#Regulatory-Capture
Events indexed under #Regulatory-Capture — 602 entries in the record.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-05-03 | FCC Approves $35.6 Billion Viacom-CBS Merger Despite Ownership Concentration Violations Viacom · CBS Corporation · Sumner Redstone · Mel Karmazin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-03-10 | Dot-Com Bubble Peaks, Exposes IPO Fraud and Analyst Conflicts Investment banks · Securities Analysts · Securities and Exchange Commission · Nasdaq · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley Corporate PAC Strategists · Campaign Finance Lawyers · Political Fundraising Experts · Supreme Court Justices | confirmed | |
| 1999-11-12 | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retroactively Legalizes Citigroup Merger, Repeals Glass-Steagall President Bill Clinton · Phil Gramm · Jim Leach · Thomas Bliley Jr · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1999-11-05 | President's Working Group Recommends Exempting $80 Trillion Derivatives Market from Regulation Lawrence Summers · Robert Rubin · Alan Greenspan · Arthur Levitt · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1999-10-26 | Robert Rubin Joins Citigroup for $126 Million After Engineering Glass-Steagall Repeal Robert Rubin · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · Goldman Sachs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1999-07-02 | Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1999-02-15 | Time Magazine Celebrates "Committee to Save the World" While They Block Derivatives Regulation Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · Time Magazine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-10-28 | Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 512: Safe Harbor Provisions Create Dual System of Corporate Protection and Individual Vulnerability Bill Clinton · U.S. Copyright Office · Google · YouTube · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-10-27 | Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: Disney Lobbying Creates 'Mickey Mouse Protection Act,' Extending Corporate Rent Extraction by 20 Years Walt Disney Company · Bill Clinton · Time Warner · Universal · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1998-10-07 | Higher Education Act Reauthorization Loosens Regulations, Enables For-Profit College Explosion President Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · University of Phoenix · Career Education Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-10-01 | Electronic Industries Alliance Blacklisting - K Street Project Enforcement Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Dave McCurdy · Bill Paxon · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1998-09-23 | Federal Reserve Orchestrates $3.6 Billion Bailout of Long-Term Capital Management to Prevent Systemic Collapse William McDonough · Alan Greenspan · John Meriwether · Long-Term Capital Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-18 | DOJ Files Microsoft Antitrust Suit, Establishes Tech Monopoly Precedent U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · Bill Gates · Joel Klein · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-07 | Brooksley Born's Derivatives Regulation Warning Systematically Suppressed Brooksley Born · Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1998-04-01 | American Petroleum Institute Drafts Secret Climate Denial Strategy Document American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · Chevron · Southern Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1998-01-01 | ALEC's 'Economic Impact Statement Act' Uses Cost-Benefit Analysis to Kill Environmental Regulations American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · State Environmental Agencies · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-11-21 | FDA Modernization Act Accelerates Drug Approvals and Expands Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Under Pharma Pressure Bill Clinton · PhRMA · Food and Drug Administration · James Jeffords | confirmed | |
| 1997-08-01 | Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger Approved: Defense Contractor Consolidation Creates Oligopoly Boeing · McDonnell Douglas · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Financial Industry Spends $300 Million on Deregulation Lobbying and Campaign Contributions Banking industry · Insurance Industry · Securities Industry · Democratic Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Koch Industries Launches Massive Climate Denial Funding Network Koch Industries · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Family Foundations · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | SEC Fort Worth Examiners Identify Allen Stanford Ponzi Scheme, Enforcement Division Ignores Warnings for 12 Years Allen Stanford · Securities and Exchange Commission · Spencer Barasch · Stanford Financial Group | confirmed | |
| 1996-08-21 | HIPAA Passes with Limited Portability Protections While Granting Healthcare Industry Control Over Patient Data Bill Clinton · Nancy Kassebaum · Edward Kennedy · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1996-02-08 | Telecommunications Act of 1996 Eliminates Radio Ownership Caps and Raises TV Limits, Triggering Massive Media Consolidation Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · Clear Channel Communications · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-01 | Abramoff-Norquist-DeLay Network Defeats Native American Casino Tax Bill Jack Abramoff · Grover Norquist · Tom DeLay · Ralph Reed · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1996-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Launches Aggressive OxyContin Marketing Campaign Based on False Claims Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler | confirmed | |
| 1995-12-20 | FDA Approves OxyContin with Unsubstantiated Safety Claims Food and Drug Administration · Purdue Pharma · Dr. Curtis Wright · Sackler Family | confirmed | |
