Harry Sargeant III built a fortune where sanctions, political access and private opportunity overlapped. Then Washington revoked the licence behind his Venezuelan asphalt monopoly and it all came tumbling down.
For more than a decade, Jho Low has been buying access to power. Yesterday, news reports confirmed Trump is actively discussing his pardon. Here is the full history.
We broke the story of Gaurav Srivastava in 2023. He tried to erase it. Now he faces a federal RICO lawsuit alleging he stole 3 million — and spent it buying his way into the MAGA establishment.
A Greek shipping network that spent years evading U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil is now lobbying the Trump administration for permission to keep doing business — while its CEO dines at the Kennedy Center.
The real number is $7.65 billion. Now the fugitive—hiding in Shanghai on a forged passport—is trying to buy a Trump pardon. We've uncovered the legal and lobbying infrastructure behind the play.
This week: Kinahan’s cocaine empire crumbles, Trump’s pardon economy, Madison Square Garden’s surveillance machine, and Patrick Radden Keefe on London Falling.
This week: a Moscow front tied to Iran and the Houthis, Libya's financial operator, and a sharp guide to oligarch-autocrat alliances. Plus the glass-eel trade, The Copenhagen Test, Raven, and our latest Mauerberger investigation.
Most financial crimes involve stealing a nation's wealth and hiding it abroad. The Mauerberger "Spider Web" is the reverse: it is an inward occupation, using billions in criminal proceeds to buy the licensed brokerages, energy reserves, and media networks that form the state's own internal organs.
