The story of Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of FTX, is unfolding every day like a TV drama. His arrest in the Bahamas on charges of wire fraud and money laundering mean he could face up to 115 years in prison.
Now SBF, who was denied bail, is sitting in Fox
We're hearing that Venezuela will soon extradite Leonard Francis, aka Fat Leonard, the fugitive Navy contractor, back to the U.S. to face sentencing for his role in a crazy sex-for-contracts bribery scandal.
Ahead of that development, today we're publishing a book, Fat Leonard: The Man
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By Alex Finley
All those reports about alleged slavery and deaths among men building stadiums to prepare for the Men’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar got you down? Angry and unnerved by Qatari officials moving against LGBTQ individuals just weeks before the launch of the tournament? Upset that the
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
