Capture lane

Systematic Corruption

The Systematic Corruption capture lane traces 868 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

868 events From Jan 1, 1600 To Jun 16, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2023-07-31Joe Rogan Promotes January 6 False Flag Conspiracy Theory, Claims FBI Orchestrated Insurrection to Frame Trump 2 src
Joe Rogan · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2023-07-01Trump Crypto Empire Raises Major Constitutional Conflict of Interest Concerns 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · World Liberty Financial · MGX · +1
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2023-06-29Shvartsman Brothers and Bruce Garelick Charged in $22.9 Million DWAC Insider Trading Scheme 5 src
Bruce Garelick · Southern District of New York · U.S. Department of Justice
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2023-05-01Tennessee Renews $168 Million CoreCivic Prison Contract Despite Deaths and Fines, Exposing Corporate Capture 3 src
CoreCivic · Bill Lee
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2023-04-06Tennessee House Expels Two Black Lawmakers in Racist Suppression of Gun Control Protest 13 src
Bill Lee
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2023-04-04Trump Arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felony Counts 4 src
Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg
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2023-03-15DOJ Arrests Guo Wengui in Landmark $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy 3 src
Guo Wengui · Department of Justice · Steve Bannon
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2023-03-13ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case 2 src
Cigna · ProPublica
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2023-02-03East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster 4 src
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Trump Administration
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2023-01-04Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer sentenced to 3.5 years, $19M forfeiture 2 src
Federal Prosecutors
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2022-12-30House Ways and Means Committee Releases Six Years of Trump Tax Returns 4 src
House Ways and Means Committee · Donald Trump · Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Treasury Department
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2022-12-15Global Indigenous Democracy and Governance Summit 3 src confirmed
2022-12-06Trump Organization Convicted on All 17 Criminal Counts in Tax Fraud Trial 4 src
Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · Donald Trump · +1
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2022-12-05Kendal Price Files Whistleblower Complaint on Jane Roberts Commission Income and Chief Justice Non-Recusal 6 src
John Roberts · Dick Durbin
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2022-11-15Global Civil Society Develops Standardized Resistance Documentation Protocol 3 src
Human Rights Watch · Amnesty International
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2022-09-21NY Attorney General Files $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump Organization 4 src
Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3
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2022-08-24Biden Announces $10K-$20K Student Loan Forgiveness Plan - 43 Million Borrowers Eligible 3 src
Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona
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2022-08-22Ethics board finds Noem may have engaged in misconduct and conflict of interest 4 src
Kristi Noem
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2022-08-18Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty to 15 Felonies, Agrees to Testify Against Trump Organization 4 src
Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · +1
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2022-06-27Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion 4 src
Three Arrows Capital · Voyager Digital · Celsius Network
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2022-05-13Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · Paul Engelmayer · South Korea
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2022-05-09Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · Janet Yellen · Three Arrows Capital · +2
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2022-04-26Warren Report Reveals 672 Pentagon and Congressional Officials Now Lobby for Defense Contractors 3 src
Elizabeth Warren · Boeing · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2
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2022-03-15Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance 3 src
Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Political Appointees · Antony Blinken · +3
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2022-03-01Task Force KleptoCapture Launched: US Expands Anti-Kleptocracy Operations 3 src
Merrick Garland · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Secret Service · +1
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2022-01-24Neil Young Demands Removal from Spotify Over Joe Rogan's COVID Misinformation 3 src
Joe Rogan · Spotify
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2022-01-18NY Attorney General James Files Motion Revealing Evidence of Trump Organization Fraud 4 src
Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3
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2021-12-31Rogan Hosts Vaccine Skeptic Dr. Robert Malone Who Claims "Mass Formation Psychosis" 6 src
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience
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2021-12-16Federal Judge Overturns Sackler Immunity Deal, Rules Bankruptcy Law Violated 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice
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2021-11-22SEC Fines McKinsey Subsidiary MIO Partners $18 Million for Puerto Rico Conflict of Interest and Material Nonpublic Information Violations 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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2021-11-09Office 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 · +2
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2021-11-02Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History 3 src
Pfizer · U.S. government
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2021-11-01In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids' 2 src
In-Q-Tel
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2021-10-20Digital 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
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2021-10-15Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin 4 src
CFTC · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2021-10-05Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy 4 src
Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1
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2021-09-15Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols Testify Before Senate on FBI's Betrayal in Nassar Case 5 src
McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Christopher Wray · Senate Judiciary Committee · +4
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2021-09-01Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · State Attorneys General
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2021-09-01Joe 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
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2021-07-06Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability 3 src
Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1
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2021-07-01Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Indicted for $1.7M Tax Fraud Scheme 4 src
Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Manhattan District Attorney · Donald Trump
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2021-06-03FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney
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2021-05-28Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate
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2021-04-15Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons 4 src
Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Donald Trump
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2021-03-01South Dakota pays $200,000 to silence appraiser chief fired after Noem intervention 3 src
Kristi Noem
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2021-02-13McConnell Says Trump "Practically and Morally Responsible" Minutes After Voting to Acquit 4 src
Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans
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2021-02-13Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty 4 src
Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +3
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2021-01-28Raytheon 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
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2021-01-26Biden 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
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2021-01-19Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy 4 src
