In April, we put Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF, on our Brazen Rich List at $30 billion.
Today, we're reducing SBF to zero.
His crypto exchange FTX is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy as it attempts to fill an $8 billion hole.
We've got some inside
A note to our subscribers: Thank you so much for sticking with Whale Hunting over the last year. We've been publishing for just over one year and this is our 67th post. We are more excited about Whale Hunting than ever and are planning on expanding our coverage
It's a busy period for Project Brazen and we're super-excited to share with you what we've been working on, including my new book THE REBEL AND THE KINGDOM. It's the product of many years of work, but especially the last two. For
As a teenager, Mohammed bin Salman was obsessed by powerful men like Alexander the Great. No matter that he was so far down the line of succession that his elder half-brothers and cousins would guffaw at the prospect of him becoming king (or becoming anything), while sending him to the
We've long known about some of Jho Low's Chinese business activities because a few of them were simply registered in his name. Ever since the F.B.I. and other global investigators began digging into the 1MDB scandal in 2015, Jho spent increasing amounts of time
Three days ago, we exclusively revealed that Leonard Francis was in Venezuela, after fleeing U.S. detention on Sept. 4.
We were right.
Venezuelan police arrested him as he boarded a flight for Russia. From home detention in San Diego, he'd escaped over the border into Mexico, and
We've got a big reveal today in Whale Hunting.
Just over two weeks after Leonard Francis – aka "Fat Leonard," a corrupt U.S. military contractor -- went on the run, and the U.S. Marshals Service put a $40,000 bounty on his head, we'
In a movie-like turn of events, Leonard Francis, the corrupt Malaysian contractor who ran a mafia-like network inside the U.S. Navy, has gone on the lam.
He hacked off his GPS ankle bracelet and fled into the night from his multi-million-dollar home in a gated community in San Diego,
On Dec. 22, 2014, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak stood in a Chanel store in Honolulu, a $130,000 watch in his hand, a birthday present for his wife. But Najib’s credit cards weren’t working. He tapped out an urgent message on his Blackberry.
“My platinum cards are
Seven years after we wrote about Najib Razak, Malaysia's former prime minister, receiving $681 million of state funds into his personal bank accounts, he's finally going to jail.
Today, a Federal Court panel headed by Malaysia's chief justice, Maimum Tuan Mat, upheld the High
