| 2025-10-13 | Trump Administration Unveils Gaza GREAT Trust Reconstruction Plan at Egypt Summit with Kushner and Witkoff
3 src Trump · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · Elon Musk |
| reported |
| 2025-01-24 | NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars
4 src National Security Council |
| confirmed |
| 2021-01-28 | Raytheon CEO Hayes Tells Investors "Peace Not Going to Break Out" in Middle East, Sees Solid Growth
3 src 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
3 src 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
6 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton Gets 9.5B Iraq Contracts with Cheney Ties
4 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1995-04-10 | McNamara Memoir Admits Vietnam War Was "Terribly Wrong" - Confession Comes 20 Years Too Late for 58,000 Dead Americans
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1984-05-07 | Agent Orange Settlement - Chemical Companies Pay $180 Million to Veterans Without Admitting Liability - Victims Receive Average $3,800
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1979-01-08 | Vietnam Veterans File Agent Orange Class Action Lawsuit Against Dow Chemical and Monsanto - Corporations Deny Liability Despite Evidence
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason
4 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption
3 src Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · General Dynamics · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1965-01-01 | Bell Helicopter Profits Surge from $150 Million to $2 Billion During Vietnam War - Huey Production Defines "Helicopter War"
2 src U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation
4 src 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
7 src Truman Committee · Harry S. Truman | | confirmed |
| 1942-12-21 | Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment
3 src Department of Justice · Truman Committee · Francis Biddle | | confirmed |
| 1942-04-28 | Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Defense contractors · Truman Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1942-03-26 | Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason
3 src Harry Truman · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1942-01-16 | War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · War Production Board · Defense contractors | | confirmed |
| 1941-04-17 | Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant Built with Taxpayer Funds, Private Profits
3 src Ford Motor Company · Henry Ford · U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1941-03-01 | Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering
4 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Senate · Defense contractors | | confirmed |
| 1940-10-08 | Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes
3 src 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
6 src U.S. corporations · General Motors | | confirmed |
| 1939-11-04 | Neutrality Act Revised to Allow Arms Sales on Cash-and-Carry Basis, Enabling Corporate War Profits
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · France | | confirmed |
| 1934-04-12 | Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"
3 src U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1915-05-07 | Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed
4 src British Government · JP Morgan & Co. |
| confirmed |
| 1914-08-01 | JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit
4 src JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · Woodrow Wilson |
| confirmed |
| 1898-05-01 | Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence
3 src William McKinley |
| confirmed |
| 1863-03-02 | Congress Passes False Claims Act Allowing Citizens to Sue War Profiteers After Contractor Fraud Crisis
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1863-01-15 | Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit
3 src U.S. Treasury Department · Abraham Lincoln |
| confirmed |
| 1862-05-01 | General Benjamin Butler's New Orleans Occupation Marked by Systematic Corruption and Cotton Trade Profiteering
3 src Abraham Lincoln | | confirmed |
| 1862-01-13 | Lincoln's Secretary of War Simon Cameron Resigns Amid Procurement Corruption and Contract Fraud Enabling Profiteering
3 src Abraham Lincoln · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1861-04-12 | Confederate Bombardment of Fort Sumter Begins Civil War and Triggers Massive War Profiteering Industry
3 src Abraham Lincoln · James Buchanan | | confirmed |
| 1861-01-01 | Civil War Contractors Defraud Government with Defective Weapons and Shoddy Goods Costing Lives and Millions
3 src U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1847-01-04 | Samuel Colt Rescues Failing Gun Company with Mexican War Government Contract
3 src U.S. government | | confirmed |
| 1812-06-18 | War of 1812 Declared, Enabling Widespread Profiteering and Contractor Fraud
3 src James Madison · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |