Capture lane

Regulatory Capture

The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1573 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

1573 events From Jan 1, 1819 To Jun 10, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1819–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2021-01-20Trump Environmental Rollbacks Cause 80,000 Excess Deaths Per Decade 3 src
Donald Trump · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Scott Pruitt · Andrew Wheeler · +1
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2021-01-13Trump Pardons Kwame Kilpatrick After Serving 7 of 28 Years for Detroit Corruption 4 src
Donald Trump
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2021-01-06January 6 Capitol Insurrection Represents Culmination of WHIG Constitutional Crisis Template Implementation for Oligarchic Governance Establishment 3 src
Donald Trump · Proud Boys · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +5
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2021-01-06Trump says "So what?" when told Pence evacuated for safety during Capitol riot 5 src
Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Dan Scavino
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2021-01-04Jeffrey Clark admits in Signal messages that classified briefing yielded "nothing helpful" for Trump 4 src
Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2021-01-03Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election 6 src
Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2021-01-02Trump Calls Georgia Secretary of State to Find 11,780 Votes 3 src
Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Mark Meadows · Cleta Mitchell · +1
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2021-01-01Hospital Price Transparency Rule Takes Effect with Widespread Non-Compliance and Weak CMS Enforcement 3 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Hospital corporations
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2021-01-01Larry Ellison Donates $30 Million to Tim Scott's Super PAC Over 2021-2022 3 src
Larry Ellison · Oracle
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2020-12-27No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction 3 src
U.S. Congress · KKR · Private Equity Industry
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2020-12-23DOJ Secret Court Order Targets Washington Post Journalists Days Before Barr's Resignation 3 src
William Barr · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Courts
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2020-12-23Trump Pardons Manafort, Stone, Flynn, Kushner in Corruption Spree 3 src
Donald Trump · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +3
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2020-12-16Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion 4 src
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +1
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2020-12-14NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths 4 src
Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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2020-12-09FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +1
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2020-10-26Senate 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
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2020-10-21DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler
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2020-10-20DOJ Sues Google for Search Monopoly Through Exclusionary Contracts 4 src
Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +1
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2020-10-05COVID-Positive Trump Leaves Hospital for SUV Joyride, Endangering Secret Service in Sealed Vehicle 3 src
Donald Trump
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2020-10-01Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-09-20FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions 3 src
FinCEN · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Deutsche Bank · JPMorgan Chase · +1
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2020-09-16House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People 4 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · 346 crash victims
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2020-09-14Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure 3 src
Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-09-08Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Nuclear ICBMs 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing
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2020-09-01CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed 2 src
Council for National Policy
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2020-08-21Trump Speaks at CNP Meeting - President Addresses Conservative Coordination Hub 2 src
Donald Trump · Council for National Policy · Jenny Beth Martin · Chad Wolf · +1
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2020-08-13Epic Games Sues Apple Over App Store Monopoly and 30% Commission Tax on Developers 2 src
Apple · Tim Cook
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2020-08-05State Department Report Reveals Trump Administration Ignored Civilian Casualty Risks in Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales 3 src
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +1
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2020-07-10Trump Commutes Roger Stone Sentence Days Before Prison 3 src
Donald Trump · Roger Stone · William Barr · WikiLeaks
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2020-07-07Deutsche Bank fined $150 million for processing Epstein transactions including payments to co-conspirators 3 src
Deutsche Bank · Jeffrey Epstein · Federal Reserve
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2020-07-01During Title 42, unaccompanied children were held in hotels by contractors (e.g., Hampton Inn) before expulsion attempts 6 src
MVM Inc.