| 1995-12-12 | FDA Approval of OxyContin Reveals Systemic Regulatory Capture by Purdue Pharma Curtis Wright IV · Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Division of Anesthetic, Critical Care, and Addiction Drug Products · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-10 | Robert Rubin Appointed Treasury Secretary After 26 Years at Goldman Sachs Robert Rubin · Bill Clinton · Goldman Sachs | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-01 | ALEC Environment Task Force Passes 100+ Anti-Regulation Bills Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · Peabody Energy · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-01 | K Street Project Systematically Transforms Washington Lobbying Infrastructure Tom DeLay · Rick Santorum · Grover Norquist | confirmed | |
| 1994-11-08 | Republicans Win Historic Midterm Election with Contract with America Newt Gingrich · Dick Armey · Richard Mellon Scaife · Joseph Coors · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-29 | Riegle-Neal Act Enables Nationwide Bank Consolidation, Mortgage Market Transformation President Bill Clinton · Senator Donald Riegle · Representative Stephen Neal · American Bankers Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-26 | Clinton Healthcare Reform Dies After Insurance Industry Lobbying Campaign Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Health insurance industry · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1993-01-14 | CFTC Chair Wendy Gramm Exempts Enron from Derivatives Regulation, Joins Board Five Weeks Later Wendy Gramm · Phil Gramm · Enron Corporation · CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1992-10-29 | FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Creates Financial Dependence on Pharmaceutical Industry Food and Drug Administration · PhRMA · U.S. Congress · Pharmaceutical companies | confirmed | |
| 1992-01-01 | SEC Investigates Madoff Feeder Fund Avellino & Bienes, Misses $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme in First Regulatory Failure Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff · Avellino & Bienes · H. David Kotz | confirmed | |
| 1991-11-20 | Keating Five Ethics Findings: Cranston Reprimanded, Systemic Corruption Exposed Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · Donald Riegle · John Glenn · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1990-11-15 | Clean Air Act Amendments Pass with Industry-Preferred Market Mechanisms Over Direct Regulation George H.W. Bush · Environmental Defense Fund · Edison Electric Institute · American Petroleum Institute · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1990-05-01 | Putin's Transition from KGB to St. Petersburg Government: Early Regulatory Personnel Shift Vladimir Putin · Anatoly Sobchak · KGB Personnel · St. Petersburg City Administration | confirmed | |
| 1990-01-01 | Federal Reserve Begins Systematic Dismantling of Glass-Steagall Restrictions Federal Reserve Board · Alan Greenspan · JP Morgan & Co. · Morgan Stanley | confirmed | |
| 1989-04-14 | Senate Ethics Committee Opens Keating Five Investigation John McCain · John Glenn · Alan Cranston · Donald Riegle · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1989-03-24 | Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Triggers Corporate Campaign to Limit Pollution Liability Exxon Corporation · American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Supreme Court · Alaska Native communities · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-01 | Federal Reserve Expands Section 20 Powers to Include Corporate Debt Securities Federal Reserve Board · JP Morgan & Co. · Section 20 subsidiaries | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-01 | Global Climate Coalition Formed to Coordinate Industry Climate Denial Campaign ExxonMobil · Shell · Chevron · Ford Motor Company · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1988-11-23 | IBP Settles Record OSHA Case for Systematic Injury Underreporting at Dakota City Meatpacking Plant IBP Inc. · Occupational Safety and Health Administration · United Food and Commercial Workers · Congressional Investigators | confirmed | |
| 1988-08-01 | Wise Use Movement Founded as Industry-Funded Anti-Environmental Grassroots Campaign Ron Arnold · Alan Gottlieb · Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise · American Petroleum Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1987-08-04 | Reagan FCC Abolishes Fairness Doctrine in 4-0 Vote, Eliminating Balanced Coverage Requirements for Broadcasters Dennis R. Patrick · Federal Communications Commission · Ronald Reagan · Mark S. Fowler · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1987-04-01 | Keating Five Senators Pressure FHLBB to Halt Lincoln Investigation Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · John Glenn · John McCain · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Corporate Lobbying Secures Massive Rate Reductions Ronald Reagan · Corporate lobbyists · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1986-04-07 | EMTALA Passes as Unfunded Mandate, Enabling Insurance Industry to Shift Emergency Care Costs to Hospitals Ronald Reagan · American Hospital Association · Health Insurance Association of America · Pete Stark | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Murdoch Strategic Media Empire Expansion and U.S. Media Regulatory Navigation Rupert Murdoch · John Kluge · Marc Rich | confirmed | |
| 1984-10-30 | Cable Communications Policy Act - Media Deregulation and Consolidation Enabled Ronald Reagan · Barry Goldwater · Federal Communications Commission · Cable industry | confirmed | |
| 1984-09-24 | Hatch-Waxman Act Grants Pharma Patent Extensions While Creating Loopholes to Block Generics Orrin Hatch · Henry Waxman · Ronald Reagan · PhRMA | confirmed | |
| 1984-02-01 | Charles Keating Purchases Lincoln S&L: Systematic Fraud Network Charles Keating · American Continental Corporation · Lincoln Savings and Loan · Keating Five Senators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1983-12-01 | Rita Lavelle Convicted of Perjury: EPA Superfund Corruption Confirmed Rita Lavelle · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Aerojet-General Corporation · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1983-10-09 | James Watt Resigns After Racist Remarks: Interior Department Corruption Ends James Watt · Ronald Reagan · Department of Interior · Beach Boys | confirmed | |
| 1983-07-01 | South Dakota abolishes Rule Against Perpetuities, enabling dynasty trusts and tax haven status South Dakota Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1983-04-20 | Medicare Adopts DRG Prospective Payment System Creating Hospital Profit Incentives for Reduced Care Ronald Reagan · Richard Schweiker · American Hospital Association · Federation of American Hospitals | confirmed | |
