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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-04 | Trump Arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felony Counts
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-15 | DOJ Arrests Guo Wengui in Landmark $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy
3 src Guo Wengui · Ho Wan Kwok · Kin Ming Je · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-13 | ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case
2 src Cigna · ProPublica · House Committee on Energy and Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2023-02-03 | East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster
4 src Norfolk Southern Railway · National Transportation Safety Board · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-04 | Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer sentenced to 3.5 years, $19M forfeiture
2 src Rick Singer · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-30 | House Ways and Means Committee Releases Six Years of Trump Tax Returns
4 src House Ways and Means Committee · Richard Neal · Donald Trump · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-15 | Global Indigenous Democracy and Governance Summit
3 src Global Indigenous Leaders · Academic Researchers · Indigenous Governance Scholars | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-06 | Trump Organization Convicted on All 17 Criminal Counts in Tax Fraud Trial
4 src Trump Organization · Trump Corporation · Trump Payroll Corporation · Alvin Bragg · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-05 | Kendal Price Files Whistleblower Complaint on Jane Roberts Commission Income and Chief Justice Non-Recusal
6 src Kendal Price · Jane Sullivan Roberts · John Roberts · Dick Durbin · +3 | ||
| 2022-11-15 | Global Civil Society Develops Standardized Resistance Documentation Protocol
3 src International NGO Alliance · Human Rights Watch · Amnesty International · United Nations Human Rights Council · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-21 | NY Attorney General Files $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump Organization
4 src Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-24 | Biden Announces $10K-$20K Student Loan Forgiveness Plan - 43 Million Borrowers Eligible
3 src Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-22 | Ethics board finds Noem may have engaged in misconduct and conflict of interest
4 src Kristi Noem · South Dakota Government Accountability Board · Jason Ravnsborg | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-18 | Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty to 15 Felonies, Agrees to Testify Against Trump Organization
4 src Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion
4 src Three Arrows Capital · Kyle Davies · Su Zhu · Monetary Authority of Singapore · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-13 | Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion
4 src Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash
4 src Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-26 | Warren Report Reveals 672 Pentagon and Congressional Officials Now Lobby for Defense Contractors
3 src Elizabeth Warren · Boeing · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance
3 src Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-01 | Task Force KleptoCapture Launched: US Expands Anti-Kleptocracy Operations
3 src Merrick Garland · Andrew Adams · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-24 | Neil Young Demands Removal from Spotify Over Joe Rogan's COVID Misinformation
3 src Neil Young · Joe Rogan · Spotify · Daniel Ek | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-18 | NY Attorney General James Files Motion Revealing Evidence of Trump Organization Fraud
4 src Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-31 | Rogan Hosts Vaccine Skeptic Dr. Robert Malone Who Claims "Mass Formation Psychosis"
6 src Joe Rogan · Dr. Robert Malone · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-16 | Federal Judge Overturns Sackler Immunity Deal, Rules Bankruptcy Law Violated
3 src Colleen McMahon · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-22 | SEC Fines McKinsey Subsidiary MIO Partners $18 Million for Puerto Rico Conflict of Interest and Material Nonpublic Information Violations
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · MIO Partners · McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-09 | Office of Special Counsel Report Documents Hatch Act Violations by 13 Senior Trump Officials, Finding "Willful Disregard" for Federal Law
4 src Mike Pompeo · Chad Wolf · Kellyanne Conway · Jared Kushner · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-02 | Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History
3 src Pfizer · BioNTech · U.S. government | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-01 | In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids'
2 src Christopher Darby · Stephen Bowsher · Michael Morell · Jeremy Bash · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Announces Trump Media SPAC Merger
4 src Donald Trump · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-15 | Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin
4 src Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-05 | Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy
4 src Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-15 | Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols Testify Before Senate on FBI's Betrayal in Nassar Case
5 src Simone Biles · McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Maggie Nichols · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-01 | Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition
3 src Robert Drain · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-01 | Joe Rogan Announces He Treated COVID with Unproven Ivermectin, Sparking Medical Misinformation Controversy
4 src Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience · Food and Drug Administration · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-06 | Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability
3 src Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Indicted for $1.7M Tax Fraud Scheme
4 src Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Cyrus Vance Jr. · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-03 | FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme
4 src Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney · John Sarbanes | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-28 | Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees
3 src Frank Kendall · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-15 | Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons
4 src Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Harry Sargeant III · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-01 | South Dakota pays $200,000 to silence appraiser chief fired after Noem intervention
3 src Sherry Bren · Kristi Noem · South Dakota | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | McConnell Says Trump "Practically and Morally Responsible" Minutes After Voting to Acquit
4 src Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty
4 src Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-28 | Raytheon CEO Hayes Tells Investors "Peace Not Going to Break Out" in Middle East, Sees Solid Growth
3 src Greg Hayes · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Joe Biden | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-26 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14006 to End Federal Private Prison Contracts, But Excludes Immigration Detention
4 src Joe Biden · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · U.S. Marshals Service · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy
4 src Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Elliott Broidy · Ken Kurson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-13 | Trump Pardons Kwame Kilpatrick After Serving 7 of 28 Years for Detroit Corruption
4 src Donald Trump · Kwame Kilpatrick · Bobby Ferguson · Alveda King | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Oversight Board | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | CNP Attorney Cleta Mitchell Joins Trump Call Pressuring Georgia Officials
2 src Cleta Mitchell · Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Larry Ellison Donates $30 Million to Tim Scott's Super PAC Over 2021-2022
3 src Larry Ellison · Tim Scott · Oracle · Opportunity Matters Fund | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-31 | Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | Trump Pardons Charles Kushner and 14 Others in Single-Day Corruption Spree
4 src Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Paul Erickson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-22 | Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre
4 src Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos · Nicholas Slatten · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-10 | CNP Leadership Releases Letter Urging State Legislators to Reject 25 Million Votes
2 src Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Republican state legislators | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | DOJ Reveals Investigation into $2 Million Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme
4 src Donald Trump · Elliott Broidy · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal
3 src Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska · Rusal | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power
4 src Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jared Kushner · William Barr | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-25 | Trump Pardons Michael Flynn After Guilty Plea and Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theories
4 src Donald Trump · Michael Flynn · Sidney Powell · Emmet Sullivan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-12 | CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge
2 src Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · J. Christian Adams · Hans von Spakovsky · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-26 | Senate 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 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-21 | DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-15 | Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged
3 src Wells Fargo | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-27 | New York Times Obtains Trump Tax Returns, Reveals $750 in Federal Taxes Paid
4 src Donald Trump · New York Times · Ivanka Trump · Trump Organization | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-26 | Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court, Religious Conservative to Replace Liberal Icon Ginsburg
4 src Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Ruth Bader Ginsburg | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-18 | Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies 46 Days Before Election, McConnell Immediately Vows to Confirm Replacement Despite 2016 Standard
4 src Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Clara Spera · +1 | confirmed | |
| 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 | HHS Spends $300 Million in Taxpayer Funds on "Defeating Despair" COVID Ad Campaign Timed to Promote Trump Before Election
4 src Michael Caputo · Donald Trump · Dennis Quaid · CeCe Winans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-27 | Trump Delivers RNC Acceptance Speech from White House South Lawn in Unprecedented Mass Hatch Act Violation Event
4 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Mark Meadows · Mike Pompeo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-25 | Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Violates Hatch Act by Staging White House Naturalization Ceremony as RNC Campaign Content
4 src Chad Wolf · Donald Trump · Henry Kerner · Bennie Thompson | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-25 | Secretary of State Pompeo Delivers Historic RNC Speech from Jerusalem Rooftop, Violating Hatch Act After Changing State Department Policy
4 src Mike Pompeo · Donald Trump · Office of Special Counsel | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-24 | Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Violates Hatch Act by Campaigning for Trump at Official USDA Event
3 src Sonny Perdue · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-21 | Tennessee Enacts Felony Camping Law to Suppress Black Lives Matter Protests and Strip Voting Rights
14 src Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Randy McNally · Cameron Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-06 | NY AG sues NRA seeking dissolution over $64M fraud by Wayne LaPierre, executives
3 src Wayne LaPierre · Letitia James · National Rifle Association · Wilson "Woody" Phillips · +2 | 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 | |
| 2020-06-09 | 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 | |
| 2020-06-01 | Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-07 | Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight
4 src Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-27 | PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates
3 src Small Business Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-19 | Senators Burr and Loeffler Accused of Insider Trading After COVID-19 Briefings
3 src Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · Tucker Carlson | 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 | |
| 2020-03-07 | New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations
4 src Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3 | 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 | |
| 2020-02-19 | Larry Ellison Hosts Trump Fundraiser at California Estate, Raises $7 Million
3 src Larry Ellison · Donald Trump · Oracle · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-07 | Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge
4 src Donald Trump · Alexander Vindman · Yevgeny Vindman · Gordon Sondland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-05 | Senate Acquits Trump Despite Proven Abuse of Power; Romney Only Republican to Convict
4 src Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-30 | Raytheon Profits Surge on Iran War Fears, CEO Cites Strong International Patriot Missile Demand
3 src Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Saudi Arabia · Iran · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-17 | Rep. Chris Collins Sentenced to 26 Months for Insider Trading From White House Lawn
3 src Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Donald Trump · Vernon S. Broderick | 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 | 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 | |
| 2019-12-03 | Rep. Duncan Hunter Pleads Guilty to Stealing Campaign Funds After Blaming Wife
3 src Duncan Hunter · Margaret Hunter · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-16 | OMB Official Mark Sandy Testifies on Ukraine Aid Freeze, Reveals Two Colleagues Resigned Over Concerns
4 src Mark Sandy · Michael Duffey · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-15 | Ambassador Yovanovitch Testifies on Giuliani Smear Campaign and Removal from Ukraine Post
3 src Marie Yovanovitch · Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump · Lev Parnas · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-07 | Judge Orders Trump to Pay $2 Million for Misusing Trump Foundation Charity Funds
4 src Saliann Scarpulla · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Trump Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-07 | Trump admits misusing Foundation for business/politics; $2M penalty, mandatory training
2 src Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Ivanka Trump · Eric Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-30 | Interior IG Investigates Bernhardt for California Water Decision Benefiting Former Client Westlands
3 src David Bernhardt · Westlands Water District · David Murillo | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-26 | Pentagon Awards $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft Over Amazon
3 src Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Donald Trump · +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 | |
| 2019-09-30 | 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 | |
| 2019-09-06 | Commerce Secretary Ross Threatens to Fire NOAA Scientists Who Contradicted Trump's False Hurricane Claim
3 src Wilbur Ross · Donald Trump · Neil Jacobs · Craig McLean | confirmed |