| 2002-01-09 | Arthur Andersen Admits to Shredding Tons of Enron Documents
3 src Arthur Andersen |
| 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 · State Legislatures |
| 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 · Big Pharma |
| 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 |
| 2001-10-16 | Enron Reports $618 Million Loss and Reveals CFO Partnership Schemes
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow |
| confirmed |
| 2001-06-01 | Choctaw Tribe Contract Reveals Abramoff-Scanlon Lobbying Fraud
3 src Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Michael Scanlon · Jack Abramoff |
| confirmed |
| 2001-06-01 | Saudi Arabia purchases entire 45th floor of Trump World Tower for UN mission
3 src Saudi Arabia · Trump Organization | | confirmed |
| 2001-05-31 | Air Force Secretary James Roche Appointed After 17 Years as Northrop Grumman Executive
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2001-02-22 | Clinton Pardon Scandal Reveals Payments to President's Brother and Brother-in-Law
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-20 | Clinton Pardons Fugitive Marc Rich Amid Corruption Allegations
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Abramoff Moves to Greenberg Traurig, Partners with Michael Scanlon
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tom DeLay |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-15 | Phil Gramm Inserts 262-Page CFMA into 11,000-Page Spending Bill Hours Before Christmas Recess
4 src Phil Gramm · U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Bill Clinton · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-05-05 | ALEC's 'Environmental Literacy Improvement Act' Mandates Teaching Climate Denial in Schools
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Promotes Private Correctional Facilities Act Written by CCA Executives on Criminal Justice Task Force
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Indigenous Consensus Decision-Making: A Democratic Innovation Framework
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1999-12-31 | Yeltsin Resigns, Oligarchs Elevate Putin to President: KGB Officer Chosen to Protect 'The Family' Transforms Russia into Kleptocracy
5 src Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Putin · Boris Berezovsky · Vladimir Gusinsky · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1999-12-27 | Club New York shooting involving Diddy creates kompromat opportunity
4 src Sean Combs · NYPD | | confirmed |
| 1999-10-26 | Robert Rubin Joins Citigroup for $126 Million After Engineering Glass-Steagall Repeal
4 src Robert Rubin · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · Goldman Sachs · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1999-08-09 | Putin Appointed Prime Minister by Yeltsin
3 src Vladimir Putin · Boris Yeltsin |
| confirmed |
| 1999-04-06 | Abramoff and Reed Formalize Tribal Money Laundering Subcontractor Scheme
3 src Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Americans for Tax Reform · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1999-01-25 | IMF Concludes Comprehensive Structural Adjustment in Southeast Asia
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Multinational Corporations · Asian Development Bank |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-17 | Monica Lewinsky Affair Becomes Public as Clinton Issues Denial
3 src Bill Clinton · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-01 | Deutsche Bank Loans Trump $2.5 Billion Despite Russian Money Laundering and Red Flags
4 src Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Russian Oligarchs |
| confirmed |
| 1997-09-01 | USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments
4 src United States Agency for International Development · Lawrence Summers |
| confirmed |
| 1997-01-01 | Financial Industry Spends $300 Million on Deregulation Lobbying and Campaign Contributions
4 src Banking industry · Democratic Party · Republican Party · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1997-01-01 | First Complaints Against Larry Nassar Dismissed by Michigan State Coach Kathie Klages
3 src Larry Nassar · Michigan State University |
| confirmed |
| 1997-01-01 | SEC Fort Worth Examiners Identify Allen Stanford Ponzi Scheme, Enforcement Division Ignores Warnings for 12 Years
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-18 | Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" Exposes CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Connection
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1996-04-29 | Buddhist Temple Fundraising Event Generates Illegal Campaign Contributions
4 src Al Gore · Democratic National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1996-02-26 | Lincoln Bedroom Fundraising Scandal Reveals White House Donor Access Program
3 src Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1995-11-17 | Russia's Loans-for-Shares Auctions Transfer Major State Enterprises to Yeltsin-Aligned Bankers at Fraction-of-Value Prices, Creating the Oligarch Class
12 src Boris Yeltsin · Anatoly Chubais · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1995-11-01 | Russia's 'Loans-for-Shares' Auctions Transfer $100 Billion in State Assets to Oligarchs for Pennies on the Dollar
4 src Boris Yeltsin · Vladimir Potanin · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Boris Berezovsky · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1995-04-10 | McNamara Memoir Admits Vietnam War Was "Terribly Wrong" - Confession Comes 20 Years Too Late for 58,000 Dead Americans
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Criminal Justice Task Force Promotes Truth-in-Sentencing Model Legislation Written by Private Prison Industry
