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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-27 | Dennis Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months, Judge Calls Him 'Serial Child Molester'
3 src Dennis Hastert · Thomas Durkin · Scott Cross | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-03 | Panama Papers Expose Global Offshore Financial Networks
3 src 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
4 src Barack Obama · Merrick Garland · Mitch McConnell · Chuck Grassley | confirmed | |
| 2016-02-13 | Justice Antonin Scalia Dies, McConnell Immediately Vows to Block Any Obama Nominee
4 src Antonin Scalia · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Illicit Fentanyl Overtakes Prescription Opioids as Leading Cause of Overdose Deaths
3 src Drug Enforcement Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Illicit Fentanyl Suppliers | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme
5 src DaVita · Fresenius Medical Care · American Kidney Fund · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-19 | Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases
4 src Johns Hopkins University · Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Roche · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-31 | Valeant Pharmaceuticals Scandal Exposes Systematic Price Gouging Strategy - 3000% Increase on Syprine, Philidor Fraud Network
4 src Valeant Pharmaceuticals · J. Michael Pearson · Philidor Rx Services · William Ackman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | DaVita Pays $450 Million for Drug Wastage Fraud, Largest Unjoined Whistleblower Settlement in History
3 src DaVita · Kent Thiry · Alon J. Vainer · Daniel D. Barbir · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty to Federal Banking Violations
3 src Dennis Hastert | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-15 | Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation
3 src John Carreyrou · Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-09-18 | EPA Exposes Volkswagen Dieselgate: 11 Million Cars with Emissions Defeat Devices
4 src Volkswagen Group · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · California Air Resources Board (CARB) · International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-09 | Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Dennis Hastert Publicly Emerge
3 src Dennis Hastert · Jolene Reinboldt Burdge · Steve Reinboldt | confirmed | |
| 2015-05-28 | Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted for Bank Fraud and Lying to FBI
3 src Dennis Hastert | confirmed | |
| 2015-04-27 | Corinthian Colleges Files Bankruptcy After Federal Crackdown on For-Profit College Fraud
4 src Corinthian Colleges · U.S. Department of Education · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities | confirmed | |
| 2015-04-26 | Corinthian Colleges Files Bankruptcy After Defrauding 72,000 Students - Executives Shield Assets
3 src Corinthian Colleges · Jack Massimino | confirmed | |
| 2015-04-08 | Russian Agents Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin Attend NRA Annual Meeting, Meet Federal Reserve Vice Chairman
2 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · Stanley Fischer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-03-17 | Rep. Aaron Schock Resigns Amid Luxury Spending and Mileage Fraud Scandal
3 src Aaron Schock | confirmed | |
| 2015-02-23 | "Corinthian 15" Launch First Student Debt Strike in U.S. History
3 src Debt Collective · Corinthian 15 · Arne Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-18 | Congress Appropriates $120 Million for Unwanted Abrams Tanks for Third Consecutive Year Despite Army Opposition
3 src General Dynamics · Mike Turner · Ray Odierno · Rob Portman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme
3 src DaVita · Kent Thiry · Department of Justice · HHS Office of Inspector General | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-15 | Former Utah Attorneys General Shurtleff and Swallow arrested on 23 corruption counts
3 src Mark Shurtleff · John Swallow · Jeremy Johnson · Marc Sessions Jenson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-12 | Federal Government Cuts Off Corinthian Colleges - 72,000 Students Trapped by Fraud
3 src U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · Arne Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2014-03-18 | Annexation of Crimea: Putin's Strategic Asset Seizure
4 src Vladimir Putin · Sergey Aksyonov · Viktor Yanukovych · Sergey Lavrov · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-03-01 | Trump Foundation Buys $20,000 Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction, Hangs in Trump Golf Club
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-26 | Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats
3 src Dave Camp · House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group · Cerberus Capital Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-06 | Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists
3 src Max Baucus · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Merck · UnitedHealth Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-21 | Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Wife Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges
3 src Bob McDonnell · Maureen McDonnell · Jonnie Williams | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-23 | Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins
3 src Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf · Scott Reckard (LA Times Reporter) | confirmed | |
| 2013-11-11 | Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill
3 src Citigroup · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 2013-11-09 | Trump Holds Miss Universe in Moscow, Partners with Putin-Connected Agalarovs for Trump Tower Moscow
4 src Donald Trump · Aras Agalarov · Emin Agalarov · Vladimir Putin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-20 | South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft
3 src Richard Benda · Joop Bollen · Marty Jackley · Mike Rounds | confirmed | |
| 2013-09-17 | Pam Bondi Receives Illegal $25,000 Trump Foundation Donation During Trump University Investigation
3 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-21 | Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-15 | Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements
3 src Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2013-02-20 | Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty to $750,000 Campaign Fund Fraud
3 src Jesse Jackson Jr. · Sandra Stevens Jackson | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-05 | ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation
4 src Elizabeth Fowler · Johnson & Johnson · WellPoint · Max Baucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-30 | Holder Closes Durham CIA Torture Investigations With No Charges — Completing the Obama-Era Ratchet Click on Torture Non-Prosecution
4 src Eric Holder · John Durham · Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-07-25 | Congress Overrides Army to Fund $255 Million in Unwanted Abrams Tank Upgrades to Protect General Dynamics Ohio Plant
3 src General Dynamics · Rob Portman · Sherrod Brown · Ray Odierno · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Leonard Leo Directs Hidden Payments to Ginni Thomas Through Kellyanne Conway, Instructs "No Mention of Ginni"
4 src Leonard Leo · Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Kellyanne Conway · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2011-10-31 | MF Global Bankruptcy: $1.6 Billion in Customer Funds Missing Under Jon Corzine
3 src Jon Corzine | confirmed | |
| 2011-07-01 | ALEC Achieves Systematic Legislative Capture: 200+ Corporate-Drafted Bills Enacted Annually Across States
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-06-16 | Rep. Anthony Weiner Resigns After Sexting Scandal and Cover-Up
3 src Anthony Weiner · Huma Abedin · Barack Obama · Nancy Pelosi | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-27 | Judd Gregg Joins Goldman Sachs as International Advisor After Banking Committee Role
3 src Judd Gregg · Goldman Sachs · Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association | confirmed | |
| 2011-04-27 | Trump's Birtherism Campaign Forces Obama to Release Long-Form Birth Certificate
4 src Donald Trump · Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-03 | Evan Bayh Joins Apollo Global Management and Five Corporate Boards After Senate
3 src Evan Bayh · Apollo Global Management · McGuireWoods · Marathon Petroleum · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | ALEC Grants Corporate Lobbyists 'Equal Vote' on Model Legislation for State Legislatures
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | J.D. Vance Meets Peter Thiel at Yale Law School, Beginning Political Pipeline
3 src J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Yale Law School | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-16 | SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Over ABACUS 2007-AC1 Synthetic CDO Deal Where Hedge Fund Manager John Paulson Selected Mortgage Securities to Bet Against While Goldman Sold Package to Investors, Resulting in $550 Million Settlement but No Criminal Charges
2 src Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest
3 src Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-12-14 | University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation
3 src University of Phoenix · Apollo Group · Mary Hendow · Julie Albertson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-09-12 | 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Demonstrates Koch Network Mobilization Power
3 src FreedomWorks · Americans for Prosperity · Dick Armey · Brendan Steinhauser · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2009-04-13 | Peter Thiel Publishes Anti-Democracy Essay Declaring Freedom and Democracy Incompatible
4 src Peter Thiel · Cato Institute | confirmed | |
| 2009-04-02 | Northrop Grumman Pays $325 Million for Decade of Defective Spy Satellite Parts
3 src Northrop Grumman · TRW Inc. · Department of Justice · National Reconnaissance Office · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-01 | Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate
3 src House Energy and Commerce Committee · Fred Upton · PhRMA · Pfizer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-12-09 | Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested for Attempting to Sell Obama's Senate Seat
3 src Rod Blagojevich · Barack Obama · Patrick Fitzgerald · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance
4 src George W. Bush · Paul Wellstone · Pete Domenici · U.S. Department of Labor · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-11 | Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers
4 src Mark Ciavarella · Michael Conahan · PA Child Care · Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-08-18 | General Dynamics Pays $4 Million to Settle Fraud Charges for Defective Submarine and Aircraft Parts
2 src General Dynamics · Benton J. Campbell · Defense Criminal Investigative Service · U.S. Navy | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-29 | Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Felony Corruption Charges
3 src Ted Stevens · Bill Allen · Eric Holder | confirmed | |
| 2007-12-18 | Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law
3 src Trent Lott · John Breaux · Breaux Lott Leadership Group · Patton Boggs | confirmed | |
| 2007-10-01 | Trump Foundation Pays $258,000 for Six-Foot Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2007-09-15 | Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door
3 src U.S. Congress · K Street · Public Citizen | confirmed | |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud
3 src Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-05 | Ken Lay Dies Before Sentencing, Conviction Later Vacated
3 src Kenneth Lay | confirmed | |
| 2006-06-07 | Model Ruslana Korshunova, 18, flies to Epstein's island two years before suspicious death
4 src Ruslana Korshunova · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-28 | Rep. Duke Cunningham Pleads Guilty to $2.4 Million Bribery Scheme
3 src Duke Cunningham · Mitchell Wade · Carol Lam · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Energy Committee Hearings Expose Oil Industry Climate Denial Campaign and Regulatory Capture
3 src House Energy and Commerce Committee · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute | confirmed | |
| 2005-09-28 | House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted for Money Laundering and Conspiracy
3 src Tom DeLay | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-29 | Hurricane Katrina Enables .4B No-Bid Disaster Capitalism Takeover
3 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bechtel · Shaw Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-11 | Jack Abramoff Indicted for Wire Fraud in SunCruz Casinos Purchase
3 src Jack Abramoff · Adam Kidan | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-03 | FBI Finds $90,000 in Cash Hidden in Rep. William Jefferson's Freezer
3 src William Jefferson · Lori Mody | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
3 src Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-30 | Investigation Reveals $15M in Lobbyist-Funded Congressional Travel and Fact-Finding Junkets
3 src Tom DeLay · Jack Abramoff · Susan Hirschmann · Robert Wexler | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Bankruptcy Act Makes Private Student Loans Non-Dischargeable - Weaponizing Law Against Students
3 src George W. Bush · MBNA · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-11 | Trump Admits to Entering Pageant Dressing Rooms on Howard Stern
3 src Donald Trump · Howard Stern | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists
3 src Public Citizen · U.S. Congress · K Street | confirmed | |
| 2005-03-14 | Tom Daschle Joins Private Equity Firm and Lobbying After Senate Majority Leadership
3 src Tom Daschle · InterMedia Advisors · Alston & Bird · Leo Hindery | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-15 | Billy Tauzin Joins PhRMA as CEO After Shepherding $200B Medicare Drug Bill
3 src Billy Tauzin · PhRMA · Medicare | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Massey Energy CEO Spends $3 Million to Elect Judge in Case Against His Company
11 src Don Blankenship · Brent Benjamin · Hugh Caperton · Massey Energy Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-07 | Enron Founder Ken Lay Indicted on 11 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-08 | The Apprentice Premieres on NBC, Rehabilitating Trump's Image After Bankruptcies
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Burnett · NBC | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Medicare Part D Passes After Pharmaceutical Industry Writes Price Negotiation Ban
3 src Billy Tauzin · House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Medicare | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-26 | HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History
3 src HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-12-19 | Central Park Five Exonerated: DNA Proves Innocence After 13 Years
3 src Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · Kevin Richardson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-12 | Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski Indicted for $600 Million Fraud
3 src Dennis Kozlowski · Mark Swartz · Mark Belnick | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-05 | WHIG Develops "Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud" Propaganda Template
3 src Michael Gerson · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · George W. Bush · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Think Tank Network Coordinates Iraq War Support Following Powell Memo Template
3 src American Enterprise Institute · Heritage Foundation · Dick Cheney · Paul Wolfowitz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-30 | Sarbanes-Oxley Act Signed Into Law as Brief Reform Moment
3 src George W. Bush · Paul Sarbanes · Michael Oxley | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-25 | WorldCom Announces $3.8 Billion Accounting Fraud Discovery
3 src Bernard Ebbers · Cynthia Cooper · Scott Sullivan · WorldCom | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-24 | Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci Convicted in Operation Plunder Dome Corruption Trial, Sentenced to Five Years for Racketeering Conspiracy
4 src Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Attorney's Office (Maryland) · U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-15 | Arthur Andersen Convicted, Destroying 85,000 Jobs Worldwide
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-09 | Arthur Andersen Admits to Shredding Tons of Enron Documents
3 src Arthur Andersen · Joseph Berardino · David Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC's Corporate 'Scholarship' Program Funds Legislator Trips to Luxury Resort Conferences
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · PhRMA · Eli Lilly · Time Warner Cable · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | Insulin Prices Begin Tripling 2002-2013 as Three Manufacturers Control 99% of Market - From $231 to $762 Annually
4 src Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · Congressional Diabetes Caucus · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-12-02 | Enron Bankruptcy After Energy Task Force Meetings
3 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-22 | SEC Launches Investigation Into Enron's Related-Party Transactions
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Andrew Fastow · Kenneth Lay | confirmed |