#Pay-to-Play
Events indexed under #Pay-to-Play — 45 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | Ambassador Bridge Owner Donated $1M to MAGA Before Trump Attacked Rival Bridge Donald Trump · Manuel Moroun · MAGA Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-16 | House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Exposes How Trump Administration Corrupted DOJ Antitrust Enforcement Through Pay-to-Play Schemes and Political Interference Jamie Raskin · Roger P. Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · +15 | reported | |
| 2025-12-01 | Trump Administration Drops 100+ Corporate Enforcement Actions, Penalties Fall 97 Percent Trump Administration · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-11-03 | Trump Admits on 60 Minutes He Doesn't Know Changpeng Zhao, the Binance Founder He Pardoned Donald Trump · Norah O'Donnell · Changpeng Zhao · CBS News · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-10-29 | Binance.US Lists Trump's USD1 Stablecoin Days After Presidential Pardon of Binance Founder Binance · Binance.US · Changpeng Zhao · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | MAGA-Aligned Lobbying Firms Quadruple Revenue Selling Trump Access Brian Ballard · Corporate clients · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | White House Releases List of 37 Corporate Donors for Trump's $300M Ballroom Project Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-10-20 | Trump Hosts $250 Million White House Ballroom Fundraiser with Defense and Tech Executives Donald Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-13 | Pro-Trump Fund Fraudulently Markets Fake Treasury Event, Sells Sponsorships 1789 Capital · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Corporate Sponsors | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Crypto Investor 'Bitcoin Jesus' Reaches $48 Million Deal After Hiring Trump Associates Roger Ver · Roger Stone · David Schoen · Trump Administration · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M to Settle Suspension Lawsuit, $22M for White House Ballroom Donald Trump · YouTube · Google · Meta · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Envoy Witkoff's Son Pitches $4B Fund to Qatar and UAE While Father Negotiates Ceasefire Steve Witkoff · Alex Witkoff · Qatar Investment Authority · UAE · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | ProPublica Reveals Noem Fast-Tracked $11M FEMA Funds to Naples Pier After Donor Intervention Kristi Noem · Sinan Gursoy · Teresa Heitmann · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | POGO Exposes Ballard Partners Clients Winning No-Bid ICE Biometric Surveillance Contracts Ballard Partners · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump Approves TikTok Deal Giving Control to Allies Ellison and Murdoch, Demands Billions Donald Trump · Larry Ellison · Oracle · Rupert Murdoch · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump's $200M White House Ballroom Funded by Government Contractors Seeking Access Donald Trump · Lockheed Martin · Google · Palantir · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | NYT Reveals UAE $2B Crypto Investment Tied to AI Chip Deal Approval Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · David Sacks · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-12 | SEC Drops Fraud Case Against Pardoned Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Trevor Milton · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-27 | India Hires Mercury Public Affairs for $75,000/Month Amid Trump Tariff Threats India · Mercury Public Affairs · Susie Wiles · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-01 | Qualcomm Donates $1 Million to Trump-Aligned Dark Money Group Qualcomm · Securing American Greatness · Taylor Budowich · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Sean Combs Associates Offer Mid-Six-Figure Payments to Trump Officials for Presidential Pardon Sean Combs · Donald Trump · Nicole Westmoreland · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Emergency contractor donates $10,000 to Florida GOP, receives $6.2 million in contracts hours later IRG Global Emergency Management · Ron DeSantis · Republican Party of Florida · Access Restoration Services (ARS) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | Trump Administration Monetizes Political Access Through Exclusive Business Networks Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Business Leaders · Donald Trump Jr. · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Consensys SEC case dropped after $100,000 inauguration donation Consensys · Donald Trump · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Capital One CFPB case dropped after $1 million inauguration donation Capital One · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Trump Crypto Dinner Offers Presidential Access for Top $TRUMP Coin Buyers Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Fight Fight Fight LLC · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump inauguration raises record $251.4 million from corporations Trump Inaugural Committee · Pilgrim's Pride Corp. ($5 million) · Ripple Labs ($4.9 million) · Warren Stephens · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun Becomes First White House Crypto Dinner Guest After $75 Million Investment Justin Sun · Donald Trump · Trump Family · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-13 | Trump Inauguration Raises Record $245 Million with $161 Million from Corporations Facing Federal Enforcement Donald Trump · Trump Inaugural Committee · Amazon · Meta · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-27 | X prioritizes verified accounts for recommendations and polls Elon Musk · X/Twitter | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-15 | Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Harry Sargeant III · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Elliott Broidy · Ken Kurson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | Trump Pardons Charles Kushner and 14 Others in Single-Day Corruption Spree Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Paul Erickson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | DOJ Reveals Investigation into $2 Million Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme Donald Trump · Elliott Broidy · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jared Kushner · William Barr | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-01 | Fireworks CEO Provides $750K-$1M Gift After Trump Delays Tariffs Donald Trump · Bruce Zoldan · Phantom Fireworks | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-01 | T-Mobile Executives Spend 95K at Trump Hotel During Merger Review T-Mobile · John Legere · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-23 | Private Prison Stocks Soar as CoreCivic, GEO Donate $2.8M to Trump CoreCivic · GEO Group · Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · +2 | 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 | |
| 2013-09-17 | Pam Bondi Receives Illegal $25,000 Trump Foundation Donation During Trump University Investigation Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2011-05-01 | Pam Bondi Fires Foreclosure Fraud Investigators After Campaign Donations from Lender Processing Services Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-24 | Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci Convicted in Operation Plunder Dome Corruption Trial, Sentenced to Five Years for Racketeering Conspiracy Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Attorney's Office (Maryland) · U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System George W. Bush · Karl Rove · Mercer Reynolds · Thomas Scully · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Business Plan to "Function More Like a Business" - Formalizes Pay-to-Play Corporate Legislative Model American Legislative Exchange Council | confirmed |