It was about time we confronted one of the big candidates in our search for the world's richest person head-on. There's no better place to start than Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, a former intelligence operative who went on to become one of the most powerful and long-running
Cyrus Janssen is an interesting character. He graduated from Florida State in 2006, according to his LinkedIn, which also shows he’s a PGA-certified professional golfer.
About 15 years ago he landed in Shanghai working at a golf club. He got involved with Chinese television, helping produce a “golf and
Here's some ingredients: chess lover, likes to sit quietly for hours at a time in a dark flotation chamber, wears sunglasses indoors, runs a Middle East spy agency, cycling fanatic, eats one meal a day, believes he can live to age 150, controls billions of dollars and is
As results were tallied up on the night of the the 2020 presidential elections, one high roller was floating a whopping $2.5 billion worth of bets that Donald Trump would lose, according to our sources. He was betting against two counterparties.
Even with Trump refusing to concede and threatening
Forbes Magazine in September listed Changpeng Zhao, a.k.a. CZ, the Chinese-born founder and CEO of crypto-trading exchange Binance, as the 22nd richest person in Singapore, a tiny island nation of 5.5 million people. The magazine put the wealth of CZ, as he’s known, at $1.9
Imagine a distant island part of a crescent-shaped archipelago. Atop a hill
there sits an enormous pink palace with dozens of rooms, gardens and a heliport.
Everyday the household staff wake up to maintain the property, cleaning rooms
and dusting off the Louis XIV furniture. The hedges are trimmed. Seasons
The lack of justice in the “Fat Leonard” bribery case, the subject of our new nine-part podcast, is only just starting to be understood. Most admirals involved with Leonard Glenn Francis, a contractor who bribed his way to a military fortune, supplying women and gifts in return for sweetheart deals,
We've heard extensively about the ways in which governments and intelligence agencies around the world use powerful technology to hack into the phones of everyone from suspected terrorists to activists, human rights campaigners and journalists. But just as interesting is a phenomenon in the private sector that has
Since the would-be Trump dynasty lost a bid for a second-term in the White
House, most attention on son-in-law Jared Kushner has been about him writing a
book to "provide historical context and help readers understand what it was
like
to work in the Trump White House."
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