2021
108 verified events recorded in 2021.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-31 | Rogan Hosts Vaccine Skeptic Dr. Robert Malone Who Claims "Mass Formation Psychosis"
6 src Joe Rogan · Dr. Robert Malone · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-29 | Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
3 src Ghislaine Maxwell · Alison Nathan · Southern District of New York · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-21 | SEC Charges Nikola Corporation $125 Million for SPAC-Related Fraud and False Claims
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Nikola Corporation · Trevor Milton · VectoIQ Acquisition Corp (SPAC) | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-16 | Federal Judge Overturns Sackler Immunity Deal, Rules Bankruptcy Law Violated
3 src Colleen McMahon · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-16 | Melania Trump Launches NFT Platform with "Melania's Vision" Collection
4 src Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-15 | Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10%
3 src Private Equity Industry · Blackstone Group · KKR · TeamHealth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-13 | USA Gymnastics Emerges from Bankruptcy with $380 Million Settlement for 500+ Nassar Survivors
5 src USA Gymnastics · Robyn Moberly · U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee · Simone Biles · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-10 | Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse
4 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-01 | Truth Social Receives $8 Million from Russian-Connected Entities While "On Brink of Collapse"
5 src Trump Media & Technology Group · Paxum Bank · Anton Postolnikov · ES Family Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-23 | Apple Sues NSO Group Over FORCEDENTRY Exploit and Pegasus Spyware Targeting
3 src Apple · NSO Group · Citizen Lab · US District Court Northern California | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-23 | Federal Jury Finds CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Liable for Fueling Ohio Opioid Crisis
3 src CVS · Walgreens · Walmart · Lake County Ohio · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-22 | SEC Fines McKinsey Subsidiary MIO Partners $18 Million for Puerto Rico Conflict of Interest and Material Nonpublic Information Violations
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · MIO Partners · McKinsey & Company · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-16 | Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History
3 src Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-09 | Office 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 · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-03 | US Commerce Department Adds Candiru and NSO Group to Entity List
5 src US Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · Candiru · NSO Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-02 | Pfizer Reports $22 Billion Profit on COVID-19 Vaccine, One of Most Profitable Drugs in History
3 src Pfizer · BioNTech · U.S. government | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-01 | In-Q-Tel Leaders Launch Chain Bridge SPAC, Criticized as 'Revolving Door on Steroids'
2 src Christopher Darby · Stephen Bowsher · Michael Morell · Jeremy Bash · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-01 | Senate Candidate JD Vance Keynotes NatCon 2 in Orlando, Calls for 'Aggressively Attacking' Universities and Says Teaching That 'Divides People' Is 'Satanic'
5 src JD Vance · Edmund Burke Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-21 | Fed Implements Strict Trading Restrictions After Major Ethics Scandal
3 src Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve Board · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Clarida · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Digital 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 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress in January 6 Investigation
4 src Steve Bannon · House Select Committee on January 6 · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-20 | Trump Media Founded with Chinese-Connected Financial Backer Patrick Orlando
4 src Donald Trump · Patrick Orlando · Trump Media & Technology Group · Yunhong International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-18 | NPR Documents How Hedge Fund Newspaper Ownership Creates News Deserts and Undermines Democracy - Over 2,500 Newspapers Closed Since 2005
5 src Alden Global Capital · Local Newspapers · Hedge Funds · Communities · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-15 | Tether Fined $41 Million by CFTC for Lying About Dollar Reserves Backing Stablecoin
4 src Tether Holdings Limited · CFTC · Dawn Stump · Bitfinex · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-05 | Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy
4 src Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-03 | Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks
4 src International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · King Abdullah II of Jordan · Andrej Babiš · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-01 | Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering
4 src Stephen Hahn · Flagship Pioneering · Moderna · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-27 | Dallas and Boston Fed Presidents Resign Over Trading Scandal
4 src Robert Kaplan · Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-15 | Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols Testify Before Senate on FBI's Betrayal in Nassar Case
5 src Simone Biles · McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Maggie Nichols · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-08 | Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal
3 src Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-07 | Dallas Fed President Kaplan Resigns Over Trading Controversy