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · +1
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2021-01-13Trump Pardons Kwame Kilpatrick After Serving 7 of 28 Years for Detroit Corruption 4 src
Donald Trump
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2021-01-07Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook
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2021-01-02CNP Attorney Cleta Mitchell Joins Trump Call Pressuring Georgia Officials 2 src
Cleta Mitchell · Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Council for National Policy
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2021-01-01Larry Ellison Donates $30 Million to Tim Scott's Super PAC Over 2021-2022 3 src
Larry Ellison · Oracle
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2020-12-31Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted 3 src
Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice
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2020-12-23Trump Pardons Charles Kushner and 14 Others in Single-Day Corruption Spree 4 src
Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Margaret Hunter · +1
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2020-12-22Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre 4 src
Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos
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2020-12-10CNP Leadership Releases Letter Urging State Legislators to Reject 25 Million Votes 2 src
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Republican state legislators
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2020-12-01DOJ Reveals Investigation into $2 Million Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme 4 src
Donald Trump · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani
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2020-12-01Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal 3 src
Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska
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2020-12-01Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power 4 src
Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jared Kushner · William Barr
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2020-11-25Trump Pardons Michael Flynn After Guilty Plea and Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theories 4 src
Donald Trump · Michael Flynn · Sidney Powell · Emmet Sullivan · +1
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2020-11-12CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge 2 src
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Hans von Spakovsky · Lisa Nelson
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2020-10-26Senate 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
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2020-10-21DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler
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2020-10-15Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged 3 src
Wells Fargo
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2020-09-27New York Times Obtains Trump Tax Returns, Reveals $750 in Federal Taxes Paid 4 src
Donald Trump · New York Times · Ivanka Trump · Trump Organization
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2020-09-26Trump 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
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2020-09-18Justice 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 · John Roberts
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2020-09-16House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People 4 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · 346 crash victims
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2020-09-14HHS Spends $300 Million in Taxpayer Funds on "Defeating Despair" COVID Ad Campaign Timed to Promote Trump Before Election 4 src
Donald Trump · Alex Azar
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2020-08-27Trump 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
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2020-08-25Acting 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
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2020-08-25Secretary 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
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2020-08-24Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Violates Hatch Act by Campaigning for Trump at Official USDA Event 3 src
Donald Trump
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2020-08-21Tennessee Enacts Felony Camping Law to Suppress Black Lives Matter Protests and Strip Voting Rights 14 src
Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly
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2020-08-06NY AG sues NRA seeking dissolution over $64M fraud by Wayne LaPierre, executives 3 src
Letitia James · National Rifle Association
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2020-06-25Wirecard Files for Insolvency After €1.9 Billion Goes Missing, Exposing Decade of EY Audit Failure and German Regulatory Capture 3 src confirmed
2020-06-09Federal 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
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook
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2020-04-07Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight 4 src
Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1
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2020-03-27PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates 3 src
Small Business Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Congress
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2020-03-19Senators Burr and Loeffler Accused of Insider Trading After COVID-19 Briefings 3 src
Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · Tucker Carlson
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2020-03-13COVID-19 Emergency Triggers Student Loan Payment Pause - 44 Million Borrowers Get Relief 3 src
Donald Trump · Joe Biden · U.S. Department of Education
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2020-03-07New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations 4 src
Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos
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2020-02-21DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives 3 src
Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo
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2020-02-21Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged 3 src
Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2020-02-20DOJ Overrules Prosecutors' Roger Stone Sentencing Recommendation After Trump Tweet 4 src
Roger Stone · Donald Trump · William Barr · Amy Berman Jackson
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2020-02-19Larry Ellison Hosts Trump Fundraiser at California Estate, Raises $7 Million 3 src
Larry Ellison · Donald Trump · Oracle · Republican Party
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2020-02-07Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge 4 src
Donald Trump · Gordon Sondland · Mike Pompeo
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2020-02-05Senate Acquits Trump Despite Proven Abuse of Power; Romney Only Republican to Convict 4 src
Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans
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2020-01-30Raytheon Profits Surge on Iran War Fears, CEO Cites Strong International Patriot Missile Demand 3 src
Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Saudi Arabia · Iran · +1
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2020-01-17Rep. Chris Collins Sentenced to 26 Months for Insider Trading From White House Lawn 3 src
Chris Collins · Donald Trump
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2020-01-09Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys" 3 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · Richard Blumenthal
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2020-01-01Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance 4 src
DaVita · Richard Blumenthal · Federal Trade Commission
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2019-12-03Rep. Duncan Hunter Pleads Guilty to Stealing Campaign Funds After Blaming Wife 3 src
Margaret Hunter · Donald Trump
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2019-11-16OMB Official Mark Sandy Testifies on Ukraine Aid Freeze, Reveals Two Colleagues Resigned Over Concerns 4 src
Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget
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2019-11-15Ambassador Yovanovitch Testifies on Giuliani Smear Campaign and Removal from Ukraine Post 3 src
Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman
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2019-11-07Judge Orders Trump to Pay $2 Million for Misusing Trump Foundation Charity Funds 4 src
Donald Trump · Letitia James · Trump Foundation
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2019-11-07Trump admits misusing Foundation for business/politics; $2M penalty, mandatory training 2 src
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Ivanka Trump · Eric Trump · +2
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