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Develops Tax and Expenditure Limitation Act - Model Bill to Restrict State Revenue and Manufacture Fiscal Crisis
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate funders |
| confirmed |
| 1994-08-05 | Kenneth Starr Replaces Robert Fiske as Whitewater Independent Counsel
4 src Kenneth Starr · Bill Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 1994-07-01 | Wackenhut Corrections (Later GEO Group) Goes Public on NASDAQ, Second Major Private Prison Company Enters Wall Street
3 src GEO Group · Wackenhut Corporation · Nasdaq |
| confirmed |
| 1993-01-14 | CFTC Chair Wendy Gramm Exempts Enron from Derivatives Regulation, Joins Board Five Weeks Later
4 src Phil Gramm · Enron Corporation · Kenneth Lay |
| confirmed |
| 1993-01-01 | Sean Combs founds Bad Boy Records with strategic Arista Records investment
4 src Sean Combs | | confirmed |
| 1992-11-03 | Oregon Voters Defeat Measure 9, Anti-LGBTQ Constitutional Amendment Backed by Christian Right
4 src Christian Coalition |
| confirmed |
| 1992-06-16 | Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Indicted on Five Iran-Contra Felonies
3 src Caspar Weinberger · Lawrence Walsh · Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 1992-01-01 | Harvard Receives $40 Million USAID Contract to Advise Russia's Economic Transition: 'Harvard's Blank Check from Uncle Sam'
10 src Lawrence Summers · United States Agency for International Development · Anatoly Chubais |
| confirmed |
| 1992-01-01 | SEC Investigates Madoff Feeder Fund Avellino & Bienes, Misses $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme in First Regulatory Failure
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff |
| confirmed |
| 1991-11-20 | Keating Five Ethics Findings: Cranston Reprimanded, Systemic Corruption Exposed
3 src Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · Donald Riegle · John Glenn · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1991-07-05 | BCCI Bank Shut Down After Exposing CIA Drug Money Laundering Network
3 src William Casey |
| confirmed |
| 1991-07-01 | Trump's Six Bankruptcies: Pattern of Borrowing Heavily and Walking Away
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 1990-07-25 | Keating Lincoln Savings Civil RICO Fraud Indictment
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1990-02-16 | Reagan Testifies "I Don't Recall" Repeatedly in Iran-Contra Deposition
3 src Ronald Reagan · John Poindexter |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | CNP Membership Includes Reagan Cabinet Officials - Meese and North Join Elite Network
2 src Council for National Policy · Edwin Meese · Oliver North |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | Hoover Institution Organizational Profile: Leveraging Stanford Prestige for Conservative Policy Legitimacy
4 src Hoover Institution · Herbert Hoover · Ronald Reagan · George Shultz · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | S&L Crisis Lessons Documented But Ignored: Stage Set for 2008 Repeat
3 src U.S. Congress · Banking industry |
| confirmed |
| 1989-05-04 | Oliver North Convicted of Iran-Contra Felonies, Later Overturned on Immunity
3 src Oliver North · Lawrence Walsh |
| confirmed |
| 1989-04-14 | Senate Ethics Committee Opens Keating Five Investigation
3 src John McCain · John Glenn · Alan Cranston · Donald Riegle · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1989-01-20 | Reagan Leaves Office: Domestic Corruption and Policy Failure Legacy
3 src Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 1988-12-01 | Silverado S&L Collapses: Neil Bush Conflict of Interest Costs Taxpayers $1 Billion
4 src George H.W. Bush · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 1988-01-01 | S&L Crisis Prosecutions: 1,000+ Bankers Convicted, Contrasts Sharply with 2008
3 src Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Thrift Supervision |
| confirmed |
| 1987-12-01 | Keating Lincoln Savings Irvine Fraudulent Bond Scheme
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1987-05-06 | CIA Director William Casey Dies Before Testifying on Iran-Contra Role
3 src William Casey · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1986-11-25 | Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public
3 src Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Oliver North · John Poindexter |
| confirmed |
| 1986-11-21 | Oliver North Begins Systematic Destruction of Iran-Contra Evidence
3 src Oliver North · John Poindexter |
| confirmed |
| 1986-10-22 | Reagan Signs Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Top Individual Rate Cut from 50% to 28%, Corporate Rate Slashed from 46% to 34%, Tax Brackets Reduced from 16 to 2
9 src Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · U.S. Treasury Department | | confirmed |
| 1986-10-01 | Corrections Corporation of America Goes Public on NASDAQ at $9 Per Share, Wall Street Bets on Mass Incarceration
3 src Corrections Corporation of America · Thomas W. Beasley · Nasdaq |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Ronald Perelman Receives $750 Million Drexel Blind Pool for Corporate Acquisitions
3 src Michael Milken · Drexel Burnham Lambert |
| confirmed |
| 1984-10-12 | Boland Amendment Explicitly Prohibits All U.S. Funding for Contras
3 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1984-06-01 | CIA Director Casey and Oliver North Create "The Enterprise" -- A Private Intelligence Operation Template
4 src William Casey · Oliver North · John Poindexter · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1984-01-22 | First Fully Privatized Prison Opens in Houston Under CCA Contract with Immigration and Naturalization Service
3 src Corrections Corporation of America · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Thomas W. Beasley |
| confirmed |
