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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-16 | House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People
4 src 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
3 src Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-08 | Northrop 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 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-01 | CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed
2 src Council for National Policy · Documented | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-21 | Trump Speaks at CNP Meeting - President Addresses Conservative Coordination Hub
2 src 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
2 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-10 | Trump Commutes Roger Stone Sentence Days Before Prison
3 src 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
3 src 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
6 src 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
3 src Wirecard · Markus Braun · Jan Marsalek · EY · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-19 | Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database
3 src Oracle · BlueKai | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-09 | Federal 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 · Congressional Oversight | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-15 | Trump Fires 5 Inspectors General in 6 Weeks to Block Investigations
3 src Donald Trump · Steve Linick · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
3 src AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-28 | Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths
3 src Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power
4 src Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Trump Inspector General Friday Night Massacre Systematically Accelerates WHIG Oversight Destruction Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Operations
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · Mitch Behm · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures
3 src Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · 3M · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-01 | MVM Inc operates shadow detention network using hotels and unmarked buildings for children
4 src MVM Inc. · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Hampton Inn & Suites · Sonesta Hotels · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-01 | Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation
3 src Phlow Corporation · Peter Navarro · Kodak · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-18 | Trump 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 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-13 | COVID-19 Emergency Triggers Student Loan Payment Pause - 44 Million Borrowers Get Relief
3 src Donald Trump · Joe Biden · U.S. Department of Education | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-13 | Trump Declares National Emergency for COVID-19 After Weeks of Denialism and Delay
3 src Donald Trump · Alex Azar · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives
3 src Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-21 | Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged
3 src Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-20 | DOJ Overrules Prosecutors' Roger Stone Sentencing Recommendation After Trump Tweet
4 src Roger Stone · Donald Trump · William Barr · Aaron Zelinsky · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-20 | Trump Fires Acting DNI Joseph Maguire After Intelligence Briefing That Russia Prefers Trump in 2020
4 src Joseph Maguire · Donald Trump · Shelby Pierson · Richard Grenell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-11 | Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn
3 src Bill Barr · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-18 | New York Times Exposé Reveals Clearview AI's 3 Billion Photo Surveillance Database
3 src Kashmir Hill · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That · New York Times | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-09 | Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys"
3 src Boeing employees · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · House Transportation Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | ALEC's Education Privatization Campaign Achieves Dominance - Model Legislation Controls Voucher Landscape Nationwide
5 src American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education and Workforce Development Task Force · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance
4 src DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | McKinsey Advised Purdue on "Turbocharging" OxyContin Sales, Targeting High-Volume Prescribers
3 src McKinsey & Company · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | OECD Estimates Google Avoids $7B+ Annually Through Tax Havens
4 src OECD · Google · Alphabet · Tax Justice Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-15 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns
3 src Bristol-Myers Squibb · Celgene · Federal Trade Commission · Amgen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-24 | Federal Judge Holds DeVos in Contempt for Illegally Collecting on Corinthian Loans - $100K Fine
3 src Betsy DeVos · Sallie Kim · U.S. Department of Education | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-07 | Sutter Health Settles Antitrust Case for $575 Million, Admits to All-or-Nothing Contracting and Price Concealment
3 src Sutter Health · Xavier Becerra · California Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Big Four Meatpackers Conspired to Fix Beef Prices and Manipulate Markets
3 src Tyson Foods · JBS · Cargill · National Beef · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Zuckerberg 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 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-30 | WeWork Withdraws IPO After Valuation Collapses from $47 Billion to $10 Billion, Exposing Massive Corporate Governance Failure
3 src Adam Neumann · WeWork · Securities and Exchange Commission · SoftBank · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-27 | Senate 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 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-24 | Trump Freezes Ukraine Military Aid Demanding Biden Investigation
5 src Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Rudy Giuliani · William Barr · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-10 | Jeffrey Epstein Dies by Suicide in Federal Custody
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · William Barr · Bureau of Prisons · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-23 | Mark Esper Confirmed as Defense Secretary Despite Raytheon Lobbying Career and Refusal to Recuse
4 src Mark Esper · Raytheon · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-06 | Jeffrey Epstein Arrested on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Geoffrey Berman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · NYPD · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-01 | Betsy 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 · Robert Eitel · Julian Schmoke Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Joins Pfizer Board After 3-Month Gap
3 src Dr. Scott Gottlieb · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Senator Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-19 | EPA Finalizes Affordable Clean Energy Rule Replacing Clean Power Plan With Weaker Standards
4 src Andrew Wheeler · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · Coal Industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-13 | Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Used Office to Benefit Family Shipping Business
3 src Elaine Chao · Mitch McConnell · Department of Transportation · Foremost Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-29 | Mueller Warns Charging a Sitting President is Constitutionally Prohibited
4 src Robert Mueller · William Barr | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-21 | FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Lucy Koh · Qualcomm · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-21 | McGahn Defies Scheduled Congressional Testimony Despite House Subpoena
3 src Donald McGahn · House Judiciary Committee · Jerry Nadler · William Burck · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-15 | Utah adopts ALEC model legislation requiring legislative approval for "major" agency rules
3 src Ryan Wilcox · Daniel McCay · American Legislative Exchange Council · Utah State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-07 | Don McGahn Defies Congressional Subpoena for Mueller-Related Documents
3 src Donald McGahn · White House · House Judiciary Committee · William Burck · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-01 | Fisher Sand & Gravel Wins $2B Border Wall Contracts After Fox News Lobbying
3 src Fisher Sand & Gravel · Tommy Fisher · Donald Trump · Kevin Cramer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-24 | Trump Declares Total War on Congressional Oversight: "We're Fighting All the Subpoenas"
3 src Donald Trump · White House · House Democrats · Congressional Investigators · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-22 | Trump Files Lawsuit to Block House Subpoena of Financial Records from Mazars USA
3 src Donald Trump · Mazars USA · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Elijah Cummings · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-18 | Mueller Report Released - 448 Pages Documenting Russian Interference and Obstruction Episodes
3 src Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · William Barr · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-18 | Trump Administration Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight, Systematically Accelerating WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent
8 src Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · White House Counsel Office · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-16 | Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Refuses Congressional Demand for Trump Tax Returns
3 src Steven Mnuchin · U.S. Treasury Department · Richard Neal · House Ways and Means Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-11 | Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Confirmed Despite Extensive Conflicts from Oil and Gas Lobbying Career
3 src David Bernhardt · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | HUD Inspector General Finds Ben Carson Violated Ethics Rules by Involving Son in Official Business
3 src Ben Carson · Ben Carson Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | Trump Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight
3 src Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · John Bolton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-24 | Attorney General Barr Releases Misleading 4-Page Summary of Mueller Report
3 src William Barr · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · Rod Rosenstein | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-13 | FAA Finally Grounds 737 MAX After 51 Other Countries Act First, Exposing Regulatory Capture
3 src Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell · European Union Aviation Safety Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-10 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crashes Due to MCAS Malfunction, Killing All 157 Aboard
4 src Ethiopian Airlines · Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · MCAS system · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-05 | During Sprint merger review, T-Mobile executives spent ~$195,000 at Trump's D.C. hotel
3 src T-Mobile US · Sprint · Trump International Hotel Washington · Federal Communications Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-21 | Federal Judge Rules Epstein Plea Deal Violated Crime Victims' Rights Act
3 src Kenneth Marra · Bradley Edwards · Paul Cassell · Alexander Acosta · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-14 | William 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 · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-05 | Trump Overrides 25+ Security Clearance Denials for Family and Allies
3 src Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Ivanka Trump · John Kelly · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-18 | Dream Center Education Holdings Enters Receivership, Art Institutes Collapse Leaves Thousands Stranded, $16 Million in Student Aid Disappeared
3 src Dream Center Education Holdings · Art Institutes · Argosy University · South University · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-17 | HHS Inspector General Reveals Thousands More Children Separated Than Disclosed
4 src HHS Office of Inspector General · Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-10 | The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds
4 src Ring · Amazon · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Vance Returns to Ohio, Launches Narya Capital
3 src J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Eric Schmidt · Marc Andreessen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-18 | Judge Sullivan's Harsh Questioning of Flynn at Sentencing - "Arguably You Sold Your Country Out"
4 src Michael Flynn · Judge Emmet Sullivan · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Resigns Facing 18 Federal Investigations
3 src Ryan Zinke · Donald Trump · Department of Interior · David Bernhardt | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-10 | University of Phoenix Enrollment Collapses 80% After Fraud Investigations - $191M FTC Settlement
3 src University of Phoenix · Apollo Education Group · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-27 | Georgia Purges 1.4 Million Voters Under Exact Match System
3 src Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Georgia Secretary of State Office · Common Cause Georgia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-29 | Lion Air Flight 610 Crashes Due to Boeing 737 MAX MCAS System Malfunction
4 src Lion Air · Boeing · MCAS system · 189 victims · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition
4 src AbbVie · Amgen · Samsung Bioepis · Mylan · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly
2 src Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice · Makan Delrahim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-08 | Rep. Chris Collins Indicted for Insider Trading
4 src Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Stephen Zarsky · Innate Immunotherapeutics | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Qatar-Linked Brookfield Bails Out Kushner's 666 Fifth Avenue for $1.28 Billion
3 src Jared Kushner · Kushner Companies · Brookfield Asset Management · Qatar Investment Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-02 | SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · ExxonMobil · Donald Trump · Rex Tillerson | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Trump Administration Expands 'Junk Insurance' Short-Term Plans to Undermine ACA
7 src Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · U.S. Department of Labor · Department of the Treasury · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-18 | EU Fines Google Record €4.34B for Android Monopoly Abuse Through Bundling
4 src Google · European Commission · Margrethe Vestager · Sundar Pichai · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Refers Sinclair-Tribune Merger to Hearing Over "Serious Concerns" About Sham Divestitures and Misrepresentation
5 src Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Sinclair Broadcast Group · Tribune Media · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-13 | HHS Inspector General Finds Tom Price Violated Federal Travel Rules, Wasted $341,000 on Private Jets
4 src Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Tom Price · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-12 | Tech Workers Coalition: Establishing Digital Resistance Infrastructure
3 src Tech Workers Coalition · Silicon Valley Employees · Digital Rights Advocates · Rachel Melendes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-09 | Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Becomes Acting EPA Administrator After Pruitt Resignation
4 src Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Faegre Baker Daniels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-05 | EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid 14 Federal Investigations
3 src Scott Pruitt · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Andrew Wheeler | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-20 | Trump Signs Executive Order "Ending" Family Separation After International Outcry
4 src Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Net Neutrality Repeal Officially Takes Effect, Permitting ISPs to Throttle, Block, and Prioritize Content for Payment
3 src Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-07 | Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly
3 src Bayer AG · Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-06 | Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion, Creating Solid Rocket Motor Monopoly
3 src Northrop Grumman · Orbital ATK · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-01 | Trump Family Separation Policy Detains 5,500 Children in Cages
3 src Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Jeff Sessions · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-24 | Trump Signs Dodd-Frank Rollback Raising 'Systemically Important' Bank Threshold from $50B to $250B After Industry Lobbying Blitz
3 src Donald Trump · Greg Becker · Silicon Valley Bank · Mike Crapo · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-15 | Kansas City Fed Approves Reserve Trust Master Account After Alleged Intervention
3 src Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2 | confirmed |