
David Kenner
Contributor at Freelance
Reporter and Middle East Coordinator at The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
Reporter/Middle East coordinator @ICIJorg. Words in @TheAtlantic. Middle East editor @ForeignPolicy once upon a time. Leak to me: [email protected]
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
icij.org | David Kenner
A case that the Justice Department has described as one of the largest tax evasion prosecutions in U.S. history culminated on Wednesday with businessman Douglas Edelman pleading guilty in a Washington courtroom to conspiracy and making false statements to U.S. authorities, along with several other criminal charges.
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2 months ago |
inkyfada.com | David Kenner
Last spring, a Cameroonian-flagged cargo ship, the Barbaros, steamed through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait. The Barbaros had begun its journey in Russia and was en route to a port in eastern Libya controlled by a warlord whose forces have been accused of crimes against humanity by a U.N. fact-finding mission. Click here to access the original story on the ICIJ website.
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2 months ago |
icij.org | David Kenner
Last spring, a Cameroonian-flagged cargo ship, the Barbaros, steamed through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait. The Barbaros had begun its journey in Russia and was en route to a port in eastern Libya controlled by a warlord whose forces have been accused of crimes against humanity by a U.N. fact-finding mission. As the Barbaros crossed the Bosphorus in April, an eagle-eyed observer — Yörük Işık, who runs a consultancy analyzing maritime activity on the strait — got a view of its cargo.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
icij.org | David Kenner |Sam Ellefson
Investigative news organizations across the globe are scrambling to survive and fearing a backlash from authoritarian regimes following the Trump administration’s foreign assistance freeze and other moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. The United States allocated $268 million in 2025 to support independent media and the free flow of information. A USAID fact sheet from 2023 that was on its website before the site went dark on Feb.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
icij.org | David Kenner |Sam Ellefson
Investigative news organizations across the globe are scrambling to survive and fearing a backlash from authoritarian regimes following the Trump administration’s foreign assistance freeze and other moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. The United States allocated $268 million in 2025 to support independent media and the free flow of information. A USAID fact sheet from 2023 that was on its website before the site went dark on Feb.
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Oh my god, this xkcd comic has come to life. https://t.co/BCTpSNSeyk

How a Pentagon contractor went from bar owner to winning $7 billion in Pentagon contracts // My story on Douglas Edelman, whose global empire came crashing down this week when he pleaded guilty in one of the largest tax evasion cases in US history. https://t.co/RJ2hHlJK4w

RT @ICIJorg: Russia is using vessels from its “ghost fleet” — hundreds of aging commercial ships with obscured ownership — to send military…