Capture lane

Systematic Corruption

The Systematic Corruption capture lane traces 858 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

858 events From Jan 1, 1600 To May 6, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2023-02-03East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster
Norfolk Southern Railway · National Transportation Safety Board · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Trump Administration · +1
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2023-01-04Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer sentenced to 3.5 years, $19M forfeiture
Rick Singer · Federal Prosecutors
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2022-12-30House Ways and Means Committee Releases Six Years of Trump Tax Returns
House Ways and Means Committee · Richard Neal · Donald Trump · Internal Revenue Service · +1
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2022-12-15Global Indigenous Democracy and Governance Summit
Global Indigenous Leaders · Academic Researchers · Indigenous Governance Scholars
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2022-12-06Trump Organization Convicted on All 17 Criminal Counts in Tax Fraud Trial
Trump Organization · Trump Corporation · Trump Payroll Corporation · Alvin Bragg · +3
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2022-12-05Kendal Price Files Whistleblower Complaint on Jane Roberts Commission Income and Chief Justice Non-Recusal
Kendal Price · Jane Sullivan Roberts · John Roberts · Dick Durbin · +3
2022-11-15Global Civil Society Develops Standardized Resistance Documentation Protocol
International NGO Alliance · Human Rights Watch · Amnesty International · United Nations Human Rights Council · +1
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2022-09-21NY Attorney General Files $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump Organization
Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +4
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2022-08-24Biden Announces $10K-$20K Student Loan Forgiveness Plan - 43 Million Borrowers Eligible
Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona
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2022-08-22Ethics board finds Noem may have engaged in misconduct and conflict of interest
Kristi Noem · South Dakota Government Accountability Board · Jason Ravnsborg
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2022-08-18Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty to 15 Felonies, Agrees to Testify Against Trump Organization
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
Three Arrows Capital · Kyle Davies · Su Zhu · Monetary Authority of Singapore · +5
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2022-05-13Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion
Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +3
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2022-05-09Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash
Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +4
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2022-04-26Warren Report Reveals 672 Pentagon and Congressional Officials Now Lobby for Defense Contractors
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
Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4
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2022-03-01Task Force KleptoCapture Launched: US Expands Anti-Kleptocracy Operations
Merrick Garland · Andrew Adams · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +3
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2022-01-24Neil Young Demands Removal from Spotify Over Joe Rogan's COVID Misinformation
Neil Young · Joe Rogan · Spotify · Daniel Ek
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2022-01-18NY Attorney General James Files Motion Revealing Evidence of Trump Organization Fraud
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"
Joe Rogan · Dr. Robert Malone · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience
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2021-12-16Federal Judge Overturns Sackler Immunity Deal, Rules Bankruptcy Law Violated
Colleen McMahon · 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
Securities and Exchange Commission · MIO Partners · 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
Mike Pompeo · Chad Wolf · Kellyanne Conway · Jared Kushner · +9
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2021-11-02Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History
Pfizer · BioNTech · U.S. government
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2021-11-01In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids'
Christopher Darby · Stephen Bowsher · Michael Morell · Jeremy Bash · +3
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2021-10-20Digital World Acquisition Corp Announces Trump Media SPAC Merger
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
Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1
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2021-10-05Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy
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
Simone Biles · McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Maggie Nichols · +6
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2021-09-01Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition
Robert Drain · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
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2021-09-01Joe Rogan Announces He Treated COVID with Unproven Ivermectin, Sparking Medical Misinformation Controversy
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience · Food and Drug Administration · +3
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2021-07-06Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability
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
Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Cyrus Vance Jr. · Manhattan District Attorney · +1
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2021-06-03FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme
Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney · John Sarbanes
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2021-05-28Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees
Frank Kendall · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · +1
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2021-04-15Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons
Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Harry Sargeant III · +2
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2021-03-01South Dakota pays $200,000 to silence appraiser chief fired after Noem intervention
Sherry Bren · Kristi Noem · South Dakota
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2021-02-13McConnell Says Trump "Practically and Morally Responsible" Minutes After Voting to Acquit
Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans
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2021-02-13Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty
Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +4
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2021-01-28Raytheon CEO Hayes Tells Investors "Peace Not Going to Break Out" in Middle East, Sees Solid Growth
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
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
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Elliott Broidy · Ken Kurson · +3
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2021-01-13Trump Pardons Kwame Kilpatrick After Serving 7 of 28 Years for Detroit Corruption
Donald Trump · Kwame Kilpatrick · Bobby Ferguson · Alveda King
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2021-01-07Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Oversight Board
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2021-01-02CNP Attorney Cleta Mitchell Joins Trump Call Pressuring Georgia Officials
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
Larry Ellison · Tim Scott · Oracle · Opportunity Matters Fund
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2020-12-31Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted
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
Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Paul Erickson · +2
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2020-12-22Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre
Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos · Nicholas Slatten · +3
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2020-12-10CNP Leadership Releases Letter Urging State Legislators to Reject 25 Million Votes
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
Donald Trump · Elliott Broidy · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani
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2020-12-01Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal
Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska · Rusal
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2020-12-01Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power
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
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
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · J. Christian Adams · Hans von Spakovsky · +2
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2020-10-26Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett 52-48 Eight Days Before Election, Creating 6-3 Conservative Supermajority
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
U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · +5
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2020-10-15Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged
Wells Fargo
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2020-09-27New York Times Obtains Trump Tax Returns, Reveals $750 in Federal Taxes Paid
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
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
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Clara Spera · +1
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2020-09-16House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Representative Peter DeFazio · Representative Rick Larsen · Federal Aviation Administration · +2
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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
Michael Caputo · Donald Trump · Dennis Quaid · CeCe Winans · +1
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2020-08-27Trump Delivers RNC Acceptance Speech from White House South Lawn in Unprecedented Mass Hatch Act Violation Event
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
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
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
Sonny Perdue · Donald Trump
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2020-08-21Tennessee Enacts Felony Camping Law to Suppress Black Lives Matter Protests and Strip Voting Rights
Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Randy McNally · Cameron Sexton
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2020-08-06NY AG sues NRA seeking dissolution over $64M fraud by Wayne LaPierre, executives
Wayne LaPierre · Letitia James · National Rifle Association · Wilson "Woody" Phillips · +2
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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
Wirecard · Markus Braun · Jan Marsalek · EY · +4
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2020-06-09Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies
Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice · Congressional Oversight
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1
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2020-04-07Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight
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
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
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
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
Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3
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2020-02-21DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives
Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo
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2020-02-21Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged
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
Roger Stone · Donald Trump · William Barr · Aaron Zelinsky · +4
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2020-02-19Larry Ellison Hosts Trump Fundraiser at California Estate, Raises $7 Million
Larry Ellison · Donald Trump · Oracle · Republican Party
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2020-02-07Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge
Donald Trump · Alexander Vindman · Yevgeny Vindman · Gordon Sondland · +2
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2020-02-05Senate Acquits Trump Despite Proven Abuse of Power; Romney Only Republican to Convict
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
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
Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Donald Trump · Vernon S. Broderick
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2020-01-09Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys"
Boeing employees · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · House Transportation Committee · +1
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2020-01-01Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance
DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +1
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2019-12-03Rep. Duncan Hunter Pleads Guilty to Stealing Campaign Funds After Blaming Wife
Duncan Hunter · 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
Mark Sandy · Michael Duffey · 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
Marie Yovanovitch · Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump · Lev Parnas · +1
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2019-11-07Judge Orders Trump to Pay $2 Million for Misusing Trump Foundation Charity Funds
Saliann Scarpulla · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Trump Foundation
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2019-11-07Trump admits misusing Foundation for business/politics; $2M penalty, mandatory training
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Ivanka Trump · Eric Trump · +2
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2019-10-30Interior IG Investigates Bernhardt for California Water Decision Benefiting Former Client Westlands
David Bernhardt · Westlands Water District · David Murillo
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2019-10-26Pentagon Awards $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft Over Amazon
Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Donald Trump · +1
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2019-10-24Federal Judge Holds DeVos in Contempt for Illegally Collecting on Corinthian Loans - $100K Fine
Betsy DeVos · Sallie Kim · U.S. Department of Education
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2019-09-30WeWork Withdraws IPO After Valuation Collapses from $47 Billion to $10 Billion, Exposing Massive Corporate Governance Failure
Adam Neumann · WeWork · Securities and Exchange Commission · SoftBank · +2
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2019-09-06Commerce Secretary Ross Threatens to Fire NOAA Scientists Who Contradicted Trump's False Hurricane Claim
Wilbur Ross · Donald Trump · Neil Jacobs · Craig McLean
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2019-08-07Mississippi raids - largest single-state immigration enforcement
ICE agents · Detained workers · Mississippi employers
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2019-08-06Bernie Sanders Appears on Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan Later Endorses Sanders for President
Joe Rogan · Bernie Sanders
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2019-07-28Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Resigns After Repeated Conflicts with Trump Over Russia
Dan Coats · Donald Trump · John Ratcliffe · Vladimir Putin
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