Abuse of public office for private gain, including bribery, embezzlement, trading in influence, conflicts of interest, and nepotism. Violations of anti-corruption treaties and domestic ethics laws.
Musk used his government role leading DOGE to dismantle the CFPB, the agency positioned to regulate his XMoney digital payments platform, while gaining access to competitors' confidential financial …
DOGE shut down the CFPB on February 8, 2025, ordering all staff to stop work. The CFPB was the primary regulator that would have overseen …
X (formerly Twitter) announced XMoney, a peer-to-peer digital payments service with Visa debit card integration, which entered beta in March …
The world's richest man led government cost-cutting while his companies held $38 billion in government funding. Zero Musk contracts were cut. SpaceX won new billions in Pentagon contracts during the …
Musk's companies have received at least $38 billion in cumulative government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits. In 2024 alone, …
SpaceX holds nearly $8 billion in Pentagon contracts and received approximately $5.9 billion in new National Security Space Launch contracts …
An unprecedented pattern of foreign government payments flowing to the president's personal businesses and financial ventures, including real estate deals in Vietnam, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, and the …
Vietnam approved a $1.5 billion Trump Organization golf resort outside Hanoi while seeking to avoid a 46% US import tariff — raising direct …
LIV Golf, backed by the Saudi government, hosted tournaments at Trump National Doral for four consecutive years, including the first with …
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Updated March 25, 2026Corruption & Self-Dealing
Major Abuse of PowerOngoingOfficial executive action
A systematic pattern of pardons benefiting political allies, donors, and financial criminals. Over half of 88 clemency grants went to white-collar offenders, erasing $1.3 billion in victim …
More than half of 88 individual pardons through January 2026 went to people convicted of white-collar crimes — money laundering, bank fraud, …
House Judiciary Democrats calculated that Trump's pardons erased $1.3 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare fraud, …