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• Saga VenturesVenture capital firm co-founded by Max Altman; it raised a $125 million fund in 2024.
• Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of MichiganTribe that paid Scanlon's company about $10 million, one of six tribes in the Senate committee's report.
• Samruk-Kazyna 2008 –Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund, founded in 2008 by presidential decree; the government is its sole shareholder.
• Scale AI 2016 –San Francisco AI company that provides data, model evaluations and AI applications to AI labs, enterprises and governments. Founded in 2016 (Y Combinator Summer 2016 batch).
• Scientific Research Institute for Radiation Medicine and EcologyInstitute in Semipalatinsk that replaced the Soviet Dispensary No. 4 in 1991 and studies the effects of the tests.
• Seattle Computer ProductsSeattle-area hardware maker that wrote 86-DOS and sold it to Microsoft.
• SEC Office of Inspector GeneralOffice inside the SEC that audits and investigates the agency’s own work.
• Secret Intelligence ServiceBritish foreign intelligence service, also called MI6.
• Secretariat of StateOffice of the Holy See; in the Becciu trial, the body whose funds were at issue.
• Security Council of Kazakhstan 21 Aug 1991 –Constitutional body that coordinates Kazakhstan's national security policy; formed by presidential decree on 21 August 1991.
• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsU.S. Senate committee that oversees the SEC.
• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsU.S. Senate committee that voted on the HONEST Act in July 2025.
• Senate Ethics CommitteeCommittee of the U.S. Senate that investigates complaints against senators.
• Senate Finance CommitteeStanding committee of the U.S. Senate.
• Senate Foreign Relations CommitteeCommittee of the U.S. Senate on foreign policy.
• Senate of Kazakhstan 30 Jan 1996 –Upper house of Kazakhstan's Parliament under the 1995 Constitution.
• Senate Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsInvestigating subcommittee of the U.S. Senate; its chairman and ranking minority member in 2010 and 2011 were Carl Levin and Tom Coburn.
• Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceCommittee of the U.S. Senate that oversees the intelligence agencies.
• Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific ResearchU.S. Senate subcommittee that held the hearing on infant formula of 23 May 1978.
• Senate Watergate Committee 1973–1974U.S. Senate select committee that investigated Watergate in 1973 and 1974.
• Senvest CapitalInvestment company based in Montréal whose shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SEC. With its subsidiaries it holds equity and real estate investments, mostly in the United States.
• SephoraBeauty retailer in the Selective Retailing business group of LVMH.
• Sequoia Capital 1972 –Silicon Valley venture capital firm, formed in 1972.
• Settling States of the Master Settlement Agreement 23 Nov 1998The forty-six states, with the District of Columbia and five territories, that signed the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
• ShiseidoJapanese beauty company.
• SIGARU.S. inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, created by Congress in 2008.
• Signet JewelersJewelry retailer; operates Kay, Zales and Jared.
• Sinclair Broadcast GroupOwner of local television stations across the U.S.
• SK Energy AmericasEnergy trading firm; with its parent SK Trading International, the second firm the California Attorney General sued over spot gasoline prices.
• SK-IIAnti-aging face care brand of Procter & Gamble.
• Skydance MediaFilm and television producer led by David Ellison; the name of the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery company after 6 October 2026.
• Social Democratic Party of SwitzerlandSwiss socialist party; its secretary Fritz Platten and its majority leader Robert Grimm both helped arrange the exiles’ passage in 1917.
• South Fork Fishing and Hunting ClubPrivate club of Pittsburgh industrialists that owned the South Fork dam in 1889.
• South Improvement Company 1871–1872Company of 1871 and 1872 that made a secret deal with the railroads on oil freight.
• Soviet government 30 Dec 1922 – 26 Dec 1991The government of the Soviet Union (1922–1991).
• SpaceX 2002 –American rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk in 2002.
• Spanish InquisitionCourt of the Spanish crown, begun in 1478, to try converts accused of keeping their old faith in secret.
• Special commission on the Congo Free State and Belgium's colonial past 17 Jul 2020 – Dec 2022Commission of Belgium's Chamber of Representatives, set up on 17 July 2020 to examine the Congo Free State and Belgian colonial rule in the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
• Special OrganizationOttoman irregular force that the 1919 court-martial charged with carrying out attacks on Armenians; the Holocaust Memorial Museum says the party enforced its instructions through it.
• Standard & Poor’sU.S. credit rating agency; in 2004 to 2007 a division of McGraw-Hill, later McGraw Hill Financial.
• Standard Oil 1870–1911U.S. oil company founded in 1870, run as a trust from 1882, and ordered dissolved in 1911.
• Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)The New Jersey company that led the old Standard Oil trust and was the lead defendant in the 1911 break-up case; renamed Exxon in 1972.
• Standard Oil Company of CaliforniaOne of the Standard Oil companies named in the 1911 decree; known as Socal, and Chevron from 1984.
• Standard Oil Company of IndianaStandard Oil company that ran the refinery at Whiting.
• Standard Oil Company of New YorkOne of the Standard Oil companies named in the 1911 decree; later Socony-Vacuum and then Mobil.
• Standard Oil Company of OhioOne of the Standard Oil companies named in the 1911 decree; known as Sohio.
• Standing Rock Sioux TribeTribe whose reservation lies in North and South Dakota; sued over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
• Stanford Office of Technology LicensingThe Stanford office that licenses inventions from the university’s research.
• Stanford Research InstituteResearch institute in Menlo Park, California, the second node of the ARPANET.
• Stanford UniversityPrivate research university in Stanford, California.
• State Defense Committee 1941–1945Emergency body that ran the Soviet war effort from 1941; Stalin chaired it.
• State Duma of RussiaLower house of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
• State Street Bank and Trust CompanyCustody bank in Boston and the principal banking subsidiary of State Street Corporation; it traces its beginnings to 1792.
• State Street Corporation 1969 –American financial holding company in Boston, organized in 1969; the parent of State Street Bank and Trust and of the asset manager State Street Investment Management.
• State Street Investment ManagementThe asset manager of State Street Corporation, previously named State Street Global Advisors.
• Students for Fair AdmissionsMembership group that sued Harvard over its admissions.
• Sugar Research Foundation 1943 –Sugar industry research body founded in 1943; later the Sugar Association.
• Sullivan & CromwellNew York law firm.
• Sunglass HutSunglass retail chain; bought by Luxottica in 2001.
• SupremeNew York streetwear brand, bought by EssilorLuxottica from VF Corporation in 2024.
• Supreme Court of IndiaHighest court of India.
• Supreme Court of New JerseyHighest court of New Jersey.
• Supreme Court of OhioThe highest court of the U.S. state of Ohio.
• Supreme Soviet of the USSRThe highest legislative body of the Soviet Union; its Presidium issued decrees between sessions.
• Susan Thompson Buffett FoundationFoundation set up in 1964 by Warren and Susan Buffett; renamed for her after her death in 2004.
• Swedish governmentThe government of Sweden in 1917, which allowed the Russian exiles to cross its territory.