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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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DavidKenner
DavidKenner @DavidKenner
24 May 25

Oh my god, this xkcd comic has come to life. https://t.co/BCTpSNSeyk

DavidKenner
DavidKenner @DavidKenner
23 May 25

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

DavidKenner
DavidKenner @DavidKenner
13 Mar 25

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