Reporting on the money and influence around Donald Trump, including Jho Low's pardon bid, Venezuela's oil politics and the business dealings of Jared Kushner and other administration families.
Harry Sargeant III built a fortune where sanctions, political access and private opportunity overlapped. Then Washington revoked the licence behind his Venezuelan asphalt monopoly and it all came tumbling down.
For more than a decade, Jho Low has been buying access to power. Yesterday, news reports confirmed Trump is actively discussing his pardon. Here is the full history.
A Greek shipping network that spent years evading U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil is now lobbying the Trump administration for permission to keep doing business — while its CEO dines at the Kennedy Center.
The real number is $7.65 billion. Now the fugitive—hiding in Shanghai on a forged passport—is trying to buy a Trump pardon. We've uncovered the legal and lobbying infrastructure behind the play.
As U.S. warships circle Venezuelan waters and a $50 million bounty hangs over Nicolás Maduro’s head, the world is watching to see if military pressure can crack one of Latin America’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes.
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.
The heir to the Mellon fortune has donated more money to U.S. political campaigns than any other individual this year. But there’s alarmingly little information about what one of America’s most politically influential men is really like.
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
