Year of record

2021

109 verified events recorded in 2021.

109 events From Jan 1, 2021 To Dec 31, 2021 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2021-12-31Rogan Hosts Vaccine Skeptic Dr. Robert Malone Who Claims "Mass Formation Psychosis" 6 src
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience
confirmed
2021-12-29Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges 3 src
Ghislaine Maxwell · Southern District of New York · Federal Bureau of Investigation
confirmed
2021-12-21SEC Charges Nikola Corporation $125 Million for SPAC-Related Fraud and False Claims 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Nikola Corporation · Trevor Milton
confirmed
2021-12-16Federal Judge Overturns Sackler Immunity Deal, Rules Bankruptcy Law Violated 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2021-12-16Melania Trump Launches NFT Platform with "Melania's Vision" Collection 4 src
Melania Trump
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2021-12-15Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10% 3 src
Private Equity Industry · KKR
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2021-12-13USA Gymnastics Emerges from Bankruptcy with $380 Million Settlement for 500+ Nassar Survivors 5 src
USA Gymnastics · Aly Raisman
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2021-12-10Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse 4 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
confirmed
2021-12-01Malafaia Campaigns for 'Terribly Evangelical' STF Seat — André Mendonça Confirmed to Supreme Federal Court
malafaia-silas
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2021-12-01Truth Social Receives $8 Million from Russian-Connected Entities While "On Brink of Collapse" 5 src
Trump Media & Technology Group
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2021-11-23Apple Sues NSO Group Over FORCEDENTRY Exploit and Pegasus Spyware Targeting 3 src
Apple · NSO Group · Citizen Lab
confirmed
2021-11-23Federal Jury Finds CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Liable for Fueling Ohio Opioid Crisis 3 src
Walgreens
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2021-11-22SEC Fines McKinsey Subsidiary MIO Partners $18 Million for Puerto Rico Conflict of Interest and Material Nonpublic Information Violations 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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2021-11-16Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History 3 src
Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division
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2021-11-09Office of Special Counsel Report Documents Hatch Act Violations by 13 Senior Trump Officials, Finding "Willful Disregard" for Federal Law 4 src
Mike Pompeo · Chad Wolf · Kellyanne Conway · Jared Kushner · +2
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2021-11-03US Commerce Department Adds Candiru and NSO Group to Entity List 5 src
U.S. Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · NSO Group
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2021-11-02Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History 3 src
Pfizer · U.S. government
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2021-11-01In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids' 2 src
In-Q-Tel
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2021-11-01Senate Candidate JD Vance Keynotes NatCon 2 in Orlando, Calls for 'Aggressively Attacking' Universities and Says Teaching That 'Divides People' Is 'Satanic' 5 src
J.D. Vance
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2021-10-21Fed Implements Strict Trading Restrictions After Major Ethics Scandal 3 src
Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve Board · Elizabeth Warren · Robert Kaplan · +1
confirmed
2021-10-20Digital World Acquisition Corp Announces Trump Media SPAC Merger 4 src
Donald Trump · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2
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2021-10-20Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress in January 6 Investigation 4 src
Steve Bannon · Department of Justice
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2021-10-20Trump Media Founded with Chinese-Connected Financial Backer Patrick Orlando 4 src
Donald Trump · Patrick Orlando · Trump Media & Technology Group · Digital World Acquisition Corp
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2021-10-18NPR Documents How Hedge Fund Newspaper Ownership Creates News Deserts and Undermines Democracy - Over 2,500 Newspapers Closed Since 2005 5 src confirmed
2021-10-15Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin 4 src
CFTC · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2021-10-05Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy 4 src
Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1
confirmed
2021-10-03Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks 4 src
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Tony Blair
confirmed
2021-10-01Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering 4 src
Food and Drug Administration
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2021-09-27Dallas and Boston Fed Presidents Resign Over Trading Scandal 4 src
Robert Kaplan · Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Elizabeth Warren
confirmed
2021-09-15Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols Testify Before Senate on FBI's Betrayal in Nassar Case 5 src
McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Christopher Wray · Senate Judiciary Committee · +4
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2021-09-08Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal 3 src
Eric Rosengren · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell
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2021-09-07Dallas Fed President Kaplan Resigns Over Trading Controversy 3 src
Robert Kaplan · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Jerome Powell · Eric Rosengren
