#War-Profiteering
Events indexed under #War-Profiteering — 35 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Administration Unveils Gaza GREAT Trust Reconstruction Plan at Egypt Summit with Kushner and Witkoff Trump · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · Elon Musk | reported | |
| 2025-01-24 | NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars michael-waltz · metis-solutions · pacific-architects-and-engineers · Defense Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-28 | Raytheon CEO Hayes Tells Investors "Peace Not Going to Break Out" in Middle East, Sees Solid Growth Greg Hayes · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Joe Biden | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-30 | Raytheon Profits Surge on Iran War Fears, CEO Cites Strong International Patriot Missile Demand Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Saudi Arabia · Iran · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Paul Bremer Begins Issuing 'CPA 100 Orders' to Restructure Iraq's Economy Under Military Occupation Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton Gets 9.5B Iraq Contracts with Cheney Ties Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Bunnatine Greenhouse · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1995-04-10 | McNamara Memoir Admits Vietnam War Was "Terribly Wrong" - Confession Comes 20 Years Too Late for 58,000 Dead Americans Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · Brian VanDeMark (co-author) | confirmed | |
| 1984-05-07 | Agent Orange Settlement - Chemical Companies Pay $180 Million to Veterans Without Admitting Liability - Victims Receive Average $3,800 Dow Chemical Company · Monsanto Company · Vietnam Veterans · Seven Chemical Companies · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-08 | Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence Lawyer Victor Yannacone · Dow Chemical Company · Monsanto Company · Vietnam Veterans · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason Richard Nixon · Anna Chennault · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption RMK-BRJ consortium · Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1965-01-01 | Bell Helicopter Profits Surge from $150 Million to $2 Billion During Vietnam War - Huey Production Defines "Helicopter War" Bell Helicopter · U.S. Department of Defense · Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association | confirmed | |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation President Lyndon B. Johnson · Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · National Security Agency · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1943-07-01 | Curtiss-Wright Exposed for Supplying Defective Aircraft Engines to Military Curtiss-Wright Corporation · Truman Committee · Harry S. Truman · Army Air Force | confirmed | |
| 1942-12-21 | Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment Anaconda Wire and Cable Company · Department of Justice · Truman Committee · Francis Biddle | 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 | |
| 1942-01-16 | War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model Franklin D. Roosevelt · Donald Nelson · War Production Board · Defense contractors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1941-04-17 | Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant Built with Taxpayer Funds, Private Profits Ford Motor Company · Henry Ford · Charles Sorensen · U.S. War Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1941-03-01 | Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering Harry S. Truman · U.S. Senate · Defense contractors | 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 | |
| 1940-01-01 | WWII Corporate Profits Soar 113% as Cost-Plus Contracts Enable Massive War Profiteering U.S. corporations · General Motors · Steel industry · War Industries Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1939-11-04 | Neutrality Act Revised to Allow Arms Sales on Cash-and-Carry Basis, Enabling Corporate War Profits Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · arms manufacturers · isolationists · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1934-04-12 | Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death" Gerald Nye · U.S. Senate · J.P. Morgan Jr. · Pierre du Pont · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1915-05-07 | Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed RMS Lusitania · German Navy · British Government · JP Morgan & Co. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1914-08-01 | JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · French government · Thomas Lamont · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1898-05-01 | Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence Russell A. Alger · William McKinley · Armour & Co · Swift & Co · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1863-03-02 | Congress Passes False Claims Act Allowing Citizens to Sue War Profiteers After Contractor Fraud Crisis Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress · War profiteers | confirmed | |
| 1863-01-15 | Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit U.S. Treasury Department · Charles Dana · Abraham Lincoln · Salmon P. Chase · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1862-05-01 | General Benjamin Butler's New Orleans Occupation Marked by Systematic Corruption and Cotton Trade Profiteering Benjamin F. Butler · Andrew Butler · David G. Farragut · Abraham Lincoln | confirmed | |
| 1862-01-13 | Lincoln's Secretary of War Simon Cameron Resigns Amid Procurement Corruption and Contract Fraud Enabling Profiteering Simon Cameron · Abraham Lincoln · Edwin M. Stanton · Alexander Cummings · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1861-04-12 | Confederate Bombardment of Fort Sumter Begins Civil War and Triggers Massive War Profiteering Industry Confederate States of America · Jefferson Davis · Robert Anderson · Abraham Lincoln · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1861-01-01 | Civil War Contractors Defraud Government with Defective Weapons and Shoddy Goods Costing Lives and Millions U.S. War Department · Union Army · War contractors · Shoddy millionaires | confirmed | |
| 1847-01-04 | Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract Samuel Colt · Samuel Walker · U.S. government · Eli Whitney Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1812-06-18 | War of 1812 Declared, Enabling Widespread Profiteering and Contractor Fraud President James Madison · U.S. Congress · British Empire · War profiteers | confirmed |