| 1984-01-01 | Drexel Burnham Lambert Raises $100 Million Blind Pool for Nelson Peltz Corporate Raids
3 src Michael Milken · Drexel Burnham Lambert | | confirmed |
| 1983-12-01 | Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1983-07-01 | South Dakota abolishes Rule Against Perpetuities, enabling dynasty trusts and tax haven status
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1983-01-28 | Corrections Corporation of America Founded in Nashville, Launching Modern Private Prison Industry
3 src Thomas W. Beasley · Corrections Corporation of America |
| confirmed |
| 1982-10-06 | Josemaria Escriva Beatified Despite Controversies
5 src Vatican | | confirmed |
| 1982-09-16 | Reagan Supports Philippine Dictator Marcos Despite Massive Kleptocracy
3 src Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-09-03 | Reagan Signs TEFRA Reversing Much of ERTA - Largest Peacetime Tax Increase Raises $100 Billion After Revenue Collapse
3 src Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · U.S. Senate Finance Committee | | confirmed |
| 1982-06-30 | Equal Rights Amendment Defeated After Schlafly's Decade-Long Campaign, Establishing Conservative Movement Model
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · Ronald Reagan · Illinois Legislature | | confirmed |
| 1982-01-01 | S&L Deregulation Creates Moral Hazard: Recipe for Systematic Fraud
3 src Ronald Reagan · Federal Home Loan Bank Board |
| confirmed |
| 1981-11-13 | Lee Atwater's Recorded Confession Explains Evolution of Racial Dog Whistle Politics
3 src Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1981-05-18 | Council for National Policy Founded with Schlafly as Founding Member, Creating Elite Conservative Network
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Council for National Policy · Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · +4 | | confirmed |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation
4 src Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Robert Bork · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Supply-Side Economics Failure: Empirical Evidence Debunks Trickle-Down Theory
4 src Ronald Reagan · Arthur Laffer · Congressional Budget Office |
| confirmed |
| 1980-06-30 | Schlafly and Falwell Joint Rally Demonstrates Religious Right Coalition Unity
2 src Phyllis Schlafly · Jerry Falwell · Eagle Forum | | confirmed |
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-11 | American Indian Religious Freedom Act Passes Without Enforcement Mechanisms, Proving Ineffective at Protecting Sacred Sites
3 src U.S. Congress · Jimmy Carter · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Native American Tribes |
| confirmed |
| 1976-12-31 | Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era
4 src Corporate America · Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-27 | Reagan Launches 'Welfare Queen' Attack Using Racially Coded Chicago Fraud Story
4 src Ronald Reagan | | confirmed |
| 1975-06-10 | Trump Settles Housing Discrimination Case Without Admitting Guilt
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn |
| confirmed |
| 1973-10-20 | Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon Fires Special Prosecutor Cox, Richardson and Ruckelshaus Resign in Protest
3 src Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Robert Bork · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship
3 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1973-06-25 | John Dean Testifies to Senate Watergate Committee: "Cancer Growing on the Presidency"
6 src John Dean · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1973-06-25 | Opus Dei: Canonical Recognition and Unique Ecclesiastical Status
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1973-05-17 | Senate Watergate Committee Begins Televised Hearings, Exposing Presidential Crimes to Public
3 src Sam Ervin · Howard Baker · Senate Watergate Committee · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1973-03-19 | Judge Sirica Uses Maximum Sentences to Break Watergate Cover-up, McCord Writes Explosive Letter
3 src John Sirica · James W. McCord Jr. · G. Gordon Liddy · John Dean | | confirmed |
| 1973-01-30 | G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord Convicted in Watergate Burglary Trial, Five Others Plead Guilty
3 src G. Gordon Liddy · James W. McCord Jr. · E. Howard Hunt · John Sirica | | confirmed |
| 1972-06-17 | Five Burglars Arrested Breaking into Democratic National Committee Headquarters at Watergate Complex
3 src James W. McCord Jr. · E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1972-02-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches STOP ERA Campaign, Pioneering Anti-Feminist Infrastructure
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Catholic Church | | confirmed |
| 1971-09-03 | White House Plumbers Break Into Daniel Ellsberg Psychiatrist Office Seeking Pentagon Papers Dirt
3 src E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Chuck Colson · John Ehrlichman · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1969-11-12 | Seymour Hersh Exposes My Lai Massacre Cover-Up After Army Conceals Atrocity for 20 Months - Wins Pulitzer Prize
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army |
| confirmed |
| 1968-03-16 | My Lai Massacre - U.S. Soldiers Murder Between 347 and 504 Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians in War Crime
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army |
| confirmed |
| 1967-08-25 | FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · Black Panther Party · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1967-03-01 | Ramparts Magazine Exposes CIA Foundation Funding Network, Ending Olin Money Laundering Operation
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson |
| confirmed |