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2020

135 verified events recorded in 2020.

135 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Dec 31, 2020 Open in filter view →
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2020-12-31Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted
Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice
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2020-12-27No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction
U.S. Congress · TeamHealth · Envision Healthcare · Blackstone Group · +2
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2020-12-27Trump tells acting AG "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me"
Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · Department of Justice
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2020-12-23DOJ Secret Court Order Targets Washington Post Journalists Days Before Barr's Resignation
William Barr · Michael R. Sherwin · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Courts · +4
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2020-12-23Trump Pardons Charles Kushner and 14 Others in Single-Day Corruption Spree
Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Paul Erickson · +2
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2020-12-23Trump Pardons Manafort, Stone, Flynn, Kushner in Corruption Spree
Donald Trump · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +3
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2020-12-22Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre
Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos · Nicholas Slatten · +3
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2020-12-16Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +2
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2020-12-14NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths
National Bureau of Economic Research · Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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2020-12-14Trump Campaign Organizes Fake Electors in Seven States
Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Republican National Committee · Kenneth Chesebro · +2
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2020-12-14Trump privately admits defeat saying "Can you believe I lost to this f'ing guy?"
Donald Trump · Joe Biden · Mike Pence
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2020-12-10CNP Leadership Releases Letter Urging State Legislators to Reject 25 Million Votes
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Republican state legislators
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2020-12-09FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup
Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +2
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2020-12-01DOJ Reveals Investigation into $2 Million Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme
Donald Trump · Elliott Broidy · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani
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2020-12-01Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal
Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska · Rusal
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2020-12-01Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power
Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jared Kushner · William Barr
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2020-11-30Giuliani admits to Arizona Speaker "We don't have evidence, but we have lots of theories"
Rudy Giuliani · Rusty Bowers · Donald Trump
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2020-11-25Trump Pardons Michael Flynn After Guilty Plea and Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theories
Donald Trump · Michael Flynn · Sidney Powell · Emmet Sullivan · +1
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2020-11-20CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM
Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2
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2020-11-12CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · J. Christian Adams · Hans von Spakovsky · +2
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2020-11-12Newsmax CEO Admits "We Have No Evidence" of Election Fraud, Airs Claims 23 More Times
Christopher Ruddy · Newsmax · Smartmatic · 2020 Election · +1
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2020-11-04Vance Begins Election Denial Rhetoric
J.D. Vance · Joe Biden · Donald Trump
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2020-11-03Facebook Rolls Back Election Safety Measures Immediately After 2020 Vote, Enabling "Stop the Steal" Misinformation
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-11-03Judge Sullivan Orders Emergency USPS Ballot Sweeps, DeJoy Initially Defies Court Order
Emmet Sullivan · Louis DeJoy · USPS · Federal Courts
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2020-10-26Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett 52-48 Eight Days Before Election, Creating 6-3 Conservative Supermajority
Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Susan Collins · +2
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2020-10-21DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth
U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · +5
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2020-10-21Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination
Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · +1
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2020-10-20DOJ Sues Google for Search Monopoly Through Exclusionary Contracts
Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +4
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2020-10-15Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged
Wells Fargo
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2020-10-15YouTube Bans QAnon Content Only After Years of Algorithmic Amplification
YouTube · Google · QAnon movement · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2
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2020-10-14FBI Enables Social Media Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Despite Knowing Authenticity
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Twitter · Facebook · Yoel Roth · +2
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2020-10-05COVID-Positive Trump Leaves Hospital for SUV Joyride, Endangering Secret Service in Sealed Vehicle
Donald Trump · James Phillips · Sean Conley
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2020-10-02Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19, Hospitalized at Walter Reed with Experimental Treatments
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Sean Conley · Mike Pence · +1
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2020-10-01Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-09-27New York Times Obtains Trump Tax Returns, Reveals $750 in Federal Taxes Paid
Donald Trump · New York Times · Ivanka Trump · Trump Organization
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2020-09-26Rose Garden Amy Coney Barrett Ceremony Becomes White House COVID Superspreader Event
Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Melania Trump · Mike Lee · +6
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2020-09-26Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court, Religious Conservative to Replace Liberal Icon Ginsburg
Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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2020-09-24Ring announces Always Home Cam, autonomous drone for indoor home surveillance
Ring · Amazon · Leila Rouhi
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2020-09-20FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions
FinCEN · BuzzFeed News · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Jason Leopold · +8
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2020-09-18Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies 46 Days Before Election, McConnell Immediately Vows to Confirm Replacement Despite 2016 Standard
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Clara Spera · +1
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2020-09-16House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Representative Peter DeFazio · Representative Rick Larsen · Federal Aviation Administration · +2
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2020-09-14HHS Spends $300 Million in Taxpayer Funds on "Defeating Despair" COVID Ad Campaign Timed to Promote Trump Before Election
Michael Caputo · Donald Trump · Dennis Quaid · CeCe Winans · +1
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2020-09-14Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure
Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-09-08Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Nuclear ICBMs
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing · +1
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2020-09-01CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed
Council for National Policy · Documented
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2020-08-27Trump Delivers RNC Acceptance Speech from White House South Lawn in Unprecedented Mass Hatch Act Violation Event
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Mark Meadows · Mike Pompeo · +2
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2020-08-25Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Violates Hatch Act by Staging White House Naturalization Ceremony as RNC Campaign Content
Chad Wolf · Donald Trump · Henry Kerner · Bennie Thompson
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2020-08-25Secretary of State Pompeo Delivers Historic RNC Speech from Jerusalem Rooftop, Violating Hatch Act After Changing State Department Policy
Mike Pompeo · Donald Trump · Office of Special Counsel
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2020-08-24Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Violates Hatch Act by Campaigning for Trump at Official USDA Event
Sonny Perdue · Donald Trump
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2020-08-24DeJoy House Testimony Refuses to Restore Mail Sorting Machines Despite Court Concerns
Louis DeJoy · Carolyn Maloney · Ro Khanna · Harley Rouda · +1
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2020-08-21DeJoy Senate Testimony Denies Sabotage as Gary Peters Details Severe Mail Delays
Louis DeJoy · Gary Peters · Ron Johnson · USPS
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2020-08-21Tennessee Enacts Felony Camping Law to Suppress Black Lives Matter Protests and Strip Voting Rights
Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Randy McNally · Cameron Sexton
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2020-08-21Trump Speaks at CNP Meeting - President Addresses Conservative Coordination Hub
Donald Trump · Council for National Policy · Bob McEwen · Kelly Shackelford · +3
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2020-08-21USPS OIG flags service declines after mid-July changes; independent datasets show sharp on-time drops
U.S. Postal Service · USPS Office of Inspector General · U.S. Senate HSGAC (minority staff) · U.S. House Oversight Committee
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2020-08-15Trump Says He Will "Take a Look" at Pardoning Snowden, Ultimately Does Not Grant Pardon
Donald Trump · Edward Snowden · Mike Pompeo · Glenn Greenwald
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2020-08-13Epic Games Sues Apple Over App Store Monopoly and 30% Commission Tax on Developers
Epic Games · Tim Sweeney · Apple · Tim Cook
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2020-08-13Trump Explicitly Admits Blocking USPS Funding to Restrict Mail Voting
Donald Trump · Louis DeJoy · USPS
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2020-08-13USPS Removes Mailboxes in Democratic Areas, Reverses After Public Outcry
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump
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2020-08-06NY AG sues NRA seeking dissolution over $64M fraud by Wayne LaPierre, executives
Wayne LaPierre · Letitia James · National Rifle Association · Wilson "Woody" Phillips · +2
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2020-08-05State Department Report Reveals Trump Administration Ignored Civilian Casualty Risks in Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +2
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2020-08-01DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts
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2020-07-27Noem intervenes in daughter's denied appraiser license application
Kristi Noem · Kassidy Peters · Sherry Bren · Marcia Hultman
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2020-07-10Trump Commutes Roger Stone Sentence Days Before Prison
Donald Trump · Roger Stone · William Barr · Randy Credico · +1
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2020-07-08Facebook shuts down 54 Roger Stone accounts spending $300K
Roger Stone · Facebook
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2020-07-07Deutsche Bank fined $150 million for processing Epstein transactions including payments to co-conspirators
Deutsche Bank · Jeffrey Epstein · New York Department of Financial Services · Federal Reserve · +2
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2020-07-04Trump Holds Mt. Rushmore Rally with 7,500 Packed, Maskless Attendees During Pandemic Surge
Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Kimberly Guilfoyle
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2020-07-01CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border
Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey
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2020-07-01During Title 42, unaccompanied children were held in hotels by contractors (e.g., Hampton Inn) before expulsion attempts
Texas Civil Rights Project · MVM Inc. · ICE contractors · Detained families
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2020-06-30Espinoza v. Montana - Supreme Court Strikes Down State Bans on Religious School Funding
Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · Institute for Justice · +1
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2020-06-25Wirecard Files for Insolvency After €1.9 Billion Goes Missing, Exposing Decade of EY Audit Failure and German Regulatory Capture
Wirecard · Markus Braun · Jan Marsalek · EY · +4
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2020-06-19Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database
Oracle · BlueKai
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2020-06-15Louis DeJoy Begins Serving as Postmaster General Despite Conflicts of Interest
Louis DeJoy · Donald Trump · USPS Board of Governors
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2020-06-10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests
Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos
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2020-06-09FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2
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2020-06-09Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies
Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice · Congressional Oversight
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2020-06-06Boogaloo Movement Kills Two Law Enforcement Officers: Chan Meme Culture Produces Armed Paramilitary Network
Steven Carrillo
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2020-06-02General Milley Appears with Trump at Lafayette Square After Protest Clearing
General Mark Milley · Donald Trump · Joint Chiefs of Staff · Federal Law Enforcement · +3
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1
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2020-05-19Joe Rogan Signs $100-200 Million Exclusive Deal with Spotify
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience
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2020-05-15Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions
LUMA Energy · Quanta Services · Canadian Utilities Limited · Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority · +2
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2020-05-15Trump Dismisses State Department Inspector General Steve Linick
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Steve Linick · Eliot Engel · +1
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2020-05-15Trump Fires 5 Inspectors General in 6 Weeks to Block Investigations
Donald Trump · Steve Linick · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · +2
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2020-05-08AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-04-28Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths
Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2
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2020-04-23Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments
Donald Trump · William Bryan
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2020-04-20Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods
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2020-04-18CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders
Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Pere Aragonès · Quim Torra · +3
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2020-04-07Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight
Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1
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2020-04-06HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm Reports Severe Hospital Shortages, Trump Attacks Her Credibility
Christi Grimm · Donald Trump · Jason Weida · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2020-04-03Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power
Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1
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2020-04-03Trump Inspector General Friday Night Massacre Systematically Accelerates WHIG Oversight Destruction Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Operations
Donald Trump · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · Mitch Behm · +5
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2020-04-03Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · 3M · +1
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2020-04-02Navy Captain Crozier Fired for Requesting COVID Help for USS Roosevelt Crew
Captain Brett Crozier · Thomas Modly · Donald Trump · USS Theodore Roosevelt crew · +2
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2020-04-01CNP Coordinates National COVID-19 Anti-Lockdown Protest Movement
Council for National Policy · CNP Action · Stephen Moore · Heritage Foundation · +4
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2020-04-01MVM Inc operates shadow detention network using hotels and unmarked buildings for children
MVM Inc. · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Hampton Inn & Suites · Sonesta Hotels · +1
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2020-04-01Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation
Phlow Corporation · Peter Navarro · Kodak · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-03-30Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · David Zapolsky
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2020-03-27PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates
Small Business Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Congress
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2020-03-27Trump Orders General Motors to Produce Ventilators Under DPA After Nine-Day Delay Costs Lives
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · General Motors
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2020-03-19Senators Burr and Loeffler Accused of Insider Trading After COVID-19 Briefings
Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · Tucker Carlson
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