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2010-03-23ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall

regulatory-capture lobbying healthcare +2

2010-03-17Obama Authorizes CIA Signature Strikes - Killing Based on Behavior Patterns, Not Identity

cia drones war-crimes +4

2010-01-27Oracle Completes Sun Microsystems Acquisition for $7.4 Billion, Gains Java and MySQL

corporate-consolidation oracle open-source +2

2010-01-27Obama Criticizes Citizens United at State of Union, Alito Responds 'Not True'

separation-of-powers campaign-finance democratic-institutions +4

2010-01-21Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending

campaign-finance dark-money supreme-court +3

2010-01-15Northrop B-2 Bomber Operating Costs Reach $150,000 Per Flight Hour

defense-contractors military-industrial-complex pentagon-contracts +3

2010-01-01NSO Group Founded in Israel to Develop Pegasus Spyware

nso-group pegasus-spyware unit-8200 +3

2010-01-01ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions

regulatory-capture alec model-legislation +5

2010-01-01Trump SoHo money laundering operation - 77% shell company sales

tax-evasion money-laundering shell-companies +4

2010-01-01NYPD Counterterrorism Unit Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance Operations

domestic-surveillance secrecy palantir +3

2010-01-01Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest

dark-money regulatory-capture lobbying +2

2010-01-01ALEC Distributes Climate Denial Model Legislation to Kill Regional Climate Pacts

regulatory-capture alec model-legislation +3

2010-01-01Republican State Leadership Committee Launches REDMAP Gerrymandering Project

republican-party electoral-manipulation redistricting +2

2010-01-01CNP Coordinates Tea Party Movement Through Member Organizations

conservative-movement astroturfing coordination +3

2010-01-01Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate

regulatory-capture antitrust market-concentration +3

2010-01-01Gig Economy Emerges Using Worker Misclassification to Avoid Labor Protections and Unions

labor-suppression gig-economy worker-misclassification +3

2010-01-01DonorsTrust Organizational Profile: Dark Money ATM Enabling Anonymous Billionaire Political Spending

dark-money judicial-capture climate-denial +6

2009-12-21Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President

regulatory-capture conflict-of-interest revolving-door +3

2009-12-14University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation

institutional-capture systematic-corruption fraud +5

2009-12-01Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law Drafted at ALEC Meeting with CCA Executives - Direct Quid Pro Quo for Immigrant Detention Profits

campaign-finance immigration alec +6

2009-11-17Climategate Email Hack Manufactures Controversy Before Copenhagen Summit

climate-denial media-manipulation disinformation +2

2009-10-06Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity

accountability-crisis corporate-impunity sexual-assault +3

2009-09-129/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Demonstrates Koch Network Mobilization Power

corporate-influence koch-network astroturf-organizing +4

2009-09-01James O'Keefe's Deceptively Edited ACORN Videos Trigger Destruction of Voter Registration Organization

media-manipulation republican-party disinformation +1

2009-07-24Race to the Top Competition Uses Federal Funds to Incentivize Charter Expansion and Teacher Evaluation Reforms

privatization education obama-administration +3

2009-07-17ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election

corporate-influence alec state-capture +4

2009-07-01In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future

in-q-tel cia venture-capital +4

2009-06-26Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill

regulatory-capture lobbying corporate-corruption +3

2009-06-01Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise

regulatory-capture lobbying pharmaceutical-industry +2

2009-05-20Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism

civil-liberties fbi-abuse entrapment +2

2009-05-01Russian Digital Sky Technologies Invests $200M in Facebook

russian-investment facebook-russia social-media-influence

2009-04-16Obama Releases CIA Torture Memos But Promises No Prosecutions for Torturers

cia accountability impunity +4

2009-04-15Tax Day Tea Party Protests Organized by Koch Network Groups

corporate-influence political-manipulation koch-network +4

2009-04-13Peter Thiel Publishes Anti-Democracy Essay Declaring Freedom and Democracy Incompatible

