| 2019-07-24 | FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-07-01 | Betsy DeVos Repeals Gainful Employment Rule, Eliminating All Accountability for For-Profit College Job Outcomes Despite $1.3 Billion Projected Cost to Taxpayers Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Robert Eitel · Julian Schmoke Jr. · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-06-25 | U.S. Student Debt Surpasses $1.6 Trillion - 107% Increase in a Decade Federal Reserve |
| confirmed |
| 2019-06-13 | Commerce Inspector General Finds Wilbur Ross Lied to Congress About Census Citizenship Question Wilbur Ross · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2019-06-13 | Office of Special Counsel Issues Unprecedented Recommendation to Remove Kellyanne Conway for "Egregious, Notorious, and Ongoing" Hatch Act Violations Kellyanne Conway · Donald Trump · Henry Kerner · Office of Special Counsel |
| confirmed |
| 2019-05-23 | Julian Assange Charged Under Espionage Act - Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom Julian Assange · WikiLeaks · Department of Justice · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2019-05-07 | Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Recalled from Ukraine After Giuliani-Led Smear Campaign Marie Yovanovitch · Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Yuriy Lutsenko · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-04-11 | Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Confirmed Despite Extensive Conflicts from Oil and Gas Lobbying Career David Bernhardt · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2019-04-09 | HUD Inspector General Finds Ben Carson Violated Ethics Rules by Involving Son in Official Business Ben Carson · Ben Carson Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 2019-03-24 | Attorney General Barr Releases Misleading 4-Page Summary of Mueller Report William Barr · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · Rod Rosenstein |
| confirmed |
| 2019-03-12 | Operation Varsity Blues indicts 50 in largest college admissions fraud scheme Rick Singer · Lori Loughlin · Felicity Huffman · U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2019-03-07 | Paul Manafort Sentenced to Combined 7.5 Years in Federal Prison, Longest Mueller Investigation Sentence Paul Manafort · Donald Trump · Judge T.S. Ellis III · Judge Amy Berman Jackson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-02-14 | Northrop Grumman Pays $5.2 Million for Fraudulent USPS Contract Labor Billing Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · USPS Office of Inspector General |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-18 | Dream Center Education Holdings Enters Receivership, Art Institutes Collapse Leaves Thousands Stranded, $16 Million in Student Aid Disappeared Dream Center Education Holdings · Art Institutes · Argosy University · South University · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-15 | Pam Bondi Joins Ballard Partners as Lobbyist, Monetizing Government Connections Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Susie Wiles |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-01 | Ginni Thomas Joins CNP Action Board - Supreme Court Spouse in Conservative Coordination Hub Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Council for National Policy · CNP Action |
| confirmed |
| 2019-01-01 | ICE uses 230+ contracted detention facilities (2019); public lists undercount due to varied custody arrangements Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Vera Institute · Government investigators | | confirmed |
| 2019-01-01 | Peter Thiel Backs J.D. Vance's $93 Million Narya Capital Venture Fund J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · narya-capital · Marc Andreessen · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2019-01-01 | State Corporate Tax Rates Decline 33% Over Three Decades - ALEC's Interstate Race-to-Bottom Costs States $43-57 Billion Annually in Lost Revenue American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Corporate Lobby · Good Jobs First · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-12-18 | New York Judge Orders Trump Foundation Dissolved, Assets Distributed to Charities Saliann Scarpulla · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Barbara Underwood |
| confirmed |
| 2018-12-18 | Trump Foundation Admits to Misusing Charity Funds, Agrees to Dissolve Under Court Supervision Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Barbara Underwood · New York Attorney General |
| confirmed |
