markus Braun · Jan Marsalek · EY · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-19 | Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database Oracle · BlueKai | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-09 | Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice · Congressional Oversight | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-15 | Trump Fires 5 Inspectors General in 6 Weeks to Block Investigations Donald Trump · Steve Linick · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed |