financial crimes 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/15/2022
Crypto Collapse Shows No Lessons Learned From Enron Episode
by Gavin Benke
The mythos embraced by both Jeff Skilling and Sam Bankman-Fried – that opaque and incomprehensible business practices signalled entrepreneurial genius – has only become more entrenched in the social media era.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3/13/2022
How London Became the Oligarchical Cesspool of "Londongrad"
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
From football to real estate to politics, British institutions have been willing to welcome Russian cash for decades without regard for its potential moral taint.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/26/2022
Seize the Oligarchs' Wealth
by Faith Hillis
Seizing assets and cracking down on money laundering is the best chance to turn Russia's oligarchical ruling class away from aggression in Ukraine.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/5/2021
Pandora Papers: Hunt for Looted Artifacts Leads to Offshore Trusts
Alleged antiquities looter Douglas Latchford died before trial on charges of illicit trafficking of Khmer artifacts. Efforts to repatriate them have been stymied by a system of offshore trusts used by the global rich to shield assets from taxation and hide criminal activity.
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SOURCE: Vanity Fair
11/2/2020
Report: Trump is Terrified about Going to Prison after Losing the Election
"The president is said to be not only worried about “existing investigations” but new federal probes into matters we don’t even know about yet."
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SOURCE: Reuters
11/3/2020
Tired of Trump, Deutsche Bank Games Ways to Sever Ties with the President - Sources
It has been reported that the German banking giant wishes to escape from loans owed by Donald Trump.
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