18 entries in the ledger
The Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Group of States against Corruption, or GRECO, a Council of Europe anti-corruption body the U.S. had belonged to since 2001, the Council of Europe said Sept...
A ProPublica investigation published September 22, 2026, revealed the FBI built a sweeping pay-to-play corruption case in 2024 examining Sen. Susan Collins' dealings with former Navatek CEO Martin Kao, before the Trump...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan Davis ordered the Trump administration on Sept. 4, 2026, to disclose who designed the $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund and how it was structured, granting part of a discovery motion in...
Reporting in November 2025 revealed that DHS bypassed competitive bidding to award a $220 million advertising contract, with the bulk going to Safe America Media, a Delaware LLC created days before the deal was...
On November 6, 2025, President Trump pardoned former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his ex-chief of staff Cade Cothren, who had been convicted on federal corruption charges tied to a scheme to funnel over...
A Public Citizen report released in early November 2025 found that roughly two-thirds of the known corporate donors to Trump's White House ballroom project have collectively received $279 billion in federal contracts...
In October 2025, President Trump pardoned former Representative George Santos, who had been expelled from Congress in 2023 after revelations that he fabricated much of his background and faced federal charges including...
In September 2025, President Trump announced a deal transferring TikTok's U.S. operations to a group of American investors including Larry Ellison, the Murdoch family, and Andreessen Horowitz, resolving years of...
On September 19, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order creating the "Gold Card," a new immigration pathway offering expedited U.S. permanent residency, and eventually citizenship, in exchange for a $1 million...
An analysis published in August 2025 found that congressional Republicans who voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act had collectively received more than $105 million in campaign donations from the oil and gas industry...