Systematic Corruption
The Systematic Corruption capture lane traces 863 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1600–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-01 | Pentagon Awards Record $620M Loan to Trump Jr.-Backed Vulcan Elements for Rare Earth Magnets
4 src Donald Trump Jr. · 1789 Capital · Vulcan Elements · Pentagon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-30 | DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into Black Lives Matter Foundation for Alleged Donor Fraud
3 src Department of Justice · Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation · U.S. Attorney's Office Central District of California · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-29 | Binance.US Lists Trump's USD1 Stablecoin Days After Presidential Pardon of Binance Founder
4 src Binance · Binance.US · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | NPR Sues After Corporation for Public Broadcasting Cancels $36M Contract Under Trump Pressure
2 src Corporation for Public Broadcasting · CPB executives · Donald Trump · NPR | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Trump Family Crypto Platform Tied to Pardoned Binance Executive Generated $500M
2 src Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · Trump Family · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Trump Terminates SNAP Benefits for 42 Million Americans Despite Available Funds
2 src Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Binance Paid $450K to Trump Jr. Ally for Zhao Pardon Lobbying
2 src Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Ches McDowell · Donald Trump Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Federal Grand Jury Convened to Investigate 'Conspiracy Against Trump'
2 src Chris Wray · Federal grand jury · Jack Smith · Lisa Monaco · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Kash Patel Uses $60M FBI Jet for Date Night with Girlfriend After Calling Wray "Government Gangster" for Same
3 src Kash Patel | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | MAGA-Aligned Lobbying Firms Quadruple Revenue Selling Trump Access
2 src Brian Ballard · Corporate clients · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Tech Billionaires Block Trump Military Deployment to San Francisco
2 src Jensen Huang · Marc Benioff · Mayor Daniel Lurie · Sam Altman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-24 | Pentagon Awards Drone Contract to Company Where Trump Jr. Holds $4 Million Stake
2 src Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Pentagon · U.S. Army · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign
5 src Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | White House Releases List of 37 Corporate Donors for Trump's $300M Ballroom Project
3 src Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Prioritizes White South Africans in Refugee Admissions
2 src Trump Administration · State Department · pro-Afrikaner advocacy groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Seeks Government Equity Stakes in Quantum Computing Firms
2 src Paul Dabbar · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration · quantum computing companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Installs Election Deniers in DHS Election Security Positions
2 src Donald Trump · Heather Honey · Marci McCarthy · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Obsession with $300M Ballroom: Demolishes Historic East Wing While Miller and Vought Run Government
3 src Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Russ Vought | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Orders Demolition of Historic White House East Wing for Personal Ballroom
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department · White House Staff | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Ethics Probe Launched into Border Czar's Contract Ties with Detention Firms
2 src Tom Homan · Mark Hall · Campaign Legal Center · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Trump Demands $230 Million from DOJ as 'Compensation' for Investigations
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · former Trump defense lawyers | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Trump Fires Export-Import Bank Inspector General as Oversight Purge Continues
2 src Donald Trump · Parisa Salehi · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | FTC Deletes Consumer Protection Guidance on AI Fraud and Surveillance
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Trump Appointees · Tech companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Musk's DOGE Uploads Hundreds of Millions of Americans' SSA Data to Unsecured Cloud
2 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Charles Borges · Social Security Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | North Carolina GOP Advances Mid-Decade Redistricting to Eliminate Black Representative
2 src North Carolina Republican Party · Sen. Ralph Hise · Rep. Don Davis | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Secret Interagency Working Group Coordinates Trump Retaliation Against Political Opponents
2 src Pam Bondi · Tulsi Gabbard · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Trump Hosts $250 Million White House Ballroom Fundraiser with Defense and Tech Executives
2 src Donald Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-19 | DOJ Whistleblower Reveals Officials Ordered Fabrication of Terrorist Claims in Deportation Case
3 src Erez Reuveni · Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Department of Justice · Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-19 | Federal Prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi Fired After Refusing to Charge NY AG Letitia James
3 src Elizabeth Yusi · Kristin Bird · Letitia James · Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-18 | DHS Purchases $172 Million in Luxury Jets for Kristi Noem During Shutdown
2 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Federal Prosecutor Fired for Refusing Trump Demand to Indict Letitia James
2 src Elizabeth Yusi · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Senate Confirms Industry Lobbyist to Lead EPA Chemical Safety Division
2 src Douglas Troutman · American Cleaning Institute · United States Senate · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | OMB Director Russell Vought Consolidates Authoritarian Control Over Federal Government
2 src Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Trump Commutes George Santos Prison Sentence After 3 Months
