2014
54 verified events recorded in 2014.
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Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-18 | Congress Appropriates $120 Million for Unwanted Abrams Tanks for Third Consecutive Year Despite Army Opposition General Dynamics · Mike Turner · Ray Odierno · Rob Portman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-16 | Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization Senator Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Insurance Companies | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Torture Report - CIA Program Was Brutal and Ineffective Dianne Feinstein · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Report Documents CIA Torture Worse Than Disclosed - Rectal Feeding, Mock Executions, Deaths Central Intelligence Agency · Gul Rahman · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · James Mitchell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-11-28 | Amazon Workers in Germany Strike During Black Friday for Union Recognition Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Ver.di Union | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme DaVita · Kent Thiry · Department of Justice · HHS Office of Inspector General | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-20 | Harlan Crow Purchases Clarence Thomas's Mother's House in Undisclosed Deal Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Leola Williams (Thomas's mother) · Crow Holdings | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-13 | GM Plant Stops Using Flint Water After It Corrodes Car Parts—But Residents Must Keep Drinking It General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-01 | Chainalysis Founded to Provide Blockchain Forensics to Governments and Banks Chainalysis · Michael Gronager · Jonathan Levin · Jan Møller | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-01 | Model Files Federal Lawsuit Against Trump Model Management for Wage Theft Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2014-09-17 | Apple Announces iOS 8 Encryption Makes iPhones Unlockable Even by Apple Apple · Tim Cook · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2014-09-02 | Eric Cantor Joins Wall Street Investment Bank for $3.4M After House Leadership Eric Cantor · Moelis & Company · House Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2014-08-16 | Gamergate Begins: 4chan Harassment Campaign Becomes Political Mobilization Blueprint Steve Bannon · Milo Yiannopoulos · Zoe Quinn | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-24 | European Court Rules Poland Violated Human Rights by Hosting CIA Torture Black Site European Court of Human Rights · Poland · Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-21 | Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion" Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-16 | EU and US Impose Sectoral Sanctions on Russia European Union · United States · Sberbank · VEB · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-15 | Former Utah Attorneys General Shurtleff and Swallow arrested on 23 corruption counts Mark Shurtleff · John Swallow · Jeremy Johnson · Marc Sessions Jenson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-04 | Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure Richard Scaife · Sarah Scaife Foundation · Carthage Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-01 | Academi (formerly Blackwater) Merges with Triple Canopy to Form Constellis Holdings, Third Corporate Rebranding Academi · Triple Canopy · Constellis Holdings · Blackwater | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-28 | Facebook Emotional Contagion Experiment Revealed Adam Kramer · Jamie Guillory · Jeff Hancock · Facebook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-25 | Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-21 | Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-19 | Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank: Supreme Court Restricts Software Patents, Reducing Patent Troll Leverage Over Abstract Business Methods U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Alice Corp · CLS Bank International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-16 | Supreme Court backs broad discovery in Argentina debt case (Alito joined majority); Singer's fund later benefited Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Management · Republic of Argentina · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-12 | Federal Government Cuts Off Corinthian Colleges - 72,000 Students Trapped by Fraud U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · Arne Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-04 | Germany Opens Criminal Investigation Into NSA Tapping of Merkel's Phone Angela Merkel · Harald Range · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-01 | FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews Joan Buenconsejo · Food and Drug Administration · AstraZeneca · Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-01 | SCL Elections Contracts with Kogan to Launch Cambridge Analytica Data Operation SCL Group · SCL Elections · Aleksandr Kogan · Global Science Research · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-15 | FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Google · Microsoft · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-12 | Hunter Biden Joins Burisma Board While Father Leads Ukraine Policy Hunter Biden · Burisma Holdings · Joe Biden · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-01 | Eric Trump says all funding comes from Russia, not U.S. banks Eric Trump · James Dodson · Trump Organization | reported | |
| 2014-05-01 | Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Founds IronNet Cybersecurity, Charges $1 Million/Month for Intelligence Expertise Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · National Security Agency · Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association | confirmed | |
| 2014-04-25 | Flint Switches to Corrosive River Water to Save Money, Poisoning Entire City Darnell Earley · Flint Department of Public Works · Michigan Department of Environmental Quality | confirmed | |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Shaun McCutcheon · Republican National Committee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2014-03-18 | Annexation of Crimea: Putin's Strategic Asset Seizure Vladimir Putin · Sergey Aksyonov · Viktor Yanukovych · Sergey Lavrov · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-03-18 | Putin Formally Signs Treaty Annexing Crimea, Escalating International Conflict Vladimir Putin · Sergey Aksyonov · Joe Biden · Angela Merkel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2014-03-01 | Trump Foundation Buys $20,000 Portrait of Trump at Charity Auction, Hangs in Trump Golf Club Donald Trump · Trump Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-26 | Ways and Means Chairman Proposes Carried Interest Reform That Private Equity Lobbying Defeats Dave Camp · House Ways and Means Committee · Carlyle Group · Cerberus Capital Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-24 | Oracle Acquires BlueKai Data Broker for $400 Million, Expands Surveillance Operations Oracle · BlueKai · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Jan Koum · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-06 | Max Baucus Confirmed as Ambassador After Healthcare Industry Staffers Become Lobbyists Max Baucus · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · Merck · UnitedHealth Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-21 | Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Wife Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges Bob McDonnell · Maureen McDonnell · Jonnie Williams | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-17 | Obama Announces Limited NSA Reforms While Preserving Core Surveillance Programs Barack Obama · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-16 | NSA DISHFIRE Program Collects Nearly 200 Million Text Messages Daily Worldwide National Security Agency · GCHQ · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-14 | Verizon Lawsuit Successfully Overturns FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Court Demands Title II Reclassification Verizon Communications · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federal Communications Commission · Julius Genachowski | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate US Treasury · FinCEN · Russian Oligarchs · US real estate industry | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Candiru Spyware Company Founded by Israeli Veterans Eran Shorer · Yaakov Weizman · Isaac Zack · Omri Lavie · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | CNP Membership Includes DeVos and Mercer Families - Billionaire Donor Integration Council for National Policy · DeVos family · Mercer family · Richard DeVos · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Erik Prince Founds Frontier Services Group with Chinese State Investment from CITIC, Controlled by Chang Zhenming Erik Prince · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group · Frontier Services Group | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Flint Water Crisis (2014-2024) - 12,000 Children Poisoned, Zero Accountability Rick Snyder · Darnell Earley · Mona Hanna-Attisha · LeeAnne Walters · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Francisco Partners Acquires 70% Stake in NSO Group for $130 Million Francisco Partners · NSO Group · Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak tries to avoid security detail for Epstein island visits Ehud Barak · Jeffrey Epstein · Israeli security detail | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Reported: Epstein corresponded and met with FSB Academy graduate Sergei Belyakov (2014–2017) Jeffrey Epstein · Sergei Belyakov (FSB Academy graduate) · Russian Ministry of Economic Development · FSB Academy · +3 | reported | |
| 2014-01-01 | Tony Perkins Serves as CNP Vice President - Family Research Council Integration Tony Perkins · Family Research Council · Council for National Policy | confirmed |