Private actor
Entries where the actor was private — outside any government's authority.
Institutions seated here (3)
Private bodies the archive has an actor page for. They appear in entries under other jurisdictions too — an institution acts outside its own seat constantly — so this is not the same set as the entries below.
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CoreCivic 13 entries
CoreCivic is a private prison operator and one of the largest for-profit prison, jail and immigration detention contractors in the United States.
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GEO Group 17 entries
The GEO Group is a publicly traded private prison and detention company that contracts with federal, state, and local governments to operate correctional and immigration detention facilities.
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The Trump Organization 3 entries
The Trump Organization is the private business group owned by Donald Trump and his family.
2026 Events (4)
Entergy Arkansas sued reporters and a records requester seeking a gag order over public-records reporting on its Google deal
Entergy Arkansas LLC filed an emergency federal lawsuit on September 1, 2026 against the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Arkansas Times, a reporter, an editor, and private citizen Jessica Kivell, seeking a temporary restraining order to block further disclosure of documents detailing Entergy's power agreement with Google for a West Memphis data center. Kivell had obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Arkansas Public Service Commission, which released them in error, and shared them with the Democrat-Gazette; Entergy's filing also asked the court to order the newspaper to retract its already-published story, on trade-secret grounds.
ProPublica investigation reveals Jason Crews' Wayne Halfway House concealed abuse, skipped required reports at Tennessee youth prisons
A ProPublica and WPLN investigation published August 12, 2026 found that Tennessee businessman Jason Crews and his company, Wayne Halfway House, repeatedly failed to report abuse and serious incidents at the juvenile-detention facilities Crews operates statewide, as required within 24 hours under Tennessee law. The reporting centers on a June 29, 2024 assault at Middle Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center in Columbia that guards watched happen and did not report; the state's Department of Children's Services confirmed on the record it never received an incident report for that date. Nearly two dozen former employees and youth separately told reporters they suspected abuse went unreported across Crews' facilities.
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell refused to concede Minnesota GOP gubernatorial primary loss, alleged unproven vote 'anomalies'
On August 11, 2026, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell refused to concede after losing Minnesota's Republican gubernatorial primary to Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, who won 43.6% of the vote to Lindell's 32.3% — a margin of roughly 11 percentage points. Lindell, a prominent promoter of President Trump's false 2020 election-fraud claims, told reporters after the Associated Press called the race that his team needed time to review the results, alleging unspecified voting "anomalies" without providing evidence.
Trump Organization files 'Trump 250' trademark applications tied to U.S. 250th anniversary
On March 6, 2026, DTTM Operations LLC — the entity that manages President Donald Trump's trademarks — filed five federal trademark applications for "Trump 250," covering merchandise such as clothing, drinkware, tote bags, stickers, and golf balls. The intent-to-use filings, tied to the nation's taxpayer-funded 250th-anniversary commemoration, would let the president's family business sell or license branded products around the milestone. Government-ethics observers questioned whether the sitting president is positioning his private company to profit from an official national event.
2025 Events (1)
Elon Musk gave two Wisconsin voters $1 million checks two days before the 2025 state Supreme Court election
Two days before Wisconsin's April 1, 2025 state Supreme Court election, Elon Musk personally handed $1 million checks to two voters, Nicholas Jacobs and Ekaterina Diestler, at a Green Bay rally, after his political action committee America PAC designated them "spokesmen" for a petition opposing "activist judges." Musk and groups he funded spent more than $20 million backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel, who lost to Susan Crawford in the country's most expensive judicial election; Wisconsin's Attorney General had sued unsuccessfully to block the payments beforehand.
2024 Events (2)
Elon Musk's America PAC paid Pennsylvania swing-state voters $47 apiece to sign and refer a political petition ahead of the 2024 election
Ahead of the November 2024 election, Elon Musk's America PAC began offering registered swing-state voters $47 — later raised to $100 — to sign, and to refer others to sign, a petition backing "free speech and the right to bear arms," with Musk promoting the payments as "easy money" on X. The petition targeted voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. Two federal class-action lawsuits later filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania allege canvassers and voters were never paid as promised.
St. Johns County officials and operatives mailed counterfeit GOP voter guide to deceive Republican primary voters
On or about August 9, 2024, five people -- St. Johns County Commissioner Sarah Arnold, County Commissioner Christian Whitehurst, St. Augustine Beach Commissioner and then-Mayor Dylan Rumrell, political consultant Briana Jordan, and Jamie Lynn Johnson -- allegedly produced and mailed tens of thousands of counterfeit voter guides to St. Johns County Republican primary voters ahead of the August 20, 2024 primary. The guide copied the St. Johns County GOP's logo and branding and falsely presented itself as the party's official endorsement slate, but promoted a different set of candidates, including Whitehurst and Rumrell themselves, and omitted the funding-source disclaimer required under Florida law. In July 2026, Florida prosecutors filed conspiracy and unauthorized-voter-guide charges against all five, with an added evidence-tampering felony charge against Jordan.