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2021-09-01Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · State Attorneys General
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2021-09-01Joe Rogan Announces He Treated COVID with Unproven Ivermectin, Sparking Medical Misinformation Controversy 4 src
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience · Food and Drug Administration
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2021-08-26Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action 4 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden
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2021-08-15ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case 3 src
ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department
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2021-08-02NLRB Hearing Officer Rules Amazon Illegally Interfered in Bessemer Election, Recommends New Vote 3 src
National Labor Relations Board · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
confirmed
2021-07-29Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted for Securities Fraud, Exposing How SPAC Loophole Enabled Investor Deception 3 src
Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
confirmed
2021-07-27Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes 3 src
National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · Biden Administration
confirmed
2021-07-21Clearview AI Raises $30 Million Series B Funding Despite Widespread Privacy Violations 3 src
Clearview AI · Peter Thiel
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2021-07-21Trump shows classified Iran attack plan at Bedminster, admits can't declassify 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Meadows
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2021-07-18Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients 3 src
Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · Washington Post · +1
confirmed
2021-07-09Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR 3 src
Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice
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2021-07-06Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability 3 src
Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1
confirmed
2021-07-04Jason Miller Launches Gettr with Hidden Guo Wengui Funding 3 src
Guo Wengui · Steve Bannon
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2021-07-01Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Indicted for $1.7M Tax Fraud Scheme 4 src
Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Manhattan District Attorney · Donald Trump
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2021-07-01Twitter Permanently Suspends Nick Fuentes, Completing Major Platform Deplatforming 3 src
Nick Fuentes
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2021-07-01Vance Announces Ohio Senate Campaign 3 src
J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Rob Portman · Peter Thiel
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2021-06-24Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation in Series E 2 src
Chainalysis
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2021-06-15Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever 3 src
Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission
confirmed
2021-06-03FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney
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2021-06-01LUMA Energy Assumes Control of Puerto Rico's Grid Amid Massive 'Fuera LUMA' Protests Against McKinsey-Designed Privatization 9 src
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
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2021-06-01Saudi PIF Commits $2 Billion to Kushner's Affinity Partners — Phase 4 Capital Manifestation Begins; Five Months Into Biden Administration 2 src
Jared Kushner · Affinity Partners · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Public Investment Fund
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2021-06-01Trump calls Bitcoin 'a scam' competing with the dollar 5 src
Donald Trump
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2021-05-28Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate
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2021-05-21Alden Global Capital Completes $633 Million Tribune Publishing Acquisition - "Vulture" Hedge Fund Becomes Second-Largest U.S. Newspaper Publisher 5 src confirmed
2021-05-18Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos
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2021-05-13Leaked Video Exposes Heritage Action's $24 Million Voter Suppression Campaign Coordinating State Legislation 4 src
Heritage Action · Heritage Foundation · Hans von Spakovsky · Brian Kemp · +1
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2021-04-15Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons 4 src
Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Donald Trump
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2021-04-09Amazon Defeats Bessemer Union Vote 1,798 to 738 After Intensive Anti-Union Campaign 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
confirmed
2021-04-06Stephen Miller Founds America First Legal to Challenge Biden Administration and Advance White Nationalist Agenda 3 src
Stephen Miller · Mark Meadows
confirmed
2021-03-25Georgia SB 202 Enacts Comprehensive Voter Suppression with Multiple ALEC Provisions 3 src
Brian Kemp · American Legislative Exchange Council
confirmed
2021-03-18Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations 3 src
Cellebrite
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2021-03-05Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense
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2021-03-01Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy 4 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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2021-03-01South Dakota pays $200,000 to silence appraiser chief fired after Noem intervention 3 src
Kristi Noem
confirmed
2021-02-15Republican State Parties Censure Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump 4 src