| 1983-03-09 | Anne Gorsuch Resigns EPA After Contempt of Congress: Regulatory Capture Exposed Anne Gorsuch Burford · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-10-15 | Reagan Signs Garn-St Germain Act: Massive Thrift Deregulation Ronald Reagan · Jake Garn (R-UT) · Fernand St Germain (D-RI) · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Stanford Law School · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-28 | Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture Ronald Reagan · James Watt · Mountain States Legal Foundation · Coors Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Douglas Ginsburg · Robert Bork · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" Becomes Reagan Administration Blueprint Heritage Foundation · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Meese · James Watt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections Ronald Reagan · Anne Gorsuch · James Watt · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-12-11 | Superfund Law Passes But Industry Successfully Builds In Weaknesses and Delays Jimmy Carter · Chemical Manufacturers Association · American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | Banking Industry Launches Systematic Campaign to Erode Glass-Steagall Act Major commercial banks · Banking lobbyists · Federal regulators · Academic economists · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Corporate lobbying groups · Reagan administration | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence American Legislative Exchange Council · Tobacco Institute · ALEC Executive Director | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1977-07-01 | Exxon Internal Climate Research Program Confirms Human-Caused Global Warming James Black · Roger Cohen · ExxonMobil · Exxon Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Richard Scaife · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Enacted, Establishing Federal Preemption of State Employee Benefit Regulation U.S. Congress · President Gerald Ford | confirmed | |
| 1973-12-28 | Endangered Species Act Signed, Industry Groups Immediately Begin Weakening Campaign Richard Nixon · American Mining Congress · National Forest Products Association · American Farm Bureau Federation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller David Rockefeller · Zbigniew Brzezinski · Jimmy Carter · Chase Manhattan Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-10-18 | Clean Water Act Passes Over Nixon Veto After Industry Fails to Block Strong Provisions Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded Agha Hasan Abedi · Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan · Bank of America | confirmed | |
| 1971-01-01 | Oregon Passes Nation's First Forest Practices Act, Drafted by Timber Industry to Preempt Federal Regulation Oregon Legislature · Tom McCall · Oregon timber industry · Oregon Department of Forestry | confirmed | |
| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices Ralph Nader · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · Chrysler Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1962-09-27 | Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring, Chemical Industry Launches Coordinated Attack Campaign Rachel Carson · Monsanto · American Cyanamid · Velsicol Chemical Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors F. Edward Hebert · House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics · Frank Pace | confirmed | |
| 1949-08-10 | Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards Louis Johnson · Convair Corporation · House Armed Services Committee · Carl Vinson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1946-08-01 | Atomic Energy Act Creates AEC, Establishes Unprecedented Peacetime Secrecy Regime U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · Brien McMahon · Atomic Energy Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1946-06-11 | Administrative Procedure Act Codifies Regulatory Process, Creates Industry Capture Opportunities U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · American Bar Association · Business interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1942-04-28 | Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Navy Department · Defense contractors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1942-03-26 | Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason Standard Oil of New Jersey · IG Farben · Harry Truman · Thurman Arnold · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1940-10-08 | Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-19 | Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power U.S. Congress · Senator Joseph T. Robinson · Representative Wright Patman · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 1934-07-02 | Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Securities and Exchange Commission · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation Franklin D. Roosevelt · Hugh Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Recovery Administration · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1927-02-25 | McFadden Act Perpetuates Banking Fragmentation, Prohibits Interstate Branching Louis Thomas McFadden · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve | confirmed | |
| 1922-04-07 | Albert Fall Secretly Grants Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to Harry Sinclair Without Competitive Bidding Albert Fall · Harry Sinclair | confirmed | |
| 1922-01-01 | Holding Company Proliferation Enables Corporate Consolidation and Regulatory Evasion Samuel Insull · J.P. Morgan · Van Sweringen Brothers · Delaware Corporation Commission | confirmed | |
| 1921-05-31 | Harding Transfers Naval Oil Reserves to Interior Department Warren G. Harding · Albert Fall · Edwin Denby | confirmed | |
| 1920-06-05 | Jones Act Establishes Shipping Protectionism Still Harming Consumers Today Wesley Jones · U.S. Congress · American Shipping Industry · Woodrow Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1911-03-25 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills 146, Exposes Corporate Negligence Triangle Waist Company · New York Factory Investigating Commission · Frances Perkins · International Ladies Garment Workers Union | confirmed |