Case Files · Binder 01

Case Files

Each case file walks a documented closed loop step by step — donation, vote, contract, revolving-door — with every step linking to the primary source you can click through and verify yourself. Color-coded by epistemic quality. Cross-referenced to the Statute Map so the legal frameworks the conduct would implicate are one click away.

11loops on record
51documented steps
88%verifiable steps
8statutes implicated
Donor → Policy → Contract 5 steps · 3 statutes
Thiel → Vance → ICE → Palantir
A donor funds a senator's campaign, the senator's allies expand the agency that buys the donor's surveillance software, the agency awards the donor's company nine-figure contracts. Every step is in public records.
Consultant Overlap 4 steps · 3 statutes
Fairshake → senators → crypto deregulation
The same political operatives run the crypto industry's $193M super PAC AND the AI industry's $100M+ political machine. The senators those PACs backed are now writing the bills that deregulate both.
Defense-AI Procurement Concentration 4 steps · 2 statutes
Lockheed-Anduril-Palantir: the defense-AI procurement triumvirate
Three firms with overlapping investors, revolving-door personnel pipelines, and concentrated DoD procurement form what would be called an oligopoly in any other sector. Here it's called innovation policy.
Earmark to Donor 5 steps · 3 statutes
Reid → Bigelow → AAWSAP → Skinwalker Ranch
A senator's donor sells the federal government a contract to study his own paranormal-tourism property. The earmark is real, the conflict-of-interest filings are absent.
Corporate DPA 5 steps · 2 statutes
Boeing 737 MAX: from regulatory capture to deferred prosecution
Two crashes, 346 dead, executives who knew about MCAS issues for years, a $2.5B settlement that included a deferred prosecution agreement and zero individual indictments of senior leadership.
Corporate DPA 4 steps · 1 statute
Sackler family / Purdue Pharma: bankruptcy as liability shield
Family extracts ~$10B from Purdue while opioid lawsuits pile up. Purdue files for Chapter 11 in 2019. The proposed bankruptcy plan grants the Sacklers — who never personally filed for bankruptcy — broad immunity from civil claims by victims. SCOTUS strikes the plan down in 2024.
Donor → Policy → Contract 5 steps · 3 statutes
FTX / SBF political donations and the crypto regulatory ask
Crypto exchange CEO becomes one of the largest political donors of the 2022 cycle, lobbies for a specific market-structure bill that would have transferred crypto oversight from SEC to CFTC, then is convicted of running an $8B fraud at the same exchange.
Regulatory Capture 4 steps · 1 statute
Eric Holder: from DOJ Attorney General back to Covington & Burling
AG who told Senate that some banks were 'too big to jail' returns to his old K Street firm — whose clients included the same banks DOJ had declined to indict — six months after stepping down.
Regulatory Capture 5 steps · 1 statute
Leslie Wexner → Jeffrey Epstein: the unexplained transfer + power of attorney
Retail-empire billionaire grants a convicted-trafficking financial 'advisor' broad power of attorney over his affairs, transfers ~$46M to entities Epstein controlled, then claims after Epstein's 2019 arrest to have been 'embezzled' from — without ever filing a recovery lawsuit.
Regulatory Capture 4 steps · 1 statute
Leon Black / Apollo: $158M paid to Epstein after the 2008 conviction was public
Apollo Global CEO pays a convicted-trafficking financial advisor $158M between 2012 and 2017 — every dollar of it after Epstein's 2008 Florida conviction was on the public record. Independent investigation finds the work was real but documents the structural disclosure failure.
Regulatory Capture 6 steps · 2 statutes
Witkoff family → World Liberty Financial → Gulf billions → OCC bank charter
The U.S. envoy negotiating with Gulf states is the business partner of the president; his sons raise billions from those same states into a crypto firm the president's family majority-owns — which is then granted a federal bank charter by a regulator the president appoints.