Former Trump campaign manager and convicted felon Paul Manafort was sentenced to over seven years in prison for tax fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice — now has a new consulting gig.
Stephen Bannon was found guilty of contempt of congress. He continues promoting the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election and uses his media platform to rile up his far-right base with an extremist agenda aimed at destroying the ‘administrative state’ and backing Trump in 2024.
During Trump’s first presidency the media reported extensively on financial corruption, kleptocracy (government by those who seek personal gain at the expense of the governed) and influence campaigns during the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections. New citizen researchers emerged on social media sites like Twitter and often leveraged expertise in other areas to research … Read more
This site was created by Wendy Siegelman. Most of the charts and articles on this site were created by Wendy, often with the incredible collaboration of other researchers who are credited in the chart or article. Below are links to several articles published by Wendy in The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Byline Times and Buzzfeed. … Read more
Of all of Trump’s real estate deals, the Trump Toronto International Hotel and Tower deal — which started in 2001 and ended after Trump became president — may be the deal with the most transactions and financing with people and entities linked to Russia and the Kremlin.
In 1995 Steven Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors of almost half a billion dollars and spent 18 years in jail. In 2016 he attempted to reclaim money for Ponzi victims from his ex-associate Jeffrey Epstein and launched a Super PAC to elect Trump.
New research reveals another link between alleged Russian agent Maria Butina and Pro-Russia congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
Arron Banks and Jim Mellon have been business partners for a decade since they bought Manx Financial Group together, where Mellon is the chairman and, as of June 2018, Banks is the largest shareholder — owning 29% of the shares.
A2P was started in 2015 by Samantha Ravich who was on the Trump transition team, A2P partner Sean Noble runs a nonprofit funded largely by the Koch brothers, and A2P developed an app with a think tank funded by the DeVos family and Koch brothers.
