#Regulatory-Capture
Events indexed under #Regulatory-Capture — 618 entries in the record.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion
4 src Three Arrows Capital · Kyle Davies · Su Zhu · Monetary Authority of Singapore · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-24 | Sweet v. Cardona Settlement Approves $6 Billion in Automatic Debt Cancellation for 200,000 Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges, Ending Years of Trump-Era Delays
8 src U.S. District Court for Northern California · U.S. Department of Education · Miguel Cardona · Betsy DeVos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-07 | FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · Maria Cantwell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-13 | Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion
4 src Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-12 | House Investigation Reveals Meatpacking Industry Drafted Trump DPA Order While 59,000 Workers Infected
3 src James Clyburn · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash
4 src Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance
3 src Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy
3 src Robert Califf · United States Senate · FDA Leadership · Pharmaceutical Industry Executives | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-15 | Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10%
3 src Private Equity Industry · Blackstone Group · KKR · TeamHealth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-02 | Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History
3 src Pfizer · BioNTech · U.S. government | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Announces Trump Media SPAC Merger
4 src Donald Trump · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-15 | Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin
4 src Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-01 | Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering
4 src Stephen Hahn · Flagship Pioneering · Moderna · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-08 | Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal
3 src Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-21 | Alden Global Capital Completes $633 Million Tribune Publishing Acquisition - "Vulture" Hedge Fund Becomes Second-Largest U.S. Newspaper Publisher
5 src Alden Global Capital · Tribune Publishing · Randall D. Smith · Chicago Tribune · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-01 | Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy
4 src Genesis Healthcare · ReGen Healthcare · Joel Landau · David Gefner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-05 | Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout
3 src Robinhood Financial · DTCC · Dan Gallagher · U.S. House Committee on Financial Services | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-20 | Trump Environmental Rollbacks Cause 80,000 Excess Deaths Per Decade
3 src Donald Trump · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Scott Pruitt · Andrew Wheeler · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Hospital Price Transparency Rule Takes Effect with Widespread Non-Compliance and Weak CMS Enforcement
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Hospital corporations · Northside Hospital | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction
3 src U.S. Congress · TeamHealth · Envision Healthcare · Blackstone Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths
4 src National Bureau of Economic Research · Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | 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 | |
| 2020-06-25 | Wirecard Files for Insolvency After €1.9 Billion Goes Missing, Exposing Decade of EY Audit Failure and German Regulatory Capture
3 src Wirecard · Markus Braun · Jan Marsalek · EY · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-09 | Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies
3 src Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice · Congressional Oversight | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
3 src AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission | 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 | |
| 2020-01-09 | Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys"
3 src Boeing employees · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · House Transportation Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance
4 src DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-23 | Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Fired Over 737 MAX Disasters, Keeps $62 Million Despite 346 Deaths
4 src Dennis Muilenburg · Boeing Board of Directors · David Calhoun · 346 crash victims · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-15 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns
3 src Bristol-Myers Squibb · Celgene · Federal Trade Commission · Amgen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Zuckerberg Holds Secret White House Dinners with Trump, Kushner, and Thiel to Negotiate Content Moderation
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Peter Thiel · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-30 | WeWork Withdraws IPO After Valuation Collapses from $47 Billion to $10 Billion, Exposing Massive Corporate Governance Failure
3 src Adam Neumann · WeWork · Securities and Exchange Commission · SoftBank · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-23 | Mark Esper Confirmed as Defense Secretary Despite Raytheon Lobbying Career and Refusal to Recuse
4 src Mark Esper · Raytheon · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | 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
7 src Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Robert Eitel · Julian Schmoke Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Joins Pfizer Board After 3-Month Gap
3 src Dr. Scott Gottlieb · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Senator Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-19 | EPA Finalizes Affordable Clean Energy Rule Replacing Clean Power Plan With Weaker Standards
4 src Andrew Wheeler · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · Coal Industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-21 | FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Lucy Koh · Qualcomm · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-15 | Utah adopts ALEC model legislation requiring legislative approval for "major" agency rules
3 src Ryan Wilcox · Daniel McCay · American Legislative Exchange Council · Utah State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-13 | FAA Finally Grounds 737 MAX After 51 Other Countries Act First, Exposing Regulatory Capture
3 src Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell · European Union Aviation Safety Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-10 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crashes Due to MCAS Malfunction, Killing All 157 Aboard
4 src Ethiopian Airlines · Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · MCAS system · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-03-05 | During Sprint merger review, T-Mobile executives spent ~$195,000 at Trump's D.C. hotel
3 src T-Mobile US · Sprint · Trump International Hotel Washington · Federal Communications Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition
4 src AbbVie · Amgen · Samsung Bioepis · Mylan · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-17 | Cigna-Express Scripts $52 Billion Merger Approved: DOJ Greenlights PBM Oligopoly
2 src Cigna · Express Scripts · Department of Justice · Makan Delrahim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-08 | Rep. Chris Collins Indicted for Insider Trading
4 src Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Stephen Zarsky · Innate Immunotherapeutics | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-02 | SEC Drops ExxonMobil Climate Investigation Under Trump Administration
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · ExxonMobil · Donald Trump · Rex Tillerson | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Refers Sinclair-Tribune Merger to Hearing Over "Serious Concerns" About Sham Divestitures and Misrepresentation
5 src Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Sinclair Broadcast Group · Tribune Media · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-13 | HHS Inspector General Finds Tom Price Violated Federal Travel Rules, Wasted $341,000 on Private Jets
4 src Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Tom Price · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-09 | Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Becomes Acting EPA Administrator After Pruitt Resignation
4 src Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Faegre Baker Daniels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-05 | EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid 14 Federal Investigations
3 src Scott Pruitt · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Andrew Wheeler | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Net Neutrality Repeal Officially Takes Effect, Permitting ISPs to Throttle, Block, and Prioritize Content for Payment
3 src Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-07 | Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly
3 src Bayer AG · Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-24 | Trump Signs Dodd-Frank Rollback Raising 'Systemically Important' Bank Threshold from $50B to $250B After Industry Lobbying Blitz
3 src Donald Trump · Greg Becker · Silicon Valley Bank · Mike Crapo · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-15 | Kansas City Fed Approves Reserve Trust Master Account After Alleged Intervention
3 src Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | Facebook Lobbies Irish Government to Weaken GDPR Enforcement, Creates EU Data Protection Haven
4 src Facebook · Irish Data Protection Commission · Enda Kenny (Irish Taoiseach) · Max Schrems · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-05 | Trump's CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney Shuts Down Equifax Investigation, Exposing Regulatory Capture
3 src Mick Mulvaney · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Equifax · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-24 | Alex Azar Confirmed as HHS Secretary After Doubling Insulin Prices at Eli Lilly
4 src Alex Azar · Eli Lilly · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Ron Wyden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-07 | Dan Elwell Becomes Acting FAA Administrator After Boeing Executive Career
6 src Dan Elwell · Federal Aviation Administration · Michael Huerta · Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Agriculture Committee Captured by Agribusiness - $523M Lobbying Shapes Farm Bill
3 src Glenn Thompson · David Scott · House Agriculture Committee · American Farm Bureau Federation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-21 | DeVos Replaces Full Debt Relief With Earnings-Based Formula - Corinthian Victims Get Pennies on Dollar
3 src Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-14 | FCC Under Ajit Pai Repeals Net Neutrality in 3-2 Party-Line Vote
3 src Ajit Pai · Donald Trump · Verizon Communications · Mignon Clyburn · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-11 | Betsy DeVos Blocks Debt Relief for 200,000 Defrauded For-Profit College Students Despite Career Staff Recommendations
4 src Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · ITT Technical Institute | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-04 | Trump reduces Bears Ears National Monument by 85% to open lands for extraction
3 src Donald Trump · Ryan Zinke · Bureau of Land Management · Navajo Nation · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power
3 src CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-24 | Trump Installs Mick Mulvaney as CFPB Acting Director, Beginning Systematic Gutting of Consumer Protection Agency
4 src Mick Mulvaney · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-20 | Nebraska PSC Approves Keystone XL Pipeline Route Despite Eminent Domain Controversy and Landowner Opposition