2 src Donald Trump · White House · George Santos | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Trump Freezes $11 Billion in Infrastructure Projects in Democratic Cities
2 src Donald Trump · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Democratic city governments | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Two Federal Prosecutors Fired After Refusing to Bring Charges Against Letitia James
4 src Elizabeth Yusi · Kristin Bird · Erik Siebert · Letitia James · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Administration Plans IRS Overhaul to Target Liberal Donors and Nonprofits
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Gary Shapley · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Executive Order Extends Hiring Freeze with Political Approval Requirements
2 src Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Pledges $40 Billion Argentina Bailout Tied to Milei Reelection
4 src Donald Trump · Javier Milei · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Publicly Identifies Political Opponents for DOJ Prosecution
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Jack Smith · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Requires Political Loyalty Tests for All Federal Hiring
3 src Donald Trump · Political Appointees · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-14 | Florida Officials Concealed $608 Million Federal Funding for Immigration Detention Facility
2 src DeSantis administration · Florida officials · Federal Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-13 | Indonesian President Caught Asking Trump to Arrange Eric Trump Business Meeting
2 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Prabowo Subianto · Trump Organization | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Pro-Trump Fund Fraudulently Markets Fake Treasury Event, Sells Sponsorships
2 src 1789 Capital · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Corporate Sponsors | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Accelerates Authoritarian Agenda With Mass Purges and Political Prosecutions
2 src Donald Trump · New York Attorney General · Federal Workforce · Business Leaders | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Administration Unveils Gaza GREAT Trust Reconstruction Plan at Egypt Summit with Kushner and Witkoff
3 src Trump · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · Elon Musk | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | U.S. Executes Extraordinary $20 Billion Argentina Bailout for Political Ally
2 src Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Javier Milei · Hedge Funds | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Analysis Finds 40+ Trump Administration Appointees With Fossil Fuel Industry Ties
2 src Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · Trump Administration · Public Citizen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | DHS Awards Secretive $915 Million 'Self-Deportation' Contract to Connected Firm
2 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Salus Worldwide Solutions · Project on Government Oversight | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | DOJ-Cited Report on Soros Shows No Evidence of Terrorism Funding
2 src George Soros · U.S. Department of Justice · Conservative Report Authors | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Dominion Voting Systems Sold to Former Republican Election Director
2 src Scott Leiendecker · Dominion Voting Systems · Liberty Vote · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | John Bolton Faces Imminent Federal Indictment on Classified Materials Charges
3 src John Bolton · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Trump Administration Systematically Uses Mortgage Fraud Charges Against Political Adversaries
3 src Letitia James · Lisa Cook · Adam Schiff · William Pulte · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Trump's Pharmaceutical Sales Overhaul Benefits Son's Company and Cabinet Member
3 src Donald Trump Jr. · Howard Lutnick · BlinkRx · Cantor Fitzgerald · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Crypto Investor 'Bitcoin Jesus' Reaches $48 Million Deal After Hiring Trump Associates
2 src Roger Ver · Roger Stone · David Schoen · Trump Administration · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | DHS Secretary Announces Additional Chicago Property Purchase for ICE Operations
3 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · JB Pritzker · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James on Bank Fraud Charges After Trump Pressure Campaign
3 src Letitia James · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | NY Attorney General Letitia James Indicted on Questionable Mortgage Fraud Charges
2 src Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-09 | Treasury's $20 Billion Argentina Bailout Benefits Bessent's Hedge Fund Colleagues
2 src Scott Bessent · Stanley Druckenmiller · Robert Citrone · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Border Czar Tom Homan Allegedly Took $50,000 in FBI Corruption Sting
2 src Tom Homan · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Emil Bove · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | ICE Furloughs Entire Detention Oversight Office Despite Record Capacity
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Office of Detention Oversight · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Miami Dade College Board Gifts $67 Million Downtown Land to Trump Library
3 src Miami Dade College Board · Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation · Ron DeSantis · Dr. Marvin Dunn | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | OMB Removes Legal References to Federal Worker Back Pay Guarantees
2 src Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump · Federal Workers · Chris Van Hollen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Palantir Senior Advisor Jacob Helberg Confirmed as Under Secretary of State (51-47)
5 src Jacob Helberg · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Provides 'Concierge Service' to Fossil Fuel Industry
2 src Brittany Kelm · National Energy Dominance Council · Fossil Fuel Industry · White House | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Negotiates Harvard Research Funding Restoration
3 src Stephen Schwarzman · Blackstone · Harvard University · White House · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts
2 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | RFK Jr.'s Legal Associate Aaron Siri Advances Anti-Vaccine Lawsuits While Influencing HHS
2 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Aaron Siri · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Cancels $500 Million in Food Aid, Affecting 94 Million Pounds
2 src Trump Administration · USDA · Food Banks | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Freezes $88 Million for Human Trafficking Survivors
2 src Trump Administration · Trafficking Survivor Organizations · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Family's USD1 Stablecoin Fails to Publish Attestation Reports, Raising Transparency Concerns
4 src World Liberty Financial · NYDIG · Greg Cipolaro · BitGo Trust · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-05 | White House Blocks $2.1 Billion Chicago Transit Funding as Political Retaliation
3 src Trump Administration · White House · City of Chicago · City of Portland | reported | |
| 2025-10-04 | Trump Targets Corporate Deals Across 30+ Industries Before Midterm Elections
2 src Trump Administration · Pfizer · Eli Lilly · AstraZeneca · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | OMB Director Russ Vought Uses Shutdown to Execute Mass Federal Purges
3 src Russ Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | ProPublica: Trump Ambassador Ronald Johnson Shielded El Salvador's Bukele From Law Enforcement
2 src Ronald Johnson · Nayib Bukele · State Department · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | White House Defunds Council of Inspectors General, Disabling Federal Oversight
2 src Office of Management and Budget · Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency · White House · Susan Collins · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-30 | SpaceX and xAI Purchase Thousands of Unsold Cybertrucks Before Tax Credit Deadline
2 src SpaceX · xAI · Tesla · Elon Musk | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | HUD Fires Two Civil Rights Lawyers Who Exposed Fair Housing Enforcement Gutting
2 src Palmer Heenan · Paul Osadebe · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Fair Housing Office | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M to Settle Suspension Lawsuit, $22M for White House Ballroom
2 src Donald Trump · YouTube · Google · Meta · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Envoy Witkoff's Son Pitches $4B Fund to Qatar and UAE While Father Negotiates Ceasefire
2 src Steve Witkoff · Alex Witkoff · Qatar Investment Authority · UAE · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | ProPublica Reveals Noem Fast-Tracked $11M FEMA Funds to Naples Pier After Donor Intervention
2 src Kristi Noem · Sinan Gursoy · Teresa Heitmann · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Orders Federal Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros' Open Society Foundations for Alleged Terrorism Ties
3 src Department of Justice · George Soros · Open Society Foundations · Aakash Singh · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | POGO Exposes Ballard Partners Clients Winning No-Bid ICE Biometric Surveillance Contracts
3 src Ballard Partners · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Approves TikTok Deal Giving Control to Allies Ellison and Murdoch, Demands Billions
2 src Donald Trump · Larry Ellison · Oracle · Rupert Murdoch · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Signs Executive Order Approving TikTok Deal with Oracle Partnership
3 src Donald Trump · White House · Oracle · ByteDance · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-24 | Bessent Announces $20B Argentina Bailout for Trump Ally Milei, Enriching Connected Billionaire
2 src Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · Javier Milei · Rob Citrone · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Trump Demands 10% Equity Stake in Lithium Americas During $2.26B Federal Loan Renegotiation
2 src Donald Trump · Lithium Americas · Department of Energy · General Motors | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Closes Bribery Investigation of Border Czar Tom Homan Despite FBI Evidence
2 src Tom Homan · Emil Bove · Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | SEC Drops Fraud Cases Against Trump Clemency Recipients, Abandoning Victims
2 src Paul Atkins · Devon Archer · Trevor Milton · Carlos Watson · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump Restricts H-1B Visas with $100,000 Per-Petition Fee Requirement
3 src Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump Signs 'Gold Card' Visa Executive Order Requiring $1-2 Million Payments
2 src Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump's $200M White House Ballroom Funded by Government Contractors Seeking Access
2 src Donald Trump · Lockheed Martin · Google · Palantir · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | Trump's Offshore Wind Assault Threatens 17,000+ Jobs, 99 Renewable Projects Canceled
2 src Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · Orsted · Department of Interior | reported | |
| 2025-09-14 | Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff Divests $120M Real Estate Stake While Retaining $350M in Assets Including Trump Crypto
3 src Steve Witkoff · Trump · Adam Schiff · World Liberty Financial | reported | |
| 2025-09-12 | SEC Drops Fraud Case Against Pardoned Nikola Founder Trevor Milton
2 src Trevor Milton · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | Bloomberg Obtains 18,000+ Epstein Emails Revealing Maxwell Relationship and Trump Name Removal Request
2 src Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Bloomberg News | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | State Department Adds 'Fidelity' Criterion, Retaliates Against Diplomats for Honest Analysis
3 src State Department · American Foreign Service Association · Donald Trump · Career Diplomats | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Ten Senate Democrats Demand Banking Committee Hearings on Epstein Financial Ties
2 src Elizabeth Warren · Jamie Dimon · JPMorgan · Deutsche Bank · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Forces Corporations to Provide Government Equity Stakes
2 src Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Intel · Lockheed Martin · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Labor Department Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Jobs Data Manipulation
3 src Labor Department Inspector General · Erika McEntarfer · Donald Trump · Bureau of Labor Statistics | reported |