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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-02 | Top Anti-Corruption Officials Depart SEC Following Enforcement Pause
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Charles Cain · Tracy Price | 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. · Hut 8 Corp. · Mike Ho · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Foreign Policy Analysis Warns of American Kleptocracy Under Trump Administration
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Joe Biden · Bernie Sanders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Thiel Capital Chief of Staff Michael Kratsios Confirmed as OSTP Director (74-25)
5 src Michael Kratsios · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · +3 | 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 · Rep. 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 Paul Weiss Law Firm · Trump Administration · Law firm chair | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Russia Proposes Mars Exploration Collaboration with Elon Musk
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kirill Dmitriev · Elon Musk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Trump Administration Eliminates Key NASA Scientific and Policy Offices
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Janet Petro · Katherine Calvin | 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 · +1 | 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 CIVICUS Monitor · United States | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Constitutional Defense Legal Strategy War Room Established
3 src Constitutional Law Experts · Strategic Litigation Team · Legal Research Consortium · Democracy 2025 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | National Legal Defense Fund Established to Defend Nonprofits and Democracy
3 src Democracy Forward · Lawyers for Good Government · MacArthur Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · +10 | 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 · Jay Schwarz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | SpaceX Confirms Starlink Loan Agreement with FAA for Infrastructure Testing
3 src Elon Musk · SpaceX · Federal Aviation Administration · L3Harris Technologies · +2 | 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 · Jolene A. Lauria · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +5 | 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 · Brady Glantz · +2 | 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 · ACLU Litigation Team · National Lawyers Guild · Democracy 2025 Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | DOJ Kleptocracy Initiative Shuttered: Major Setback for Anti-Corruption Enforcement
3 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative · KleptoCapture Task Force · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Pro Bono Legal Support Coordination Mechanism Launched
3 src Democracy 2025 · American Civil Liberties Union · Institute for Justice · New Civil Liberties Alliance · +2 | 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 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | Acting NASA Chief Confirms DOGE Audit of Space Agency Spending
3 src Elon Musk · Janet Petro · 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 · Dominari Securities · Dominari Holdings · +1 | 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 · Anthony Jansco · Steve Davis · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Phyllis Fong · +5 | 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
6 src Linda McMahon · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · +3 | confirmed | |
| 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 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | USAID Inspector General Fired After Warning About $8.2 Billion Aid Oversight Risks
3 src Paul Martin · United States Agency for International Development · Donald Trump · White House Personnel Office · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Palantir Veteran Gregory Barbaccia Named Federal CIO, Controls $100B+ IT Budget
5 src Gregory Barbaccia · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · Office of Management and Budget · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump's Foreign Business Partners and Corporate Leaders Converge at 2025 Inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Corporate Leaders · Foreign Business Partners | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler With $1 Billion Fortune and Insider Trading History Takes Office
5 src Kelly Loeffler · intercontinental-exchange · sba · Jeffrey Sprecher | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road Dark Web Drug Marketplace Founder
3 src Donald Trump · Ross Ulbricht · Tim Kaine · Libertarian Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Emergence of Coordinated Legal Resistance Networks
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights · Pro Bono Litigation Corps · Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Confirmed with Ongoing Vaccine Litigation Referral Fees
6 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · childrens-health-defense · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Grok AI Demonstrates Major Safety and Misinformation Vulnerabilities
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Watchdog Groups · SaferAI · +1 | 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 · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-10 | Trump Receives Unconditional Discharge for 34 Felony Convictions, Zero Penalties
5 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · New York State Courts | 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 · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · +2 | 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 · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-04 | UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Assassinated in Manhattan, Exposing Public Rage at Health Insurance Industry
3 src Brian Thompson · Luigi Mangione · 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 · Allan Evans · Donald Trump · +2 | 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 · Kanye West · Martin Shkreli · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +3 | 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 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-31 | HHS Watchdog Finds Health Risk Assessments Drove $7.5 Billion in Medicare Advantage Overpayments Without Additional Patient Care
