#Bribery
Events indexed under #Bribery — 27 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-16 | House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Exposes How Trump Administration Corrupted DOJ Antitrust Enforcement Through Pay-to-Play Schemes and Political Interference
3 src Jamie Raskin · Roger P. Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · +15 | reported | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing
4 src Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-10-27 | Trump Family Crypto Platform Tied to Pardoned Binance Executive Generated $500M
2 src Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · Trump Family · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign
5 src Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-08 | Border Czar Tom Homan Allegedly Took $50,000 in FBI Corruption Sting
2 src Tom Homan · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Emil Bove · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Closes Homan FBI Sting Case Despite Recorded $50K Cash Exchange
5 src Tom Homan · Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Sean Combs Associates Offer Mid-Six-Figure Payments to Trump Officials for Presidential Pardon
3 src Sean Combs · Donald Trump · Nicole Westmoreland · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | Trump Administration Officially Accepts $400-500 Million Luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar as Air Force One Gift, Sparking Constitutional Crisis Over Foreign Emoluments and Bribery
5 src Donald Trump · Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Chuck Schumer · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Amazon pays $40 million for Melania documentary in apparent quid pro quo arrangement
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Melania Trump · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | McKinsey Africa Agrees to Pay $122 Million Settlement for Bribery of South African Officials
3 src McKinsey Africa · U.S. Department of Justice · Vikas Sagar · South African National Prosecuting Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-16 | Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Settle Charges of Defrauding Pentagon, Bribing Qatar, and Patriot Contract Fraud
4 src Raytheon · Department of Justice · Qatar · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-15 | Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons
4 src Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Harry Sargeant III · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Navalny Investigation Reveals Putin's Palace Complex
4 src Vladimir Putin · Alexei Navalny · Arkady Rotenberg · Boris Rotenberg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | DOJ Reveals Investigation into $2 Million Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme
4 src Donald Trump · Elliott Broidy · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-13 | Trump Reverses ZTE Sanctions After $500M China Loan to Trump Project
3 src Donald Trump · ZTE Corporation · China · Trump Organization · +1 | 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 | |
| 2014-01-21 | Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Wife Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges
3 src Bob McDonnell · Maureen McDonnell · Jonnie Williams | 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 | |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
4 src Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · Humana · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-15 | Congressman Bob Ney Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Corruption Scandal
3 src Bob Ney · Jack Abramoff · U.S. House of Representatives · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Bob Ney · Tom DeLay · +3 | 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 | |
| 2005-08-03 | FBI Finds $90,000 in Cash Hidden in Rep. William Jefferson's Freezer
3 src William Jefferson · Lori Mody | 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 | |
| 1921-11-30 | Interior Secretary Albert Fall Receives $100,000 Cash Bribe from Edward Doheny
3 src Albert Fall · Edward Doheny | confirmed | |
| 1797-10-18 | XYZ Affair Exposes French Diplomatic Bribery Demands and Triggers Quasi-War
3 src Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord · Charles Cotesworth Pinckney · John Marshall · Elbridge Gerry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1795-01-07 | Yazoo Land Fraud Represents Largest Corruption Scandal of Early Republic
3 src Georgia Legislature · Governor George Mathews · Senator James Gunn · Four land development companies | confirmed |