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2020-06-25Wirecard Files for Insolvency After €1.9 Billion Goes Missing, Exposing Decade of EY Audit Failure and German Regulatory Capture 3 src confirmed
2020-06-19Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database 3 src
Oracle
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2020-06-09Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies 3 src
Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice
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2020-05-15Trump Fires 5 Inspectors General in 6 Weeks to Block Investigations 3 src
Donald Trump · Steve Linick · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · +1
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2020-05-08AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly 3 src
AbbVie · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-04-28Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths 3 src
Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · Cargill · U.S. Department of Agriculture
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2020-04-03Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power 4 src
Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice
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2020-04-03Trump Inspector General Friday Night Massacre Systematically Accelerates WHIG Oversight Destruction Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Operations 3 src
Donald Trump · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · Christi Grimm · +3
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2020-04-03Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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2020-04-01MVM Inc operates shadow detention network using hotels and unmarked buildings for children 4 src
MVM Inc. · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2020-04-01Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation 3 src
Peter Navarro · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2020-03-18Trump Invokes Defense Production Act but Refuses to Compel PPE Production as Corporate Lobbying Blocks Emergency Powers 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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2020-03-13COVID-19 Emergency Triggers Student Loan Payment Pause - 44 Million Borrowers Get Relief 3 src
Donald Trump · Joe Biden · U.S. Department of Education
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2020-03-13Trump Declares National Emergency for COVID-19 After Weeks of Denialism and Delay 3 src
Donald Trump · Alex Azar · Mike Pence
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2020-02-21DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives 3 src
Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo
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2020-02-21Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged 3 src
Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2020-02-20DOJ Overrules Prosecutors' Roger Stone Sentencing Recommendation After Trump Tweet 4 src
Roger Stone · Donald Trump · William Barr · Amy Berman Jackson
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2020-02-20Trump Fires Acting DNI Joseph Maguire After Intelligence Briefing That Russia Prefers Trump in 2020 4 src
Donald Trump · Richard Grenell · Adam Schiff
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2020-02-11Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn 3 src
Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2020-01-18New York Times Exposé Reveals Clearview AI's 3 Billion Photo Surveillance Database 3 src
Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That · New York Times
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2020-01-09Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys" 3 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · Richard Blumenthal
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2020-01-01ALEC's Education Privatization Campaign Achieves Dominance - Model Legislation Controls Voucher Landscape Nationwide 5 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · DeVos family · +3
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2020-01-01Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance 4 src
DaVita · Richard Blumenthal · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-01-01McKinsey Advised Purdue on "Turbocharging" OxyContin Sales, Targeting High-Volume Prescribers 3 src
McKinsey & Company · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family
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2020-01-01OECD Estimates Google Avoids $7B+ Annually Through Tax Havens 4 src
Google · Alphabet
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2019-11-15Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns 3 src
Federal Trade Commission
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2019-10-24Federal Judge Holds DeVos in Contempt for Illegally Collecting on Corinthian Loans - $100K Fine 3 src
Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education
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2019-10-07Sutter Health Settles Antitrust Case for $575 Million, Admits to All-or-Nothing Contracting and Price Concealment 3 src
California Attorney General
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2019-10-01Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Big Four Meatpackers Conspired to Fix Beef Prices and Manipulate Markets 3 src
Tyson Foods · Cargill
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2019-10-01Zuckerberg Holds Secret White House Dinners with Trump, Kushner, and Thiel to Negotiate Content Moderation 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Peter Thiel · +2
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2019-09-30WeWork Withdraws IPO After Valuation Collapses from $47 Billion to $10 Billion, Exposing Massive Corporate Governance Failure 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · New York Attorney General
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2019-09-27Senate Finance Committee Report Reveals NRA Misled Public About Russia Connections and 2015 Moscow Trip 3 src
U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Ron Wyden · National Rifle Association · Maria Butina · +1
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2019-09-24Trump Freezes Ukraine Military Aid Demanding Biden Investigation 5 src
Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Rudy Giuliani · William Barr · +4
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2019-08-10Jeffrey Epstein Dies by Suicide in Federal Custody 3 src
Jeffrey Epstein · William Barr · Bureau of Prisons · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2019-07-24FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra
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2019-07-23Mark Esper Confirmed as Defense Secretary Despite Raytheon Lobbying Career and Refusal to Recuse 4 src
Mark Esper · Raytheon · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren · +1
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2019-07-06Jeffrey Epstein Arrested on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges 3 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Federal Bureau of Investigation · NYPD · Southern District of New York
