Documented enforcement actions taken against entities the platform tracks — SEC civil settlements, DOJ public-corruption indictments, FEC matters, FTC consent decrees, OFAC designations, state attorneys general judgments. Every row has a primary-source URL to the agency release or court filing. The entries don't editorialise: the government took an action, here's what they said, here's where you can verify it.
The SEC's Division of Enforcement opened a non-public informal review of World Liberty Financial regarding disclosure practices around the WLFI governance token and the role of the Trump-family entity's majority ownership stake. Status: pending. Surfaced via Bloomberg reporting citing two sources familiar with the inquiry.
The Federal Trade Commission opened a non-public inquiry into Paragon Solutions and its US subsidiaries regarding compliance with Section 5 of the FTC Act in light of reports of spyware deployment against US persons. Status: pending; inquiry confirmed via formal acknowledgement to plaintiffs' counsel.
The FCC Enforcement Bureau issued an inquiry letter regarding SpaceX Starshield satellites detected transmitting on L-band frequencies not allocated to the Starshield licence. SpaceX responded that the emissions were consistent with classified government customer requirements; FCC review remains ongoing.
Following a five-year civil suit by WhatsApp (Meta), a Northern District of California jury found NSO Group liable for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California state law for exploiting WhatsApp servers to deliver Pegasus spyware. Compensatory plus punitive damages totaled $168 million.
The SEC filed civil charges in S.D.N.Y. alleging Musk violated federal securities law by failing to timely file a Schedule 13G/D when he crossed the 5% Twitter ownership threshold in March 2022, allegedly saving him at least $150 million by buying additional Twitter shares at depressed prices before the disclosure. Litigation pending.
Former Representative George Santos pleaded guilty to two counts of a 23-count federal indictment alleging he defrauded campaign donors by misappropriating contributions and stealing donors' identities to make unauthorised credit-card charges to his campaign committee.
A Southern District of New York jury convicted Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey on all 16 counts of a sweeping public-corruption indictment, including bribery, honest-services fraud, foreign-agent activity on behalf of Egypt and Qatar, obstruction, and conspiracy. Sentenced to 11 years federal prison.
The SEC announced BlackRock had agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle charges that the BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust mis-classified the investment strategies of its largest single-issuer exposure (a movie-theatre chain) for nearly two years, materially misleading investors. BlackRock neither admitted nor denied the findings.
A Southern District of Texas grand jury indicted Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda on 14 counts including conspiracy to commit bribery, wire fraud, money laundering, and acting as agents of a foreign principal in connection with $600,000 received via shell companies from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank. Trial pending.
New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron entered a $355 million civil-fraud judgment (later raised with interest above $464M) against Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, and senior executives after finding they engaged in persistent and repeated fraud in misstating the value of corporate assets to obtain favourable bank loans. Trump was barred for three years from serving as a NY corporate officer.
Jury convicted Sam Bankman-Fried on all seven counts after a one-month trial: two counts of wire fraud, two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, and conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Underlying conduct: misappropriation of $8B+ in FTX customer funds via secret transfers to Alameda Research, with funds used to make political donations (including to both major US parties), buy real estate, and fund ventures. Sentenced March 28, 2024 to 25 years federal prison.
Booz Allen Hamilton agreed to pay $377.45 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by improperly billing commercial and international costs to its government contracts over a roughly 10-year period. One of the largest procurement-fraud settlements ever paid by a federal contractor.
The SEC filed civil charges against Coinbase alleging it operated as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency since 2019, and offered an unregistered staking-as-a-service program. The complaint identified 13 specific tokens listed on Coinbase that the SEC alleged are securities. Coinbase contested the action. The matter was substantially dismissed in 2025 under the Atkins-led SEC (March 27, 2025 dismissal), illustrating the volatility of enforcement priorities across administrations.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Wells Fargo to pay more than $2 billion in redress to consumers and a $1.7 billion civil penalty for legal violations across multiple product lines including auto loans, mortgages, and deposit accounts. CFPB cited a "long-running pattern of illegal conduct" that affected over 16 million accounts.
Jury convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on four counts of wire fraud (against investors) and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Acquitted on counts related to patient-victims and several remaining investor counts. Underlying conduct: years of misrepresentations to investors about the capabilities, accuracy, and commercial readiness of Theranos's blood-testing technology, which never functioned as represented. Sentenced November 18, 2022 to 11 years 3 months federal prison; appeals exhausted 2024.
The Bureau of Industry and Security added NSO Group to the Entity List, restricting US-origin technology exports. BIS cited evidence that NSO had supplied spyware to foreign governments that used it to maliciously target journalists, embassy workers, and activists.
Boeing agreed to a $2.5B resolution with the DOJ — comprising $243.6M criminal penalty, $1.77B compensation to airline customers, and $500M into a victim-beneficiary fund — to defer prosecution on criminal-conspiracy charges for defrauding the FAA's Aircraft Evaluation Group during the 737 MAX certification process. Senior Boeing pilots withheld material safety information about the MCAS flight-control system implicated in the Lion Air 610 (October 2018) and Ethiopian Airlines 302 (March 2019) crashes that killed 346 people.
Goldman Sachs entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the DOJ to resolve charges that the firm violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in connection with a sweeping bribery scheme involving 1MDB, the Malaysian sovereign-wealth fund. Goldman agreed to pay more than $2.9 billion under a global resolution involving multiple foreign jurisdictions.
Purdue Pharma agreed to plead guilty to three felony charges (conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to violate anti-kickback statute) with an $8.3B total resolution comprising a $2B criminal forfeiture, $3.544B criminal fine, $2.8B civil False Claims Act resolution. Sackler family members separately paid $225M civil to resolve associated FCA claims. Resolution did not provide individual criminal accountability for Sackler family members despite documented evidence of their direct involvement in deceptive-marketing strategy decisions.
Concurrent with the Purdue Pharma criminal resolution, individual Sackler family members paid $225M to resolve civil False Claims Act allegations that they directed and approved deceptive marketing of OxyContin while serving on Purdue's board. No individual Sackler faced criminal charges despite internal communications showing personal involvement in marketing strategy. Subsequent bankruptcy plan (2024 SCOTUS overturned the third-party-release shield) substantially expanded the family's later financial liability, but the 2020 resolution itself contained no admission of liability and no bar on continuing pharmaceutical-industry activities.
The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty on Facebook (now Meta) — the largest privacy-related fine in US history at the time — and required substantial restrictions on the company's privacy practices following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement modified a 2012 consent decree, restructured Facebook's corporate decisionmaking, and required Zuckerberg-level certifications of compliance.
Elon Musk agreed to step down as Tesla chairman and pay a $20 million penalty to settle SEC charges that he made false and misleading statements with his August 7, 2018 tweet that he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private at $420 per share. Tesla agreed to pay an additional $20 million penalty for failing to have controls in place to oversee Musk's communications.
Palantir Technologies settled with the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs over allegations the company systematically discriminated against Asian applicants for engineering positions. Settlement included $1,659,434 in back pay and a hiring commitment.
CFPB, OCC, and LA City Attorney announced $185M in combined penalties ($100M to CFPB — its largest at that time, $35M to OCC, $50M to LA) over Wells Fargo's widespread practice of opening unauthorized deposit and credit-card accounts in customers' names to meet aggressive cross-sell sales quotas. Internal review eventually identified 3.5M potentially unauthorized accounts opened 2009-2016. This was the precursor enforcement to the 2018 $1B and 2022 $3.7B CFPB actions; together they represent the largest sustained consumer-banking enforcement record in US history.
JPMorgan agreed to pay $920M across SEC, OCC, FRB and FCA penalties resolving charges that bank-management failures permitted traders in its Chief Investment Office (Bruno Iksil, 'the London Whale') to mismark synthetic credit-derivative book values and conceal losses ultimately totaling $6.2B. The SEC complaint alleged that senior managers ignored internal risk-control warnings and made material misstatements to investors.
