#Corporate-Accountability
Events indexed under #Corporate-Accountability — 58 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-07 | OpenAI Robotics Chief Caitlin Kalinowski Resigns Over Pentagon Deal, Citing Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Concerns OpenAI · Caitlin Kalinowski · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal After Surveillance Loophole Backlash, Critics Remain Unconvinced Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Katrina Mulligan | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | Microsoft Terminates Israeli Unit 8200's Azure Access for Mass Surveillance of Palestinian Civilians Microsoft · Brad Smith · Unit 8200 · Yossi Sariel · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-07-30 | California Judicial Council Establishes First Comprehensive AI Transparency Regulations California Judicial Council · US Federal Judicial Conference · xAI · AI Rights Advocacy Groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban Donald Trump · Trump Administration · William Barr · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-13 | McKinsey Agrees to $650 Million Criminal Settlement for Role in 'Turbocharging' Opioid Sales for Purdue Pharma McKinsey & Company · U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Martin Elling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | McKinsey Pays $73 Million Final Settlement to South Africa in State Capture Resolution McKinsey & Company · South Africa National Prosecuting Authority · U.S. Department of Justice · McKinsey South Africa · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | McKinsey Africa Agrees to Pay $122 Million Settlement for Bribery of South African Officials McKinsey Africa · U.S. Department of Justice · Vikas Sagar · South African National Prosecuting Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-15 | Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Review Board · U.S. AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-09 | Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage Oracle · Judge Richard Seeborg · Irish Council for Civil Liberties | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-20 | Musk's xAI Grok Faces Mounting Safety Scrutiny, Secures $200M Pentagon Contract Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-11 | Amazon Refuses to Negotiate with JFK8 Union After NLRB Certification - Stalls Contract for Over a Year Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · Christian Smalls · National Labor Relations Board | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-22 | Federal Court Dismisses Abdulaziz Lawsuit, Rules McKinsey Had No Duty to Protect Dissident Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · U.S. District Court Southern District of New York · Second Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-01 | Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-12 | Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers Amazon · Strategic Organizing Center | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-10 | Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-23 | Federal Jury Finds CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Liable for Fueling Ohio Opioid Crisis CVS · Walgreens · Walmart · Lake County Ohio · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-02 | NLRB Hearing Officer Rules Amazon Illegally Interfered in Bessemer Election, Recommends New Vote National Labor Relations Board · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-09 | Amazon Defeats Bessemer Union Vote 1,798 to 738 After Intensive Anti-Union Campaign Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-02 | Saudi Dissident Omar Abdulaziz's Lawsuit Against McKinsey Filed in Federal Court Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-31 | Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-01 | Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-20 | Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-30 | Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · David Zapolsky | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-07 | Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches Congressional Inquiry Into McKinsey's ICE Contracts and Detention Recommendations Pramila Jayapal · McKinsey & Company · Kevin Sneader · House Judiciary Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-03 | ProPublica Exposes McKinsey's ICE Work Through FOIA Lawsuit: 1,500 Pages Reveal Detention Cost-Cutting Proposals ProPublica · New York Times · McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-02 | Amazon Warehouse Worker Billy Foister Dies on Warehouse Floor After Heart Attack Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Billy Foister | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-01 | McKinsey Managing Director Says Firm Would 'Walk' from Murderer Client, Then Increases Saudi Revenue Kevin Sneader · McKinsey & Company · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-06 | Facebook Admits Platform Used to "Incite Offline Violence" in Myanmar Genocide, Implements No Systemic Changes Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · United Nations · Rohingya Muslims · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-21 | McKinsey Claims It's 'Horrified' After Saudi Dissident Report Made Public McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · Saudi Arabia · Omar Abdulaziz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 But Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Options Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-26 | Amazon's Anti-Union Training Video Leaked - Exposes Systematic Union Suppression Program Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-05 | Bernie Sanders Introduces "Stop BEZOS Act" Targeting Amazon Wages Bernie Sanders · Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ro Khanna | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-12 | Tech Workers Coalition: Establishing Digital Resistance Infrastructure Tech Workers Coalition · Silicon Valley Employees · Digital Rights Advocates · Rachel Melendes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-06 | McKinsey Agrees to Repay $74 Million to South Africa's Eskom After State Capture Scandal McKinsey & Company · Eskom · South Africa · Gupta Family · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-26 | New York Times Discloses McKinsey's $20 Million ICE Contract: Employee Outrage and Internal Crisis McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kevin Sneader · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-02 | Federal Reserve Imposes Unprecedented Asset Cap on Wells Fargo Federal Reserve · Janet Yellen · Wells Fargo Board | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-12 | Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-13 | GM Plant Stops Using Flint Water After It Corrodes Car Parts—But Residents Must Keep Drinking It General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Amazon Implements Automated Worker Surveillance and Tracking System Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-18 | Amazon Lehigh Valley Warehouse Heat Exhaustion Scandal Exposed Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2010-06-16 | BP Agrees to $20 Billion Gulf Coast Claims Fund Amid Deepwater Horizon Fallout BP (British Petroleum) · Barack Obama · Tony Hayward · Kenneth Feinberg · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-30 | Sarbanes-Oxley Act Signed Into Law as Brief Reform Moment George W. Bush · Paul Sarbanes · Michael Oxley | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-15 | Arthur Andersen Convicted, Destroying 85,000 Jobs Worldwide Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 1964-12-31 | Bracero Program Ends After 22 Years - Farm Wages Immediately Jump 40% U.S. Congress · United Farm Workers · Labor reformers · Civil rights organizations | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-16 | Pecora Commission Issues Final Report on Wall Street Corruption Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Duncan Fletcher | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-24 | J.P. Morgan Jr. Testifies, Preferred List and Tax Evasion Exposed J.P. Morgan Jr. · J.P. Morgan and Company · Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-23 | Pecora Commission Exposes Albert Wiggin's Short Selling of Chase Bank Stock Albert H. Wiggin · Chase National Bank · Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | confirmed | |
| 1933-02-21 | Charles Mitchell Testifies Before Pecora Commission, Resigns in Disgrace Charles E. Mitchell · National City Bank · National City Company · Ferdinand Pecora · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-01-15 | Ferdinand Pecora Appointed Chief Counsel to Senate Banking Investigation Ferdinand Pecora · Senator Peter Norbeck · Senator Duncan Fletcher · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | confirmed | |
| 1932-03-02 | Senate Banking Committee Launches Investigation into Wall Street Crash U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Senator Peter Norbeck · Senator Duncan Fletcher | confirmed | |
| 1893-03-03 | Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency | confirmed |