| 2018-12-10 | University of Phoenix Enrollment Collapses 80% After Fraud Investigations - $191M FTC Settlement University of Phoenix · Apollo Education Group · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2018-12-01 | Investigation Reveals McKinsey Advised Both Puerto Rico Fiscal Board and Hedge Fund Creditors Through Whitebox Advisors Holding $140 Million in Bonds McKinsey & Company · MIO Partners · Whitebox Advisors · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2018-11-20 | Trump Defends Saudi Arabia Despite CIA High-Confidence Finding MBS Ordered Khashoggi Murder - "Maybe He Did, Maybe He Didn't" Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Central Intelligence Agency · King Salman · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-11-06 | Facebook Admits Platform Used to "Incite Offline Violence" in Myanmar Genocide, Implements No Systemic Changes Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations · Rohingya Muslims · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-11-01 | Northrop Grumman Pays $31.65 Million for Fraudulent Overbilling of Air Force Contracts Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Air Force · Defense Criminal Investigative Service · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-10-01 | Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Refuses to Recuse From Overseeing His Own Governor Election Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Brad Raffensperger |
| confirmed |
| 2018-09-12 | CMS Administrator Seema Verma Spent $5 Million in Taxpayer Funds on GOP Consultants to Boost Personal Profile Seema Verma · Frank Pallone | | confirmed |
| 2018-08-21 | Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Campaign Finance Violations, Implicates Trump as "Individual-1" Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Stormy Daniels · Karen McDougal |
| confirmed |
| 2018-08-21 | Rep. Duncan Hunter and Wife Indicted for $250,000 Campaign Finance Fraud Duncan Hunter · Margaret Hunter |
| confirmed |
| 2018-08-08 | Rep. Chris Collins Indicted for Insider Trading Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Stephen Zarsky · Innate Immunotherapeutics |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-13 | HHS Inspector General Finds Tom Price Violated Federal Travel Rules, Wasted $341,000 on Private Jets Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Tom Price · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2018-06-14 | New York AG Sues Trump Foundation for "Persistent Illegal Conduct" and Coordinating with Campaign Barbara Underwood · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-06-11 | Net Neutrality Repeal Officially Takes Effect, Permitting ISPs to Throttle, Block, and Prioritize Content for Payment Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-04-10 | Judge Finalizes Trump University Settlement After Appeal Resolved, Victims Receive Payments Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-28 | VA Secretary David Shulkin Fired After Inspector General Finds Ethics Violations on Taxpayer-Funded European Trip David Shulkin · Vivieca Wright Simpson · Merle Bari · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-06 | Office of Special Counsel Recommends Disciplining Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act Violations Kellyanne Conway · Donald Trump · Henry Kerner · Roy Moore · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-01 | HUD Secretary Ben Carson Spends $31,000 in Taxpayer Funds on Dining Room Furniture, Violates Federal Law Ben Carson · Candy Carson · Helen Foster |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-05 | Trump's CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney Shuts Down Equifax Investigation, Exposing Regulatory Capture Mick Mulvaney · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Equifax · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-25 | New York Times Reveals Trump Ordered McGahn to Fire Mueller; Trump Subsequently Demands McGahn Deny Story and Create False Record Donald Trump · Don McGahn · Rod Rosenstein · Robert Mueller |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-24 | Alex Azar Confirmed as HHS Secretary After Doubling Insulin Prices at Eli Lilly Alex Azar · Eli Lilly · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Ron Wyden · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-01 | Agriculture Committee Captured by Agribusiness - $523M Lobbying Shapes Farm Bill Glenn Thompson · David Scott · House Agriculture Committee · American Farm Bureau Federation · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Attends Koch Network Donor Summit - Supreme Court Ethics Violations Clarence Thomas · Koch Network · Council for National Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2017-12-21 | DeVos Replaces Full Debt Relief With Earnings-Based Formula - Corinthian Victims Get Pennies on Dollar Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education |
| confirmed |
| 2017-12-11 | Betsy DeVos Blocks Debt Relief for 200,000 Defrauded For-Profit College Students Despite Career Staff Recommendations Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · ITT Technical Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2017-11-24 | Trump Installs Mick Mulvaney as CFPB Acting Director, Beginning Systematic Gutting of Consumer Protection Agency Mick Mulvaney · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| confirmed |
| 2017-11-05 | Paradise Papers Reveal Commerce Secretary Ross Concealed Stake in Russian-Linked Shipping Company Wilbur Ross · Kirill Shamalov · Gennady Timchenko · Vladimir Putin |
| confirmed |
| 2017-09-13 | Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Requested Military Jet for European Honeymoon, Request Denied After Scrutiny Steve Mnuchin · Louise Linton |
| confirmed |
