Year of record

2013

68 verified events recorded in 2013.

68 events From Jan 1, 2013 To Dec 23, 2013 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2013-12-23Wells Fargo Sales Practices Investigation Begins
Wells Fargo Board · John Stumpf · Scott Reckard (LA Times Reporter)
confirmed
2013-12-16Federal Judge Rules NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection Likely Unconstitutional
Richard Leon · National Security Agency · Larry Klayman
confirmed
2013-12-09American Airlines-US Airways Merger Creates Airline Oligopoly: Big Four Control 75% of Market
American Airlines · US Airways · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division
confirmed
2013-12-05Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations
Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +3
confirmed
2013-11-11Citigroup Lobbyists Write 70 of 85 Lines in House Banking Deregulation Bill
Citigroup · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street
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2013-11-09Trump Holds Miss Universe in Moscow, Partners with Putin-Connected Agalarovs for Trump Tower Moscow
Donald Trump · Aras Agalarov · Emin Agalarov · Vladimir Putin · +1
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2013-11-01Cantor Fitzgerald Signs Referral Agreement with Prince Andrew's Urramoor Limited
Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick · Prince Andrew · Jeffrey Epstein · +1
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2013-10-24NSA Monitored Angela Merkel's Phone and 35 Other World Leaders
National Security Agency · Angela Merkel · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden
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2013-10-21Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court
Microsoft · Google · Brad Smith · Department of Justice · +1
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2013-10-20South Dakota EB-5 official Richard Benda dies amid investigation into $550K theft
Richard Benda · Joop Bollen · Marty Jackley · Mike Rounds
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2013-10-02Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed
Yahoo · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review
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2013-10-01Healthcare.gov Launch Disaster Costs $1.7B from $93M Contract
CGI Federal · Healthcare.gov · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · CMS · +2
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2013-09-30Darnell Earley Appointed as Flint Emergency Manager, Will Oversee Disastrous Water Switch
Darnell Earley · Rick Snyder
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2013-09-27SAIC Splits into Leidos and New SAIC, Restructuring the Largest Intelligence Contractor
Science Applications International Corporation · Leidos · John P. Jumper · Anthony J. Moraco
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2013-09-17Brazil's President Cancels US State Visit Over NSA Spying on Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff · Barack Obama · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +2
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2013-09-17Pam Bondi Receives Illegal $25,000 Trump Foundation Donation During Trump University Investigation
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2013-09-17Trump Foundation Donates $25,000 to Bondi PAC After Florida Considers Joining Trump University Lawsuit
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2013-08-24New York Attorney General Sues Trump University for $40 Million, Calls It "Straight Up Fraud"
Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Michael Sexton
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2013-08-21Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for WikiLeaks Disclosures
Chelsea Manning · U.S. Army · Department of Justice · Obama Administration
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2013-08-12Attorney General Holder Announces Smart on Crime Initiative: First Federal Retreat from Mandatory Minimums
Eric Holder · Barack Obama · DOJ
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2013-08-08Lavabit Encrypted Email Service Shuts Down Rather Than Comply with NSA Demands
Ladar Levison · Lavabit · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +1
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2013-08-05Jeff Bezos Purchases Washington Post for $250 Million
Jeff Bezos · Donald Graham · Washington Post Company
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2013-08-01Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program
Chicago Police Department
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2013-08-01FAA Safety Official Ali Bahrami Leaves for Aerospace Industries Association During Boeing 737 MAX Development
Ali Bahrami · Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Aerospace Industries Association · +1
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2013-08-01Retired General James Mattis Joins General Dynamics Board Five Months After Marine Corps Retirement
James Mattis · General Dynamics · Marine Corps
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2013-08-01Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum After 39 Days in Moscow Airport
Edward Snowden · Russia · Vladimir Putin · Anatoly Kucherena · +1
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2013-07-02Director of National Intelligence Clapper Apologizes for "Clearly Erroneous" Testimony to Congress
James Clapper · Ron Wyden · Dianne Feinstein
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2013-07-01ALEC Coordinates 139 Education Privatization Bills Across States - Systematic Public School Defunding Campaign
American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education and Workforce Development Task Force · Center for Media and Democracy · K12 Inc. · +5
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2013-07-01North Carolina Passes "Monster" Voter Suppression Law Hours After Shelby County Decision
North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party
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2013-07-01Reuters: AT&T nurtured and bankrolled OANN; founder says AT&T asked for a conservative network
AT&T · One America News Network · Robert Herring Sr. · Donald Trump · +1
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2013-06-25ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott · North Carolina Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · U.S. Supreme Court
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2013-06-25Shelby County Decision Guts Voting Rights Act Preclearance
Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · John Roberts · Shelby County Alabama
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2013-06-23Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Moscow Seeking Asylum Amid U.S. Diplomatic Pressure
Edward Snowden · WikiLeaks · Sarah Harrison · Hong Kong government · +1
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2013-06-21Obama Prosecutes 8 Whistleblowers Under Espionage Act, More Than All Presidents
Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Edward Snowden · Chelsea Manning · +3
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2013-06-21Skilling Sentence Reduced to 14 Years, Marking Accountability Erosion
Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake
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2013-06-17Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually
Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Solvay Pharmaceuticals · Actavis · +2
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2013-06-14U.S. Charges Edward Snowden with Espionage and Theft of Government Property
Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · Eric Holder
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2013-06-10Booz Allen Fires Snowden, Exposing How a Contractor Employee of Three Months Accessed NSA's Deepest Secrets
Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · National Security Agency · +1
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2013-06-09Edward Snowden Reveals Identity as NSA Whistleblower in Hong Kong Video
Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Laura Poitras
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2013-06-06Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access
Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Bart Gellman · National Security Agency · +5
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2013-06-05Guardian Publishes First Snowden Leak on NSA Verizon Phone Records Collection
Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · National Security Agency · Verizon
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2013-06-05Roger Stone's Early Connections to Russian Information Networks
Roger Stone · Guccifer 2.0
reported
2013-06-05Snowden Reveals NSA Mass Surveillance and PRISM Program
Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Laura Poitras · Bart Gellman · +1
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2013-06-01Aleksandr Kogan creates 'This Is Your Digital Life' Facebook app; data later used by Cambridge Analytica
Aleksandr Kogan · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica · Global Science Research
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2013-06-01Elliptic Founded as First Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Firm
Elliptic · Adam Joyce · Tom Robinson · James Smith
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2013-06-01Former CIA Director David Petraeus Becomes Chairman of KKR Global Institute, Converting Intelligence Access Into Private Equity Value
David Petraeus · KKR · Central Intelligence Agency
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2013-06-01Justice O'Connor Expresses Regret Over Bush v. Gore Damage to Court Reputation
Sandra Day O'Connor · U.S. Supreme Court · Bush v. Gore majority
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2013-05-21Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +2
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2013-05-02Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman
Tom Wheeler · Barack Obama · Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) · National Cable Television Association (NCTA) · +2
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2013-04-23CIA Paid Psychologists Mitchell and Jessen $81 Million to Design Torture Program
James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · Central Intelligence Agency · George Tenet
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2013-04-15Congress Quietly Guts STOCK Act Online Disclosure Requirements
Barack Obama
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2013-04-03Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure
Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Jim DeMint · Richard Scaife · +4
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2013-03-15Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Drone Costs Surge to $222 Million Per Aircraft
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Government Accountability Office
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2013-03-11Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters
Texas Legislature · Republican Party · MALDEF
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2013-03-06Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail
Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3
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2013-03-01Amazon AWS Wins $600 Million CIA Cloud Contract
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · IBM
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2013-03-01Trump Foundation Paid $25,000 to Settle Trump University Legal Claim Using Charity Funds
Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi
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2013-02-20Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty to $750,000 Campaign Fund Fraud
Jesse Jackson Jr. · Sandra Stevens Jackson
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2013-01-29DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis
Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3
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2013-01-14Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen
Jeffrey Sterling · James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · +1
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2013-01-03Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation
Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3
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2013-01-02Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Making 82% of Bush Tax Cuts Permanent - 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Locks in $2.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts for Wealthy
Barack Obama · Joe Biden · Mitch McConnell · John Boehner · +4
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2013-01-0170% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors
Intelligence Community · Private contractors · Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · +2
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2013-01-01Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure
Airlines · Telecom companies · Pharmaceutical companies · Agribusiness
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2013-01-01Google Ad Tech Systematically Takes 30-50% Cut From Publishers
Google · Online publishers · Advertisers · News Organizations
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2013-01-01Kansas Implements Kris Kobach's Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Law and Expands Interstate Crosscheck
Kris Kobach · Kansas Secretary of State
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2013-01-01Lance Wallnau Popularizes "Seven Mountains Mandate": The Theology of Institutional Capture Goes Mainstream
Lance Wallnau · C. Peter Wagner · Loren Cunningham · Bill Bright
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2013-01-01Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs
Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt
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