A DEFINITIVE HISTORY from SETH HETTENA, journalist and author
The House Oversight Committee released the following text exchange as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. It captures a conversation between Steve Bannon and Epstein after Bannon’s appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee during its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The messages span two days, November 19 and November 21. For […]
The long, strange fall of Jacob Bogatin, a onetime partner of the “Brainy Don” Semion Mogilevich, now accused of murder in Virginia. Once upon a time, Semion Mogilevich was one of the biggest gangsters in the world. The “Brainy Don” had his fingers in virtually every criminal activity imaginable, including murder, extortion, sex trafficking, weapons […]
The Biden White House could use a good dose of Alexei Navalny's courage.
It will never cease to amaze me that America elected a president with so many links to Russian organized crime. There was Vyacheslav Ivankov whose FBI file contained numerous references to Donald Trump that the bureau refused to release to me. There was David Bogatin who spent $6 million to buy five separate units in […]
In The Godfather, Part II, mobster Hyman Roth is asked by reporters why he moving to Israel. “I’m a retired investor living on a pension, and I wished to live there as a Jew in the twilight of my life,” Roth explains. Sergey Kopytov is a retired Ukrainian politician living out the twilight of his […]