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Glenn Walker refused to pay protection money to sell Christmas trees in New York.
Clara Preve on a Florida farmer who would not back down, in The Foundry:
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Two House committee chairmen have asked Rubio and Bessent to decide within 180 days whether to sanction the network around Benjamin Mauerberger and his Cambodian partner Yim Leak.
Tom Wright on the scam money moving through Southeast Asian elites:
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Five Brazen stories are in adaptation for the screen: Spy Valley, Sirocco, Dynamite Doug, Syndrome and Kabul Falling.
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Russia's shadow fleet is now moving diesel across the Atlantic, and one tanker is already approaching the US East Coast.
Mystery Ships has followed these ships and the companies behind them since 2024. Start here.
This week on Mystery Ships, we bring you a special report on Russia’s shadow fleet.
Nine days before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a man from Belize established Nord Axis, a new shipping company, in Hong Kong.
Coincidental timing? Maybe.
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As revolution reached Tehran, soldiers walked into its new museum of modern art. The Shahbanu's Western masterpieces went into the basement.
From The Missing Masterpiece of Tehran, read by Christian Coulson. Listen to a sample or get the audiobook:
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Romana Didulo declared herself Queen of Canada. In 2023 she and her followers moved into an abandoned school in a tiny Saskatchewan town and refused to leave.
This week's Chameleon, from Josh Dean, Campside Media and Audiochuck:
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A Chinese scam boss murdered in Sri Lanka in July carried a Cambodian passport in one name and a Surinamese passport in another.
OCCRP and The Sunday Times found his real name in Cambodia's naturalisation records:
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Alec Gores kept inviting Tom Goldstein back to his Beverly Hills mansion. By the end, Gores had lost $26 million.
The Tell is Bradley Hope's account of a Supreme Court lawyer's double life at the poker table. All eleven chapters are free to read:
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Seven tankers carrying about 288,000 tonnes of Russian diesel are crossing the Atlantic to the US, Greenpeace Ukraine says. Three are sanctioned.
Russian fuel is also moving east. Shipments to one Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025.
Russian fuel shipments to an Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025.
A tanker faked its location while loading there. Since a Coral Energy network company bought the terminal in 2024, it has changed hands four times.
By @claraprevedur:
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We love stories about people leading double lives, usually, inevitably, unsuccessfully. They’re irresistible. This one by Bradley Hope for The Foundry, about a Supreme Court litigator who secretly amassed a $100 million fortune playing poker before losing everything, goes to 11. @brazenFM thfndry.com/the-tell/
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Since a company in the Coral network bought PT Oil Terminal Karimun in 2024, its shares have changed hands four times as sanctions closed in.
The latest filings point back to a familiar figure from inside Coral.
Clara Preve reports:
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Arizona agreed to pay a 14-year-old Dominican prospect $1.8 million once he turned 16. Two and a half years later it was almost all gone: $630,000 to his trainer, more than $950,000 to a moneylender.
Gus Garcia-Roberts for ProPublica:
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Russian fuel shipments to an Indonesian terminal near Singapore tripled in 2025.
A tanker faked its location while loading there. Since a Coral Energy network company bought the terminal in 2024, it has changed hands four times.
By @claraprevedur:
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Introducing The Foundry, our new digital magazine.
Begin with The Tell: Bradley Hope on Tom Goldstein's double life in the law and high-stakes poker.
The first two chapters are free. No signup needed.
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.@WhaleHunting_ @brazenFM From fake birth certificates to rooftop antennas, Argentine investigative journalist @halconada uncovered how Moscow embedded two spies in Buenos Aires for over a decade — and what their story reveals about spycraft worldwide.
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We are not facing a conventional dictatorship, but an unconventional criminal regime, and the ways to defeat it must also be precisely unconventional and combined. This is not only about Venezuela or the US. It’s about the hemisphere and its future.
@claraprevedur @brazenFM.
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