#Institutional-Corruption
Events indexed under #Institutional-Corruption — 105 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | Internal ICE Data Exposes Vast Inflation in DHS Deportation Figures
4 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-19 | DOJ Whistleblower Reveals Officials Ordered Fabrication of Terrorist Claims in Deportation Case
3 src Erez Reuveni · Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Department of Justice · Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-06 | DOJ Moves to Conceal Names of Epstein Associates Who Received $100K and $250K Payments
3 src Department of Justice · Jeffrey Epstein · NBC News | reported | |
| 2025-09-06 | FBI Director Kash Patel's Krispy Kreme Stock Purchase Raises Conflict of Interest Concerns
3 src Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Krispy Kreme · Joe Neguse | reported | |
| 2025-07-17 | Mass Firing of Inspectors General Signals Systematic Government Oversight Erosion
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Martin · Michael Missal | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Federal Worker Purge and Civil Service Dismantling
4 src Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation · Office of Personnel Management · Federal Employee Unions · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Patrizia Cavazzoni's FDA to Pfizer Move Epitomizes Regulatory Capture
3 src Patrizia Cavazzoni · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-27 | Dallas and Boston Fed Presidents Resign Over Trading Scandal
4 src Robert Kaplan · Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-26 | Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett 52-48 Eight Days Before Election, Creating 6-3 Conservative Supermajority
4 src Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-26 | Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court, Religious Conservative to Replace Liberal Icon Ginsburg
4 src Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Ruth Bader Ginsburg | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-18 | Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies 46 Days Before Election, McConnell Immediately Vows to Confirm Replacement Despite 2016 Standard
4 src Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Clara Spera · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-16 | House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People
4 src House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Representative Peter DeFazio · Representative Rick Larsen · Federal Aviation Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-27 | Fed Vice Chair Clarida Trades Millions Before Rate Cuts
4 src Richard Clarida · Federal Reserve Board · Jerome Powell · Elizabeth Warren | 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
4 src McKinsey & Company · MIO Partners · Whitebox Advisors · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-28 | Kentucky Invests $15 Million in Braidy Industries on Final Day of Legislative Session Without Disclosure
4 src Matt Bevin · Craig Bouchard · Braidy Industries · Kentucky Legislature · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-07 | McConnell Invokes Nuclear Option, Eliminates Filibuster for Supreme Court Nominees, Gorsuch Confirmed 54-45
4 src Mitch McConnell · Neil Gorsuch · Chuck Schumer · Harry Reid · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-13 | McKinsey-Designed Fiscal Plan Mandates Devastating Austerity: Pension Cuts, School Closures, Healthcare Privatization, Furloughs
5 src McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government · Rafael Torregrosa | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-16 | Obama Nominates Merrick Garland to Supreme Court, McConnell and Senate Republicans Refuse to Hold Hearings or Vote
4 src Barack Obama · Merrick Garland · Mitch McConnell · Chuck Grassley | confirmed | |
| 2016-02-13 | Justice Antonin Scalia Dies, McConnell Immediately Vows to Block Any Obama Nominee
4 src Antonin Scalia · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley
5 src Corporate PAC Strategists · Campaign Finance Lawyers · Political Fundraising Experts · Supreme Court Justices | confirmed | |
| 1997-09-01 | USAID Cancels Harvard Russia Project After Discovering Shleifer and Hay Used Insider Positions to Profit from Russian Investments
4 src Andrei Shleifer · Jonathan Hay · Harvard Institute for International Development · United States Agency for International Development · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1995-04-10 | McNamara Memoir Admits Vietnam War Was "Terribly Wrong" - Confession Comes 20 Years Too Late for 58,000 Dead Americans
3 src Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · Brian VanDeMark (co-author) | confirmed | |
| 1975-02-21 | Nixon Top Aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell Sentenced to Prison for Watergate Cover-up
3 src H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · John N. Mitchell · John Sirica | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-08 | Ford Issues Full Pardon to Nixon for All Watergate Crimes, Ensures No Criminal Accountability
3 src Gerald Ford · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1974-08-09 | Richard Nixon Becomes First U.S. President to Resign, Gerald Ford Sworn In as 38th President
3 src Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Spiro Agnew | confirmed | |
| 1974-08-05 | Nixon Releases Smoking Gun Tape Under Supreme Court Order, Political Support Collapses Completely