peter-thiel new-right anti-democracy +4

2009-04-02Northrop Grumman Pays $325 Million for Decade of Defective Spy Satellite Parts

fraud defense-contractors military-industrial-complex +5

2009-03-10Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory

corporate-lobbying labor filibuster +3

2009-02-19Koch Network Prepares Tea Party Mobilization After Santelli Rant

dark-money political-manipulation koch-network +3

2009-02-19Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response

corporate-influence media-manipulation koch-network +4

2009-02-17SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings

regulatory-capture lobbying corruption +7

2009-02-17Trump Entertainment Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Resigns from Board

atlantic-city casino bankruptcy +4

2009-02-13Blackwater Rebrands as Xe Services to Distance from Nisour Square Massacre and Iraq War Crimes

accountability-crisis corporate-impunity private-military +2

2009-01-23Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush

cia drones war-crimes +5

2009-01-20Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud

financial-crisis impunity revolving-door +2

2009-01-01Harlan Crow Begins Paying Private School Tuition for Thomas's Grandnephew

supreme-court judicial-capture ethics-violation +3

2009-01-01CNP Member Ralph Reed Founds Faith and Freedom Coalition - Religious Right Coordination Expands

conservative-movement coordination religious-right +2

2009-01-01LAPD's Joint Regional Intelligence Center Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance

domestic-surveillance lapd palantir +3

2009-01-01Carl Icahn Partners with Andrew Beal in Trump Entertainment Resorts Bankruptcy Restructuring

trump atlantic-city casino +4

2009-01-01Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate

campaign-finance regulatory-capture pharmaceutical-industry +2

2009-01-01Americans for Prosperity Organizational Profile: Koch Brothers' Astroturf Empire Manufacturing Fake Grassroots Movements

organizational-profile koch-network tea-party +6

2009-01-01Dataminr Founded to Provide Real-Time Social Media Surveillance, Later Backed by CIA Venture Capital

law-enforcement surveillance technology +3

2008-12-11Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years

regulatory-capture corruption fraud +5

2008-12-09Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested for Attempting to Sell Obama's Senate Seat

presidential-pardon bribery illinois +4

2008-10-29Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave

regulatory-capture antitrust consolidation +4

2008-10-03Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions

institutional-capture regulatory-capture corruption +4

2008-10-03Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight

corruption revolving-door wall-street +4

2008-10-03Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Creates $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to Bail Out Wall Street Banks with Minimal Oversight or Executive Accountability Requirements, Leading to Just One Criminal Prosecution Compared to 900+ in 1980s Savings & Loan Crisis

regulatory-capture financial-crisis accountability-crisis +3

2008-10-03Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance

systematic-corruption regulatory-capture healthcare +4

2008-09-29Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money

campaign-finance regulatory-capture lobbying +2

2008-09-19Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs

regulatory-failure financial-capture bailout +2

2008-09-16Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis

regulatory-capture financial-crisis accountability-crisis +3

2008-09-15Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic

regulatory-capture financial-crisis accountability-crisis +2

2008-09-15Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets

foreign-influence trump-organization real-estate +2

2008-09-11Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers

institutional-capture private-prison prison-industrial-complex +4

2008-09-09Iowa Attorney General Files Criminal Complaint Against Agriprocessors for 9,311 Child Labor Violations, Revealing Systematic Use of Minors as Young as 14 in Dangerous Meatpacking Operations with Harsh Chemicals and Power Equipment

corporate-impunity regulatory-failure child-labor +2

2008-09-07Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Placed in Federal Conservatorship, $187 Billion Taxpayer Bailout

housing bailout housing-crisis +2

2008-09-04Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution

lobbying corruption fraud +4

2008-08-29Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors

intelligence-privatization surveillance contractors +2

2008-08-18General Dynamics Pays $4 Million to Settle Fraud Charges for Defective Submarine and Aircraft Parts