Bill Cassidy · Richard Burr · Pat Toomey · Lisa Murkowski
confirmed
2021-02-13McConnell Says Trump "Practically and Morally Responsible" Minutes After Voting to Acquit 4 src
Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans
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2021-02-13Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty 4 src
Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +3
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2021-02-13Senate Votes 55-45 to Call Witnesses, Then Reverses After McConnell Threatens Delay 3 src
Kevin McCarthy · Donald Trump · Jamie Raskin · Mitch McConnell
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2021-02-10Impeachment Managers Present Devastating 13-Minute Video Compilation of January 6 Attack 4 src
Jamie Raskin · Mitt Romney · Chuck Schumer
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2021-02-09Second Impeachment Trial Begins with Constitutional Debate on Trying Former President 4 src
Donald Trump · Patrick Leahy · Bill Cassidy · Mitch McConnell
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2021-02-08Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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2021-02-05Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout 3 src confirmed
2021-02-04Biden Administration Pauses $760 Million Raytheon and Boeing Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Over Yemen 4 src
Joe Biden · Raytheon · Boeing · Saudi Arabia · +1
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2021-02-03Canadian Privacy Commissioners Declare Clearview AI Represents "Mass Surveillance" of Citizens 2 src
Clearview AI
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2021-02-02Saudi Dissident Omar Abdulaziz's Lawsuit Against McKinsey Filed in Federal Court 3 src
Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · +1
confirmed
2021-01-28Raytheon CEO Hayes Tells Investors "Peace Not Going to Break Out" in Middle East, Sees Solid Growth 3 src
Greg Hayes · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Joe Biden
confirmed
2021-01-26Biden Signs Executive Order 14006 to End Federal Private Prison Contracts, But Excludes Immigration Detention 4 src
Joe Biden · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · U.S. Marshals Service · +3
confirmed
2021-01-25Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Article to Senate After Biden Inauguration 4 src
Nancy Pelosi · Jamie Raskin · Chuck Schumer · Mitch McConnell
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2021-01-25Supreme Court Dismisses All Trump Emoluments Cases as Moot 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Maryland
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2021-01-21Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Vaccine Production on First Full Day in Office 3 src
Joe Biden
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2021-01-20Freedom House Downgrades US Democracy Score to 83/100 3 src
Freedom House · United States · Donald Trump · Republican Party
confirmed
2021-01-20Trump Environmental Rollbacks Cause 80,000 Excess Deaths Per Decade 3 src
Donald Trump · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Scott Pruitt · Andrew Wheeler · +1
confirmed
2021-01-19Navalny Investigation Reveals Putin's Palace Complex 4 src
Vladimir Putin · Gennady Timchenko
confirmed
2021-01-19Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy 4 src
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · +1
confirmed
2021-01-15PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias 3 src
PredPol
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2021-01-15Russell Vought Founds Center for Renewing America, Christian Nationalist Policy Shop for Trump Return 3 src
Russ Vought
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2021-01-14Rick Snyder Charged With Misdemeanors for Poisoning Thousands—First Governor Ever Criminally Charged 3 src
Rick Snyder · Dana Nessel
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2021-01-13House Impeaches Trump for Second Time on Single Charge of "Incitement of Insurrection" 3 src
Donald Trump · Nancy Pelosi · Liz Cheney · U.S. House of Representatives
confirmed
2021-01-13Trump Pardons Kwame Kilpatrick After Serving 7 of 28 Years for Detroit Corruption 4 src
Donald Trump
confirmed
2021-01-07Boeing Pays $2.5 Billion in Deferred Prosecution Deal, Zero Executives Charged for 346 Deaths 4 src
Department of Justice · Boeing · 346 crash victims
confirmed
2021-01-07Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook
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2021-01-06At Least Six CNP Members Coordinate January 6 Rally - Conservative Network's Role in Insurrection 2 src
Council for National Policy · Charlie Kirk · Jenny Beth Martin · Cleta Mitchell · +2
confirmed
2021-01-06FBI forensics show Trump watched TV and tweeted instead of stopping Capitol riot 3 src
Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jack Smith
confirmed
2021-01-06Ginni Thomas Attends "Stop the Steal" Rally Before Capitol Attack, CNP Board Member at Insurrection 4 src
Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Council for National Policy · CNP Action · +4
confirmed
2021-01-06January 6 Capitol Insurrection Represents Culmination of WHIG Constitutional Crisis Template Implementation for Oligarchic Governance Establishment 3 src
Donald Trump · Proud Boys · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +5
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2021-01-06Nick Fuentes Rallies Supporters Outside Capitol During January 6 Insurrection 3 src
Nick Fuentes · Donald Trump
confirmed
2021-01-06Stephen Miller Writes Trump's January 6 Ellipse Speech, Adds Language About Pence Overturning Election 3 src
Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Mike Pence
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2021-01-06Trump says "So what?" when told Pence evacuated for safety during Capitol riot 5 src
Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Dan Scavino
confirmed