Year of record

2020

137 verified events recorded in 2020.

137 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Dec 31, 2020 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2020-12-31Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted 3 src
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 3 src
U.S. Congress · KKR · Private Equity Industry
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2020-12-27Trump tells acting AG "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me" 4 src
Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2020-12-23DOJ Secret Court Order Targets Washington Post Journalists Days Before Barr's Resignation 3 src
William Barr · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Courts
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2020-12-23Trump Pardons Charles Kushner and 14 Others in Single-Day Corruption Spree 4 src
Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Margaret Hunter · +1
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2020-12-23Trump Pardons Manafort, Stone, Flynn, Kushner in Corruption Spree 3 src
Donald Trump · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +3
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2020-12-22Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre 4 src
Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos
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2020-12-16Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion 4 src
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +1
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2020-12-14NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths 4 src
Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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2020-12-14Trump Campaign Organizes Fake Electors in Seven States 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Republican National Committee · Sidney Powell · +1
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2020-12-14Trump privately admits defeat saying "Can you believe I lost to this f'ing guy?" 4 src
Donald Trump · Joe Biden · Mike Pence
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2020-12-10CNP Leadership Releases Letter Urging State Legislators to Reject 25 Million Votes 2 src
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 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +1
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2020-12-01DOJ Reveals Investigation into $2 Million Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme 4 src
Donald Trump · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani
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2020-12-01Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal 3 src
Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska
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2020-12-01Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power 4 src
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" 3 src
Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump
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2020-11-25Trump Pardons Michael Flynn After Guilty Plea and Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theories 4 src
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 3 src
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 2 src
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Hans von Spakovsky · Lisa Nelson
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2020-11-12Newsmax CEO Admits "We Have No Evidence" of Election Fraud, Airs Claims 23 More Times 4 src
Sidney Powell
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2020-11-04Vance Begins Election Denial Rhetoric 3 src
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 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump
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2020-11-03Judge Sullivan Orders Emergency USPS Ballot Sweeps, DeJoy Initially Defies Court Order 4 src
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 4 src
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 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler
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2020-10-21Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination 3 src
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 4 src
Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +1
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2020-10-15Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged 3 src
Wells Fargo
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2020-10-15YouTube Bans QAnon Content Only After Years of Algorithmic Amplification 4 src
YouTube · Google · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2020-10-14FBI Enables Social Media Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Despite Knowing Authenticity 4 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Twitter · Facebook · Hunter Biden
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2020-10-05COVID-Positive Trump Leaves Hospital for SUV Joyride, Endangering Secret Service in Sealed Vehicle 3 src
Donald Trump
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2020-10-02Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19, Hospitalized at Walter Reed with Experimental Treatments 3 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Mike Pence · Hope Hicks
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2020-10-01Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-09-27New York Times Obtains Trump Tax Returns, Reveals $750 in Federal Taxes Paid 4 src
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 3 src
Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Melania Trump · Mike Lee · +4
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2020-09-26Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court, Religious Conservative to Replace Liberal Icon Ginsburg 4 src
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 3 src
Ring · Amazon
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2020-09-20FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions 3 src
FinCEN · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Deutsche Bank · JPMorgan Chase · +1
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2020-09-18Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies 46 Days Before Election, McConnell Immediately Vows to Confirm Replacement Despite 2016 Standard 4 src
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · John Roberts
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2020-09-16House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People 4 src
Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · 346 crash victims
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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 4 src
Donald Trump · Alex Azar
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2020-09-14Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure 3 src
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 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing
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2020-09-01CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed 2 src
Council for National Policy
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2020-08-27Trump Delivers RNC Acceptance Speech from White House South Lawn in Unprecedented Mass Hatch Act Violation Event 4 src
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 4 src
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 4 src
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 3 src
Donald Trump
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2020-08-24DeJoy House Testimony Refuses to Restore Mail Sorting Machines Despite Court Concerns 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Carolyn Maloney · Ro Khanna · USPS
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2020-08-21DeJoy Senate Testimony Denies Sabotage as Gary Peters Details Severe Mail Delays 4 src
Louis DeJoy · USPS
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2020-08-21Tennessee Enacts Felony Camping Law to Suppress Black Lives Matter Protests and Strip Voting Rights 14 src
Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly
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2020-08-21Trump Speaks at CNP Meeting - President Addresses Conservative Coordination Hub 2 src
Donald Trump · Council for National Policy · Jenny Beth Martin · Chad Wolf · +1
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2020-08-21USPS OIG flags service declines after mid-July changes; independent datasets show sharp on-time drops 4 src
U.S. Postal Service · 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 3 src
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 2 src
Apple · Tim Cook
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2020-08-13Trump Explicitly Admits Blocking USPS Funding to Restrict Mail Voting 4 src
Donald Trump · Louis DeJoy · USPS
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2020-08-13USPS Removes Mailboxes in Democratic Areas, Reverses After Public Outcry 4 src
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump
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2020-08-06NY AG sues NRA seeking dissolution over $64M fraud by Wayne LaPierre, executives 3 src
Letitia James · National Rifle Association
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2020-08-05State Department Report Reveals Trump Administration Ignored Civilian Casualty Risks in Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales 3 src
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +1
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2020-08-01DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge 3 src
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts
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2020-07-27Noem intervenes in daughter's denied appraiser license application 4 src
Kristi Noem
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2020-07-24Sberbank Asset Management Acquires PNK Park Veshki Near Moscow, Extending PNK-Sberbank Industrial Fund Partnership That Began in 2016 2 src
Andrey Sharkov
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2020-07-10Trump Commutes Roger Stone Sentence Days Before Prison 3 src
Donald Trump · Roger Stone · William Barr · WikiLeaks
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2020-07-08Facebook shuts down 54 Roger Stone accounts spending $300K 4 src
Roger Stone · Facebook
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2020-07-07Deutsche Bank fined $150 million for processing Epstein transactions including payments to co-conspirators 3 src
Deutsche Bank · Jeffrey Epstein · Federal Reserve
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2020-07-04BORTAC Border Patrol Tactical Units Deployed Against Portland BLM Protesters
2020-07-04Trump Holds Mt. Rushmore Rally with 7,500 Packed, Maskless Attendees During Pandemic Surge 3 src
Donald Trump · Kristi Noem
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2020-07-01CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border 2 src
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 6 src
MVM Inc.
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2020-06-30Espinoza v. Montana - Supreme Court Strikes Down State Bans on Religious School Funding 3 src
John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · Institute for Justice
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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 3 src confirmed
2020-06-19Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database 3 src
Oracle
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2020-06-15Louis DeJoy Begins Serving as Postmaster General Despite Conflicts of Interest 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Donald Trump
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2020-06-10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos
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2020-06-09FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +1
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2020-06-09Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies 3 src
Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice
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2020-06-06Boogaloo Movement Kills Two Law Enforcement Officers: Chan Meme Culture Produces Armed Paramilitary Network 3 src confirmed
2020-06-02General Milley Appears with Trump at Lafayette Square After Protest Clearing 3 src
Donald Trump · Federal Law Enforcement · William Barr · Mark Esper
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook
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2020-05-19Joe Rogan Signs $100-200 Million Exclusive Deal with Spotify 5 src
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 11 src
McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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2020-05-15Trump Dismisses State Department Inspector General Steve Linick 3 src
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Steve Linick · Nancy Pelosi
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2020-05-15Trump Fires 5 Inspectors General in 6 Weeks to Block Investigations 3 src
Donald Trump · Steve Linick · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · +1
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2020-05-08AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly 3 src
AbbVie · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-04-28Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths 3 src
Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · Cargill · U.S. Department of Agriculture
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2020-04-23Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments 3 src
Donald Trump
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2020-04-20Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-04-18CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders 3 src
Citizen Lab · NSO Group
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2020-04-07Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight 4 src
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 4 src
Christi Grimm · Donald Trump · 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 4 src
Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice
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2020-04-03Trump Inspector General Friday Night Massacre Systematically Accelerates WHIG Oversight Destruction Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Operations 3 src
Donald Trump · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · Christi Grimm · +3
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2020-04-03Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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2020-04-02Navy Captain Crozier Fired for Requesting COVID Help for USS Roosevelt Crew 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Navy
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2020-04-01CNP Coordinates National COVID-19 Anti-Lockdown Protest Movement 2 src
Council for National Policy · CNP Action · Stephen Moore · Heritage Foundation · +3
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2020-04-01MVM Inc operates shadow detention network using hotels and unmarked buildings for children 4 src
MVM Inc. · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2020-04-01Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation 3 src
Peter Navarro · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2020-03-30Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls
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2020-03-27PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates 3 src
Small Business Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Congress
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