fraud defense-contractors general-dynamics +2

2008-08-01FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Throttling BitTorrent Traffic in Historic 3-2 Vote on Net Neutrality

regulatory-capture telecommunications fcc +2

2008-07-31FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional

warrantless-surveillance constitutional-violation nsa-surveillance +2

2008-07-29Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Felony Corruption Charges

congressional-corruption ethics-violation republican-party +3

2008-07-24Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis

regulatory-capture media-consolidation private-equity +5

2008-07-16Trump sells Palm Beach 'Maison de L'Amitié' to Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95M

epstein-network financial-crime money-laundering +2

2008-07-09FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity

warrantless-surveillance constitutional-violation surveillance-expansion +4

2008-07-01Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer

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

2008-07-01Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges

regulatory-capture financial-crisis fraud +3

2008-06-30Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein

institutional-capture corruption prosecutorial-misconduct +2

2008-06-28Model Ruslana Korshunova dies in suspicious fall two years after Epstein island visit

jeffrey-epstein ruslana-korshunova suspicious-death +4

2008-05-12ICE Conducts Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. History at Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors Plant, Arresting 389 Workers While Management Faces No Criminal Charges Despite Systematic Labor Law Violations and Exploitation

institutional-capture immigration-enforcement corporate-impunity +2

2008-04-28Crawford v. Marion County: Supreme Court Upholds Strict Voter ID Laws Despite No Evidence of In-Person Fraud

supreme-court voter-suppression voting-rights +2

2008-04-13Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly

antitrust merger ftc +5

2008-03-20Sprint Nextel GPS Location Data Sharing with Law Enforcement

law-enforcement surveillance nsa +4

2008-03-16Bear Stearns Collapse and Federal Reserve-Facilitated Fire Sale to JPMorgan with $29 Billion Taxpayer Guarantee Establishes 'Too Big to Fail' Precedent with Zero Criminal Prosecutions Despite Fraud-Driven Collapse

regulatory-capture financial-crisis accountability-crisis +2

2008-01-02KBR's Faulty Electrical Work Kills Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, Part of Systematic Negligence Causing 18 Electrocution Deaths in Iraq with No Criminal Charges Despite Army Negligent Homicide Finding

accountability-crisis corporate-impunity private-military +2

2008-01-01Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications

cia surveillance-infrastructure palantir +3

2008-01-01Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development

institutional-capture alec conservative-movement +5

2008-01-01Shell companies spend $890M on Trump condos during financial crisis

financial-crisis money-laundering shell-companies +4

2008-01-01Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed)

epstein-intelligence intelligence-protection kompromat-operation +3

2007-12-18Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law

regulatory-capture lobbying congressional-corruption +2

2007-11-15Thomas Drake Reports NSA Trailblazer Program Waste and Constitutional Violations

constitutional-violation nsa-whistleblowing trailblazer-scandal +2

2007-11-02CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide

cia impunity torture +4

2007-10-19Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking

regulatory-capture telecommunications comcast +2

2007-10-02Erik Prince Testifies Before Congress Defending Blackwater Despite Evidence of 195 Shooting Incidents

congressional-oversight accountability-crisis corporate-impunity +2

2007-10-01Trump Foundation Pays $258,000 for Six-Foot Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction

self-dealing trump-foundation charity-fraud +2

2007-09-16Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation

trump pardon iraq-war +12

2007-09-15Honest Leadership Act Takes Effect But Fails to Slow Congressional Revolving Door

lobbying congressional-corruption revolving-door +2

2007-09-01FBI Inspector General Reports 35% Error Rate on Terror Watchlist

civil-liberties due-process fbi-abuse +2

2007-08-27Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme

price-gouging pharmaceutical-industry healthcare +4

2007-08-01Verizon's Deep Involvement in NSA Surveillance Programs

government-contracts surveillance nsa +3

2007-06-25DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression

voter-suppression voting-rights civil-rights-division +2