#Corporate-Capture
Events indexed under #Corporate-Capture — 59 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | CBP Refund Portal Validates 47,000 IEEPA Tariff Claims as Treasury Begins Returning Estimated $166B in Unlawful Duties
4 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of the Treasury · Donald Trump · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-30 | Liberation Day Tariff Anniversary: 89,000 Manufacturing Jobs Lost, SCOTUS Ruled Tariffs Illegal | ||
| 2026-03-20 | NV Energy Declines to Extend Lake Tahoe Wholesale Power Supply, Citing Data-Center Demand; ~49,000 Liberty Utilities Customers Need Replacement Supply by Mid-2027
4 src NV Energy · Liberty Utilities · California Public Utilities Commission · Google · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign
7 src OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | USPS Postmaster DeJoy Signs DOGE Deal to Cut 10,000 Postal Workers
3 src Louis DeJoy · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · U.S. Postal Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Launches Section 301 Trade Probes to Rebuild Tariff Regime After Supreme Court Defeat
4 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · U.S. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate Stablecoin Bill Stalls as Democrats Cite Trump Crypto Conflicts of Interest
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · Elizabeth Warren · Jeff Merkley · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Colorado Attorney General and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Illegal Rejection of State Clean Air Plan Protecting Coal
3 src Phil Weiser · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Earthjustice · Sierra Club · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | EFF and The Intercept Find OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Surveillance Guardrails Unenforceable, Warning of AI-Powered Domestic Surveillance Risk
5 src OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Legal Challenges Mount Against EPA Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
5 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Environmental Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Anthropic Reopens Pentagon Talks as Defense Experts Warn Blacklist Sets Dangerous Precedent for AI Safety
6 src Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | AI Industry Super PAC Backed by OpenAI Insiders and Palantir Pours Millions Into Blocking AI-Regulation Candidate Alex Bores
5 src OpenAI · Palantir Technologies · Greg Brockman · Joe Lonsdale · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-21 | Independent Analysis Projects 58,000 Additional Deaths and $4.7 Trillion in Costs from EPA Endangerment Repeal
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Inside Climate News · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-18 | EPA Endangerment Finding Repeal Published in Federal Register; Coalition Lawsuits Filed Same Day
7 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Earthjustice · Natural Resources Defense Council · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing
5 src David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +12 | reported | |
| 2025-12-06 | Trump DOT waives $11 million Southwest Airlines fine, dismantling corporate accountability
6 src Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Department of Transportation · Southwest Airlines · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Eliminates Consumer Protection Branch, Guts Civil Rights Division Enforcement
4 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · DOJ Civil Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-26 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Discloses Trump Considering Equity Stakes in Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Palantir
3 src Howard Lutnick · Trump · Lockheed Martin · Boeing · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-18 | GSA Seeks to Outsource $110 Billion Federal Procurement to AI Systems
3 src General Services Administration · Tech companies · Defense contractors | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-23 | SpaceX Secures Over $9.5 Billion in Government Contracts Despite Conflicts of Interest
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration · Rep. Stephen Lynch · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Media Offers $800,000 Stock Award to Kash Patel Before FBI Director Confirmation
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Nominee Kash Patel Discloses Millions in Shares from Chinese Company Accused of Forced Labor
4 src Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Adam Schiff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-09 | Big Lots Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Stranding Blue Owl-Owned Distribution Centers Later Sold to DHS for ICE Detention
3 src Big Lots · Blue Owl Capital · Oak Street Real Estate Capital · Nexus Capital Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-25 | French Senate Investigation Reveals 'McKinsey Gate' Scandal: Nearly €1 Billion in Government Consulting Fees
2 src McKinsey & Company · Emmanuel Macron · Karim Tadjeddine · French Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-01 | Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-28 | Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths
3 src Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-18 | Trump Invokes Defense Production Act but Refuses to Compel PPE Production as Corporate Lobbying Blocks Emergency Powers
3 src Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-01 | McKinsey Delivers Final Rikers Report After Violence Soars Nearly 50% During Contract Period
