January 20, 2022 2:22 pm
Scott Stedman
A Russian cybersecurity company placed on a U.S. Commerce Department export ban list for having “enabled the activities of malicious Russian cyber actors” has maintained an active U.S. presence that has attracted the scrutiny of federal investigators, a Forensic News investigation can reveal. Open Joint Stock Company Information Technology and […]
December 20, 2021 2:36 pm
Scott Stedman
A former senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official in the U.S. filed as a Foreign Agent for a top aide to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who has been described by the U.S. Senate as a key figure in the Kremlin’s malign influence operations. The paperwork filed under the Foreign Agent Registration […]
November 19, 2021 12:33 pm
Scott Stedman
The FBI is conducting a wide-ranging criminal investigation into a Russian diaspora group, which announced on November 18th that it was shutting down operations because of federal scrutiny. The Daily Beast first reported FBI interest in The Russian Community Council of the USA (or KSORS — their Russian acronym) in […]
October 27, 2021 3:31 pm
Scott Stedman and Eric Levai
A billion-dollar recruiting firm incorporated in Delaware wired payments to a relative and business partner of a senior Russian government official in 2013 and 2014, Forensic News can reveal after a review of leaked banking documents. Those documents, interviews with sources who worked for the company, and other business and […]
September 21, 2021 11:44 am
Scott Stedman
A Russian businessman who once led the financial services of a military unit at the Leningrad Naval base funneled thousands of dollars to a Trump Super PAC and other Republican entities in 2016, Forensic News can reveal. On Monday, the Department of Justice indicted two veteran GOP operatives, Doug […]
July 16, 2021 12:05 pm
Scott Stedman, Adrienne Cobb and Matt Bernardini
A media company connected to former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, set up to produce a documentary in 2020 about alleged corruption by Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine conducted much more work than publicly known, including a previously unreported engagement with disgraced ex-Ukrainian prosecutor, Kostiantyn Kulyk. […]
July 6, 2021 12:17 pm
Scott Stedman
Prosecutors involved in the wide-ranging investigation into Central Florida political figures including Congressman Matt Gaetz have recently scrutinized a key ally of disgraced former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, who has since pled guilty to multiple charges including sex trafficking of a child, wire fraud, stalking, and conspiracy. The […]
April 30, 2021 1:18 pm
Scott Stedman and Matt Bernardini
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani has expanded to include Russia’s spy activities in the 2020 U.S. election, multiple sources tell Forensic News. The criminal investigation, which led to a dramatic raid of Giuliani’s home and office this week, has for months […]