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · House Judiciary Committee · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-01 | Leon Jaworski Appointed as Special Prosecutor to Replace Fired Archibald Cox
3 src Leon Jaworski · Robert Bork · Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-20 | Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon Fires Special Prosecutor Cox, Richardson and Ruckelshaus Resign in Protest
3 src Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Elliot Richardson · William Ruckelshaus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-07-16 | Alexander Butterfield Reveals Nixon White House Secret Taping System in Bombshell Testimony
3 src Alexander Butterfield · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Donald Sanders · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-06-25 | John Dean Testifies to Senate Watergate Committee: "Cancer Growing on the Presidency"
6 src John Dean · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-17 | Senate Watergate Committee Begins Televised Hearings, Exposing Presidential Crimes to Public
3 src Sam Ervin · Howard Baker · Senate Watergate Committee · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1973-03-19 | Judge Sirica Uses Maximum Sentences to Break Watergate Cover-up, McCord Writes Explosive Letter
3 src John Sirica · James W. McCord Jr. · G. Gordon Liddy · John Dean · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-30 | G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord Convicted in Watergate Burglary Trial, Five Others Plead Guilty
3 src G. Gordon Liddy · James W. McCord Jr. · Bernard Barker · Virgilio Gonzalez · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1972-09-01 | CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter
7 src Donald Segretti · Dwight L. Chapin · Ken W. Clawson · Herbert Kalmbach · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-06-23 | Smoking Gun Tape: Nixon Orders CIA to Block FBI Watergate Investigation
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Vernon Walters · L. Patrick Gray · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-06-17 | Five Burglars Arrested Breaking into Democratic National Committee Headquarters at Watergate Complex
3 src James W. McCord Jr. · E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Bernard Barker · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-30 | Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals
3 src Boys Town · Warren Buffett · Paul Williams · Stanford Lipsey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1971-09-03 | White House Plumbers Break Into Daniel Ellsberg Psychiatrist Office Seeking Pentagon Papers Dirt
3 src E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Chuck Colson · John Ehrlichman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1971-06-30 | Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Press Freedom in Pentagon Papers Case - Rejects Nixon Administration Prior Restraint Attempt
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · New York Times · Washington Post · Daniel Ellsberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1971-03-29 | William Calley Convicted of My Lai Murders - Only Officer Prosecuted Despite Widespread Command Responsibility - Serves 3.5 Years House Arrest
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · President Richard Nixon · Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway · Lieutenant General William Peers | confirmed | |
| 1971-01-01 | Oregon Passes Nation's First Forest Practices Act, Drafted by Timber Industry to Preempt Federal Regulation
7 src Oregon Legislature · Tom McCall · Oregon timber industry · Oregon Department of Forestry | confirmed | |
| 1969-12-04 | FBI and Chicago Police Assassinate Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton in Pre-Dawn Raid
3 src Fred Hampton · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Chicago Police Department · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1969-12-01 | Draft Lottery Reform Attempts to Address Class Inequality After College Deferments Shield Wealthy from Vietnam Service
3 src Selective Service System · U.S. Congress · Congressman Alexander Pirnie | confirmed | |
| 1969-11-12 | Seymour Hersh Exposes My Lai Massacre Cover-Up After Army Conceals Atrocity for 20 Months - Wins Pulitzer Prize
3 src Journalist Seymour Hersh · Whistleblower Ronald Ridenhour · Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason
4 src Richard Nixon · Anna Chennault · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1968-03-16 | My Lai Massacre - U.S. Soldiers Murder Between 347 and 504 Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians in War Crime
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · Captain Ernest Medina · Charlie Company 1st Battalion 20th Infantry Regiment · Hugh Thompson Jr. (helicopter pilot who intervened) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1967-08-25 | FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · Black Panther Party · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-03-01 | McNamara and Johnson Administration Begin Systematic Deception About Vietnam War Progress Creating "Credibility Gap"
3 src Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · President Lyndon B. Johnson · Senator J. William Fulbright · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 1963-10-10 | Attorney General Robert Kennedy Authorizes FBI Wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr.
