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#Institutional-Capture

Events indexed under #Institutional-Capture — 547 entries in the record.

547 events From Feb 25, 1791 To Jul 24, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2025-04-07Dhillon Guts DOJ Voting Section: Reassigns Managers, Suspends Cases, Rewrites Mission to 'Voter Fraud' 6 src
Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-04-02Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court
confirmed
2025-04-01Multiple Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Exposing Systematic Kleptocratic Corruption 3 src
Reuters · Wall Street Journal · Boston Globe · Elon Musk · +1
confirmed
2025-03-28Peter Marks Forced Out as FDA Vaccine Chief, Accuses RFK Jr. of 'Misinformation and Lies' 4 src
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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2025-03-25Foreign Policy Analysis Warns of American Kleptocracy Under Trump Administration 3 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Joe Biden · Bernie Sanders
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2025-03-25Senate Confirms Marty Makary as FDA Commissioner in 56-44 Vote, Architect of Deregulation Agenda 4 src
Marty Makary · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Dick Durbin · +1
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2025-03-23Trump White House Sells Corporate Sponsorships for Easter Egg Roll, Marking New Level of Institutional Capture 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Meta · YouTube · +3
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2025-03-20Trump Rescinds Executive Order After Paul Weiss Agrees to $40M Pro Bono Services 3 src
Donald Trump
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2025-03-12Johnson says Congress will investigate attacks against Tesla owners, vehicles 3 src
Mike Johnson · Elon Musk · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Donald Trump
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2025-03-12Justice Department Significantly Downsizes Public Corruption Investigation Unit 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Pam Bondi · Eric Adams
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2025-03-01Federal Agencies Fire 62,530 Workers in Two Months - 41,311% Increase Over 2024 3 src
Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Interior · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2025-02-18Trump Asserts Unitary Executive Control Over DOJ, Echoing Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre 3 src
Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Heritage Foundation
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2025-02-15Attorney General Bondi Establishes 'Weaponization Working Group' to Target Prosecutors 3 src
Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Trump Administration
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2025-02-15DOJ Kleptocracy Initiative Shuttered: Major Setback for Anti-Corruption Enforcement 3 src
Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Transparency International
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2025-02-14DOJ Public Corruption Division Systematic Dismantling Coordinated Across Agencies 5 src
Emil Bove · Danielle Sassoon · Eric Adams · Dale Ho
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2025-02-14DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted After Mass Resignations Over Adams Case 3 src
Department of Justice · Emil Bove · Eric Adams · Danielle Sassoon
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2025-02-11Trump Signs Executive Order for Large-Scale Federal Workforce Cuts Under DOGE 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration
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2025-02-07Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses 4 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Chuck Grassley · +2
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2025-02-05Pam Bondi Sworn In as Attorney General, Immediately Begins DOJ Purge 3 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2025-02-05Trump Administration Shuts Down KleptoCapture Task Force 4 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Merrick Garland · Russian Oligarchs · +1
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2025-01-29Pentagon Ends Travel Reimbursement for Military Members Seeking Abortion Care 3 src
Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · Lloyd Austin · Donald Trump
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2025-01-27Trump DOJ Fires Jack Smith Special Counsel Team in Systematic Purge 3 src
James McHenry · Jack Smith · Trump Administration
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2025-01-25Trump Fires 17 Independent Watchdogs Across Multiple Federal Agencies 5 src
Donald Trump · Chuck Grassley
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2025-01-24DOJ Orders Limits on FACE Act Enforcement, Weakening Abortion Clinic Protection 2 src
Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2025-01-21AG Pam Bondi Eliminates DOJ KleptoCapture Unit and Foreign Influence Task Force 3 src
Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Trump Administration
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2025-01-20Ed Coristine, 19, given access to critical government systems despite cybercrime links 3 src
Edward Coristine · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · State Department · +2
confirmed
2025-01-20Trump Declares National Energy Emergency on First Day to Bypass Environmental Regulations 2 src
Donald Trump
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2025-01-20Trump Declares Nine National Emergencies in First 100 Days, More Than Any Modern President 3 src
Donald Trump · Brennan Center for Justice
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2025-01-20Trump eliminates ethics requirements and lobbying restrictions 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Public Citizen · +2
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2025-01-17RFK Jr. Absent from CDC Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Exercise During Transition 2 src
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2024-12-23North Carolina Republicans Strip Governor's Power to Appoint Election Board Members 3 src
North Carolina Legislature
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2024-12-06McKinsey Pays $73 Million Final Settlement to South Africa in State Capture Resolution 3 src
McKinsey & Company · U.S. Department of Justice · Eskom
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2024-06-15Academic Evidence Reveals Systematic Corruption in Hurricane Katrina Education Privatization 3 src confirmed
2024-03-01Tunisia Dissolves Democratic Municipal Councils Under Authoritarian Consolidation 3 src confirmed
2024-02-23Jury finds NRA, Wayne LaPierre liable for corruption; $6.35M damages ordered 3 src
National Rifle Association · Letitia James
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2024-01-15Independent AI Safety Researchers Publish Initial Grok AI Safety Assessment 3 src
xAI · Elon Musk · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak
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2024-01-15Systematic Supreme Court Ethics Violations Exposed: Thomas-Crow Revelations Reveal Institutional Corruption 3 src
Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Senate Judiciary Committee · ProPublica
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2023-11-21Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao Plead Guilty to Money Laundering in $4.3 Billion DOJ Settlement 5 src
Changpeng Zhao · Binance · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · +6
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2023-08-08Maui Wildfires Kill Over 100 as Corporate Water Diversions and Land Development Create Tinderbox; Governor Suspends Native Water Rights After Disaster 5 srcconfirmed
2023-06-01House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon 3 src
McKinsey & Company · Marco Rubio · Josh Hawley · China · +1
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2023-04-06Tennessee House Expels Two Black Lawmakers in Racist Suppression of Gun Control Protest 13 src
Bill Lee
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2023-01-04Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer sentenced to 3.5 years, $19M forfeiture 2 src
Federal Prosecutors
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2023-01-01CNP Members Lead Project 2025 Coalition Organizations - Coordination Infrastructure for Trump Return 2 src
Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · Edwin Meese III · Cleta Mitchell · +1
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2022-09-01Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting 3 src
McKinsey & Company · New York Times
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2022-07-14DHS Inspector General Reveals Secret Service Deleted January 6th Texts After Oversight Request 3 src
U.S. Secret Service · Bennie Thompson · Liz Cheney
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2022-06-27Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion 4 src
Three Arrows Capital · Voyager Digital · Celsius Network
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2022-06-24Dobbs v. Jackson: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade — The 49-Year Institutional Capture Project Succeeds 2 src
Samuel Alito · Leonard Leo · Federalist Society · Neil Gorsuch · +2
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2022-05-13Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · Paul Engelmayer · South Korea
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2022-05-09Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · Janet Yellen · Three Arrows Capital · +2
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2021-10-15Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin 4 src
CFTC · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2021-01-03Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election 6 src
Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2020-11-12CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge 2 src
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Hans von Spakovsky · Lisa Nelson
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2020-10-21Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination 3 src
Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · +1
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2020-09-01CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed 2 src
Council for National Policy
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2020-08-06NY AG sues NRA seeking dissolution over $64M fraud by Wayne LaPierre, executives 3 src
Letitia James · National Rifle Association
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2020-08-01DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge 3 src
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts
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2020-03-07New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations 4 src
Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos
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2019-11-07Trump admits misusing Foundation for business/politics; $2M penalty, mandatory training 2 src
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Ivanka Trump · Eric Trump · +2
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2019-10-01Anne Nelson Publishes "Shadow Network" - Exposing CNP as Conservative Coordination Hub 2 src
Council for National Policy
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2019-07-01Betsy DeVos Repeals Gainful Employment Rule, Eliminating All Accountability for For-Profit College Job Outcomes Despite $1.3 Billion Projected Cost to Taxpayers 7 src
Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · For-Profit College Industry · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities
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2019-05-15Utah adopts ALEC model legislation requiring legislative approval for "major" agency rules 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council
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2019-03-12Operation Varsity Blues indicts 50 in largest college admissions fraud scheme 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2019-01-01Ginni Thomas Joins CNP Action Board - Supreme Court Spouse in Conservative Coordination Hub 2 src
Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Council for National Policy · CNP Action
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2018-12-15New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments 6 src
McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Saudi Arabia · China · +1
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2018-09-06McKinsey Holds Lavish Corporate Retreat in Kashgar Four Miles from Uyghur Concentration Camps 3 src
McKinsey & Company · China
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2018-07-06McKinsey Agrees to Repay $74 Million to South Africa's Eskom After State Capture Scandal 3 src