2 src Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Medicare Advantage insurers | 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 · Haitian immigrants · Springfield Police · Bryan Heck · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-29 | Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Hacked to Promote $464M Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam
3 src Kylian Mbappé · Unknown Hackers · Sahil Arora | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-22 | Former Rep. Mike Gallagher Joins Palantir as Head of Defense After Resigning Congress
5 src Mike Gallagher · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Peter Thiel · +3 | 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 · Steven Scott (whistleblower) | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations
4 src Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | 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 Steward Health Care · Ralph de la Torre · Cerberus Capital Management · Medical Properties Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-01 | Second Boeing Whistleblower Joshua Dean Dies Suddenly at 45 from MRSA Infection
4 src Joshua Dean · Spirit AeroSystems · 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 · +4 | 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 · +1 | 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 · U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-20 | Musk's xAI Grok Faces Mounting Safety Scrutiny, Secures $200M Pentagon Contract
4 src Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-09 | Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead During Deposition, Ruled Suicide
4 src John Barnett · Boeing · Charleston County Coroner · Charleston Police Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-27 | DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions
3 src Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Optum | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-23 | Jury finds NRA, Wayne LaPierre liable for corruption; $6.35M damages ordered
3 src Wayne LaPierre · National Rifle Association · Wilson "Woody" Phillips · John Frazer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-16 | Judge Engoron Issues $454 Million Fraud Judgment Against Trump, Bans NY Business Operations
4 src Arthur Engoron · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Donald Trump Jr. · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | First Major Grok AI Safety Failure Documented
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-12 | Biden Approves $136 Billion in Targeted Student Debt Relief - 3.7 Million Borrowers Through Alternative Programs
3 src Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-15 | Independent AI Safety Researchers Publish Initial Grok AI Safety Assessment
3 src xAI · Independent AI Safety Researchers · Elon Musk · Samuel Marks · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Oracle Spends $11 Million on Federal Lobbying, Focuses on TikTok Data Storage Deal
3 src Oracle · U.S. Senate · Senate Commerce Committee · Senate Intelligence Committee | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | AI Safety Experts Reveal Grok Vulnerability Patterns
4 src AI Safety Researchers · David Rozado · xAI · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-07 | Washington Post Workers Strike Against Bezos—First Walkout in Nearly 50 Years Over Job Cuts and Stalled Negotiations
3 src Washington Post Guild · Jeff Bezos · Patty Stonesifer · Washington Post | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-21 | Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao Plead Guilty to Money Laundering in $4.3 Billion DOJ Settlement
5 src Changpeng Zhao · Binance · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-14 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth Uses AI with 90% Error Rate to Deny Medicare Advantage Claims, Causing Patient Deaths
3 src UnitedHealth Group · NaviHealth · UnitedHealthcare | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-02 | Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted on All Counts in 'One of the Biggest Financial Frauds in American History'
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · U.S. Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-24 | Trump Surrenders at Fulton County Jail, Mugshot Taken - First Presidential Mugshot in History
4 src Donald Trump · Fani Willis | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-14 | Fulton County DA Fani Willis Indicts Trump and 18 Co-Defendants on Georgia RICO Charges
4 src Donald Trump · Fani Willis · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Jack Smith Indicts Trump on 4 Federal Counts for January 6 Conspiracy to Overturn Election
4 src Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Mike Pence · Rudy Giuliani · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-31 | Joe Rogan Promotes January 6 False Flag Conspiracy Theory, Claims FBI Orchestrated Insurrection to Frame Trump
2 src Joe Rogan · Ray Epps · Federal Bureau of Investigation · House Select Committee on January 6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | Trump Crypto Empire Raises Major Constitutional Conflict of Interest Concerns
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · World Liberty Financial · MGX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Shvartsman Brothers and Bruce Garelick Charged in $22.9 Million DWAC Insider Trading Scheme
5 src Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Rocket One Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-01 | Tennessee Renews $168 Million CoreCivic Prison Contract Despite Deaths and Fines, Exposing Corporate Capture
3 src CoreCivic · Bill Lee · Tennessee Department of Correction · Tennessee State Building Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | Tennessee House Expels Two Black Lawmakers in Racist Suppression of Gun Control Protest
13 src Tennessee House Republicans · Justin Jones · Justin Pearson · Gloria Johnson · +2 | confirmed |