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#Accountability-Crisis

Events indexed under #Accountability-Crisis — 44 entries in the record.

44 events From Jul 11, 1804 To Oct 22, 2025 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-10-22DHS Uses Multi-Year Reconciliation Funding to Pay 70,000 Immigration Enforcement Officers During Shutdown While 700,000 Federal Workers Go Unpaid
Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3
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2025-10-17Trump Commutes George Santos Prison Sentence After 3 Months
Donald Trump · White House · George Santos
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2020-10-05COVID-Positive Trump Leaves Hospital for SUV Joyride, Endangering Secret Service in Sealed Vehicle
Donald Trump · James Phillips · Sean Conley
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2020-10-02Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19, Hospitalized at Walter Reed with Experimental Treatments
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Sean Conley · Mike Pence · +1
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2020-09-26Rose Garden Amy Coney Barrett Ceremony Becomes White House COVID Superspreader Event
Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Melania Trump · Mike Lee · +6
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2020-07-04Trump Holds Mt. Rushmore Rally with 7,500 Packed, Maskless Attendees During Pandemic Surge
Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Kimberly Guilfoyle
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2020-04-23Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments
Donald Trump · William Bryan
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2020-04-07Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight
Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1
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2020-04-06HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm Reports Severe Hospital Shortages, Trump Attacks Her Credibility
Christi Grimm · Donald Trump · Jason Weida · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2020-03-13Trump Declares National Emergency for COVID-19 After Weeks of Denialism and Delay
Donald Trump · Alex Azar · Mike Pence
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2020-03-06Trump Wears "Keep America Great" Campaign Hat During CDC Visit, Makes False Testing Claims
Donald Trump · Robert Redfield · Alex Azar · Mike Pence · +1
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2020-02-28Trump Calls Coronavirus "Their New Hoax" at South Carolina Rally
Donald Trump
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2020-02-20Trump Fires Acting DNI Joseph Maguire After Intelligence Briefing That Russia Prefers Trump in 2020
Joseph Maguire · Donald Trump · Shelby Pierson · Richard Grenell · +1
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2020-02-07Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge
Donald Trump · Alexander Vindman · Yevgeny Vindman · Gordon Sondland · +2
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2019-11-16OMB Official Mark Sandy Testifies on Ukraine Aid Freeze, Reveals Two Colleagues Resigned Over Concerns
Mark Sandy · Michael Duffey · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget
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2019-08-10Jeffrey Epstein Dies by Suicide in Federal Custody
Jeffrey Epstein · William Barr · Bureau of Prisons · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1
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2019-07-28Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Resigns After Repeated Conflicts with Trump Over Russia
Dan Coats · Donald Trump · John Ratcliffe · Vladimir Putin
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2019-05-07Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Recalled from Ukraine After Giuliani-Led Smear Campaign
Marie Yovanovitch · Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Yuriy Lutsenko · +3
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2019-03-24Attorney General Barr Releases Misleading 4-Page Summary of Mueller Report
William Barr · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · Rod Rosenstein
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2018-10-06Senate Confirms Kavanaugh 50-48 Despite Sexual Assault Allegations and Severely Limited FBI Investigation
Brett Kavanaugh · Susan Collins · Joe Manchin · Lisa Murkowski · +2
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2018-09-27Christine Blasey Ford Delivers Credible, Emotional Testimony Alleging Kavanaugh Sexual Assault, He Responds with Partisan Rant
Christine Blasey Ford · Brett Kavanaugh · Lindsey Graham · Chuck Grassley · +1
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2015-02-03S&P Settles for $1.375 Billion Over Fraudulent AAA Ratings on Junk Mortgage Securities, While Moody's Pays $864 Million, Exposing 'Issuer-Pays' Conflict of Interest Model Where 73% of 2006 AAA-Rated Securities Were Downgraded to Junk by 2010
Standard & Poor's · Moody's Investors Service · Fitch Ratings · Department of Justice · +1
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2014-07-01Academi (formerly Blackwater) Merges with Triple Canopy to Form Constellis Holdings, Third Corporate Rebranding
Academi · Triple Canopy · Constellis Holdings · Blackwater
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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
Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3
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2011-12-12Erik Prince Sells Xe Services (formerly Blackwater), Rebranded as Academi with John Ashcroft on Board
Erik Prince · Xe Services · Academi · John Ashcroft · +3
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2011-01-27Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Released, No Banker Prosecutions Follow
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission · Phil Angelides · Lloyd Blankfein · Jamie Dimon · +1
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2010-04-16SEC 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
Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3
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2009-10-06Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity
Al Franken · Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · +2
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2009-02-13Blackwater Rebrands as Xe Services to Distance from Nisour Square Massacre and Iraq War Crimes
Erik Prince · Blackwater · Xe Services
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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
Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +6
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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
American International Group · Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +3
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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
Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3
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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
Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2
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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
Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3
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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
Ryan Maseth · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · U.S. Department of Defense · +3
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2007-10-02Erik Prince Testifies Before Congress Defending Blackwater Despite Evidence of 195 Shooting Incidents
Erik Prince · Blackwater · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Henry Waxman
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2007-04-05Halliburton Completes Spin-Off of KBR to Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Fraud Investigations, and $2.7 Billion in Questioned Costs
Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · David Lesar · Dick Cheney · +1
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2007-03-12Halliburton Moves CEO and Corporate Headquarters to Dubai for Tax Advantages and Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Weeks Before Completing KBR Spin-Off
Halliburton · David Lesar · Dick Cheney · Patrick Leahy
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2005-07-28KBR Employee Jamie Leigh Jones Alleges Gang Rape in Iraq, Exposes Systematic Use of Mandatory Arbitration to Shield Contractor Accountability
Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Ted Poe · +3
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2004-03-31Four Blackwater Contractors Killed in Fallujah Ambush, Bodies Hung from Bridge, Triggering First Battle of Fallujah
Erik Prince · Blackwater · Scott Helvenston · Jerry Zovko · +3
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1924-03-28Coolidge Fires Daugherty for Refusing to Open Justice Department Files
Harry Daugherty · Calvin Coolidge · Warren G. Harding
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1902-01-01Water Cure Torture Scandal - Senate Investigation Exposes Systematic Abuse
Theodore Roosevelt · William Howard Taft · Senate Committee on the Philippines · Anti-imperialist Senators · +2
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1806-11-27Burr Conspiracy and Acquittal Establishes Elite Immunity from Treason Prosecution
Aaron Burr · General James Wilkinson · President Thomas Jefferson · Chief Justice John Marshall
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1804-07-11Hamilton-Burr Duel Demonstrates Elite Violence and Honor Culture Replacing Law
Aaron Burr · Alexander Hamilton · Federalist Party · Democratic-Republican Party
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