McKinsey & Company · Eskom · Kevin Sneader
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2017-12-04Trump reduces Bears Ears National Monument by 85% to open lands for extraction 3 src
Donald Trump · Ryan Zinke
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2017-11-24Trump Installs Mick Mulvaney as CFPB Acting Director, Beginning Systematic Gutting of Consumer Protection Agency 4 src
Mick Mulvaney · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2017-07-31V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors 5 src confirmed
2017-05-09Trump Fires FBI Director Comey to Stop Russia Investigation, Tells Russians "Pressure Taken Off" 3 src
Donald Trump · James Comey · Sergey Kislyak · Rod Rosenstein
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2017-05-01McKinsey Ghostwrites Its Own $2.2 Million ICE Contract Extension: Consulting Firm Defines Its Own Scope of Work 5 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2017-02-21Attorney General Jeff Sessions Rescinds Obama-Era Private Prison Phase-Out, Citing 'Future Needs of Federal Corrections System' 3 src
Jeff Sessions · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · CoreCivic · +2
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2017-02-01McKinsey Redirected from Obama-Era ICE Reform to Trump Immigration Crackdown Consulting 6 src
McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2017-01-31Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money 3 src
Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Donald Trump · Mitch McConnell
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2017-01-20Heritage Foundation Staffs Trump Admin, Implements 64% of Agenda 3 src
Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · Mick Mulvaney · Scott Pruitt · +3
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2016-06-17Kentucky Governor Bevin Seizes Control of Pension Board Through Executive Order 4 src
Matt Bevin · Kentucky Legislature
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2016-05-17CNP's Secret 2014 Membership Directory Leaked - 413 Conservative Elite Exposed 2 src
Southern Poverty Law Center · Steve Bannon · Kellyanne Conway · Council for National Policy
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2015-12-01McKinsey Develops Saudi Vision 2030 Economic Blueprint for Crown Prince MBS 7 src
McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia
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2015-11-16Education Management Corporation (EDMC) Settles Largest-Ever For-Profit Education Fraud Case for $95.5 Million, Forgives $103 Million in Student Loans 3 src
Education Management Corporation (EDMC) · U.S. Department of Justice
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2015-06-09Maine Governor LePage Threatens to Withhold School Funding to Block Political Opponent's Hiring 7 srcconfirmed
2014-07-15Former Utah Attorneys General Shurtleff and Swallow arrested on 23 corruption counts 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2014-07-04Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure 4 src
Richard Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Federalist Society · State Policy Network · +2
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2014-01-01CNP Membership Includes DeVos and Mercer Families - Billionaire Donor Integration 2 src
Council for National Policy · DeVos family · Betsy DeVos · Erik Prince
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2013-10-20South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft 3 src confirmed
2013-04-03Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure 4 src
Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Jim DeMint · Richard Scaife · +4
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2013-03-06Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail 3 src
Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3
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2013-01-01Lance Wallnau Popularizes "Seven Mountains Mandate": The Theology of Institutional Capture Goes Mainstream 3 src
Lance Wallnau · C. Peter Wagner
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2012-01-01Patent Trolls Dominate U.S. Patent Litigation: 61% of All Cases, Systematic Small Business Extraction 3 src
U.S. Government Accountability Office
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2011-06-13Department of Education Issues Gainful Employment Rule to Regulate For-Profit Colleges, Industry Immediately Challenges in Court 3 src
U.S. Department of Education · Barack Obama · Arne Duncan · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities · +1
confirmed
2009-12-14University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation 3 src
University of Phoenix · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Education
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2008-10-03Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions 3 src
Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4
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2008-09-11Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers 4 src confirmed
2008-06-30Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein 3 src
Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · Kenneth Starr · +1
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2008-05-12ICE Conducts Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. History at Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors Plant, Arresting 389 Workers While Management Faces No Criminal Charges Despite Systematic Labor Law Violations and Exploitation 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2008-01-01Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development 4 src
Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1
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2005-08-25Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters 3 src
Hans von Spakovsky · Georgia Legislature
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2005-06-15FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program 3 src
Federal Aviation Administration
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2004-08-10Porter Goss Begins Systematic Purge of CIA Analysts 3 src
Porter Goss
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2002-09-05Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances 3 src
Karen Hughes
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2002-09-01CIA Creates Iraqi Operations Group Under Political Pressure 3 src
George Tenet · Dick Cheney · Scooter Libby
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