#Conflict-of-Interest
Events indexed under #Conflict-of-Interest — 105 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-02 | Blue Owl Caps Private Credit Fund Redemptions at 5% After Investors Demand $5.4 Billion Back From OCIC and OTIC in a Single Quarter Blue Owl Capital · Blue Owl Credit Income Corp · Blue Owl Technology Income Corp · Doug Ostrover · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-06 | CNN Reveals Navy Secretary John Phelan Listed on Jeffrey Epstein's 727 Flight Manifest From 2006 London-NYC Flight John Phelan · Jeffrey Epstein · Jean-Luc Brunel · House Oversight Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | DHS Pays Blue Owl $119.5M for Vacant Tremont PA Warehouse, Exactly Double Schuylkill County's Fresh Full-Market-Value Assessment Blue Owl Capital · Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Property Fund · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-09 | FBI Director Kash Patel Signs Qatar Security Agreements Despite Recent Lobbying History and Ethics Waiver Controversy Kash Patel · Qatar government · Craig Holman · Public Citizen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-29 | Binance.US Lists Trump's USD1 Stablecoin Days After Presidential Pardon of Binance Founder Binance · Binance.US · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-07 | Palantir Senior Advisor Jacob Helberg Confirmed as Under Secretary of State (51-47) Jacob Helberg · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-06 | Tether Loan to Lutnick Children Revealed via UCC Filing Tether · Brandon Lutnick · Kyle Lutnick · Howard Lutnick · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Family's USD1 Stablecoin Fails to Publish Attestation Reports, Raising Transparency Concerns World Liberty Financial · NYDIG · Greg Cipolaro · BitGo Trust · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-06 | DOJ Drops Charges Against AG Pam Bondi's Brother's Clients in Pattern of Conflicts Pam Bondi · Brad Bondi · Trevor Milton · Carolina Amesty · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump's Scotland Golf Course Trip Blends Presidential Duties with Private Business Interests Donald Trump · Keir Starmer · Ursula von der Leyen | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | GENIUS Act signed - first major pro-crypto legislation benefiting Trump holdings Donald Trump · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | White House Officials Own Cryptocurrency Assets in Proposed National Crypto Reserve Donald Trump · Ian Kelley · White House Staff | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Thiel Foundation CEO Jim O'Neill Confirmed as HHS Deputy Secretary (52-43) Jim O'Neill · Peter Thiel · Thiel Foundation · Thiel Capital · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-02 | Trump Organization Launches 21 International Projects During Second Presidential Term Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Eric Trump · Jared Kushner | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Former Qatar Lobbyist Bondi Approves $400M Qatari Plane Gift to Trump Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Musk adviser may make as much as $1 million a year while helping to dismantle agency that regulates Tesla and X Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Chris Young · Elon Musk · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-30 | Trump Company Strikes $5.5 Billion Qatar Golf Resort Deal During Active Presidency Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Trump Organization · Qatari Diar · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | DOGE Aide Dismantling CFPB Owns Substantial Stock in Regulated Companies During Mass Layoffs Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Reveals Major Foreign Crypto Investments Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Pulte Appoints 1789 Capital's Omeed Malik to Fannie Mae Board; Nominating/Governance Committee Seat Paired with FHFA Director as Chair Omeed Malik · Bill Pulte · Donald Trump Jr. · 1789 Capital · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | SpaceX wins $5.9 billion Space Force contract amid congressional conflict-of-interest investigation SpaceX · U.S. Space Force · Elon Musk · Rep. Stephen Lynch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-26 | Trump Nominates Anduril Senior Director Michael Obadal as Army Under Secretary; Plans to Retain $250K-$500K Anduril Stock Donald Trump · Michael Obadal · Anduril Industries · Elizabeth Warren · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Thiel Capital Chief of Staff Michael Kratsios Confirmed as OSTP Director (74-25) Michael Kratsios · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-24 | Government contractor who received $179M in federal contracts buys VP Vance's home for $170K over asking JD Vance · Christopher Garcia · Health Supply US · 9 EDR LLC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-24 | Senate Confirms John Phelan as 79th Secretary of the Navy 62-30 Despite Multimillion-Dollar Blue Owl and MSD Holdings John Phelan · Donald Trump · US Senate · Blue Owl Capital · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | Donald Trump Jr. meets Serbian president to promote Trump hotel amid massive protests Donald Trump Jr. · Aleksandar Vučić · Trump Organization · Affinity Global Development · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-17 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Raises $550 Million in Crypto Token Sales Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial · Justin Sun | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-05 | Trump issues ethics waiver allowing crypto czar David Sacks to retain investments David Sacks · White House · David Warrington · Sen. Elizabeth Warren · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-04 | DAEO Ethics Waiver Abrogates Patel's One-Year Qatar Recusal 12 Days After FBI Confirmation Kash Patel · Jolene A. Lauria · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Commerce Department changes broadband policies benefiting Starlink up to $20B Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Elon Musk · Starlink | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | SEC offers $50,000 buyouts to staff investigating Elon Musk Securities and Exchange Commission · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | FAA