3 src Robert Kaplan · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Jerome Powell · Eric Rosengren | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-01 | Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition
3 src Robert Drain · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-01 | Joe 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 · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-26 | Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden · Alabama Association of Realtors | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-15 | ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case
3 src ShotSpotter · Michael Williams · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-02 | NLRB 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 | |
| 2021-07-29 | Nikola 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 · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-27 | Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes
3 src Daniel Hale · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Clearview AI Raises $30 Million Series B Funding Despite Widespread Privacy Violations
3 src Clearview AI · Kirenaga Partners · Peter Thiel · Naval Ravikant | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Trump shows classified Iran attack plan at Bedminster, admits can't declassify
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Meadows · Trump staffers | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-18 | Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients
3 src Forbidden Stories · Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR
3 src Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · White House Competition Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-06 | Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability
3 src Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-04 | Jason Miller Launches Gettr with Hidden Guo Wengui Funding
3 src Jason Miller · Guo Wengui · Gettr · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Indicted for $1.7M Tax Fraud Scheme
4 src Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Cyrus Vance Jr. · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Twitter Permanently Suspends Nick Fuentes, Completing Major Platform Deplatforming
3 src Nick Fuentes | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Vance Announces Ohio Senate Campaign
3 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Rob Portman · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-24 | Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation in Series E
2 src Chainalysis · Coatue | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever
3 src Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-03 | FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme
4 src Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney · John Sarbanes | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | LUMA Energy Assumes Control of Puerto Rico's Grid Amid Massive 'Fuera LUMA' Protests Against McKinsey-Designed Privatization
9 src LUMA Energy · Puerto Rico Labor Unions · Angel Figueroa Jaramillo · Jocelyn Velazquez Rodriguez · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | Saudi 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 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | Trump calls Bitcoin 'a scam' competing with the dollar
5 src Donald Trump · Bitcoin | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-28 | Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees
3 src Frank Kendall · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-21 | Alden Global Capital Completes $633 Million Tribune Publishing Acquisition - "Vulture" Hedge Fund Becomes Second-Largest U.S. Newspaper Publisher
5 src Alden Global Capital · Tribune Publishing · Randall D. Smith · Chicago Tribune · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-18 | Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls
4 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-13 | Leaked Video Exposes Heritage Action's $24 Million Voter Suppression Campaign Coordinating State Legislation
4 src Heritage Action · Jessica Anderson · Heritage Foundation · Hans von Spakovsky · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-15 | Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons
4 src Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Harry Sargeant III · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-09 | Amazon 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 | |
| 2021-04-06 | Stephen Miller Founds America First Legal to Challenge Biden Administration and Advance White Nationalist Agenda
3 src Stephen Miller · Mark Meadows · Matthew Whitaker | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-25 | Georgia SB 202 Enacts Comprehensive Voter Suppression with Multiple ALEC Provisions
3 src Governor Brian Kemp · Georgia Republican Legislature · Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger · American Legislative Exchange Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-18 | Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations
3 src Cellebrite · Eitay Mack | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-05 | Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics
3 src Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-01 | Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy
4 src Genesis Healthcare · ReGen Healthcare · Joel Landau · David Gefner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-01 | South Dakota pays $200,000 to silence appraiser chief fired after Noem intervention
3 src Sherry Bren · Kristi Noem · South Dakota | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-15 | Republican State Parties Censure Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump
