Systematic Corruption
The Systematic Corruption capture lane traces 885 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-26 | Trump Jr. Launches 'Executive Branch', Ultra-Exclusive $500K Private Club in D.C.
4 src Donald Trump Jr. · Alex Witkoff · Zach Witkoff | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | Trump's Meme Coin Dinner Contest Generates $900,000 in Insider Profits
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-23 | Trump offers private dinner to top 220 investors in his memecoin
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sean Casten · Adam Smith · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | 'A Call for Constructive Engagement' — AAC&U Coalition Letter Signed by 600+ College and University Presidents, Including Garber and Eisgruber
1 src Alan Garber · Harvard University | reported | |
| 2025-04-21 | Pilgrim's Pride, Fined $100M, Donates $5M to Trump Inauguration Under Scrutiny
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-21 | Trump Raised $239 Million for Inauguration, More Than Doubling Previous Record
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Inaugural Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Trump Appointee Sought IRS Audit Review for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Trump Fires Democratic Board Members of the NCUA
4 src Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · Judge Amir H. Ali | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | Trump Donors Seek Greenland Investment Opportunities
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Zuckerberg · Sam Altman · Jeff Bezos · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | Trump Launches Crypto Real Estate Video Game Venture
4 src Donald Trump · Bill Zanker · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | US Removes Sanctions from Antal Rogán, Top Orbán Aide
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Viktor Orbán · Marco Rubio | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Founders Fund Leads $50M Round for Enriched Uranium Startup General Matter; Peter Thiel Joins Board
6 src Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Greene bought market dip before Trump paused tariffs, profiting from the rally
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marjorie Taylor Greene | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Trump Administration Restructures White-Collar Crime Enforcement Strategy
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-12 | Trump Family Launches Comprehensive $5B Cryptocurrency Empire
4 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump announces deals with more law firms for a combined $600 million
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump Directs Agencies to Quietly Repeal Regulations Without Public Notice
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Lee Zeldin · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump Signs Bill Nullifying Expanded IRS Crypto Broker Rule
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Nationwide Legal Defense Network Expands Operational Capacity
3 src AFL-CIO · Democracy Forward · National Treasury Employees Union | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Resistance is futile, make a deal: Trump's tariff message to the world
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Top Anti-Corruption Officials Depart SEC Following Enforcement Pause
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump just pardoned...a corporation?
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Rural internet program on hold as Musk's satellites get new consideration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Family Launches American Bitcoin Corp. with Hut 8
3 src Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Foreign Policy Analysis Warns of American Kleptocracy Under Trump Administration
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Joe Biden · Bernie Sanders | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Thiel Capital Chief of Staff Michael Kratsios Confirmed as OSTP Director (74-25)
5 src Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · Office of Science and Technology Policy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-23 | SpaceX Secures Over $9.5 Billion in Government Contracts Despite Conflicts of Interest
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration · Stephen Lynch · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-20 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Urges Public to Buy Tesla Stock, Violating Ethics Rules
3 src Howard Lutnick · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-20 | Paul Weiss becomes first law firm to capitulate with $40M settlement
4 src Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Russia Proposes Mars Exploration Collaboration with Elon Musk
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kirill Dmitriev · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Trump Administration Eliminates Key NASA Scientific and Policy Offices
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-17 | Trump administration accused of ‘quid pro quo’ for fast-tracking controversial fossil fuel proposal in Michigan
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-13 | ICE makes 32,809 arrests in first 50 days of Trump administration
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-13 | Trump family has held deal talks with Binance following crypto exchange’s guilty plea
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | Justice Department Significantly Downsizes Public Corruption Investigation Unit
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Pam Bondi · Eric Adams | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | FAA Reviews Verizon Contract Amid Starlink Competition
4 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Verizon Communications · SpaceX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Musk Pledges $100M to Trump Political Operation
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | CIVICUS places U.S. on democracy watchlist
3 src United States | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Constitutional Defense Legal Strategy War Room Established
3 src Lawyers for Good Government | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | National Legal Defense Fund Established to Defend Nonprofits and Democracy
3 src Democracy Forward · Lawyers for Good Government · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington · Public Citizen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | FCC Grants Starlink Controversial Direct-to-Cell Service Approval at Higher Power Levels
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · T-Mobile | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | SpaceX Confirms Starlink Loan Agreement with FAA for Infrastructure Testing
3 src Elon Musk · SpaceX · Federal Aviation Administration · Verizon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-05 | Musk's America PAC launches $1 million TV ad buy touting Trump's first 6 weeks in office
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · America PAC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-04 | DAEO Ethics Waiver Abrogates Patel's One-Year Qatar Recusal 12 Days After FBI Confirmation
6 src Kash Patel · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Government Ethics · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-02 | Trump Establishes Strategic Crypto Reserve, Expanding U.S. Digital Asset Strategy
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Department of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | Trump to launch 'gold card' visa program for $5 million to the rich
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-19 | SpaceX Engineers Onboarded to FAA During Mass Staff Firings
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Sean Duffy | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | The French billionaire working his Trump ties to spare his luxury empire
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Coordinated Litigation Strategy Workshop
3 src Constitutional Defense Network | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | DOJ Kleptocracy Initiative Shuttered: Major Setback for Anti-Corruption Enforcement
3 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Transparency International | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Pro Bono Legal Support Coordination Mechanism Launched