| 2017-09-07 | Equifax Finally Discloses Breach 40 Days After Discovery, Exposing Regulatory Capture Richard Smith · Equifax · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Mick Mulvaney · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-08-31 | Wells Fargo Revises Fake Account Count to 3.5 Million, Up 67% Wells Fargo · Timothy Sloan |
| confirmed |
| 2017-08-21 | Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Uses Military Jet for Solar Eclipse Viewing Trip to Kentucky Steve Mnuchin · Louise Linton · Mitch McConnell |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-14 | DeVos Freezes Borrower Defense Rule Protecting Defrauded Students - States Sue for Unlawful Delay Betsy DeVos · Maura Healey |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-06 | Eric Trump Foundation Funneled Cancer Charity Donations to Trump Organization Businesses Eric Trump · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Eric Trump Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2017-05-16 | Boeing Delivers First 737 MAX Despite Internal Safety Concerns About MCAS Boeing · Malindo Air · Southwest Airlines · Federal Aviation Administration · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-05-13 | Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability Equifax · Richard Smith · Apache Software Foundation · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| confirmed |
| 2017-05-01 | Epstein Attempts to Blackmail Bill Gates Over Russian Affair Jeffrey Epstein · Bill Gates · Mila Antonova · Anna Chapman |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-19 | Fox News Fires Bill O'Reilly After $13 Million Sexual Harassment Settlements - Trump Had Defended Him Bill O'Reilly · Donald Trump · Rupert Murdoch · James Murdoch · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-07 | McConnell Invokes Nuclear Option, Eliminates Filibuster for Supreme Court Nominees, Gorsuch Confirmed 54-45 Mitch McConnell · Neil Gorsuch · Chuck Schumer · Harry Reid · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-06 | Trump Orders Syria Missile Strike from Mar-a-Lago During State Dinner with Xi Jinping - Military Action as Mar-a-Lago Spectacle Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Bashar al-Assad · Rex Tillerson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-31 | Judge Curiel Approves $25 Million Trump University Settlement, Victims to Receive 90% Refunds Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-22 | Devin Nunes Makes Secret Midnight White House Visit to View Intel, Then Briefs Trump Before Committee - Obstruction of Investigation Devin Nunes · Donald Trump · Ezra Cohen-Watnick · Michael Ellis · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-11 | Trump Fires Preet Bharara After Broken Promise to Keep Him - Obstruction Amid Trump-Related Investigations Donald Trump · Preet Bharara · Marc Kasowitz · Jeff Sessions · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-07 | Michael Flynn Retroactively Registers as Turkey Foreign Agent - $530K Lobbying During Campaign and as National Security Advisor Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · Recep Tayyip Erdogan · Ekim Alptekin · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-21 | Attorney General Jeff Sessions Rescinds Obama-Era Private Prison Phase-Out, Citing 'Future Needs of Federal Corrections System' Jeff Sessions · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · CoreCivic · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-14 | Trump Asks Comey to "Let Flynn Go" in Private Oval Office Meeting Donald Trump · James Comey · Michael Flynn · Jared Kushner · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-11 | Trump Handles North Korea Missile Crisis at Mar-a-Lago in Front of Paying Club Members - Unprecedented Security Breach Donald Trump · Shinzo Abe · Sean Spicer |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-08 | Trump Attacks Nordstrom Using Presidential Office to Promote Daughter Ivanka's Business After Brand Dropped Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Nordstrom · Sean Spicer · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-07 | Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary in Historic VP Tie-Breaking Vote - First Ever for Cabinet Nominee Betsy DeVos · Mike Pence · Susan Collins · Lisa Murkowski · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-24 | Trump Reverses Dakota Access Pipeline Denial, Orders Expedited Approval Donald Trump · Energy Transfer Partners · Kelcy Warren · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-17 | CFPB Sues Navient for Systematically Cheating 12 Million Student Loan Borrowers Through Illegal Servicing Practices Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Navient Corporation · Sallie Mae |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-11 | Trump Announces Sham Business Conflicts Plan: Retains Ownership While Sons Run Company - Rejects Divestment Donald Trump · Sheri Dillon · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | Google Manipulates Ad Auctions Through "Project Bernanke" to Favor Own Exchange Google · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Publishers · Advertisers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | Pecker and Howard Remove Trump Documents from National Enquirer Safe Before Inauguration David Pecker · Dylan Howard · American Media Inc. · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2016-12-08 | Former Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh Joins Northrop Grumman Board After B-21 Bomber Contract Award Mark Welsh · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Wes Bush · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-11-18 | Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Cases for $25 Million, 10 Days After Election Victory Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Eric Schneiderman |
| confirmed |
| 2016-11-09 | Private Prison Stocks Surge After Trump Election Victory, CoreCivic Up 43% and GEO Group Up 21% in Single Day Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Wall Street investors · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-28 | Corrections Corporation of America Rebrands as CoreCivic After DOJ Phase-Out Announcement and Undercover Exposé Corrections Corporation of America · CoreCivic · Damon T. Hininger · Board of Directors |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-27 | Federal Jury Acquits Bundy Brothers and Five Others for Armed Occupation of Malheur Wildlife Refuge Ammon Bundy · Ryan Bundy · Jeff Banta · Shawna Cox · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-17 | Cohen Creates Essential Consultants LLC for Stormy Daniels Payment Michael Cohen · Essential Consultants LLC · Stormy Daniels · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2016-10-12 | Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-10 | Carl Icahn Closes Trump Taj Mahal Casino After Prolonged Labor Dispute Carl Icahn · Donald Trump · Unite-HERE Local 54 union · Hard Rock International |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-03 | New York Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation to Immediately Cease Fundraising Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-27 | Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-20 | CEO Stumpf Testifies Before Senate, Elizabeth Warren Demands Resignation John Stumpf · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate Banking Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-13 | Washington Post Investigation Reveals Trump Foundation Used for Self-Dealing and Business Settlements Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-08 | Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating 2 Million Fake Accounts Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Richard Cordray |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-06 | ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees ITT Technical Institute · Kevin Modany · Daniel Fitzpatrick · U.S. Department of Education · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-03 | Standing Rock: Private Security and Police Attack Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protectors Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Energy Transfer Partners · Private Security Contractors · Morton County Sheriff's Department · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-31 | Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation Tom Price · Chris Collins · Innate Immunotherapeutics · Zimmer Biomet · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress Mylan · Heather Bresch · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-18 | Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates Issues Memo to Phase Out Federal Private Prisons, Citing Safety Problems and High Costs Sally Yates · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · CoreCivic · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-14 | Black Ledger Reveals $12.7 Million in Secret Cash Payments to Trump Campaign Chair Manafort Paul Manafort · Viktor Yanukovych · Oleg Deripaska · Trump Campaign · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-07-21 | Peter Thiel Delivers Prime-Time RNC Speech Supporting Trump Peter Thiel · Donald Trump · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 2016-06-28 | Hillbilly Elegy Published - Vance as Trump Critic J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Charlie Rose · ABC News |
| confirmed |
| 2016-06-12 | Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-06-01 | Trump University Victims Testify to Losing Retirement Savings, Disability Income to Fraudulent Scheme Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg · George Hanus |
| confirmed |
| 2016-05-31 | Judge Unseals Trump University Documents Revealing Predatory Sales Playbook Targeting Vulnerable Consumers Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg |
| confirmed |
| 2016-04-27 | Dennis Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months, Judge Calls Him 'Serial Child Molester' Dennis Hastert · Thomas Durkin · Scott Cross |
| confirmed |
| 2016-04-03 | Panama Papers Expose Global Offshore Financial Networks Mossack Fonseca · Vladimir Putin · Petro Poroshenko · Nawaz Sharif · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-03-16 | Obama Nominates Merrick Garland to Supreme Court, McConnell and Senate Republicans Refuse to Hold Hearings or Vote Barack Obama · Merrick Garland · Mitch McConnell · Chuck Grassley |
| confirmed |