7 src Nebraska Public Service Commission · TransCanada Corporation · Bold Nebraska · Jane Kleeb · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-05 | CFPB Finalizes Payday Lending Rule Requiring Ability-to-Repay Assessment After Industry Spent $13 Million Lobbying
4 src Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Community Financial Services Association of America · Jeb Hensarling | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-07 | Equifax Finally Discloses Breach 40 Days After Discovery, Exposing Regulatory Capture
3 src Richard Smith · Equifax · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Mick Mulvaney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-23 | FTC Approves Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Despite Monopolization Concerns
3 src Amazon.com Inc. · Jeff Bezos · Whole Foods Market Inc. · Federal Trade Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-01 | Equifax Executives Sell $1.8 Million in Stock Days After Discovering Massive Data Breach
3 src John Gamble · Joseph Loughran · Rodolfo Ploder · Equifax · +2 | 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
5 src SCANA Corporation · Santee Cooper · Kevin Marsh · Stephen Byrne · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-21 | Mark Esper, Former Raytheon Weapons Lobbyist, Becomes Army Secretary in Revolving Door Appointment
4 src Mark Esper · Raytheon · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-15 | Kansas City Fed Denies Reserve Trust Master Account Amid Potential Regulatory Capture
3 src Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-14 | DeVos Freezes Borrower Defense Rule Protecting Defrauded Students - States Sue for Unlawful Delay
3 src Betsy DeVos · Maura Healey | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-15 | FCC Begins Investigation into Massive Fake Comments Campaign on Net Neutrality Repeal
4 src Ajit Pai · Federal Communications Commission · New York Attorney General's Office | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-13 | Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability
3 src Equifax · Richard Smith · Apache Software Foundation · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-01 | McKinsey 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) · ICE contracting officers | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-28 | Trump Signs Executive Order Dismantling Obama-Era Climate Regulations
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Pruitt · Lee Zeldin · Murray Energy Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-02 | Ryan Zinke Opens Public Lands to Extraction While Profiting
3 src Ryan Zinke · David Bernhardt · Department of Interior · Halliburton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-15 | Cofer Black, Former Blackwater Vice Chairman and CIA Counterterrorism Chief, Joins Burisma Board
4 src Joseph Cofer Black · Erik Prince · Nikolay Zlochevskyi · Hunter Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-07 | Scott Pruitt Dismantles EPA While Taking Industry Money
3 src Scott Pruitt · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-01 | Rex Tillerson ExxonMobil CEO Becomes Secretary of State
3 src Rex Tillerson · ExxonMobil · Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-24 | Trump Reverses Dakota Access Pipeline Denial, Orders Expedited Approval
4 src Donald Trump · Energy Transfer Partners · Kelcy Warren · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-23 | Trump Appoints Ajit Pai as FCC Chairman, Installing Former Verizon Lawyer to Regulate His Former Employer
3 src Donald Trump · Ajit Pai · Verizon Communications · Federal Communications Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Goldman Sachs Alumni Take Control of Trump Economic Policy
3 src Gary Cohn · Steven Mnuchin · Goldman Sachs · Dina Powell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-10 | Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi Sued for Insulin Price-Fixing Conspiracy as Prices Rise 300%+
3 src Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · CVS Caremark · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-01 | Banking Committee Chairman Shelby Advocates for Financial CHOICE Act to Gut Dodd-Frank
3 src Richard Shelby · U.S. Senate Banking Committee · Wall Street · Dodd-Frank Act | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-10 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly
3 src Anheuser-Busch InBev · SABMiller · Molson Coors · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-08 | Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating 2 Million Fake Accounts
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Richard Cordray | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-06 | ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees
4 src ITT Technical Institute · Kevin Modany · Daniel Fitzpatrick · U.S. Department of Education · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-03 | Standing Rock: Private Security and Police Attack Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protectors
3 src Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Energy Transfer Partners · Private Security Contractors · Morton County Sheriff's Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-31 | Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation
4 src Tom Price · Chris Collins · Innate Immunotherapeutics · Zimmer Biomet · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress
3 src Mylan · Heather Bresch · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis
5 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-17 | Kentucky Governor Bevin Seizes Control of Pension Board Through Executive Order
4 src Matt Bevin · Kentucky Retirement Systems · Thomas K. Elliott · Kentucky Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-12 | Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results
3 src Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme
5 src DaVita · Fresenius Medical Care · American Kidney Fund · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed |