The “Board of Peace” Already Has a Corruption Problem

The “Board of Peace” Already Has a Corruption Problem

Feb 15, 2026 – Among the nine people Donald Trump named to his Board of Peace to run Gaza – which holds its first meeting in Washington DC February 19 – is billionaire private equity operator Marc Rowan. The board’s stated tasks include establishing financial controls and managing the reconstruction of a Gaza. You might think a savvy financier would bring solid credentials to such a job.

You would be wrong.

Exclusive: the Epstein-Browder connection!

Exclusive: the Epstein-Browder connection!

Feb 3, 2026 -Of course there is an Epstein-Browder connection! It runs through the corrupt Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine and first employer and mentor of tax fraudster William Browder in London in 1991 when he worked for Maxwell’s investment bank focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe. (Browder never mentions Maxwell.)

Are Bellingcat and the OCCRP ‘Independent’ Media?

Are Bellingcat and the OCCRP ‘Independent’ Media?

Aug 12, 2025 – Two major western propaganda operations, self-described international investigative news outfits that distribute stories picked up by major media across the globe, list their addresses at the same Amsterdam letterbox company that provides no space, just answers phones and forwards mail. They are the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, or OCCRP, and Bellingcat. Both organizations are funded by the US, UK and other Western European (and NATO-aligned) countries. They both run “news” stories that promote the political interests (mainly by portraying Russia as an enemy civilization) of their western funders which are then picked up by other western media outlets.

Conman: The Story of William Browder

Conman: The Story of William Browder

July 8, 2025 – In 2012 an explosive story resulted in a U.S. law which blocked visas and froze the assets of dozens of Russians accused by William Browder, a U.S.-born investment fund manager in London, of having organized or abetted the murder of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who he said had accused Russian government officials of complicity in the theft of $230 million from the Russian Treasury.

MSNBC killed reporter Ken Dilanian’s exposé of the Wm Browder-Magnitsky hoax. State Department knew about it.

MSNBC killed reporter Ken Dilanian’s exposé of the Wm Browder-Magnitsky hoax. State Department knew about it.

Ken Dilanian, William Browder and State Dept analyst Robert Otto in photo.

Dec 4, 2024 – Maybe you’ve heard of William Browder and his alleged “lawyer” Sergei Magnitsky, who he says the Russians murdered in 2009 after he exposed a multi-million fraud by officials. Browder has told the tale all over the U.S. and Europe. But MSNBC reporter Ken Dilanian had proof it was a fabrication.

Evidence global bank UBS made “fictitious” trades to US markets

Evidence global bank UBS made “fictitious” trades to US markets

Aug 10, 2024 – This story tells of a conflict between a couple in the Bahamas who claim that UBS scammed them by taking their money and making fake trades into U.S. markets. They base their claim on UBS’ failure to supply required trade confirmations. However, some of the documents they supply do show money going in and out of their account for securities trades. The couple speak volumes about their charge and UBS declines to comment, saying only, “We believe these allegations have no merit.” And they have spent ten years fighting the couple in court to deny them a trial on the merits. There the evidence is strong that UBS can be abusive toward small clients and that the Bahamas court system is corrupt.

Warren in Senate hearing highlights how private equity plays dangerous games with workers’ pensions

Warren in Senate hearing highlights how private equity plays dangerous games with workers’ pensions

Sept 9, 2022 – Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) asked some tough questions at a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday about the danger to millions of Americans having their pensions transferred to private equity firms. She got a “no problem” response from the Treasury Department representative and, not surprising, the same from an insurance commissioner speaking for the association that generally goes along with the interests of the industry.

A US investment advisor worked for Russian but (MSM didn’t report) also for American/UK “oligarchs”

A US investment advisor worked for Russian but (MSM didn’t report) also for American/UK “oligarchs”

April 28, 2022 – Here’s a story the New York Times just missed. U.S. politicians and corporate media are promoting the targeting of “enablers” of Russian oligarchs who stash their money in offshore accounts. A Times article March 11th highlighted Michael Matlin, CEO of Concord Management, as such an “enabler,” who handles money of Roman Abramovich. But it missed serious corruption Matlin was involved in. Maybe because it stopped with “he helps the Russian oligarchs we hate.” Looking further would have revealed how he cheated Russia with the help of William Browder, a hero of the NYTimes, which has never challenged the Browder/Magnitsky hoax.