4 src Bill Cassidy · Richard Burr · Ben Sasse · Pat Toomey · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | McConnell Says Trump "Practically and Morally Responsible" Minutes After Voting to Acquit
4 src Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty
4 src Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Votes 55-45 to Call Witnesses, Then Reverses After McConnell Threatens Delay
3 src Jaime Herrera Beutler · Kevin McCarthy · Donald Trump · Jamie Raskin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-10 | Impeachment Managers Present Devastating 13-Minute Video Compilation of January 6 Attack
4 src Jamie Raskin · Stacey Plaskett · Eric Swalwell · Eugene Goodman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-09 | Second Impeachment Trial Begins with Constitutional Debate on Trying Former President
4 src Donald Trump · Patrick Leahy · Bruce Castor · David Schoen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-08 | Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union · Morgan Lewis | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-05 | Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout
3 src Robinhood Financial · DTCC · Dan Gallagher · U.S. House Committee on Financial Services | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-04 | Biden Administration Pauses $760 Million Raytheon and Boeing Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Over Yemen
4 src Joe Biden · Jake Sullivan · Raytheon · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-03 | Canadian Privacy Commissioners Declare Clearview AI Represents "Mass Surveillance" of Citizens
2 src Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Clearview AI · RCMP | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-02 | Saudi Dissident Omar Abdulaziz's Lawsuit Against McKinsey Filed in Federal Court
3 src Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-28 | Raytheon 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 | |
| 2021-01-26 | Biden 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 | |
| 2021-01-25 | Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Article to Senate After Biden Inauguration
4 src Nancy Pelosi · Jamie Raskin · Chuck Schumer · Mitch McConnell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Supreme Court Dismisses All Trump Emoluments Cases as Moot
3 src US Supreme Court · Donald Trump · CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) · District of Columbia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-21 | Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Vaccine Production on First Full Day in Office
3 src Joe Biden · Jeff Zients | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-20 | Freedom House Downgrades US Democracy Score to 83/100
3 src Freedom House · United States · Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-20 | Trump Environmental Rollbacks Cause 80,000 Excess Deaths Per Decade
3 src Donald Trump · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Scott Pruitt · Andrew Wheeler · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Navalny Investigation Reveals Putin's Palace Complex
4 src Vladimir Putin · Alexei Navalny · Arkady Rotenberg · Boris Rotenberg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy
4 src Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Elliott Broidy · Ken Kurson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias
3 src PredPol · Geolitica | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | Russell Vought Founds Center for Renewing America, Christian Nationalist Policy Shop for Trump Return
3 src Russ Vought | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-14 | Rick Snyder Charged With Misdemeanors for Poisoning Thousands—First Governor Ever Criminally Charged
3 src Rick Snyder · Dana Nessel · Fadwa Hammoud | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-13 | House Impeaches Trump for Second Time on Single Charge of "Incitement of Insurrection"
3 src Donald Trump · Nancy Pelosi · Liz Cheney · Adam Kinzinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-13 | Trump Pardons Kwame Kilpatrick After Serving 7 of 28 Years for Detroit Corruption
4 src Donald Trump · Kwame Kilpatrick · Bobby Ferguson · Alveda King | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Boeing Pays $2.5 Billion in Deferred Prosecution Deal, Zero Executives Charged for 346 Deaths
4 src Department of Justice · Boeing · 346 crash victims · Victims' families · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Oversight Board | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | At 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 · Ali Alexander · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | FBI forensics show Trump watched TV and tweeted instead of stopping Capitol riot
3 src Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jack Smith | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Ginni 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 · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | January 6 Capitol Insurrection Represents Culmination of WHIG Constitutional Crisis Template Implementation for Oligarchic Governance Establishment
3 src Donald Trump · Proud Boys · Oath Keepers · Roger Stone · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Nick Fuentes Rallies Supporters Outside Capitol During January 6 Insurrection
3 src Nick Fuentes · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Stephen Miller Writes Trump's January 6 Ellipse Speech, Adds Language About Pence Overturning Election
3 src Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Trump says "So what?" when told Pence evacuated for safety during Capitol riot
5 src Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Nick Luna · Dan Scavino | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-04 | Jeffrey Clark admits in Signal messages that classified briefing yielded "nothing helpful" for Trump
4 src Jeffrey Clark · Scott Perry · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed |