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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