How the GameStop Hustle Worked

How the GameStop Hustle Worked

The American Prospect, June 22, 2021 – In the aftermath of the GameStop run-up in January, retail investors found telltale signs of a common yet egregious trading fraud by major brokers and hedge funds. What happened around GameStop can be explained only by massive counterfeiting of shares.

Special Solari Report: GameStop & Naked Short Selling with Lucy Komisar

Special Solari Report: GameStop & Naked Short Selling with Lucy Komisar

By Catherine Austin Fitts, Aug 19, 2021 – Lucy Komisar is one of the top financial fraud investigative reporters in the new media. Lucy is known for unraveling the most complex financial frauds – particularly those involving sophisticated cross-border transactions.

When I learned Lucy was doing a deep dive on the GameStop trading war, including the latest on naked short selling oversight and regulation – a problem that has plagued American capital markets for a long time – I had to get her back on the Solari Report. If you have not yet discovered Lucy and her website The Komisar Scoop, you are in for a treat.

European Union sanctions regime will target political adversaries

European Union sanctions regime will target political adversaries

Dec 9, 2020- EU foreign ministers in Brussels December 7 adopted a broad sanctions regime. It’s aimed, they say, at the world’s human rights abusers. It’s a Star Chamber, which is what such tribunals were called in the bad old days before liberal interventionist “human rights.”

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: the Man, the Myth, the Movie

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: the Man, the Myth, the Movie

The Nation, Jan 22, 2020 – Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, MBK in his homeland, is the most famous Russian “oligarch,” the name given by their compatriots to a handful of men who, when communism fell, turned it into gangster capitalism. With an estimated $16 billion fortune, he became the richest man in Russia. When the rules changed, he didn‘t adapt and spent a decade in prison.

DOJ Buried Allegations That Cheney‘s Halliburton Subsidiary Paid Bribes for Venezuela Contracts

DOJ Buried Allegations That Cheney‘s Halliburton Subsidiary Paid Bribes for Venezuela Contracts

Consortium News, Nov 21, 2019 – Part of the ongoing U.S. demonization of the Nicolas Maduro government of Venezuela is to accuse it of corruption. In 2017, for example, U.S. prosecutors charged five former Venezuelan officials under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) with soliciting bribes in exchange for helping vendors win favorable treatment from state oil company PdVSA from 2011 to 2015. (Hugo Chávez was president 2006 to 2013, and Maduro became president in 2013.)

However, there‘s another example of PdVSA bribery that the U.S. never felt compelled to pursue. It is the alleged and never investigated Halliburton bribery of Venezuelan oil company officials in the late 1990s when Halliburton was run by Dick Cheney, who would leave it to become vice-president under George W. Bush.

Ponzi schemer Stanford’s lawyer-collaborator Greenberg Traurig settles for under 1% of scam, no jail

Ponzi schemer Stanford’s lawyer-collaborator Greenberg Traurig settles for under 1% of scam, no jail

Nov 6, 2019 – What happens when a major U.S. law firm helps a client steal billions from his victims in the largest Ponzi scheme after Bernie Madoff? When it‘s a well-connected U.S. law firm, nobody goes to jail and it has to settle only for less than 1 percent of the take. And of course, this will be all over the front pages, right? Well, no. You probably don‘t know about it.

The Man Behind the Magnitsky Act: Did Bill Browder’s Tax Troubles in Russia Color Push for Sanctions?

The Man Behind the Magnitsky Act: Did Bill Browder’s Tax Troubles in Russia Color Push for Sanctions?

100Reporters, Oct 20, 2017 – The controversial New York meeting in June 2016 between Donald Trump’s campaign team and a group of Russians, initiated as a talk about finding dirt on Hillary Clinton, is drawing new scrutiny of US economic sanctions against targeted Russians.

At the meeting, Donald Trump Jr. and other Trump confederates, lured by a promise of compromising information on Trump‘s rival, instead stumbled upon a quagmire: a fraud that bilked the Russian treasury of $230 million; a trans-Atlantic dispute over offshore accounts and tax evasion, and a U.S.-born investor, William Browder, who once ran the largest foreign investment fund in Russia, and who plays the eminence grise in this drama.

Browder is perhaps best known as an investor in Russia turned an anti-corruption activist, and the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act, the battery of economic sanctions aimed at Russian officials.