The U.S. Treasury Department’s Friday January 30 sanctions targeting Iranian regime officials responsible for brutal protest crackdowns revealed extraordinary details about systematic corruption where billions in oil revenues get embezzled through Revolutionary Guard networks while security forces massacre thousands of citizens demanding accountability. Among those sanctioned was Babak Morteza Zanjani, a criminal Iranian investor who previously embezzled […]
Category: Corruption
Follow the Money: Trump guts DOJ anti-corruption units to protect allies while investigating opponents as $2 billion Philippine scandal exposes global kleptocracy networks
The Trump administration’s systematic dismantling of Department of Justice anti-corruption infrastructure reached its logical conclusion in mid-January 2026 when DOJ reduced the Public Integrity Section from over thirty prosecutors to just two members while simultaneously launching investigations into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for criticizing federal immigration enforcement. The stark juxtaposition […]
Follow the Money: Ukraine’s $100 million energy corruption scandal threatens to cut off Western aid as Zelenskyy’s inner circle faces raids while country burns through cash
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promoted his top spy chief to serve as his new chief of staff on Friday, filling a vacancy left by an alleged $100 million corruption scandal that has shaken his government at the worst possible moment. General Kyrylo Budanov, who led Ukraine’s military intelligence agency since 2020 and became a recognizable […]
Follow the Money: Iran’s missing $8 billion exposes regime’s final plunder as uprising threatens theocracy while oil revenues vanish into elite pockets
The nationwide uprising that erupted across Iran on December 28, 2025, entered its fifth consecutive day on January 2, 2026, fueled not just by political grievances but by a catastrophic economic collapse rooted in systematic corruption that has seen billions in oil revenues disappear while ordinary Iranians suffer under crushing inflation and currency freefall. Mohammad […]
Follow the Money: How $9.2 billion in Philippine flood control funds disappeared into pockets of political elites while communities drowned
The devastating floods that swept through Cebu province in November 2025 killed dozens of Filipinos and destroyed thousands of homes, but the real tragedy began years earlier when government officials systematically looted the very funds meant to protect citizens from such disasters. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s revelation in July that a massive $9.2 billion flood […]
Trump vows “serious retaliation” after ISIS attack kills two U.S. soldiers and civilian interpreter during joint patrol with Syrian forces
President Donald Trump pledged, Saturday, to pursue “serious retaliation” against ISIS after an ambush in central Syria killed two American soldiers and a civilian interpreter during what was described as a joint patrol with the new Syrian transitional government’s forces. An investigation is under way to determine whether the attacker was linked to ISIL, but […]
Federal grand jury refuses to indict Letitia James for second time as Trump’s retribution campaign suffers stunning defeat
A federal grand jury in Washington refused to return an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James despite intense pressure from Trump administration prosecutors who have spent months attempting to bring criminal charges against the Democrat who successfully prosecuted Trump for business fraud. The grand jury’s rejection represents the second time citizen jurors have […]
Democrats release Epstein photos showing Trump alongside convicted pedophile at multiple events, White House dismisses images as “nothing new”
Congressional Democrats released hundreds of previously unpublished photographs Thursday, showing President Donald Trump posing with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at social events throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, reigniting questions about the depth of their relationship despite Trump’s repeated claims he barely knew the financier. The images, obtained from Epstein’s personal email account and […]
Democrats cry “war crimes” after classified boat strike briefing while Cotton says survivors were “trying to stay in the fight”
Congressional lawmakers emerged from a classified Pentagon briefing Thursday, bitterly divided along partisan lines about whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s follow-up strike targeting drug boat survivors constituted a war crime or legitimate military action against narco-terrorists attempting to salvage their cargo. GOP Sen. Tom Cotton called the strikes “entirely lawful and needful,” and described seeing […]
Trump calls for execution of Democratic lawmakers who urged troops to disobey illegal orders as Cheney funeral unites Washington establishment
President Donald Trump called Thursday, November 20, 2025, for the execution of six Democratic lawmakers who released a statement urging military personnel to refuse illegal orders, escalating his authoritarian rhetoric to unprecedented levels that even some Republicans characterized as dangerous incitement to political violence. Trump called for the arrest of lawmakers who urged troops to […]