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Robert F. Kennedy · Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1956-08-28 | FBI Director Hoover Launches COINTELPRO to Target Communist Party and Domestic Dissent
6 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA | confirmed | |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director
3 src J. Robert Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss · Gordon Gray · J. Edgar Hoover · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-03-29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial
3 src Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · David Greenglass · Ruth Greenglass · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-01 | Margaret Chase Smith Delivers Declaration of Conscience Against McCarthy Witch Hunt
3 src Margaret Chase Smith · Joseph McCarthy · Wayne Morse · George Aiken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1950-02-09 | McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt
3 src Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman | confirmed | |
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage
3 src Alger Hiss · Whittaker Chambers · Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1945-09-03 | Operation Paperclip Secretly Recruits Nazi Scientists, Whitewashes War Crimes
3 src Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency · U.S. War Department · Wernher von Braun · State Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1942-10-20 | Alien Property Custodian Seizes Bush-Thyssen Nazi Banking Assets
3 src Office of Alien Property Custodian · Prescott Bush · Union Banking Corporation · Fritz Thyssen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1942-01-01 | Bracero Program Wage Theft - Wells Fargo Transfers $32 Million That Disappears in Mexico
3 src Wells Fargo Bank · Bank of Mexico · Banco de Credito Agricola · Mexican Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1887-02-08 | Dawes Allotment Act Destroys Tribal Land Ownership, Facilitating Loss of 90 Million Acres to White Settlers
3 src Senator Henry L. Dawes · U.S. Congress · President Grover Cleveland · Bureau of Indian Affairs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1882-12-19 | Roscoe Conkling's Fraudulent Argument for Corporate Personhood in San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific
4 src Roscoe Conkling · U.S. Supreme Court · Southern Pacific Railroad · San Mateo County · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval
3 src U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Lakota people · President Ulysses S. Grant | confirmed | |
| 1868-04-29 | Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush
3 src Sioux Nation · U.S. government · Lakota people · Red Cloud | confirmed | |
| 1864-11-29 | Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado Militia Slaughters 150 Peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Under Protection Flag
3 src Colonel John Chivington · Third Colorado Cavalry · Black Kettle (Cheyenne Chief) · Colorado Territory · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1862-07-01 | Pacific Railway Act Creates Land Grant System Enabling Massive Railroad Speculation and Corruption
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · Union Pacific Railroad · Central Pacific Railroad · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1857-11-07 | Lecompton Constitution Referendum Demonstrates Electoral Fraud in Service of Slavery Expansion
3 src James Buchanan · Stephen A. Douglas · Pro-slavery delegates · Border Ruffians · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1856-05-22 | Preston Brooks Beats Charles Sumner on Senate Floor, Southern Elite Celebrates Violence
3 src Preston Brooks · Charles Sumner · Andrew Butler · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1851-03-03 | California Land Act of 1851 Enables Systematic Legal Theft from Mexican Land Grant Holders
3 src William M. Gwin · U.S. Congress · Board of Land Commissioners · Californio landowners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1850-09-18 | Fugitive Slave Act Transforms Federal Government into Kidnapping Apparatus for Slaveholders
5 src U.S. Congress · Millard Fillmore · Federal commissioners · Federal marshals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1850-04-22 | California Legislature Begins Funding State Militia Expeditions for Indigenous Genocide
4 src California State Legislature · California governors · State militia · Indigenous Californians · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1848-02-02 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans
4 src U.S. Senate · Mexico · Mexican Americans · U.S. government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1848-01-24 | California Gold Rush Triggers Genocide, Lawlessness, and Massive Land Fraud
4 src California settlers · Mexican land grant holders · Indigenous Californians · U.S. military government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1846-08-08 | Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory
4 src David Wilmot · James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1846-05-13 | Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion
3 src James K. Polk · U.S. Congress · Mexico · Whig Party opposition · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1845-03-01 | Texas Annexed as Slave State Despite Nine Years of Antislavery Opposition
4 src James K. Polk · John Tyler · John C. Calhoun · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1845-01-01 | Manifest Destiny Ideology Provides Racist Justification for Territorial Conquest and Indigenous Genocide