approves 4,000 Starlink terminals, considers canceling $2.4B Verizon contract Federal Aviation Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX/Starlink · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | DOJ drops immigration discrimination case against SpaceX Department of Justice · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Kyle Lutnick Appointed to Newmark Group Board as Father Becomes Commerce Secretary Kyle Lutnick · Brandon Lutnick · Howard Lutnick · Newmark Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX Troy Meink · Elon Musk · SpaceX · National Reconnaissance Office · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Campaign Legal Center identifies 467 conflicts requiring recusal Campaign Legal Center · Trump Appointees · Ethics Watchdogs | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick faces 106 conflicts of interest requiring recusal Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Cantor Fitzgerald | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Energy Secretary Wright owns $54 million in fracking company stock Chris Wright · Liberty Energy · Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Musk companies received $38 billion in government support over 20 years Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla · Starlink · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Over 70 Trump appointees hold $193+ million in cryptocurrency Trump Appointees · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Swiss National Bank purchased 111,300 shares of Trump Media worth $1.78M, stake grows to $5.37M by February Swiss National Bank · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Media & Technology Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Palantir Veteran Gregory Barbaccia Named Federal CIO, Controls $100B+ IT Budget Gregory Barbaccia · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · Office of Management and Budget · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars michael-waltz · metis-solutions · pacific-architects-and-engineers · Defense Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Interior Secretary Doug Burgum Signs Ethics Agreement to Divest Oil and Gas Interests Doug Burgum · Department of Interior · continental-resources · Microsoft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler With $1 Billion Fortune and Insider Trading History Takes Office Kelly Loeffler · intercontinental-exchange · sba · Jeffrey Sprecher | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Brings 42 Corporate Lobbying Clients into White House Susie Wiles · republic-services · swisher-international · northern-dynasty-minerals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Maintains $600 Million Tether Stake Despite DOJ Investigation and Senate Scrutiny Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · tether · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Confirmed with Ongoing Vaccine Litigation Referral Fees Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · childrens-health-defense · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration Donald Trump · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-11 | Trump Organization launches $530M Saudi Arabia tower weeks before inauguration Eric Trump · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Dar Global | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-27 | Donald Trump Jr. Joins Unusual Machines Advisory Board, Receives 200,000 Shares, Stock Triples Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Allan Evans · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-20 | ProPublica Reveals Samuel Alito's Undisclosed Luxury Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Investment Management · Leonard Leo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-01 | House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon McKinsey & Company · House Select Committee on the CCP · John Moolenaar · Marco Rubio · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-22 | Ethics board finds Noem may have engaged in misconduct and conflict of interest Kristi Noem · South Dakota Government Accountability Board · Jason Ravnsborg | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy Robert Califf · United States Senate · FDA Leadership · Pharmaceutical Industry Executives | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-22 | SEC Fines McKinsey Subsidiary MIO Partners $18 Million for Puerto Rico Conflict of Interest and Material Nonpublic Information Violations Securities and Exchange Commission · MIO Partners · McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-01 | In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids' Christopher Darby · Stephen Bowsher · Michael Morell · Jeremy Bash · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-08 | Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-07 | Dallas Fed President Kaplan Resigns Over Trading Controversy Robert Kaplan · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Jerome Powell · Eric Rosengren | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-27 | Fed Vice Chair Clarida Trades Millions Before Rate Cuts Richard Clarida · Federal Reserve Board · Jerome Powell · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-03 | Pence's Ireland Trip Costs $3.6 Million with Detour to Trump Property Mike Pence · Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Doonbeg · U.S. Secret Service · State Department | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-26 | Trump Proposes Hosting G-7 Summit at His Doral Golf Resort Donald Trump · Trump National Doral · G-7 leaders · Mick Mulvaney | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Joins Pfizer Board After 3-Month Gap Dr. Scott Gottlieb · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Senator Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-13 | Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Used Office to Benefit Family Shipping Business Elaine Chao · Mitch McConnell · Department of Transportation · Foremost Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Resigns Facing 18 Federal Investigations Ryan Zinke · Donald Trump · Department of Interior · David Bernhardt | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-01 | Investigation Reveals McKinsey Advised Both Puerto Rico Fiscal Board and Hedge Fund Creditors Through Whitebox Advisors Holding $140 Million in Bonds McKinsey & Company · MIO Partners · Whitebox Advisors · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-27 | Georgia Purges 1.4 Million Voters Under Exact Match System Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Georgia Secretary of State Office · Common Cause Georgia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | China Approves 16 Trademarks for Ivanka Trump During Trade War Ivanka Trump · Chinese Government · China National Intellectual Property Administration · White House · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Saudi Crown Prince's Entourage Books Trump Hotel During Khashoggi Crisis Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Trump International Hotel New York · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-01 | Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Refuses to Recuse From Overseeing His Own Governor Election Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Brad Raffensperger | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Kushner Receives $1.28B Qatar Bailout After Blockade Reversal Jared Kushner · Qatar Investment Authority · Brookfield Property Partners · Charles Kushner · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Qatar-Linked Brookfield Bails Out Kushner's 666 Fifth Avenue for $1.28 Billion Jared Kushner · Kushner Companies · Brookfield Asset Management · Qatar Investment Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-01 | U.S. Lifts Argentina Tariffs While Trump Seeks Trademarks Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Argentina | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-01 | T-Mobile Executives Spend 95K at Trump Hotel During Merger Review T-Mobile · John Legere · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | James Biden Receives $600K from Distressed Healthcare Company, Pays Joe Biden $200K Same Day James Biden · Joe Biden · Americore Health · Sara Biden | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-01 | McKinsey Ghostwrites Its Own $2.2 Million ICE Contract Extension: Consulting Firm Defines Its Own Scope of Work McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · ICE contracting officers | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-16 | Neil Gorsuch Sells Property to Law Firm CEO Days After Supreme Court Confirmation Neil Gorsuch · Brian Duffy · Greenberg Traurig | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-06 | Ivanka Trump Receives Chinese Trademarks During Xi Jinping Dinner Ivanka Trump · China · Xi Jinping · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Goldman Sachs Alumni Take Control of Trump Economic Policy Gary Cohn · Steven Mnuchin · Goldman Sachs · Dina Powell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Trump Organization Receives 3.6M from Foreign Governments Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Saudi Arabia · China · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-01 | Saudi Lobbyists Book 500 Rooms at Trump Hotel After Election Saudi Arabia government · Trump International Hotel Washington · Qorvis/MSLGroup (Saudi lobbyists) · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2015-02-03 | S&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 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-16 | Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Management · Republic of Argentina · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-01 | FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews Joan Buenconsejo · Food and Drug Administration · AstraZeneca · Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-12 | Hunter Biden Joins Burisma Board While Father Leads Ukraine Policy Hunter Biden · Burisma Holdings · Joe Biden · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-01 | Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Founds IronNet Cybersecurity, Charges $1 Million/Month for Intelligence Expertise Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · National Security Agency · Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association | confirmed | |
| 2013-09-27 | SAIC Splits into Leidos and New SAIC, Restructuring the Largest Intelligence Contractor Science Applications International Corporation · Leidos · John P. Jumper · Anthony J. Moraco | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Chertoff Promotes Airport Body Scanners on Media While His Firm Represents Manufacturer Rapiscan Michael Chertoff · The Chertoff Group · Rapiscan Systems · Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-12-21 | Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President Dr. Julie Gerberding · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck · Gardasil vaccine | confirmed | |
| 2009-02-02 | Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff Founds The Chertoff Group, Immediately Monetizing Homeland Security Expertise Michael Chertoff · Chad Sweet · The Chertoff Group · Department of Homeland Security · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-01 | Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo · Robin Arkley II | confirmed | |
| 2008-05-08 | Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarm Over Intelligence Contractor Revolving Door, Requires Workforce Reporting Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Government Accountability Office · Department of Defense · Office of the Director of National Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-12 | Supreme Court Delivers Partisan Bush v. Gore Decision with Corporate Legal Team Involvement George W. Bush · Al Gore · William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2000-11-26 | Katherine Harris Certifies Bush Victory While Serving as Campaign Co-Chair Katherine Harris · George W. Bush · Jeb Bush · Mac Stipanovich · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-09-01 | USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Harvard Institute for International Development · United States Agency for International Development · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1992-01-01 | Harvard Receives $40 Million USAID Contract to Advise Russia's Economic Transition: 'Harvard's Blank Check from Uncle Sam' Harvard Institute for International Development · Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Lawrence Summers · +2 | confirmed |