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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-03 | East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster
4 src 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
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Meta Platforms · Judge Edward Davila · Lina Khan | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-24 | DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup
4 src 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
3 src Cellebrite · Anonymous · Enlace Hacktivista | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-03 | Federal Court Orders Unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein Case Documents
3 src 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
19 src 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
4 src 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
4 src Kristi Noem · Lee Schoenbeck | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-31 | Arabella Advisors Network Raises Record $1.35 Billion in Dark Money
3 src Arabella Advisors · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hansjörg Wyss · Eric Kessler | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-27 | ICE whistleblower faces retaliation after reporting weapons violations at detention facility
3 src 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
4 src U.S. Congress · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-12 | FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Jack Smith appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump
3 src Jack Smith · Merrick Garland · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-27 | Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago
3 src Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Merrick Garland · Bruce Reinhart · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis
3 src OFAC · Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · Lazarus Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-14 | DHS Inspector General Reveals Secret Service Deleted January 6th Texts After Oversight Request
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
5 src 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
2 src 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
4 src 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
2 src 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
3 src 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
2 src 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
3 src Axon · Barry Friedman · Wael Abd-Almageed · Miles Brundage · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-01 | Ed Coristine fired from cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets
3 src Edward Coristine · Path Network · Marshal Webb · EGodly | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-01 | Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Chainalysis · GIC · Singapore | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash
4 src 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
3 src Elizabeth Warren · Boeing · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses
2 src Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · OFAC | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-12 | Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers
3 src Amazon · Strategic Organizing Center | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance
3 src Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy
3 src 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
3 src McKesson · Cardinal Health · AmerisourceBergen · Johnson & Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-17 | National Archives retrieves 15 boxes with 184 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago
3 src Donald Trump · National Archives · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Peter Thiel Receives Second Putin Meeting Invitation
4 src Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Starbucks Executes Systematic Union-Busting Campaign with Record NLRB Violations
3 src Starbucks · Howard Schultz · Starbucks Workers United · National Labor Relations Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-29 | Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
3 src 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
3 src 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%
3 src Private Equity Industry · Blackstone Group · KKR · TeamHealth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-10 | Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse
4 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-16 | Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History
3 src 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
5 src 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
3 src Pfizer · BioNTech · U.S. government | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-01 | In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids'
2 src Christopher Darby · Stephen Bowsher · Michael Morell · Jeremy Bash · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-21 | Fed Implements Strict Trading Restrictions After Major Ethics Scandal
3 src Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve Board · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Clarida · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Announces Trump Media SPAC Merger
4 src 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
4 src Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-03 | Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks
4 src 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
4 src 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
5 src Simone Biles · McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Maggie Nichols · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-08 | Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Clearview AI · Kirenaga Partners · Peter Thiel · Naval Ravikant | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Trump shows classified Iran attack plan at Bedminster, admits can't declassify
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Meadows · Trump staffers | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR
3 src 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
2 src Chainalysis · Coatue | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever
3 src Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-18 | Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls
4 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-25 | Georgia SB 202 Enacts Comprehensive Voter Suppression with Multiple ALEC Provisions
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src Genesis Healthcare · ReGen Healthcare · Joel Landau · David Gefner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-05 | Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout
3 src 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
2 src Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Clearview AI · RCMP | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-20 | Trump Environmental Rollbacks Cause 80,000 Excess Deaths Per Decade
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
5 src 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
4 src Jeffrey Clark · Scott Perry · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-03 | Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election
6 src Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | Trump Calls Georgia Secretary of State to Find 11,780 Votes
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion
4 src 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
4 src 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
4 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · James Phillips · Sean Conley | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-01 | Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-20 | FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions
3 src FinCEN · BuzzFeed News · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Jason Leopold · +8 | confirmed |