The records of the ITT Task Force remained hidden for decades, shielding the specific ways the Watergate Special Prosecution Force scrubbed corporate evidence before it reached a courtroom.
Corporate securities violations were laundered through the Justice Department before landing in a secret task force designed to probe the Nixon administration.
The records of corporate payoffs to the Nixon administration were kept in a separate, oversized file to manage a complexity that the public was never meant to map
Kept hidden within a secret accounting system, payments from a banana giant's subsidiary funded far-right death squads for years before an SEC probe broke the silence.
Colombian peasants and union leaders were targeted by death squads while Chiquita's senior counsel used privileged memos to cloak early ties to the AUC paramilitaries.