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#Regulatory-Capture

Events indexed under #Regulatory-Capture — 618 entries in the record.

618 events From Jan 1, 1899 To Jun 9, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2015-11-19Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases 4 src
Johns Hopkins University · Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Roche · +5
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2015-10-15Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation 3 src
John Carreyrou · Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · +2
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2015-09-21Martin Shkreli Raises Daraprim Price by 5,000%, From $13.50 to $750 Per Pill 3 src
Martin Shkreli · Turing Pharmaceuticals
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2015-09-18EPA Exposes Volkswagen Dieselgate: 11 Million Cars with Emissions Defeat Devices 4 src
Volkswagen Group · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · California Air Resources Board (CARB) · International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) · +3
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2015-04-27Corinthian Colleges Files Bankruptcy After Federal Crackdown on For-Profit College Fraud 4 src
Corinthian Colleges · U.S. Department of Education · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities
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2015-04-01Oklahoma Corporation Commission Orders 347 Disposal Wells to Prove Non-Contact with Basement Rock After Earthquake Surge 4 src
Oklahoma Corporation Commission · Oklahoma Geological Survey · Oil and Gas Industry Operators · Governor Mary Fallin · +1
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2015-02-26FCC Votes 3-2 for Strong Net Neutrality Protections Through Title II Reclassification After Record Public Engagement 3 src
Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Michael O'Rielly · +3
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2015-02-03S&P Settles for $1.375 Billion Over Fraudulent AAA Ratings on Junk Mortgage Securities, While Moody's Pays $864 Million, Exposing 'Issuer-Pays' Conflict of Interest Model Where 73% of 2006 AAA-Rated Securities Were Downgraded to Junk by 2010 3 src
Standard & Poor's · Moody's Investors Service · Fitch Ratings · Department of Justice · +1
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2014-10-22DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme 3 src
DaVita · Kent Thiry · Department of Justice · HHS Office of Inspector General
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2014-06-01FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews 3 src
Joan Buenconsejo · Food and Drug Administration · AstraZeneca · Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
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2014-05-15FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash 3 src
Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Google · Microsoft · +4
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2014-02-26Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats 3 src
Dave Camp · House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group · Cerberus Capital Management · +1
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2014-02-19Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Jan Koum · +2
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2014-02-06Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists 3 src
Max Baucus · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Merck · UnitedHealth Group · +1
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2014-01-14Verizon Lawsuit Successfully Overturns FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Court Demands Title II Reclassification 3 src
Verizon Communications · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federal Communications Commission · Julius Genachowski
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2014-01-01Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate 4 src
US Treasury · FinCEN · Russian Oligarchs · US real estate industry
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2013-12-23Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins 3 src
Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf · Scott Reckard (LA Times Reporter)
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2013-12-09American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market 3 src
American Airlines · US Airways · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division
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2013-11-11Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill 3 src
Citigroup · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street
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2013-10-20South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft 3 src
Richard Benda · Joop Bollen · Marty Jackley · Mike Rounds
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2013-08-01FAA Safety Official Ali Bahrami Leaves for Aerospace Industries Association During Boeing 737 MAX Development 3 src
Ali Bahrami · Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Aerospace Industries Association · +1
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2013-06-17Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Solvay Pharmaceuticals · Actavis · +2
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2013-05-02Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman 4 src
Tom Wheeler · Barack Obama · Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) · National Cable Television Association (NCTA) · +2
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2013-04-15Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements 3 src
Barack Obama
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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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2013-01-29DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis 4 src
Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3
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2013-01-03Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3
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2012-12-05ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation 4 src
Elizabeth Fowler · Johnson & Johnson · WellPoint · Max Baucus · +2
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2012-10-01ALEC's 'Electricity Freedom Act' Systematically Attacks State Renewable Energy Standards 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · James Taylor · Edison Electric Institute · +3
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2012-09-01New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations 4 src
New England Compounding Center · Barry Cadden · Food and Drug Administration · Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy · +2
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2012-08-10FTC Finalizes 2012 Consent Decree Against Facebook — Privacy Order That Did Not Stop Surveillance-Advertising Substrate 5 src
Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Jon Leibowitz · +1
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2012-04-09Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor 5 src
Facebook Inc. · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram Inc. · Kevin Systrom · +2
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2012-04-04STOCK Act Signed into Law 3 src
Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · +1
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2012-03-02Iowa Governor Branstad Signs Nation's First Modern Ag-Gag Law Criminalizing Undercover Documentation of Agricultural Facility Abuses, Using ALEC Model Legislation to Shield Corporate Factory Farms from Whistleblower Investigations 4 src
Iowa Legislature · Governor Terry Branstad · American Legislative Exchange Council · Agriculture Industry
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2012-01-01Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates 3 src
Kaiser Permanente · Ascension Health · Tower Health · Bernard Tyson
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2011-12-01GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans 3 src
Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5
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2011-10-31MF Global Bankruptcy: $1.6 Billion in Customer Funds Missing Under Jon Corzine 3 src
Jon Corzine
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2011-07-01ALEC Achieves Systematic Legislative Capture: 200+ Corporate-Drafted Bills Enacted Annually Across States 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +1
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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
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2011-05-11FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker Joins Comcast Four Months After Approving NBC Universal Merger 3 src
Meredith Attwell Baker · Comcast Corporation · NBC Universal · Federal Communications Commission · +2
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2011-01-27Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Released, No Banker Prosecutions Follow 3 src
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission · Phil Angelides · Lloyd Blankfein · Jamie Dimon · +1
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2011-01-01ALEC Grants Corporate Lobbyists 'Equal Vote' on Model Legislation for State Legislatures 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil
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2010-12-31Donors Trust Becomes Primary Climate Denial Dark Money Conduit 4 src
Donors Trust · Donors Capital Fund · Koch brothers · Knowledge and Progress Fund · +3
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2010-12-21FCC Passes First Net Neutrality Rules with Major Wireless Exemption in 3-2 Party-Line Vote 3 src
Federal Communications Commission · Julius Genachowski · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · +1
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2010-12-15FDA Arthritis Drug Reviewer Jeffrey Siegel Joins Genentech After Approving Company Tocilizumab 4 src
Jeffrey Siegel · Food and Drug Administration · Genentech · Roche · +1
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2010-08-04GAO Investigation Exposes Systemic For-Profit College Fraud - Industry Takes 25% of Federal Aid 3 src
U.S. Government Accountability Office · Tom Harkin
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2010-07-21Dodd-Frank Act Creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulate Predatory Lending 4 src
Barack Obama · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Cordray · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2010-05-15Wells Fargo Hires SEC Enforcement Chief: Investigation Needed 3 src
Wells Fargo
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2010-04-20Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Begins - Environmental Disaster and Corporate Negligence 3 src
BP (British Petroleum) · Transocean Ltd · Halliburton · Minerals Management Service · +3
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2010-04-16SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Over ABACUS 2007-AC1 Synthetic CDO Deal Where Hedge Fund Manager John Paulson Selected Mortgage Securities to Bet Against While Goldman Sold Package to Investors, Resulting in $550 Million Settlement but No Criminal Charges 2 src
Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3
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2010-03-26SpeechNow.org v. FEC Appeals Court Decision Creates Super PACs with Unlimited Contribution Authority 3 src
David Keating · Federal Election Commission · U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
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2010-03-23ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall 3 src
Barack Obama · America's Health Insurance Plans · PhRMA · Max Baucus · +2
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2010-01-01ALEC Distributes Climate Denial Model Legislation to Kill Regional Climate Pacts 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Clint Woods · +2
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2010-01-01ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +5
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2010-01-01Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest 3 src
Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2
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2010-01-01Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations
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2009-12-21Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President 3 src
Dr. Julie Gerberding · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck · Gardasil vaccine
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2009-06-26Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill 3 src
Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5
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2009-06-01Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise 3 src
Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin · Jim Messina · +2
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2009-02-17SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings 4 src
Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Leroy King · Stanford International Bank · +1
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2009-01-01Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate 3 src
House Energy and Commerce Committee · Fred Upton · PhRMA · Pfizer · +1
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2008-12-11Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years 5 src
Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission · Harry Markopolos
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2008-10-29Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave 3 src
Delta Air Lines · Northwest Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division
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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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2008-10-03Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Creates $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to Bail Out Wall Street Banks with Minimal Oversight or Executive Accountability Requirements, Leading to Just One Criminal Prosecution Compared to 900+ in 1980s Savings & Loan Crisis 4 src
Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +6
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2008-10-03Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance 4 src
George W. Bush · Paul Wellstone · Pete Domenici · U.S. Department of Labor · +2
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2008-09-29Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money 3 src
Barney Frank · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street · TARP
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2008-09-16Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis 3 src
American International Group · Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +3
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2008-09-15Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic 2 src
Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3
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2008-08-01FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Throttling BitTorrent Traffic in Historic 3-2 Vote on Net Neutrality 3 src
Federal Communications Commission · Comcast Corporation · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Kevin Martin
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2008-07-24Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis 4 src
Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · Clear Channel Communications · iHeartMedia · +2
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2008-07-01Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges 4 src
Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2
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2008-03-16Bear Stearns Collapse and Federal Reserve-Facilitated Fire Sale to JPMorgan with $29 Billion Taxpayer Guarantee Establishes 'Too Big to Fail' Precedent with Zero Criminal Prosecutions Despite Fraud-Driven Collapse 3 src
Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3
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2007-12-18Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law 3 src
Trent Lott · John Breaux · Breaux Lott Leadership Group · Patton Boggs
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2007-10-19Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking 3 src
Comcast Corporation · Associated Press · Electronic Frontier Foundation · TorrentFreak
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2007-05-10Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding, $600M Fine, Zero Executives Jailed 3 src
Purdue Pharma · Michael Friedman · Howard R. Udell · Paul D. Goldenheim · +1
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2006-12-29AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup 3 src
AT&T Inc. · BellSouth Corporation · Federal Communications Commission · SBC Communications
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2006-09-29Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest 3 src
President George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · Moody's Investors Service · Standard & Poor's · +2
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2006-09-29Federal Regulators Issue Weakened Mortgage Guidance After Year of Industry Lobbying, Ignoring Warnings 4 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Office of Thrift Supervision · +8
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2006-02-22Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal 3 src
George W. Bush · Charles Schumer · Dubai Ports World · UAE · +3
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2006-01-01Countrywide Begins Process to Switch to Office of Thrift Supervision for Lighter Regulation 3 src
Countrywide Financial · Angelo Mozilo · Office of Thrift Supervision · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · +1
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2005-11-16Energy Committee Hearings Expose Oil Industry Climate Denial Campaign and Regulatory Capture 3 src
House Energy and Commerce Committee · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute
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2005-11-07Harry Markopolos Submits 'The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud' to SEC, Agency Ignores Detailed Evidence for Third Time 4 src
Harry Markopolos · Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff
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2005-10-15Dubai Ports World Initiates Controversial CFIUS Review for US Port Management Acquisition 3 src
Dubai Ports World · Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum · CFIUS · US Coast Guard · +3
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2005-08-08Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review 3 src
Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +3
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2005-06-15FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program 3 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing Corporation · Aircraft manufacturers · FAA certification officials · +3
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2005-04-20Bankruptcy Act Makes Private Student Loans Non-Dischargeable - Weaponizing Law Against Students 3 src
George W. Bush · MBNA · Sallie Mae
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2005-04-01Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists 3 src
Public Citizen · U.S. Congress · K Street
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2004-12-15Billy Tauzin Joins PhRMA as CEO After Shepherding $200B Medicare Drug Bill 3 src
Billy Tauzin · PhRMA · Medicare
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2004-11-18FDA Whistleblower David Graham Testifies on Vioxx Cover-up Before Senate 4 src
Dr. David Graham · Food and Drug Administration · Merck · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1
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2004-11-02Massey Energy CEO Spends $3 Million to Elect Judge in Case Against His Company 11 src
Don Blankenship · Brent Benjamin · Hugh Caperton · Massey Energy Company · +2
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2004-09-30Merck Withdraws Vioxx After Concealing Heart Attack Risk, FDA Failure Causes Estimated 28,000-55,000 Deaths 3 src
Merck · Food and Drug Administration · David Graham · Raymond Gilmartin
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2004-07-22Koch Network Restructures: CSE Splits into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity 3 src
David Koch · Charles Koch · Dick Armey · Nancy Pfotenhauer · +5
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2004-04-28SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Christopher Cox · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · +4
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2004-04-28SEC Net Capital Rule Change Enables Investment Bank Leverage Explosion Fueling Housing Bubble 9 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3
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2003-11-25Medicare Part D Passes After Pharmaceutical Industry Writes Price Negotiation Ban 3 src
Billy Tauzin · House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Medicare
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2003-09-19Paul Bremer Issues CPA Order 39 Imposing Radical Free Market Restructuring on Occupied Iraq 6 src
Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Iyad Allawi
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2003-06-26HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History 3 src
HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice
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2003-06-02FCC Attempts Massive Media Deregulation Under Michael Powell Despite 97% Public Opposition 3 src
Michael K. Powell · Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Trent Lott · +2
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2003-05-06Paul Bremer Begins Issuing 'CPA 100 Orders' to Restructure Iraq's Economy Under Military Occupation 6 src
Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1
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