Trafficked workers in Southeast-Asian compounds run crypto romance scams siphoning $3 B. Now U.S. prosecutor Erin West’s Operation Shamrock is prying open the ‘pig-butchering’ machine—and fighting to free victims. Full story inside.
At Whale Hunting, we illuminate hidden worlds and expose closely-held secrets. Today, we’re pulling back the velvet curtain on one of the world’s most prestigious museums: the Met.
Our latest investigation, based on explosive letters from the Rockefeller family archives, exposes how a looted Cambodian statue—trafficked during
New intel shreds Trump White House victory claim: Iran kept 80 % of its centrifuges & much of its uranium. Leak hunt intensifies—one big Washington scalp could roll.
Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, the enigmatic founder of Binance, appears to be setting the stage for a dramatic return to influence in the cryptocurrency world.
A U.S. federal judge on Thursday gave a two-year sentence to a senior Goldman banker – the first partner to be sentenced to jail in the Wall Street bank’s history.
Tim Leissner, a German national, will go to jail in September for his role in the 1MDB corruption scandal.
Lawyers for Swizz Beatz, the rapper and DJ best known for being married to Alicia Keys, responded this week to a lawsuit accusing him of receiving over $7 million in funds stolen during the 1MDB saga.
Welcome to Whale Hunting, a weekly newsletter and podcast delving into the hidden worlds of wealth and power from the team at Project Brazen. For more of Project Brazen's work – including our new show, The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy, and Madness, and Fur & Loathing, the bizarre story of
Taylor Swift's juggernaut global tour has hit Asia, causing tensions between Singapore, the only Southeast Asian stop on her itinerary, and neighboring countries like Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
After spending decades covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our old friend Yaroslav Trofimov, in 2022, found himself reporting on a bloody conflict in the nation where he'd grown up: Ukraine.
In this week's Whale Hunting podcast I talk to Yaro, one of the world'
Fat Leonard, a military contractor known for organizing and filming orgies involving senior U.S. Navy admirals, is on his way back to San Diego to face sentencing for corruption over a year after he fled to Venezuela. It's one of the U.S.’s worst ever national
The following excerpt from "Crypto Kingpins," our six-part podcast out today, was published on Monday in Vanity Fair.
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In May 2021, I took a taxi from my home in Singapore to a modernist mansion in a gated community on the resort island of Sentosa.
