#Systematic-Corruption
Events indexed under #Systematic-Corruption — 156 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-12 | DOGE Cuts 1,029 More NOAA Employees, Threatening Weather Forecasting and Disaster Response Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · U.S. National Weather Service · Elon Musk · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | DOJ Proposes Rule Giving Attorney General Veto Power Over Bar Complaints Against Government Lawyers U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Ed Martin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Lead Prosecutor in DOJ Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell Replaced U.S. Department of Justice · Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Social Security Administration Inspector General Opens Formal Probe into DOGE Data Misuse U.S. Social Security Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Robert Garcia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Launches Section 301 Trade Probes to Rebuild Tariff Regime After Supreme Court Defeat Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · U.S. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | DOGE Spending Cuts Leave U.S. Government Hollowed Out as Iran War Escalates Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of State · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Public Citizen Report Finds Trump Removed More Inspectors General Than All Prior Presidents Combined Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Inspector General · Public Citizen | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate Stablecoin Bill Stalls as Democrats Cite Trump Crypto Conflicts of Interest Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · Elizabeth Warren · Jeff Merkley · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Whistleblower Alleges Ex-DOGE Staffer Stole Social Security Database on Thumb Drive Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Social Security Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted from 36 to 2 Lawyers, Stripped of Authority to File Cases U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Pursues Retaliatory Investigations of Democratic Officials and Federal Reserve Chair U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeanine Pirro · Jerome Powell · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Releases Additional Epstein Files After NPR Investigation Exposes Withheld Trump-Related Documents U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Collapses to Two Lawyers, Gutting Federal Anti-Corruption Enforcement U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · U.S. Public Integrity Section | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Internal ICE Data Exposes Vast Inflation in DHS Deportation Figures Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-07 | IRS Admits Unlawfully Sharing Thousands of Taxpayer Records with DHS for Immigration Enforcement Internal Revenue Service · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Scott Bessent · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Over Church Protest Coverage Don Lemon · Georgia Fort · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-10 | Trump Pardons 77 Allies Who Attempted to Overturn 2020 Election Including Giuliani, Meadows, and Fake Electors Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · Sidney Powell · +13 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-06 | Trump Pardons Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and Chief of Staff Convicted of Federal Corruption Donald Trump · Glen Casada · Cade Cothren | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Executive Order Extends Hiring Freeze with Political Approval Requirements Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Pro-Trump Fund Fraudulently Markets Fake Treasury Event, Sells Sponsorships 1789 Capital · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Corporate Sponsors | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Accelerates Authoritarian Agenda With Mass Purges and Political Prosecutions Donald Trump · New York Attorney General · Federal Workforce · Business Leaders | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | U.S. Executes Extraordinary $20 Billion Argentina Bailout for Political Ally Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Javier Milei · Hedge Funds | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Analysis Finds 40+ Trump Administration Appointees With Fossil Fuel Industry Ties Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · Trump Administration · Public Citizen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | DHS Awards Secretive $915 Million 'Self-Deportation' Contract to Connected Firm DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Salus Worldwide Solutions · Project on Government Oversight | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | DOJ-Cited Report on Soros Shows No Evidence of Terrorism Funding George Soros · U.S. Department of Justice · Conservative Report Authors | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Dominion Voting Systems Sold to Former Republican Election Director Scott Leiendecker · Dominion Voting Systems · Liberty Vote · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | John Bolton Faces Imminent Federal Indictment on Classified Materials Charges John Bolton · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Trump Administration Systematically Uses Mortgage Fraud Charges Against Political Adversaries Letitia James · Lisa Cook · Adam Schiff · William Pulte · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Trump's Pharmaceutical Sales Overhaul Benefits Son's Company and Cabinet Member Donald Trump Jr. · Howard Lutnick · BlinkRx · Cantor Fitzgerald · +1 | 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 | |
| 2025-10-09 | DHS Secretary Announces Additional Chicago Property Purchase for ICE Operations Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · JB Pritzker · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Treasury's $20 Billion Argentina Bailout Benefits Bessent's Hedge Fund Colleagues Scott Bessent · Stanley Druckenmiller · Robert Citrone · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Border Czar Tom Homan Allegedly Took $50,000 in FBI Corruption Sting Tom Homan · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Emil Bove · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | ICE Furloughs Entire Detention Oversight Office Despite Record Capacity Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Office of Detention Oversight · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Miami Dade College Board Gifts $67 Million Downtown Land to Trump Library Miami Dade College Board · Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation · Ron DeSantis · Dr. Marvin Dunn | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | OMB Removes Legal References to Federal Worker Back Pay Guarantees Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump · Federal Workers · Chris Van Hollen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Provides 'Concierge Service' to Fossil Fuel Industry Brittany Kelm · National Energy Dominance Council · Fossil Fuel Industry · White House | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Negotiates Harvard Research Funding Restoration Stephen Schwarzman · Blackstone · Harvard University · White House · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | RFK Jr.'s Legal Associate Aaron Siri Advances Anti-Vaccine Lawsuits While Influencing HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Aaron Siri · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Cancels $500 Million in Food Aid, Affecting 94 Million Pounds Trump Administration · USDA · Food Banks | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Trump Administration Freezes $88 Million for Human Trafficking Survivors Trump Administration · Trafficking Survivor Organizations · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | White House Blocks $2.1 Billion Chicago Transit Funding as Political Retaliation Trump Administration · White House · City of Chicago · City of Portland | reported | |
| 2025-10-04 | Trump Targets Corporate Deals Across 30+ Industries Before Midterm Elections Trump Administration · Pfizer · Eli Lilly · AstraZeneca · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | OMB Director Russ Vought Uses Shutdown to Execute Mass Federal Purges Russ Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | White House Defunds Council of Inspectors General, Disabling Federal Oversight Office of Management and Budget · Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency · White House · Susan Collins · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump Restricts H-1B Visas with $100,000 Per-Petition Fee Requirement Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Forces Corporations to Provide Government Equity Stakes Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Intel · Lockheed Martin · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-20 | Trump Purchases Over $100 Million in Bonds from Companies He Regulates Donald Trump · Wells Fargo · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Fired DOJ Antitrust Official Accuses Bondi Leadership of Corruption in $14B Merger Roger Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · Hewlett Packard Enterprise · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | OMB Director Vought Blocks Billions in Congressional Appropriations, Claims Unilateral Spending Power Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | PGA Tour Returns to Trump's Doral Golf Course for $20 Million Signature Event PGA Tour · Trump National Doral · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Trump Converts CHIPS Act Grants to Government Equity Stake in Intel Howard Lutnick · Intel Corporation · SoftBank · U.S. Department of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-14 | Senate Probes Commerce Secretary Lutnick's Firm for Tariff Insider Trading Howard Lutnick · Brandon Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · Ron Wyden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Violates Ethics Agreement, Retains Millions in Conflicted Assets Scott Bessent · Office of Government Ethics · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Demands Intel CEO Resignation, Then Reverses After Meeting Donald Trump · Lip-Bu Tan · Intel Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Nominates Partisan Heritage Foundation Economist to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics E.J. Antoni · Donald Trump · Bureau of Labor Statistics · Heritage Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Opens $12.5 Trillion in Retirement Savings to Cryptocurrency and Private Equity Risk Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor · Cryptocurrency industry · Private Equity Industry | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Vietnamese Farmers Displaced for Trump Golf Resort, Compensated $3,200 and Rice Trump Organization · Kinhbac City · Government of Vietnam | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Executive Order Places Federal Grants Under Political Appointee Control Donald Trump · White House · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Corporate PACs Donated $174 Million to Lawmakers Who Attempted to Overturn 2020 Election Koch Industries · American Crystal Sugar · AT&T · Corporate PACs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | FBI Redacted Trump's Name from Jeffrey Epstein Files Under Privacy Protections Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Ghislaine Maxwell Transferred to Minimum-Security Texas Prison Camp After Meeting with DOJ Officials Ghislaine Maxwell · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · +1 | confirmed | |
| 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 | |
| 2025-07-24 | UnitedHealth Confirms DOJ Criminal and Civil Investigation for Medicare Advantage Upcoding Fraud UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Department of Justice · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries Department of Justice · Aetna · CVS Health · Humana · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-23 | SpaceX Secures Over $9.5 Billion in Government Contracts Despite Conflicts of Interest Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration · Rep. Stephen Lynch · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-17 | First Criminal Charges Filed Under Texas Abortion Ban: Midwife Faces 20 Years Maria Margarita Rojas · Jose Ley · Texas Attorney General · Ken Paxton | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Study Finds 50% Spike in Pregnancy-Related Sepsis and Deaths in Texas After Abortion Ban Texas Department of Health · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · University of Texas | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | McMahon OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing TMTG Independent-Director Employment Agreements — 25,946 DJT RSUs, $55,200 Cash Retainer, $18,400/Quarter Forward Linda McMahon · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road Dark Web Drug Marketplace Founder Donald Trump · Ross Ulbricht · Tim Kaine · Libertarian Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-31 | Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-04 | UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Assassinated in Manhattan, Exposing Public Rage at Health Insurance Industry Brian Thompson · Luigi Mangione · UnitedHealthcare · UnitedHealth Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-31 | HHS Watchdog Finds Health Risk Assessments Drove $7.5 Billion in Medicare Advantage Overpayments Without Additional Patient Care Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Medicare Advantage insurers | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-16 | Humana Pays $90 Million to Settle First-of-Its-Kind Medicare Part D Fraud Case for Fraudulent Bidding Humana · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice · Steven Scott (whistleblower) | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-18 | DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | Academic Evidence Reveals Systematic Corruption in Hurricane Katrina Education Privatization Louisiana State Legislature · Charter School Advocates · Right-Wing Think Tanks · New Orleans School Board | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Trump Pressures Georgia Lawmakers to Capture State Election Board Donald Trump · Ed Lindsey · Janelle King · Georgia Republican Lawmakers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-27 | DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Optum | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events Clarence Thomas · Koch Network · Charles Koch · David Koch · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Investigation Reveals $6.6 Million in Gifts to Supreme Court Justices Supreme Court Justices · Fix the Court · Harlan Crow · Paul Singer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-14 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth Uses AI with 90% Error Rate to Deny Medicare Advantage Claims, Causing Patient Deaths UnitedHealth Group · NaviHealth · UnitedHealthcare | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-08 | Maui Wildfires Kill Over 100 as Corporate Water Diversions and Land Development Create Tinderbox; Governor Suspends Native Water Rights After Disaster Josh Green · West Maui Land Company · Glenn Tremble · Kaleo Manuel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-13 | ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case Cigna · ProPublica · House Committee on Energy and Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2023-02-15 | North Dakota Legislature Rejects Oil Royalty Protections, Creates Toothless Oversight Program North Dakota Legislature · Brad Bekkedahl · Don Longmuir · Ron Ness · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths National Bureau of Economic Research · Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-27 | PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates Small Business Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +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 Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Robert Eitel · Julian Schmoke Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-24 | Trump Declares Total War on Congressional Oversight: "We're Fighting All the Subpoenas" Donald Trump · White House · House Democrats · Congressional Investigators · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | CFPB Sues Navient for Systematically Cheating 12 Million Student Loan Borrowers Through Illegal Servicing Practices Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Navient Corporation · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme DaVita · Fresenius Medical Care · American Kidney Fund · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-19 | Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases Johns Hopkins University · Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Roche · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-16 | Education Management Corporation (EDMC) Settles Largest-Ever For-Profit Education Fraud Case for $95.5 Million, Forgives $103 Million in Student Loans Education Management Corporation (EDMC) · Art Institutes · Argosy University · Brown Mackie College · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-31 | Valeant Pharmaceuticals Scandal Exposes Systematic Price Gouging Strategy - 3000% Increase on Syprine, Philidor Fraud Network Valeant Pharmaceuticals · J. Michael Pearson · Philidor Rx Services · William Ackman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | DaVita Pays $450 Million for Drug Wastage Fraud, Largest Unjoined Whistleblower Settlement in History DaVita · Kent Thiry · Alon J. Vainer · Daniel D. Barbir · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme DaVita · Kent Thiry · Department of Justice · HHS Office of Inspector General | confirmed | |
| 2009-12-14 | University of Phoenix Settles $78.5 Million False Claims Act Lawsuit for Illegal Recruiter Incentive Compensation University of Phoenix · Apollo Group · Mary Hendow · Julie Albertson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Mental Health Parity Act Signed into Law with No Enforcement Mechanism, Enabling Systematic Insurer Non-Compliance George W. Bush · Paul Wellstone · Pete Domenici · U.S. Department of Labor · +2 | confirmed |