| 2017-05-15 | FCC Begins Investigation into Massive Fake Comments Campaign on Net Neutrality Repeal
4 src Ajit Pai · Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2017-05-13 | Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability
3 src Equifax · 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) |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-28 | Trump Signs Executive Order Dismantling Obama-Era Climate Regulations
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Pruitt · Lee Zeldin |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-02 | Ryan Zinke Opens Public Lands to Extraction While Profiting
3 src Ryan Zinke · David Bernhardt · Department of Interior · Halliburton |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-15 | Cofer Black, Former Blackwater Vice Chairman and CIA Counterterrorism Chief, Joins Burisma Board
4 src Erik Prince · Hunter Biden · Mitt Romney |
| 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 · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe |
| 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 Steven Mnuchin · Goldman Sachs · Jay Clayton · Donald Trump |
| 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 U.S. Senate Banking Committee · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-10 | Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly
3 src Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| 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 U.S. Department of Education · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| 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 · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-31 | Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation
4 src Tom Price · Chris Collins · House Energy and Commerce Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-24 | Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress
3 src Mylan · 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 Legislature | | 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 · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2015-11-19 | Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases
4 src Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Johnson & Johnson · AstraZeneca · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-15 | Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · Walgreens · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-21 | Martin Shkreli Raises Daraprim Price by 5,000%, From $13.50 to $750 Per Pill
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-18 | EPA Exposes Volkswagen Dieselgate: 11 Million Cars with Emissions Defeat Devices
4 src Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2015-04-27 | Corinthian 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-04-01 | Oklahoma Corporation Commission Orders 347 Disposal Wells to Prove Non-Contact with Basement Rock After Earthquake Surge
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-26 | FCC 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 · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-03 | S&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 Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme
3 src DaVita · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-01 | FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews
3 src Food and Drug Administration · AstraZeneca |
| confirmed |
| 2014-05-15 | FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash
3 src Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Google · Microsoft · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-26 | Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats
3 src House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2014-02-06 | Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists
3 src Max Baucus · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Merck · UnitedHealth Group |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-14 | Verizon Lawsuit Successfully Overturns FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Court Demands Title II Reclassification
3 src Verizon Communications · D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-01 | Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate
4 src U.S. Treasury · FinCEN · Russian Oligarchs |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-23 | Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins
3 src Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf |
| confirmed |
| 2013-12-09 | American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market
3 src American Airlines · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2013-11-11 | Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill
3 src Citigroup · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-20 | South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-01 | FAA Safety Official Ali Bahrami Leaves for Aerospace Industries Association During Boeing 737 MAX Development
3 src Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-17 | Supreme 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 · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2013-05-02 | Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman
4 src Tom Wheeler · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2013-04-15 | Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements
3 src Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-29 | DOJ 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 · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · Obama Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2012-12-05 | ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation
4 src Johnson & Johnson · Max Baucus · Barack Obama · U.S. Senate Finance Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2012-10-01 | ALEC's 'Electricity Freedom Act' Systematically Attacks State Renewable Energy Standards
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · Edison Electric Institute · State Legislatures |
| confirmed |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations
4 src Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2012-08-10 | FTC Finalizes 2012 Consent Decree Against Facebook — Privacy Order That Did Not Stop Surveillance-Advertising Substrate
5 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-09 | Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor
5 src Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law
3 src Barack Obama · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2012-03-02 | Iowa 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 American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-10-31 | MF Global Bankruptcy: $1.6 Billion in Customer Funds Missing Under Jon Corzine
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-07-01 | ALEC Achieves Systematic Legislative Capture: 200+ Corporate-Drafted Bills Enacted Annually Across States
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-06-13 | Department 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-05-11 | FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker Joins Comcast Four Months After Approving NBC Universal Merger
3 src Comcast Corporation · Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-27 | Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Released, No Banker Prosecutions Follow
3 src Jamie Dimon · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | ALEC Grants Corporate Lobbyists 'Equal Vote' on Model Legislation for State Legislatures
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · State Legislatures · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-31 | Donors Trust Becomes Primary Climate Denial Dark Money Conduit
4 src Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · Heartland Institute · Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-21 | FCC Passes First Net Neutrality Rules with Major Wireless Exemption in 3-2 Party-Line Vote
3 src Federal Communications Commission · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · AT&T |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-15 | FDA Arthritis Drug Reviewer Jeffrey Siegel Joins Genentech After Approving Company Tocilizumab
4 src Food and Drug Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2010-08-04 | GAO Investigation Exposes Systemic For-Profit College Fraud - Industry Takes 25% of Federal Aid
3 src U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 2010-07-21 | Dodd-Frank Act Creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulate Predatory Lending
4 src Barack Obama · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Cordray · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-15 | Wells Fargo Hires SEC Enforcement Chief: Investigation Needed
3 src Wells Fargo |
| reported |
| 2010-04-20 | Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Begins - Environmental Disaster and Corporate Negligence
3 src BP (British Petroleum) · Halliburton · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-16 | SEC 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 · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-03-26 | SpeechNow.org v. FEC Appeals Court Decision Creates Super PACs with Unlimited Contribution Authority
3 src Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2010-03-23 | ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall
3 src Barack Obama · PhRMA · Max Baucus · Nancy Pelosi |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC Distributes Climate Denial Model Legislation to Kill Regional Climate Pacts
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · State Legislatures |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | ALEC's 'Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax' Obstructs Market-Based Climate Solutions
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest
3 src Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-21 | Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President
3 src Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill
3 src Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-01 | Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise
3 src Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-17 | SEC Finally Charges Allen Stanford with $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme After Ignoring 12 Years of Internal Warnings
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate
3 src House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Pfizer · Merck |
| confirmed |
| 2008-12-11 | Bernie 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave
3 src Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions
3 src Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Emergency 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 · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Department of Labor · Health insurance industry |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-29 | Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money
3 src House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-16 | Federal 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 Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · Henry Paulson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Lehman 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 · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-08-01 | FCC 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-24 | Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis
4 src Bain Capital · Clear Channel Communications · Mitt Romney · Lowry Mays |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-01 | Bank 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 Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-03-16 | Bear 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-12-18 | Trent Lott Resigns from Senate to Evade New Lobbying Ethics Law
3 src Trent Lott |
| confirmed |
| 2007-10-19 | Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking
3 src Comcast Corporation · Associated Press · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2007-05-10 | Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Misbranding, $600M Fine, Zero Executives Jailed
3 src Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup
3 src Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |