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A businessman charged with large-scale bank fraud appears to be a central figure in the international Wirecard investigation and was reported to Cypriot authorities in 2017 for alleged money laundering. Companies controlled by Hamid “Ray” Akhavan, were also repeatedly flagged in Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in the U.S. and elsewhere […]

John Weaver, a former top aide to Senator John McCain, Governor John Kasich, and a co-founder of the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project, sent sexually suggestive messages to at least 30 young men and in some cases, sent unsolicited pictures of his penis, flew political ambitious men to his location […]

Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater USA, and brother of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos, has come under fire recently for potentially lying to Congress. On April 30, 2019, Representative Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a criminal referral letter to the Department of Justice […]

U.S. Sen Mark Warner, the Ranking Member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, has deep connections to a founder of the spyware company NSO Group according to corporate and government documents, open-source information, and sources who spoke to Forensic News, raising questions of a potential conflict of interest. As the […]

President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani quietly met with a Kremlin-insider days after being informed that the Russian authorities had obtained damaging information on Hunter Biden, Forensic News can reveal. Lev Parnas, Giuliani’s former confidant and partner in the search for material on the Bidens, confirmed to Forensic News […]

Senator Ron Johnson recently accepted a packet of information from disgraced former Ukrainian prosecutor Kostiantyn Kulyk, in what appears to be the most recent example of a Russian-backed disinformation campaign targeting Johnson’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In the files sent to Johnson and exclusively obtained by Forensic News, […]

Corporate documents exclusively obtained by Forensic News show that the Trump Organization’s formal legal advisor who was tapped as Trump’s Representative for International Negotiations in the Middle East managed the Delaware LLC with a Chinese bank account recently revealed by the New York Times. The advisor, Jason Greenblatt, was just one […]

A small financial institution in Russia whose owner has been called a “front” for Russian intelligence services quietly moved $330 million dollars into an account at Deutsche Bank’s New York branch by 2013, according to documents exclusively obtained by Forensic News. By the fall of 2013, Yugra Bank (or “Jugra”; […]