2 src McKinsey & Company · New York City Department of Correction · Bill de Blasio | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | McKinsey's ICE Contract Redirected Toward Trump's Immigration Crackdown and Detention Cost-Cutting
18 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) | confirmed | |
| 2015-07-01 | McKinsey and NYC Corrections Officials Rig 'Restart' Program Data at Rikers Island
2 src McKinsey & Company · New York City Department of Correction · George Motchan Detention Center | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-01 | Reuters: AT&T nurtured and bankrolled OANN; founder says AT&T asked for a conservative network
4 src AT&T · One America News Network · Robert Herring Sr. · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-01 | Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · IBM | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-23 | Arizona Passes SB 1070 Drafted by ALEC and Private Prison Companies
3 src Russell Pearce · Jan Brewer · Corrections Corporation of America · American Legislative Exchange Council · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Oil Executives Deny Task Force Participation Despite Documentary Evidence
3 src ExxonMobil · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · Shell Oil · +11 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy
3 src Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Coordinates Sunday Show Booking Blitz
9 src Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · Donald Rumsfeld · Richard Myers · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Meet with White House on Iraq Coverage
3 src Walter Isaacson · Eason Jordan · Condoleezza Rice · Karen Hughes · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-08 | No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime
3 src President George W. Bush · Senator Ted Kennedy · Representative John Boehner · Pearson Education · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-05-17 | National Energy Policy Adopts Enron Recommendations Verbatim
3 src Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron · Kenneth Lay · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-05-16 | National Energy Policy Report Released Reflecting Oil Industry Priorities
3 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · National Energy Policy Development Group · ExxonMobil · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2001-02-09 | Cheney Energy Task Force Begins Secret Meetings with Enron Executives
4 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · George W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-29 | Cheney Creates Secret Energy Task Force with Oil Executives
3 src Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · Shell Oil · BP America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Membership Reaches 2,000+ State Legislators - Represents One-Quarter to One-Third of All State Legislators Nationwide
5 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislators (2,000+ members) | confirmed | |
| 1998-12-31 | Asian Financial Crisis: Comprehensive Economic Transformation
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · Multinational Corporations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-06-15 | Corporate Exploitation of Asian Financial Crisis Structural Adjustment
3 src Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1998-02-05 | McKinsey Strategizes Corporate Capture in Asian Markets During Financial Crisis
3 src McKinsey & Company · World Bank · International Monetary Fund · Multinational Corporations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-24 | IMF Structural Adjustment Policies Implemented in Asian Economies
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · Goldman Sachs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Business Plan to "Function More Like a Business" - Formalizes Pay-to-Play Corporate Legislative Model
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council | confirmed | |
| 1984-01-01 | ALEC Corporate Membership Explodes as Major Corporations Overwhelm Organization with Requests for Legislative Access
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Kathleen Teague · Edison Electric Institute · Procter & Gamble · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | ALEC Establishes Cabinet Task Forces and Partners with Reagan's Task Force on Federalism
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Ronald Reagan · Paul Laxalt · Tom Stivers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Tobacco Institute · ALEC Executive Director | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Founded as Systematic State-Level Corporate Influence Platform
3 src Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism
4 src Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1942-08-04 | Bracero Program Begins 22-Year Guest Worker Exploitation System
3 src U.S. Department of Labor · Mexican Government · Agricultural employers · Railroad companies | confirmed | |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation
9 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Hugh Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Recovery Administration · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1927-01-01 | Company Unions Peak as Welfare Capitalism Undermines Independent Labor
3 src Goodyear Tire · U.S. Steel · National Association of Manufacturers · Samuel Gompers | confirmed | |
| 1926-11-15 | NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly
3 src David Sarnoff · Radio Corporation of America · General Electric · Westinghouse · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1921-01-01 | American Plan Open Shop Campaign Launches Nationwide Union Suppression
3 src National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · U.S. Steel · Henry Clay Frick · +2 | confirmed |