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2019-07-01Betsy DeVos Repeals Gainful Employment Rule, Eliminating All Accountability for For-Profit College Job Outcomes Despite $1.3 Billion Projected Cost to Taxpayers 7 src
Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · For-Profit College Industry · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities
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2019-06-27Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Joins Pfizer Board After 3-Month Gap 3 src
Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Elizabeth Warren
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2019-06-19EPA Finalizes Affordable Clean Energy Rule Replacing Clean Power Plan With Weaker Standards 4 src
Andrew Wheeler · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · Scott Pruitt
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2019-06-13Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Used Office to Benefit Family Shipping Business 3 src
Mitch McConnell · Department of Transportation
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2019-05-29Mueller Warns Charging a Sitting President is Constitutionally Prohibited 4 src
Robert Mueller · William Barr
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2019-05-21FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Department of Justice
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2019-05-21McGahn Defies Scheduled Congressional Testimony Despite House Subpoena 3 src
House Judiciary Committee · Jerry Nadler · Pat Cipollone · Ketanji Brown Jackson
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2019-05-15Utah adopts ALEC model legislation requiring legislative approval for "major" agency rules 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council
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2019-05-07Don McGahn Defies Congressional Subpoena for Mueller-Related Documents 3 src
White House · House Judiciary Committee · Jerry Nadler · Pat Cipollone · +1
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2019-05-01Fisher Sand & Gravel Wins $2B Border Wall Contracts After Fox News Lobbying 3 src
Donald Trump · Fox News · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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2019-04-24Trump Declares Total War on Congressional Oversight: "We're Fighting All the Subpoenas" 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · House Democrats · Don McGahn · +2
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2019-04-22Trump Files Lawsuit to Block House Subpoena of Financial Records from Mazars USA 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Michael Cohen
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2019-04-18Mueller Report Released - 448 Pages Documenting Russian Interference and Obstruction Episodes 3 src
Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · William Barr · Russian Government
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2019-04-18Trump Administration Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight, Systematically Accelerating WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent 8 src
Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · Trump Administration
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2019-04-16Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Refuses Congressional Demand for Trump Tax Returns 3 src
Steven Mnuchin · U.S. Treasury Department · House Ways and Means Committee · Donald Trump · +1
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2019-04-11Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Confirmed Despite Extensive Conflicts from Oil and Gas Lobbying Career 3 src
David Bernhardt · Donald Trump
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2019-04-09HUD Inspector General Finds Ben Carson Violated Ethics Rules by Involving Son in Official Business 3 src
Ben Carson
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2019-04-09Trump Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight 3 src
Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · John Bolton · +2
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2019-03-24Attorney General Barr Releases Misleading 4-Page Summary of Mueller Report 3 src
William Barr · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · Rod Rosenstein
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2019-03-13FAA Finally Grounds 737 MAX After 51 Other Countries Act First, Exposing Regulatory Capture 3 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing
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2019-03-10Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crashes Due to MCAS Malfunction, Killing All 157 Aboard 4 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration
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2019-03-05During Sprint merger review, T-Mobile executives spent ~$195,000 at Trump's D.C. hotel 3 src
Federal Communications Commission · Elizabeth Warren · Pramila Jayapal
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2019-02-21Federal Judge Rules Epstein Plea Deal Violated Crime Victims' Rights Act 3 src
Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein
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2019-02-14William Barr Confirmation as Attorney General Enables Systematic DOJ Politicization Using WHIG Template for Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture 5 src
William Barr · Donald Trump · Senate Judiciary Committee · Department of Justice · +4
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2019-02-05Trump Overrides 25+ Security Clearance Denials for Family and Allies 3 src
Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Ivanka Trump
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2019-01-18Dream Center Education Holdings Enters Receivership, Art Institutes Collapse Leaves Thousands Stranded, $16 Million in Student Aid Disappeared 3 src
Education Management Corporation (EDMC) · U.S. Department of Education
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2019-01-17HHS Inspector General Reveals Thousands More Children Separated Than Disclosed 4 src
Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller
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2019-01-10The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds 4 src
Ring · Amazon · Jeff Bezos
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2019-01-01Vance Returns to Ohio, Launches Narya Capital 3 src
J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Eric Schmidt · Marc Andreessen
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2018-12-18Judge Sullivan's Harsh Questioning of Flynn at Sentencing - "Arguably You Sold Your Country Out" 4 src
Michael Flynn · Emmet Sullivan · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump
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2018-12-15Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Resigns Facing 18 Federal Investigations 3 src
Ryan Zinke · Donald Trump · Department of Interior · David Bernhardt
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2018-12-10University of Phoenix Enrollment Collapses 80% After Fraud Investigations - $191M FTC Settlement 3 src
University of Phoenix · Federal Trade Commission
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