Court cases
69 dated, sourced timelines.
Sam Bankman-Fried FTX case
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged that Bankman-Fried defrauded FTX customers and investors and lenders to Alameda Research. The SEC...
US v. Google search case
The US Department of Justice and plaintiff states alleged that Google unlawfully maintained monopolies in search and search advertising through exclusive distribution...
Yoon Suk Yeol martial law case
Prosecutors charged Yoon as the ringleader of an insurrection, alleging that he declared unlawful emergency martial law, mobilised the military and police to blockade...
Najib Razak 1MDB and SRC cases
Prosecutors charged that Najib abused his position and committed criminal breach of trust and money laundering over RM42 million of SRC International funds paid into...
Wirecard fraud case
Munich I public prosecutors allege that Braun and others included revenue from third-party acquirer business that did not exist in Wirecard's 2015 to 2018...
Joseph Kabila case
Joseph Kabila led the DRC from 2001 to 2019 and became a senator for life after handing power to Felix Tshisekedi. After their coalition ended and the AFC/M23...
Cristina Kirchner Vialidad case
Federal prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola charged that during the Kirchner governments 51 federal road works in Santa Cruz province were directed to companies...
Madoff Ponzi scheme
Bernard Madoff was arrested in December 2008 after telling employees his investment advisory business was a Ponzi scheme. He pleaded guilty in 2009 and was sentenced...
Mariana dam collapse lawsuits
Hundreds of thousands of claimants, including Brazilian municipalities, individuals, businesses and indigenous and Quilombola community members, alleged in the...
European Super League legal fight
Twelve clubs announced a breakaway European Super League in April 2021, and the project collapsed within days after the six English clubs withdrew. The company behind...
Post Office Horizon prosecutions
Sub-postmasters who brought group litigation alleged that shortfalls shown by the Horizon accounting system could be caused by bugs, errors and defects in the system...
Ericsson bribery case
The US Department of Justice charged that from 2000 to 2016 Ericsson used third party agents and consultants to pay bribes to government officials and kept false...
Trump classified documents case
Federal prosecutors charged Donald Trump in 2023 with keeping national defense information at Mar-a-Lago after his first term and with obstructing efforts to recover...
Netanyahu corruption trial
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged that in Case 1000 Netanyahu received gifts such as cigars and champagne from Arnon Milchan and James Packer, in Case 2000...
Celsius Network and Mashinsky case
Crypto lender Celsius Network froze customer withdrawals in June 2022 and filed for Chapter 11 a month later. Founder Alex Mashinsky was charged in July 2023...
Duterte ICC case
The ICC Prosecutor alleges that Duterte, as Mayor of Davao City and later as President, is criminally responsible for murders and attempted murders committed as part...
US v. Google (ad tech)
The Justice Department and a group of states sued Google in January 2023, alleging that it monopolised the technology used to buy and sell online display advertising...
FTC v. Amazon
The FTC and a group of states sued Amazon in September 2023, alleging that it illegally maintained monopoly power over online shoppers and sellers. That case survived...
New York Times v. OpenAI and Microsoft
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December 2023, alleging they copied millions of its articles without permission to build ChatGPT and other AI...
Trump federal election case
Special counsel Jack Smith charged Donald Trump in August 2023 in Washington with four federal crimes, alleging that he conspired to overturn his 2020 election loss...
Carlos Ghosn and Nissan case
Tokyo prosecutors alleged that Ghosn, Kelly and Nissan under-reported Ghosn's compensation in Nissan's securities filings, which AP put at about 9 billion yen over...
Bob Menendez bribery case
Federal prosecutors alleged that from 2018 to 2022 Senator Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including cash, gold bars and a...
Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes case
The SEC alleged in 2018 that Theranos, Holmes and former president Ramesh Balwani raised more than $700 million through misleading statements about the company's...
Harvey Weinstein criminal cases
The Manhattan District Attorney charged Weinstein with offences including first-degree criminal sexual act, rape in the first and third degrees and predatory sexual...
Bayer and Monsanto Roundup litigation
After Bayer bought Monsanto in 2018, juries in California returned large verdicts for plaintiffs who alleged that the weedkiller Roundup caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma...
Glencore bribery case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Glencore entities paid bribes to officials in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Brazil, Venezuela and the...
Johnson & Johnson talc litigation
Tens of thousands of plaintiffs allege in state and federal lawsuits that Johnson & Johnson talc products, including baby powder, caused ovarian cancer or...
Trump New York business records case
The Manhattan District Attorney alleged that Trump falsified New York business records to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from voters around the...
Alex Jones Sandy Hook lawsuits
Relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and an FBI agent who responded, alleged that Jones and Free Speech Systems defamed them and...
Chauvin and the George Floyd cases
George Floyd died on 25 May 2020 after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck during an arrest over a suspected counterfeit bill. Chauvin was...
Mangione prosecutions
UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Manhattan on December 4, 2024, and Luigi Mangione was arrested five days later in Pennsylvania...
Goldman Sachs 1MDB case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Goldman, through its agents and employees including former employees Tim Leissner and Roger Ng, conspired with others to pay...
Goldenberg affair
In the early 1990s Goldenberg International received export compensation from the Kenyan government for gold and diamond exports that a later judicial commission...
Le Pen parliamentary assistants case
Prosecutors alleged that from 2004 to 2016 European Parliament allowances meant to pay MEPs' parliamentary assistants were used to pay people who in fact worked for...
SEC v. Musk Twitter disclosure case
The SEC alleged that Musk failed to file a beneficial ownership report by 24 March 2022 after acquiring more than 5 percent of Twitter's common stock, in violation of...
Anglo Leasing contracts
Anglo Leasing is the name given to a set of Kenyan security and communications contracts signed from 2002 to 2004 that former anti-corruption chief John Githongo and...
Uber data breach cover-up case
Federal prosecutors in the Northern District of California charged that Sullivan, while the FTC was investigating Uber's data security, concealed a November 2016...
Boeing 737 MAX fraud charge
The US Department of Justice charged Boeing with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, alleging that two Boeing 737 MAX technical pilots concealed...
Berlusconi Ruby ter case
Milan prosecutors accused Berlusconi of corruption in judicial proceedings, alleging that he paid about two dozen people, mostly guests at evenings at his Arcore...
Sarkozy Libyan financing case
The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) alleged that Sarkozy, with aides Claude Guéant and Brice Hortefeux, entered a corruption pact with Muammar Gaddafi's...
Nigeria v P&ID
Process & Industrial Developments won an arbitral award of about 6.6 billion US dollars plus interest against Nigeria in 2017 over a 2010 gas processing agreement. In...
Fox, Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits
Dominion Voting Systems alleged that Fox News Network and its parent Fox Corporation defamed it by broadcasting false claims after the 2020 US election that its...
Purdue Pharma opioid case
The US Department of Justice charged Purdue with conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and with two counts of...
Getty Images v Stability AI
Getty Images sued Stability AI in London and in the United States in early 2023, alleging that the company used millions of Getty images without permission to train...
Binance and Changpeng Zhao case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Binance prioritised growth and profits over compliance with US law, failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering...
Sean Combs federal case
The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charged Combs in an indictment unsealed on 17 September 2024 with racketeering conspiracy, sex...
FTC privacy order against Meta
The FTC alleged in 2019 that Facebook violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their information. In 2023 the FTC...
Kevin Spacey trials
The Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges in May 2022 of sexual offences against three men in London and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2013, and in November...
Steinhoff accounting case
A PwC forensic investigation commissioned by Steinhoff found, as summarised by the company and reported in March 2019, that a senior management executive and a small...
Wells Fargo fake accounts case
The CFPB found in 2016, and the Justice Department and SEC stated in 2020, that Wells Fargo employees opened deposit and credit card accounts without customer...
Nikola and Trevor Milton case
Nikola founder Trevor Milton was charged in 2021 with misleading investors about the electric and hydrogen truck maker's technology after a short seller's report, and...
Danske Bank Estonia case
The US Department of Justice alleged that between 2008 and 2016 Danske Bank, through its Estonian branch, defrauded US banks about its anti-money laundering controls...
Terra Luna and Do Kwon case
The TerraUSD stablecoin and its sister token Luna collapsed in May 2022, with losses prosecutors put at more than $40 billion. Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon was...
Giuliani defamation case
Freeman and Moss, former Fulton County, Georgia election workers, alleged that Giuliani defamed them by falsely accusing them of election fraud during the 2020 vote...
George Santos fraud case
Federal prosecutors alleged in a 23-count superseding indictment that Santos filed false campaign finance reports, charged donors' credit cards without authorisation...
Malawi election annulment
Malawi's Constitutional Court annulled Peter Mutharika's May 2019 re-election in February 2020, citing irregularities including result sheets altered with correction...
Microsoft Teams EU antitrust case
Slack complained to the European Commission in 2020 that Microsoft illegally tied its Teams app to Office 365 and Microsoft 365. The Commission opened an...
Ohtani interpreter fraud case
Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's Japanese-language interpreter and de facto manager, was fired by the Los Angeles Dodgers in March 2024 and charged in federal court...
Volkswagen diesel emissions case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Volkswagen installed software in about 590,000 US diesel vehicles that detected emissions testing and reduced emissions...
McKinsey opioid case
The Justice Department charged in a criminal information in the Western District of Virginia that McKinsey's US entity conspired with Purdue Pharma and others to aid...
Apple Ireland tax case
The European Commission concluded that two tax rulings issued by Ireland in 1991 and 2007 to Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe constituted state...
Hunter Biden federal cases
Special Counsel David C. Weiss charged that Biden lied about his drug use on a federal firearm purchase form and possessed a gun as a drug user in October 2018, and...
Julian Assange legal cases
WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange, published hundreds of thousands of classified US documents in 2010 and 2011. Assange spent nearly seven years in Ecuador's...
Kenyatta ICC case
The ICC Prosecutor charged Kenyatta with crimes against humanity of murder, deportation or forcible transfer, rape, other inhumane acts and persecution, relating to...
Ruto ICC case
The ICC Prosecutor charged Ruto with crimes against humanity of murder, deportation or forcible transfer of population, and persecution, allegedly committed in Kenya...
Zuma contempt case
The Secretary of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture applied urgently to the Constitutional Court for an order declaring Zuma in...
Berlusconi Mediaset tax case
Milan prosecutors charged Berlusconi with tax fraud relating to tax years 2002 and 2003 in the case concerning Mediaset television rights. The Milan District Court...
Depp v NGN and Depp v Heard
Johnny Depp sued the publisher of The Sun in London over a 2018 article calling him a wife beater and lost in November 2020, when the High Court found the words...
Lula Car Wash cases
Federal prosecutors in the Car Wash operation charged that Lula received undue advantages from construction companies, including a seaside triplex apartment in...