4 src John L. O'Sullivan · James K. Polk · U.S. government · Indigenous peoples · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1839-07-02 | Amistad Captives Revolt and Win Freedom in Supreme Court, Exposing Slavery's Illegality
3 src Joseph Cinqué · Amistad captives · John Quincy Adams · Lewis Tappan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1836-05-26 | House Gag Rule Suppresses Antislavery Petitions, Demonstrating Slave Power's Congressional Capture
5 src Henry L. Pinckney · John Quincy Adams · U.S. House of Representatives · American Anti-Slavery Society · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1835-12-29 | Treaty of New Echota Signed by Unauthorized Cherokee Minority Provides Legal Pretext for Forced Removal
4 src Cherokee Nation · John Ross · Treaty Party · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1833-10-01 | Nicholas Biddle Deliberately Contracts Credit to Create "Biddle's Panic" and Force Bank Recharter
4 src Nicholas Biddle · Second Bank of the United States · Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1833-09-26 | Jackson Removes Federal Deposits to "Pet Banks" Selected Through Political Patronage, Not Financial Merit
4 src Andrew Jackson · Roger Taney · Louis McLane · William J. Duane · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1832-07-10 | Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides
3 src Andrew Jackson · Nicholas Biddle · Henry Clay · Daniel Webster · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1830-05-28 | Indian Removal Act Authorizes Ethnic Cleansing to Benefit Land Speculators and Slaveholders
3 src Andrew Jackson · U.S. Congress · Cherokee Nation · Five Civilized Tribes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1829-03-04 | Andrew Jackson Inaugurates Spoils System, Replacing Merit with Political Loyalty
3 src Andrew Jackson · Martin Van Buren · William Marcy · Federal civil servants | confirmed | |
| 1822-07-02 | Denmark Vesey Plans Massive Charleston Slave Rebellion, Exposing Institutional Terror
3 src Denmark Vesey · African Methodist Episcopal Church · Charleston authorities · Enslaved conspirators | confirmed | |
| 1820-03-03 | Missouri Compromise Institutionalizes Slavery Expansion Through Sectional Bargaining
3 src Henry Clay · James Monroe · U.S. Congress · Slave Power advocates | confirmed | |
| 1819-03-03 | Civilization Fund Act Authorizes Federal Funding for Indigenous Assimilation Schools, Laying Groundwork for Boarding School System
3 src U.S. Congress · President James Monroe · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Religious missions · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1817-03-04 | Era of Good Feelings Begins with Monroe Presidency, Masking Corruption as "Era of Good Stealings"
3 src President James Monroe · Democratic-Republican Party · Federalist Party remnants | confirmed | |
| 1812-06-18 | War of 1812 Declared, Enabling Widespread Profiteering and Contractor Fraud
3 src President James Madison · U.S. Congress · British Empire · War profiteers | confirmed | |
| 1808-01-01 | Domestic Slave Trade Explodes After Import Ban, Creating Second Middle Passage
3 src Slave traders · Upper South planters · Deep South cotton planters · Enslaved people | confirmed | |
| 1800-12-03 | Thomas Jefferson Wins Presidency Through Three-Fifths Compromise Electoral Advantage
3 src Thomas Jefferson · John Adams · Virginia slaveholders · Electoral College | confirmed | |
| 1800-08-30 | Gabriel's Rebellion Plans Massive Slave Uprising in Virginia, Exposing System's Fragility
3 src Gabriel · James Monroe · Virginia militia · Enslaved conspirators | confirmed | |
| 1794-03-22 | Slave Trade Act of 1794 Prohibits American Ships from International Slave Trade
3 src U.S. Congress · George Washington · American ship owners | confirmed | |
| 1793-03-14 | Cotton Gin Patent Transforms Slavery from Declining Institution to Booming Economic Engine
3 src Eli Whitney · Southern planters · Enslaved people | confirmed | |
| 1793-02-12 | Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Creates Federal Enforcement Apparatus for Slavery
6 src U.S. Congress · George Washington · Federal judges · Slaveholders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1790-02-11 | Quaker Antislavery Petitions to First Congress Trigger Fierce Debate and Tabling
3 src Society of Friends (Quakers) · Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery · Benjamin Franklin · James Madison · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1787-09-17 | Constitution Entrenches Slavery Through Three-Fifths Compromise and Multiple Protections
5 src Constitutional Convention · James Wilson · Charles Pinckney · James Madison · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1787-09-06 | Electoral College Design Leverages Three-Fifths Compromise to Amplify Slave State Power
3 src Constitutional Convention delegates · James Madison · Southern state delegates · Committee of Eleven | confirmed | |
| 1787-08-29 | Constitutional Convention Adopts Fugitive Slave Clause Requiring Northern Complicity
3 src Pierce Butler · Charles Pinckney · James Madison · South Carolina delegates · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1787-08-25 | Constitutional Convention Guarantees 20-Year Protection for International Slave Trade
3 src Committee of Eleven · William Livingston · John Rutledge · Charles Pinckney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1787-07-13 | Northwest Ordinance Prohibits Slavery While Mandating Fugitive Slave Returns
3 src Continental Congress · Nathan Dane · Southern state delegates · Slaveholders | confirmed |