August 1, 2022 12:43 pm
Scott Stedman and Jackie Singh
The Russian oligarch who once purchased one of Donald Trump’s properties for $95 million hired a team of private agents to spy on a romantic partner in New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles in late 2015, according to a trove of thousands of pages of documents acquired by Forensic […]
June 29, 2022 12:45 pm
Scott Stedman and Eric Levai
A multimillionaire Los Angeles-based podiatrist co-owns the Cypriot company behind a prominent pro-Kremlin propaganda website, Forensic News can exclusively report. The podiatrist, Dr. Vladimir Zeetser, owns a minority share of DRN Media, the company behind the Duran, a website promoting false conspiracy theories echoing Russian state messaging. He was added […]
May 5, 2022 1:39 pm
Scott Stedman
A top financier for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the legal charade to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election spent three days in 2019 on a now-seized superyacht owned by an influential Russian oligarch, Forensic News can reveal. Photographs posted on Instagram from an account belonging to […]
March 9, 2022 1:56 pm
Scott Stedman
The first digital trace of Leo Radvinsky dates back to 1997 when Radvinsky, then just 15-years-old, acted as a webmaster for an online science fiction strategy game called X-COM: Apocalypse, where players fend off attacking aliens invading from space. During the ensuing 23 years, Radvinsky built an online operation of […]
March 7, 2022 12:17 pm
Adrienne Cobb
Bills banning stock trading by lawmakers are gaining traction in the U.S. House and Senate amid mounting public attention on the market moves made by leadership and the rank-and-file alike. Some of the proposed bills impose restrictions on lawmakers’ immediate families. The “Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act,” introduced by Sens. […]
January 3, 2022 12:42 pm
Adrienne Cobb
If 2021 is known for anything, it should be remembered as the year with the most restrictive state legislation to date. Republican lawmakers across the country have proposed a record number of bills that limit voting rights, target LGBTQ+ people, curtail gun control, and obstruct Covid-19 prevention measures. They aren’t […]
November 12, 2021 3:53 pm
Daniel Mackisack
The statement: Evergrande dodges default Over the last few days, the question of whether Evergrande defaulted has been widely reported. However, there appear to be two conflicting narratives. One says they did. The other more dominant narrative says they narrowly avoided it with a last-minute payment. Which was it? Watch […]
November 11, 2021 2:25 pm
Paige Edwards
The Statement: NBC News headline on hand sanitizer in the age of COVID-19: “Without ability to force recalls, FDA can only warn consumers about benzene in hand sanitizers.” Our Rating: Mostly accurate. Watch the above video for our research process and decision on this rating using the Stone software.