For the past six months, the team at Project Brazen have been working on a kaleidoscopic exploration of last year's events in Afghanistan. The footage of desperate Afghans clinging to the sides of cargo airplanes seems eons ago now, but the stories of escape and the Taliban'
“Should we be resigning from all Russian yachts?”
This question was posed by an anonymous participant in an Instagram Q&A hosted in March by Nautilus International, a union for mariners, as the United Kingdom, European Union, and United States began sanctioning Russian oligarchs and setting out to freeze
Looming over some of the great scandals of recent years is a man who loves big yachts.
Surprised? No, I didn't think so.
The man I'm referring to is Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, a princeling once seen as on an upward trajectory as the
David Barboza won a Pulitzer in 2013 while at the New York Times for his coverage of the shadowy wealth around former Premier Wen Jiabao. We've spoken to David before in Whale Hunting about President Xi Jinping's wealth.
David also makes an appearance in Red Roulette,
SICPA is a Lausanne-based family business that makes special ink for banknotes. Often probed but never convicted, SICPA keeps finding ways to dominate the color-shifting ink market.
If you watched the pilot from our new docuseries HIDDEN WORLDS, you'll remember "Oscar Zero," the former government surveillance specialist who ran the operation to follow me across London. I first met her years ago when we went on a walking tour of London and she
We have a special treat for subscribers today: early access to Hidden Worlds, a documentary series we're developing.
Here's the back story:
When I was at the Wall Street Journal reporting on international financial crime and business intrigue, I ran afoul of a few deep-pocketed bad
It's rare but every now and then a financial villain pops up that's stranger than fiction. They're almost too bad to be true.
In other words, they're everything you hope for in cracking open a new book about a fraud or a
This week, our CRAFT is with Mike M, a 25-year military veteran and U. S. Navy SEAL who was deployed ten times in Iraq and Afghanistan over two decades (possibly more than any other veteran). Mike has spent a lifetime learning how to build teams that can survive the harshest
by Alex Finley
So many yachts, so much drama. As we head into the fourth month of Russia’s war in Ukraine, we’ve seen escape plans thwarted, some allies becoming safe havens for the enemy, and several yachts still missing.
Here’s a roundup of where things currently float.
Our book, Billion Dollar Whale, starts with an epigraph from Bob Dylan's "Sweetheart Like You" (suggested by our friend, Paul Beckett).
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king
We try not to be jaded here at
