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2014-07-01Academi (formerly Blackwater) Merges with Triple Canopy to Form Constellis Holdings, Third Corporate Rebranding

accountability-crisis private-military corporate-consolidation +1

2014-06-28Facebook Emotional Contagion Experiment Revealed

tech-ethics social-media psychological-manipulation +2

2014-06-25Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California

civil-liberties surveillance privacy +2

2014-06-21Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration

racism donald-trump criminal-justice +1

2014-06-19Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank: Supreme Court Restricts Software Patents, Reducing Patent Troll Leverage Over Abstract Business Methods

supreme-court patent-abuse intellectual-property +3

2014-06-16Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited

supreme-court judicial-capture conflict-of-interest +3

2014-06-12Federal Government Cuts Off Corinthian Colleges - 72,000 Students Trapped by Fraud

for-profit-colleges fraud student-debt +1

2014-06-04Germany Opens Criminal Investigation Into NSA Tapping of Merkel's Phone

nsa-surveillance international-relations diplomatic-consequences +1

2014-06-01FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews

regulatory-capture pharmaceutical-industry fda +2

2014-06-01SCL Elections Contracts with Kogan to Launch Cambridge Analytica Data Operation

political-targeting electoral-manipulation scl-elections +4

2014-05-15FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash

regulatory-capture telecommunications fcc +2

2014-05-12Hunter Biden Joins Burisma Board While Father Leads Ukraine Policy

foreign-influence conflict-of-interest ukraine +1

2014-05-01Eric Trump says all funding comes from Russia, not U.S. banks

foreign-influence trump-organization russian-money +2

2014-04-25Flint Switches to Corrosive River Water to Save Money, Poisoning Entire City

public-health cost-cutting emergency-manager +2

2014-04-02Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC

campaign-finance dark-money supreme-court +4

2014-03-18Putin Formally Signs Treaty Annexing Crimea, Escalating International Conflict

territorial-expansion sanctions international-law +3

2014-03-18Annexation of Crimea: Putin's Strategic Asset Seizure

sanctions ukraine russia +5

2014-03-01Trump Foundation Buys $20,000 Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction, Hangs in Trump Golf Club

self-dealing trump-foundation charity-fraud +1

2014-02-26Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats

regulatory-capture lobbying congressional-corruption +2

2014-02-24Oracle Acquires BlueKai Data Broker for $400 Million, Expands Surveillance Operations

surveillance privacy oracle +2

2014-02-19Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market

regulatory-capture antitrust merger +6

2014-02-06Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists

regulatory-capture lobbying congressional-corruption +2

2014-01-21Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Wife Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges

supreme-court congressional-corruption republican-party +4

2014-01-17Obama Announces Limited NSA Reforms While Preserving Core Surveillance Programs

nsa-surveillance obama-administration surveillance-reform +2

2014-01-16NSA DISHFIRE Program Collects Nearly 200 Million Text Messages Daily Worldwide

nsa-surveillance metadata-collection mass-surveillance +2

2014-01-14Verizon Lawsuit Successfully Overturns FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Court Demands Title II Reclassification

regulatory-capture telecommunications fcc +3

2014-01-01Francisco Partners Acquires 70% Stake in NSO Group for $130 Million

nso-group pegasus-spyware private-equity +2

2014-01-01Flint Water Crisis (2014-2024) - 12,000 Children Poisoned, Zero Accountability

accountability democracy emergency-manager +3

2014-01-01Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak tries to avoid security detail for Epstein island visits

jeffrey-epstein ehud-barak unit-8200 +3

2014-01-01Reported: Epstein corresponded and met with FSB Academy graduate Sergei Belyakov (2014–2017)

epstein-network kompromat russian-intelligence +1

2014-01-01Erik Prince Founds Frontier Services Group with Chinese State Investment from CITIC, Controlled by Chang Zhenming

foreign-influence conflicts-of-interest private-military +3

2014-01-01Tony Perkins Serves as CNP Vice President - Family Research Council Integration

conservative-movement coordination religious-right +2

2014-01-01CNP Membership Includes DeVos and Mercer Families - Billionaire Donor Integration

dark-money institutional-capture conservative-movement +3

2014-01-01Candiru Spyware Company Founded by Israeli Veterans

nso-group israel spyware +3

2014-01-01Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate

regulatory-capture financial-crime money-laundering +5

2013-12-23Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins

regulatory-capture corporate-fraud banking-regulation +1

2013-12-16Federal Judge Rules NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection Likely Unconstitutional

constitutional-law judicial-oversight nsa-surveillance +2

2013-12-09American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market

regulatory-capture antitrust consolidation +4

2013-12-05Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations

transparency nsa-surveillance privacy-rights +2

2013-11-11Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill

regulatory-capture lobbying congressional-corruption +2

2013-11-09Trump Holds Miss Universe in Moscow, Partners with Putin-Connected Agalarovs for Trump Tower Moscow

trump russia financial-corruption +5

2013-10-24NSA Monitored Angela Merkel's Phone and 35 Other World Leaders

nsa-surveillance edward-snowden international-relations +2

2013-10-21Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court

first-amendment transparency nsa-surveillance +3

2013-10-20South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft

institutional-capture regulatory-capture corruption +2

2013-10-02Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed

nsa-surveillance privacy-rights tech-resistance +3

2013-10-01Healthcare.gov Launch Disaster Costs $1.7B from $93M Contract

healthcare obamacare it-failure +2

2013-09-30Darnell Earley Appointed as Flint Emergency Manager, Will Oversee Disastrous Water Switch

emergency-manager flint-water-crisis michigan +1

2013-09-17Pam Bondi Receives Illegal $25,000 Trump Foundation Donation During Trump University Investigation

pay-to-play corruption trump +2

2013-09-17Brazil's President Cancels US State Visit Over NSA Spying on Dilma Rousseff

nsa-surveillance international-relations diplomatic-consequences +2

2013-09-17Trump Foundation Donates $25,000 to Bondi PAC After Florida Considers Joining Trump University Lawsuit

corruption trump-university quid-pro-quo +2

2013-08-24New York Attorney General Sues Trump University for $40 Million, Calls It "Straight Up Fraud"

fraud consumer-protection trump-university +3

2013-08-21Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for WikiLeaks Disclosures

war-crimes whistleblower-prosecution espionage-act +2

2013-08-08Lavabit Encrypted Email Service Shuts Down Rather Than Comply with NSA Demands

fbi encryption nsa-surveillance +3

2013-08-05Jeff Bezos Purchases Washington Post for $250 Million

corporate-power media-capture billionaire-control +1

2013-08-01Retired General James Mattis Joins General Dynamics Board Five Months After Marine Corps Retirement

pentagon defense-contractors military-industrial-complex +2

2013-08-01Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program

surveillance technology police +2

2013-08-01Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum After 39 Days in Moscow Airport

russia edward-snowden asylum +2

2013-08-01FAA Safety Official Ali Bahrami Leaves for Aerospace Industries Association During Boeing 737 MAX Development

regulatory-capture revolving-door aviation-safety +3

2013-07-02Director of National Intelligence Clapper Apologizes for "Clearly Erroneous" Testimony to Congress

nsa-surveillance government-accountability perjury +2

2013-07-01Reuters: AT&T nurtured and bankrolled OANN; founder says AT&T asked for a conservative network

corporate-capture att conservative-media +3

2013-07-01North Carolina Passes "Monster" Voter Suppression Law Hours After Shelby County Decision

republican-party voter-suppression voting-rights +2

2013-07-01ALEC Coordinates 139 Education Privatization Bills Across States - Systematic Public School Defunding Campaign

alec model-legislation corporate-lobbying +8

2013-06-25Shelby County Decision Guts Voting Rights Act Preclearance

judicial-capture democracy-erosion electoral-manipulation +3

2013-06-25ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision

alec state-capture electoral-manipulation +4

2013-06-23Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Moscow Seeking Asylum Amid U.S. Diplomatic Pressure

russia edward-snowden asylum +3

2013-06-21Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion

corporate-fraud enron criminal-prosecution +2

2013-06-21Obama Prosecutes 8 Whistleblowers Under Espionage Act, More Than All Presidents

press-freedom surveillance journalism +2

2013-06-17Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually

supreme-court regulatory-capture antitrust +4

2013-06-14U.S. Charges Edward Snowden with Espionage and Theft of Government Property

whistleblowing espionage-act nsa-surveillance +2

2013-06-09Edward Snowden Reveals Identity as NSA Whistleblower in Hong Kong Video

whistleblowing nsa-surveillance privacy-rights +2

2013-06-06Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access

constitutional-violation nsa-surveillance mass-surveillance +3

2013-06-05Guardian Publishes First Snowden Leak on NSA Verizon Phone Records Collection

whistleblowing nsa-surveillance mass-surveillance +3

2013-06-05Snowden Reveals NSA Mass Surveillance and PRISM Program

constitutional-violation whistleblowing nsa-surveillance +3

2013-06-05Roger Stone's Early Connections to Russian Information Networks

disinformation intelligence-network russia-connection +1

2013-06-01Elliptic Founded as First Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Firm

surveillance cryptocurrency private-sector +1

2013-06-01Justice O'Connor Expresses Regret Over Bush v. Gore Damage to Court Reputation

sandra-day-oconnor judicial-regret court-reputation +3

2013-06-01Aleksandr Kogan creates 'This Is Your Digital Life' Facebook app; data later used by Cambridge Analytica

privacy-violation election-interference data-harvesting +1

2013-05-21Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate

tax-avoidance google senate +5

2013-05-02Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman

regulatory-capture revolving-door telecommunications +3

2013-04-23CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program

cia profiteering torture +2

2013-04-15Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements

regulatory-capture congressional-corruption insider-trading +3

2013-04-03Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure

dark-money institutional-capture conservative-movement +6

2013-03-15Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Drone Costs Surge to $222 Million Per Aircraft

accountability defense-contractors military-industrial-complex +4

2013-03-11Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters

voting-rights gerrymandering texas +2

2013-03-06Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail

institutional-capture regulatory-capture corruption +5

2013-03-01Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract

surveillance-infrastructure government-contracts corporate-capture +3

2013-03-01Trump Foundation Paid $25,000 to Settle Trump University Legal Claim Using Charity Funds

trump-university self-dealing trump-foundation +2

2013-02-20Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty to $750,000 Campaign Fund Fraud

congressional-corruption illinois campaign-finance-violations +3

2013-01-29DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis

regulatory-capture financial-crisis accountability-crisis +3

2013-01-14Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen

press-freedom iran accountability +2

2013-01-03Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation

regulatory-capture lobbying antitrust +4

2013-01-02Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Making 82% of Bush Tax Cuts Permanent - 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Locks in $2.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts for Wealthy

wealth-transfer obama-administration tax-policy +6

2013-01-01Kansas Implements Kris Kobach's Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Law and Expands Interstate Crosscheck

voter-suppression voter-id kansas +2

2013-01-01Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure

corporate-power price-gouging oligopoly +2

2013-01-01Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs

economic-inequality corporate-accountability corporate-fraud +1

2013-01-0170% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors

intelligence-privatization private-contractors shadow-governance +4

2013-01-01Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers

google monopolization ad-tech +4

2012-12-11HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed

impunity financial-crime money-laundering +2

2012-12-11Michigan Passes Right-to-Work in Lame Duck Surprise Using Verbatim ALEC Language

labor-suppression alec model-legislation +5

2012-12-05ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation

regulatory-capture lobbying pharmaceutical-industry +5