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Institute for Justice · New Civil Liberties Alliance · Lawyers for Good Government | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted After Mass Resignations Over Adams Case
3 src Department of Justice · Emil Bove · Eric Adams · Danielle Sassoon | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | Acting NASA Chief Confirms DOGE Audit of Space Agency Spending
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Sons Join Advisory Board of Trump Tower Broker-Dealer Dominari Securities, Stock Surges 83%
4 src Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Early crypto traders had speedy profit on Trump coin as others suffered losses
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Musk Recruits Engineers for Department of Government Efficiency via Targeted Online Networks
3 src Elon Musk · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Chuck Grassley · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | McMahon OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing TMTG Independent-Director Employment Agreements — 25,946 DJT RSUs, $55,200 Cash Retainer, $18,400/Quarter Forward
9 src Linda McMahon · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · America First Policy Institute | reported | |
| 2025-02-05 | Musk Proposes Rapid FAA Air Traffic Control System Safety Upgrades
4 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Sean Duffy · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | US sovereign wealth fund could stockpile Bitcoin, Trump's crypto czar says
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Amazon Raises Ad Spending on Elon Musk's X Platform
3 src Jeff Bezos · Elon Musk · Andy Jassy · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Not just Big Tech: under-the-radar corporations rushed to donate to Trump's inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · CoreCivic · GEO Group | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | USAID Inspector General Fired After Warning About $8.2 Billion Aid Oversight Risks
3 src United States Agency for International Development · Donald Trump · White House Personnel Office · Marco Rubio | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Palantir Veteran Gregory Barbaccia Named Federal CIO, Controls $100B+ IT Budget
5 src Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump's Foreign Business Partners and Corporate Leaders Converge at 2025 Inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler With $1 Billion Fortune and Insider Trading History Takes Office
5 src Kelly Loeffler | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road Dark Web Drug Marketplace Founder
3 src Donald Trump · Tim Kaine | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Emergence of Coordinated Legal Resistance Networks
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · New Civil Liberties Alliance | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Confirmed with Ongoing Vaccine Litigation Referral Fees
6 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Merck · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Grok AI Demonstrates Major Safety and Misinformation Vulnerabilities
3 src Elon Musk · xAI | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Bondi OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing 106,250 DJT Shares + 31,250 DJT Warrants ($1M-$5M Each) From Renatus LLC Consulting Merger with DWAC-TMTG
4 src Pam Bondi · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Digital World Acquisition Corp · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-13 | Trump Inauguration Raises Record $245 Million with $161 Million from Corporations Facing Federal Enforcement
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Inaugural Committee · Amazon · Meta · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-10 | Trump Receives Unconditional Discharge for 34 Felony Convictions, Zero Penalties
5 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Nine law firms capitulate to $940M extortion campaign
4 src Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · Latham & Watkins · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-31 | Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million
4 src PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Health insurance industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar
5 src David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-04 | UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Assassinated in Manhattan, Exposing Public Rage at Health Insurance Industry
3 src UnitedHealthcare · UnitedHealth Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-27 | Donald Trump Jr. Joins Unusual Machines Advisory Board, Receives 200,000 Shares, Stock Triples
5 src Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Donald Trump · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-22 | Judge Merchan Grants Indefinite Postponement of Trump Sentencing After Election Victory
4 src Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Milo Yiannopoulos Launches Tarantula Management Firm Offering Trump Administration Access
2 src Milo Yiannopoulos · Marjorie Taylor Greene | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-06 | Private Prison Stocks Soar After Trump's 2024 Victory: CoreCivic Up 29%, GEO Group Up 42% in Single Session
4 src Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Tom Homan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-31 | HHS Watchdog Finds Health Risk Assessments Drove $7.5 Billion in Medicare Advantage Overpayments Without Additional Patient Care
2 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-16 | Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Settle Charges of Defrauding Pentagon, Bribing Qatar, and Patriot Contract Fraud
4 src Raytheon · Department of Justice · Qatar · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-09 | Vance Spreads Debunked Anti-Haitian Immigrant Hoax in Springfield, Ohio
3 src J.D. Vance | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-29 | Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Hacked to Promote $464M Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-22 | Former Rep. Mike Gallagher Joins Palantir as Head of Defense After Resigning Congress
5 src Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Peter Thiel · Pete Hegseth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-16 | Humana Pays $90 Million to Settle First-of-Its-Kind Medicare Part D Fraud Case for Fraudulent Bidding
3 src Humana · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations
4 src Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-11 | Judge Merchan Postpones Trump Sentencing to September After Supreme Court Immunity Ruling
4 src Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Sackler Immunity in 5-4 Decision, Blocks Bankruptcy Shield
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Trump Convicted on All 34 Felony Counts - First Former President Convicted of Crimes in U.S. History
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | Michael Cohen Testifies Trump Personally Directed Hush Money Scheme and Reimbursement Cover-Up
4 src Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Allen Weisselberg · Juan Merchan | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-07 | Stormy Daniels Testifies in Graphic Detail About Sexual Encounter, Trump Visibly Angry
4 src Stormy Daniels · Donald Trump · Juan Merchan | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-06 | Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care
3 src Senate HELP Committee | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-01 | Second Boeing Whistleblower Joshua Dean Dies Suddenly at 45 from MRSA Infection
4 src Boeing · John Barnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-26 | Noem reveals she killed 14-month-old dog and goat in memoir
3 src Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Justice Department Pays $138.7 Million Settlement Over FBI's Failure to Investigate Nassar Allegations
4 src U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · W. Jay Abbott · Michael Langeman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-15 | First Criminal Trial of Former U.S. President Begins - Trump Faces 34 Felony Counts in Manhattan
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg · Todd Blanche | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | Homeland Security Launches Major Sex Trafficking Investigation Against Sean Combs
4 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sean Combs · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed |