#Institutional-Capture
Events indexed under #Institutional-Capture — 507 entries in the record.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-15 | Systematic Supreme Court Ethics Violations Exposed: Thomas-Crow Revelations Reveal Institutional Corruption Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Senate Judiciary Committee · ProPublica | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-21 | Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao Plead Guilty to Money Laundering in $4.3 Billion DOJ Settlement Changpeng Zhao · Binance · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-08 | Maui Wildfires Kill Over 100 as Corporate Water Diversions and Land Development Create Tinderbox; Governor Suspends Native Water Rights After Disaster Josh Green · West Maui Land Company · Glenn Tremble · Kaleo Manuel · +3 | 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 | |
| 2023-04-06 | Tennessee House Expels Two Black Lawmakers in Racist Suppression of Gun Control Protest Tennessee House Republicans · Justin Jones · Justin Pearson · Gloria Johnson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-04 | Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer sentenced to 3.5 years, $19M forfeiture Rick Singer · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | CNP Members Lead Project 2025 Coalition Organizations - Coordination Infrastructure for Trump Return Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · Edwin Meese III · William L. Walton · +2 | 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 | |
| 2022-07-14 | DHS Inspector General Reveals Secret Service Deleted January 6th Texts After Oversight Request U.S. Secret Service · Joseph Cuffari · James Murray (Secret Service Director) · Bennie Thompson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion Three Arrows Capital · Kyle Davies · Su Zhu · Monetary Authority of Singapore · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-24 | Dobbs v. Jackson: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade — The 49-Year Institutional Capture Project Succeeds Samuel Alito · Leonard Leo · Federalist Society · Neil Gorsuch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-13 | Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-15 | Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-03 | Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-12 | CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · J. Christian Adams · Hans von Spakovsky · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-21 | Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-01 | CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed Council for National Policy · Documented | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-06 | NY AG sues NRA seeking dissolution over $64M fraud by Wayne LaPierre, executives Wayne LaPierre · Letitia James · National Rifle Association · Wilson "Woody" Phillips · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-01 | DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-07 | New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-07 | Trump admits misusing Foundation for business/politics; $2M penalty, mandatory training Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Ivanka Trump · Eric Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Anne Nelson Publishes "Shadow Network" - Exposing CNP as Conservative Coordination Hub Anne Nelson · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-01 | Betsy DeVos Repeals Gainful Employment Rule, Eliminating All Accountability for For-Profit College Job Outcomes Despite $1.3 Billion Projected Cost to Taxpayers Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Robert Eitel · Julian Schmoke Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-15 | Utah adopts ALEC model legislation requiring legislative approval for "major" agency rules Ryan Wilcox · Daniel McCay · American Legislative Exchange Council · Utah State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-12 | Operation Varsity Blues indicts 50 in largest college admissions fraud scheme Rick Singer · Lori Loughlin · Felicity Huffman · U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Ginni Thomas Joins CNP Action Board - Supreme Court Spouse in Conservative Coordination Hub Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Council for National Policy · CNP Action | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments McKinsey & Company · Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · The New York Times · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-06 | McKinsey Holds Lavish Corporate Retreat in Kashgar Four Miles from Uyghur Concentration Camps McKinsey & Company · China · Xinjiang · Uyghurs | 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 | |
| 2017-12-04 | Trump reduces Bears Ears National Monument by 85% to open lands for extraction Donald Trump · Ryan Zinke · Bureau of Land Management · Navajo Nation · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-24 | Trump Installs Mick Mulvaney as CFPB Acting Director, Beginning Systematic Gutting of Consumer Protection Agency Mick Mulvaney · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-31 | V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors SCANA Corporation · Santee Cooper · Kevin Marsh · Stephen Byrne · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-09 | Trump Fires FBI Director Comey to Stop Russia Investigation, Tells Russians "Pressure Taken Off" Donald Trump · James Comey · Sergey Lavrov · Sergey Kislyak · +1 | 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 | |
| 2017-02-21 | Attorney General Jeff Sessions Rescinds Obama-Era Private Prison Phase-Out, Citing 'Future Needs of Federal Corrections System' Jeff Sessions · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · CoreCivic · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-01 | McKinsey Redirected from Obama-Era ICE Reform to Trump Immigration Crackdown Consulting McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-31 | Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Donald Trump · Judicial Crisis Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Heritage Foundation Staffs Trump Admin, Implements 64% of Agenda Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · Mick Mulvaney · Scott Pruitt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-17 | Kentucky Governor Bevin Seizes Control of Pension Board Through Executive Order Matt Bevin · Kentucky Retirement Systems · Thomas K. Elliott · Kentucky Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-17 | CNP's Secret 2014 Membership Directory Leaked - 413 Conservative Elite Exposed Southern Poverty Law Center · Steve Bannon · Kellyanne Conway · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2015-12-01 | McKinsey Develops Saudi Vision 2030 Economic Blueprint for Crown Prince MBS McKinsey & Company · McKinsey Global Institute · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-16 | Education Management Corporation (EDMC) Settles Largest-Ever For-Profit Education Fraud Case for $95.5 Million, Forgives $103 Million in Student Loans Education Management Corporation (EDMC) · Art Institutes · Argosy University · Brown Mackie College · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-09 | Maine Governor LePage Threatens to Withhold School Funding to Block Political Opponent's Hiring Paul LePage · Mark Eves · Good Will-Hinckley | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-15 | Former Utah Attorneys General Shurtleff and Swallow arrested on 23 corruption counts Mark Shurtleff · John Swallow · Jeremy Johnson · Marc Sessions Jenson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-04 | Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure Richard Scaife · Sarah Scaife Foundation · Carthage Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | CNP Membership Includes DeVos and Mercer Families - Billionaire Donor Integration Council for National Policy · DeVos family · Mercer family · Richard DeVos · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-20 | South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft Richard Benda · Joop Bollen · Marty Jackley · Mike Rounds | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-03 | Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Jim DeMint · Richard Scaife · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | Lance Wallnau Popularizes "Seven Mountains Mandate": The Theology of Institutional Capture Goes Mainstream Lance Wallnau · C. Peter Wagner · Loren Cunningham · Bill Bright | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Patent Trolls Dominate U.S. Patent Litigation: 61% of All Cases, Systematic Small Business Extraction Santa Clara University School of Law · U.S. Government Accountability Office · Patent Assertion Entities | confirmed | |
| 2011-06-13 | Department of Education Issues Gainful Employment Rule to Regulate For-Profit Colleges, Industry Immediately Challenges in Court U.S. Department of Education · Barack Obama · Arne Duncan · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-12-14 | University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation University of Phoenix · Apollo Group · Mary Hendow · Julie Albertson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-11 | Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers Mark Ciavarella · Michael Conahan · PA Child Care · Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-06-30 | Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · Kenneth Starr · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-05-12 | ICE 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 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Agriprocessors Inc. · Sholom Rubashkin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-25 | Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters Hans von Spakovsky · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Georgia Legislature · Harold Murphy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-15 | FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing Corporation · Aircraft manufacturers · FAA certification officials · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-10 | Porter Goss Begins Systematic Purge of CIA Analysts Porter Goss · John McLaughlin · Stephen Kappes · Michael Sulick · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-05 | Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances Network Booking Coordinators · Karen Hughes · White House Communications Staff · CNN Booking Producers · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | CIA Creates Iraqi Operations Group Under Political Pressure George Tenet · Dick Cheney · Scooter Libby · Iraqi Operations Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Think Tank Network Coordinates Iraq War Support Following Powell Memo Template American Enterprise Institute · Heritage Foundation · Dick Cheney · Paul Wolfowitz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-26 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Media Coordination Infrastructure with Network Executives Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Karen Hughes · Condoleezza Rice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-12-13 | Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Systematically Subordinated to Corporate Input Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · John Graham · Corporate Stakeholder Panels · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2000-11-22 | Brooks Brothers Riot: Republican Operatives Physically Stop Miami-Dade Recount Roger Stone · John Sweeney · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1995-02-01 | Gingrich-DeLay Formalize K Street Project Coordination Structure Newt Gingrich · Tom DeLay · Grover Norquist | confirmed | |
| 1992-11-03 | Oregon Voters Defeat Measure 9, Anti-LGBTQ Constitutional Amendment Backed by Christian Right Oregon Citizens Alliance · Lon Mabon · Christian Coalition · No on 9 Coalition | confirmed | |
| 1992-10-01 | Russia Begins Mass Voucher Privatization: 148 Million Citizens Given Certificates Worth 'Two Volga Cars' That Become Worthless Anatoly Chubais · Boris Yeltsin · State Committee for State Property Management · Russian Government | 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 | |
| 1989-05-25 | Reagan HUD Scandal Exposed, Samuel Pierce Influence Peddling Investigation Samuel Pierce · Deborah Gore Dean · James Watt · Thomas Demery · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1984-01-22 | First Fully Privatized Prison Opens in Houston Under CCA Contract with Immigration and Naturalization Service Corrections Corporation of America · Immigration and Naturalization Service · T. Don Hutto · Thomas W. Beasley | confirmed | |
| 1983-07-01 | South Dakota abolishes Rule Against Perpetuities, enabling dynasty trusts and tax haven status South Dakota Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1983-01-28 | Corrections Corporation of America Founded in Nashville, Launching Modern Private Prison Industry Thomas W. Beasley · Robert Crants · T. Don Hutto · Corrections Corporation of America · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1983-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Expands to 100+ Staff with $10 Million Budget During Reagan Administration Peak Influence Heritage Foundation · Edwin Feulner · Ronald Reagan · Richard Scaife · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-10-06 | Josemaria Escriva Beatified Despite Controversies Pope John Paul II · Josemaria Escriva · Vatican | confirmed | |
| 1981-12-01 | CNP Completes "Three-Legged Stool" with Heritage and ALEC - Coordination Infrastructure Operational Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich | confirmed | |
| 1981-05-18 | Council for National Policy Founded with Schlafly as Founding Member, Creating Elite Conservative Network Phyllis Schlafly · Council for National Policy · Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1980-06-30 | Schlafly and Falwell Joint Rally Demonstrates Religious Right Coalition Unity Phyllis Schlafly · Jerry Falwell · Eagle Forum · Moral Majority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-03-17 | Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · U.S. Congress · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-02 | Federation for American Immigration Reform Founded, Launching Modern Nativist Movement Infrastructure John Tanton · Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) · Pioneer Fund · Cordelia Scaife May · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate Lobbying Industry · Lewis Powell · Fortune 500 Leadership | confirmed | |
| 1978-01-01 | Robert Bork Publishes "The Antitrust Paradox," Revolutionizing Corporate Power Robert Bork · Aaron Director · University of Chicago · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Charles Koch Founds Cato Institute with $500,000, Expanding Libertarian Infrastructure Charles Koch · Ed Crane · Murray Rothbard · Koch Industries | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Richard Scaife · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | William E. Simon Becomes Olin Foundation President, Launching Strategic Conservative Funding William E. Simon · John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1976-12-31 | Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era Corporate America · Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Election Commission | confirmed | |
| 1976-04-20 | Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Potter Stewart · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Chicago Housing Authority · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · James Buckley · Eugene McCarthy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-12 | Boston Busing Crisis Erupts, Northern White Resistance to Desegregation Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. · Louise Day Hicks · Restore Our Alienated Rights · Boston School Committee | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts Gerald Ford · Jimmy Hoffa | confirmed | |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Scaife Begins Major Funding of Heritage Foundation as Primary Donor Richard Mellon Scaife · Scaife Family Charitable Trust · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy · Edgar Kaiser | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-08 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Powell Memo Task Force Recommendations U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. · Lewis F. Powell Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship Milton Friedman · Arnold Harberger · Augusto Pinochet · The Chicago Boys · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-11-01 | Eagle Forum Founded as Permanent Conservative Infrastructure for 'Pro-Family' Organizing Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · New Right | confirmed | |
| 1972-11-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-28 | Powell Memo Leaked to Public, Exposing Corporate Institutional Capture Blueprint Jack Anderson · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed |