| 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 |
| 2008-12-09 | Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested for Attempting to Sell Obama's Senate Seat
3 src Rod Blagojevich · Barack Obama · Patrick Fitzgerald · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2008-10-29 | Delta-Northwest Merger Approved: Beginning of Airline Industry Consolidation Wave
3 src Department of Justice · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-06 | Citigroup Managing Director Froman Emails Podesta Cabinet List; Virtually Entire Obama Cabinet Matches Recommendations
4 src Barack Obama · Citigroup · Robert Rubin · Eric Holder · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight
3 src George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +2 |
| 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 |
| 2008-09-19 | Paulson Authorizes AIG Bailout Benefiting Goldman Sachs
5 src Henry Paulson |
| 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 |
| 2008-09-15 | Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets
3 src Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-11 | Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-09 | Iowa Attorney General Files Criminal Complaint Against Agriprocessors for 9,311 Child Labor Violations, Revealing Systematic Use of Minors as Young as 14 in Dangerous Meatpacking Operations with Harsh Chemicals and Power Equipment
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-07 | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Placed in Federal Conservatorship, $187 Billion Taxpayer Bailout
3 src U.S. Treasury Department · Henry Paulson · Federal Housing Finance Agency · Fannie Mae · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-01 | Sarah Palin's NAR Pastors Exposed: New Apostolic Reformation Theology Enters National Electoral Politics
3 src C. Peter Wagner |
| confirmed |
| 2008-08-29 | Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors
3 src Bush Administration · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · National Security Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-08-18 | General Dynamics Pays $4 Million to Settle Fraud Charges for Defective Submarine and Aircraft Parts
2 src General Dynamics · U.S. Navy |
| 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 |
| 2008-07-31 | Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor
4 src Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · National Security Agency · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-31 | FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · Michael Hayden · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-29 | Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Seven Felony Corruption Charges
3 src Eric Holder |
| 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 |
| 2008-07-16 | Trump sells Palm Beach 'Maison de L'Amitié' to Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95M
5 src Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump · Trump Organization |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-09 | FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity
3 src U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +2 |
| 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 |
| 2008-07-01 | Samuel Alito Takes Undisclosed Alaska Fishing Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer
4 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Leonard Leo |
| confirmed |
| 2008-06-30 | Alexander Acosta Approves Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement with Jeffrey Epstein
3 src Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · Alan Dershowitz · Kenneth Starr · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-06-30 | Epstein Non-Prosecution Agreement Closes — Re-emergence as Financial-Intelligence Broker Begins Phase 1 Gulf Cultivation
2 src Jeffrey Epstein · Alexander Acosta |
| confirmed |
| 2008-06-28 | Model Ruslana Korshunova dies in suspicious fall two years after Epstein island visit
4 src Jeffrey Epstein · Virginia Giuffre |
| confirmed |
| 2008-05-12 | ICE Conducts Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. History at Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors Plant, Arresting 389 Workers While Management Faces No Criminal Charges Despite Systematic Labor Law Violations and Exploitation
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2008-05-08 | Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarm Over Intelligence Contractor Revolving Door, Requires Workforce Reporting
3 src Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Government Accountability Office · Department of Defense · Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
| confirmed |
| 2008-05-06 | Tim Shorrock Publishes "Spies for Hire," First Comprehensive Account of Intelligence Outsourcing
3 src Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · Lockheed Martin · National Security Agency · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2008-04-28 | Crawford v. Marion County: Supreme Court Upholds Strict Voter ID Laws Despite No Evidence of In-Person Fraud
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · American Civil Liberties Union · Republican National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly
4 src Google · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2008-03-20 | Sprint Nextel GPS Location Data Sharing with Law Enforcement
4 src National Security Agency · Bush Administration |
| 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 |
| 2008-01-15 | Project Chanology: Anonymous Mobilizes Against Scientology, Proving Chan Culture Can Produce Real-World Action
3 src Anonymous |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-02 | KBR's Faulty Electrical Work Kills Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, Part of Systematic Negligence Causing 18 Electrocution Deaths in Iraq with No Criminal Charges Despite Army Negligent Homicide Finding
3 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development
4 src Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications
3 src Palantir Technologies · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed)
4 src Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · US Intelligence · Department of Justice |
| reported |
| 2008-01-01 | Shell companies spend $890M on Trump condos during financial crisis
7 src Trump Organization | | confirmed |