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| January 2025 | Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by United States President Joe Biden. |
| 2024 | Cohen Foundation made a $116 million gift to LaGuardia Community College, the largest donation to any US community college. |
| June 2024 | Terren Peizer was convicted of all three charges related to insider trading and faces up to 65 years in prison. |
| 2023 | Terren Peizer was charged with insider trading by the SEC for selling $20 million of Ontrak Inc. stock while possessing material nonpublic negative information. |
| December 2023 | George Soros was swatted during a period of harassment targeting political figures. |
| December 2023 | Israel's UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan accused Soros of supporting pro-Palestinian organizations, which Soros's son Alexander dismissed as 'distorted and dishonest right-wing attacks'. |
| February 2023 | George Soros publicly criticized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of Islamophobia, cronyism, and authoritarianism. He specifically noted that Modi's rise was partly fueled by inciting violence against Muslims. |
| 2022 | Soros becomes the largest donor in the United States, contributing $128.5 million to support the Democratic Party in the election cycle. |
| September 2022 | Soros made an additional $25 million donation to Bard College. |
| May 2022 | Soros commented on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, suggesting it might be the start of a 'third world war' and emphasizing the urgent need to defeat Putin while highlighting the broader global challenges being overshadowed by the conflict. |
| September 2021 | In the approximately nine-month period up to September, Senate and House members disclosed 4,000 trades worth at least $315 million in stocks and bonds. |
| August 2021 | Soros donated $25 million to the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. |
| April 2021 | Soros pledged $500 million to the endowment of Bard College, one of the largest donations to higher education in the United States. |
| 2020 | Soros becomes the largest donor supporting George Gascón's campaign for Los Angeles County District Attorney, contributing $2.25 million to supporting superPACs. |
| 2020 | Soros donates at least $500,000 to Joe Biden's presidential campaign, becoming one of the campaign's largest donors. |
| July 2020 | Soros's Foundations announced plans to give $220 million in grants for racial justice groups, criminal justice reform, and civic engagement. |
| July 2020 | Soros donated $100 million to Bard College to strengthen and expand its Center for Civic Engagement initiatives and leadership role in the Open Society University Network. |
| January 2020 | Soros announced a $1 billion endowment donation at the World Economic Forum, establishing the Open Society University Network in partnership with Bard College and the Central European University. |
| 2019 | In United States v. Blaszczak, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the 'personal-benefit' test from Dirks does not apply to Title 18 fraud statutes. |
| 2019 | Cohen Foundation contributed $50 million towards a total of over $400 million raised for the New York Museum of Modern Art. |
| August 2019 | Cesar Sayoc Jr. was sentenced to 20 years in prison for mailing 16 pipe bombs to 13 victims, including George Soros, though none of the devices actually exploded. |
| July 2019 | Soros donates $5.1 million to Democracy PAC for the 2020 election cycle. |
| April 2019 | Awarded the Ridenhour Prize for Courage, which he used as an opportunity to critique Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and support Hungarian Spectrum publication. |
| January 2019 | At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Soros labeled Xi Jinping as the 'most dangerous opponent of open societies', criticizing China's technological advancement, authoritarian regime, and Social Credit System while urging the US to prevent Chinese tech companies like Huawei and ZTE from dominating the 5G market. |
| 2018 | David Blaszczak, Theodore Huber, Robert Olan, and Christopher Worrall were convicted of insider trading by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York for leaking and trading on confidential government information. |
| 2018 | In a New York Times interview, Soros's son Alex explained his father's philanthropic motivations, highlighting his commitment to protecting minority rights as a Jewish identity-driven mission. |
| 2018 | Soros highlighted major challenges facing Europe, including immigration, austerity, and potential EU disintegration. He argued that Europe was facing an existential crisis due to rising populism, the refugee crisis, and growing tensions with the United States. |
| 2018 | The New York Times reported that conspiracy theories about Soros had gone mainstream within the Republican Party. |
| 2018 | Named Financial Times Person of the Year, described as 'a standard bearer for liberal democracy'. |
| October 2018 | Soros donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation via the Wikimedia Endowment program. |
| October 26 2018 | Cesar Sayoc Jr. was arrested in Aventura, Florida, for suspicion of mailing the pipe bombs targeting Soros and other Democrats and liberals. |
| October 22 2018 | A pipe bomb was placed in George Soros's mailbox at his home in Katonah, New York, as part of the broader United States mail bombing attempts. The caretaker discovered and removed the package, and the FBI subsequently photographed and exploded the device. |
| May 16 2018 | Announced the relocation of Open Society Foundations' office from Budapest to Berlin, citing an 'increasingly repressive' environment in Hungary. |
| 2017 | Billy Walters was convicted of making $40 million on private information about Dean Foods and sentenced to five years in prison. Phil Mickelson was also implicated, agreeing to forfeit approximately $1 million in trading profits. |
| 2017 | MoMA announced the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions, the museum's largest contiguous gallery. |
| 2017 | Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz filed a $10-million lawsuit against Soros, alleging interference in Guinea's mining contracts due to alleged animus toward Israel. |
| 2017 | Soros funds a $1.5 million ad campaign that helps Larry Krasner get elected as District Attorney of Philadelphia. |
| October 17 2017 | Soros transferred $18 billion to the Open Society Foundations. |
| July 2017 | A Hungarian billboard campaign backed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán vilified Soros, which was considered antisemitic by Jewish groups and cost approximately 21 million US dollars. |
| July 2017 | Elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy (HonFBA). |
| January 2017 | Faced the launch of 'Stop Operation Soros' (SOS) initiative in Macedonia, which sought to investigate and 'de-Soros-ize' the country. |
| 2016 | Sean Stewart, a former managing director at Perella Weinberg Partners LP, was convicted of tipping his father about pending health-care deals. |
| 2016 | In Salman v. United States, the Supreme Court held that giving insider information as a 'gift' to a family member is presumptively an act for the personal benefit of the tipper. |
| August 2016 | Soros contributes $2.5 million to Priorities USA Action for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. |
| April 2016 | Announced the creation of Cohen Veterans Network with a $275 million commitment to establish 20-25 mental health centers for veterans and their families across the United States by 2020. |
| January 2016 | 53 books from Soros's 'Renewal of Humanitarian Education' program were withdrawn at the Vorkuta Mining and Economic College, with 427 additional books seized for shredding, following a Russian intergovernmental letter criticizing Soros's charitable work. |
| January 2016 | During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Soros stated that a 'hard landing' for China's economy was 'practically unavoidable', which prompted a strong rebuttal from Chinese state media. |
| December 2015 | Soros donates an additional $6 million to Priorities USA Action supporting Hillary Clinton. |
| November 2015 | Russia banned the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the Open Society Institute (OSI), Soros's pro-democracy charities, claiming they posed a threat to the country's constitutional system and state security. |
| October 2015 | Soros publicly criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's approach to the European migrant crisis, highlighting fundamental differences in handling refugee protection and national borders. |
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