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 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.
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 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.
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.
