2012
40 verified events recorded in 2012.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed HSBC · Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Mexican Drug Cartels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | Michigan Passes Right-to-Work in Lame Duck Surprise Using Verbatim ALEC Language Rick Snyder · American Legislative Exchange Council · Mackinac Center · Michigan GOP · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-05 | ACA Architect Liz Fowler Leaves White House for Johnson & Johnson After Industry-Friendly Healthcare Legislation Elizabeth Fowler · Johnson & Johnson · WellPoint · Max Baucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Vidrine · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-06 | North Carolina Democrats Win Popular Vote But Lose 9 of 13 Congressional Seats Democratic Party · Republican Party · North Carolina General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-23 | John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-22 | Climate Scientist Michael Mann Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Climate Denial Writers Michael Mann · Rand Simberg · Mark Steyn · Competitive Enterprise Institute · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-01 | ALEC's 'Electricity Freedom Act' Systematically Attacks State Renewable Energy Standards American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · James Taylor · Edison Electric Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-01 | Reddit's "Manosphere" Reaches Critical Mass: r/TheRedPill and r/MensRights Become Gateway to White Nationalist Radicalization Reddit Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations New England Compounding Center · Barry Cadden · Food and Drug Administration · Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple · Jon Leibowitz (FTC Chairman) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-07-30 | Senate Harkin Report Documents Massive Fraud and Abuse in For-Profit College Industry Senator Tom Harkin · Senate HELP Committee · University of Phoenix · Corinthian Colleges · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-07-25 | Congress Overrides Army to Fund $255 Million in Unwanted Abrams Tank Upgrades to Protect General Dynamics Ohio Plant General Dynamics · Rob Portman · Sherrod Brown · Ray Odierno · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-28 | Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · National Federation of Independent Business · Republican Governors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-07 | 38 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss Curt Schilling · 38 Studios LLC · Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation · Lincoln Chafee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-04 | Bureau Investigation Exposes CIA Double-Tap Drone Strikes Killing Rescuers and Mourners Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama · Pakistani civilians | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-01 | New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program NOPD · Palantir Technologies · Mitch Landrieu · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-29 | New York Times Exposes Obama's Kill List and Terror Tuesday Assassination Meetings Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · JSOC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-22 | Kansas Governor Brownback Signs ALEC-Laffer Tax Plan Eliminating Pass-Through Business Income Taxes - 'Kansas Experiment' Becomes Test Case for Supply-Side Economics Sam Brownback · Arthur Laffer · American Legislative Exchange Council · Kansas Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley · Facebook · William Galvin · James Gorman | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-04 | Heartland Institute Billboard Compares Climate Scientists to Unabomber Heartland Institute · Ted Kaczynski · James Sensenbrenner · State Farm · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-01 | Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-13 | Major Corporate Exodus from ALEC: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald's, Wendy's, Mars, and Intuit Drop Membership After Public Pressure Campaign Color of Change · Coca-Cola · PepsiCo · Kraft Foods · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-09 | Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor Facebook Inc. · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram Inc. · Kevin Systrom · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-06 | Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress Sergei Magnitsky · Bill Browder · Benjamin Cardin · John McCain · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-04 | STOCK Act Signed into Law Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Scott Brown · Kirsten Gillibrand · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-09 | Greece Accepts Second Troika Bailout of €130 Billion with 53.5% Private Debt Haircut European Financial Stability Facility · International Monetary Fund · European Central Bank · Greek private creditors | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-02 | Iowa Governor Branstad Signs Nation's First Modern Ag-Gag Law Criminalizing Undercover Documentation of Agricultural Facility Abuses, Using ALEC Model Legislation to Shield Corporate Factory Farms from Whistleblower Investigations Iowa Legislature · Governor Terry Branstad · American Legislative Exchange Council · Agriculture Industry | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-01 | Trump Foundation Illegally Used $158,000 in Charity Funds to Settle Mar-a-Lago Legal Dispute Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Town of Palm Beach | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-27 | WikiLeaks Publishes 5 Million Stratfor Emails Revealing Private Intelligence Firm's Surveillance of Activists and Corporate Espionage WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Jeremy Hammond · Stratfor · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-09 | 25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Provides Banks Immunity for Minimal Payments Eric Holder · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-02-01 | Indiana Becomes 23rd Right-to-Work State Using ALEC Model Legislation Mitch Daniels · American Legislative Exchange Council · Indiana Republican Party · National Right to Work Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-15 | PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded George Mohler · Jeff Brantingham | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Amazon Implements Automated Worker Surveillance and Tracking System Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices Enables Facility Fee Price Gouging, Driving 53% Increase in Outpatient Costs Hospital corporations · Private equity firms | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Koch Network Spends $407 Million in Coordinated 2012 Election Campaign Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Leonard Leo Directs Hidden Payments to Ginni Thomas Through Kellyanne Conway, Instructs "No Mention of Ginni" Leonard Leo · Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Kellyanne Conway · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Nonprofit Hospital CEO Compensation Explodes: 42.5% Increase While Community Benefit Stagnates Kaiser Permanente · Ascension Health · Tower Health · Bernard Tyson | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Patent Trolls Dominate U.S. Patent Litigation: 61% of All Cases, Systematic Small Business Extraction Santa Clara University School of Law · U.S. Government Accountability Office · Patent Assertion Entities | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Stock Buybacks Reach $500 Billion Annually as S&P 500 Companies Return 91% of Earnings to Shareholders S&P 500 companies · Shareholders · Workers | confirmed |