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Japan and the United States conducted coordinated currency intervention on July 31, 2026, to support the Japanese yen after it fell to its weakest level in approximately four decades. The operation involved purchases of yen by Japanese authorities and the U...

In 2024, total direct and indirect Canadian investment in India surpassed $110 billion, according to statements from the Government of Canada. The figure includes both direct investment and indirect investment channels such as portfolio holdings and instit...

Karl Jacobson faces embezzlement charges On February 20, 2026, former New Haven, Connecticut, Police Chief Karl Jacobson was arrested on two counts of larceny in the first degree after authorities alleged he stole approximately $85,500 from two city police...

On February 10, 2026, former cryptocurrency executive Sam Bankman‑Fried filed a legal motion seeking a new trial in his long‑running fraud case tied to the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The filing, entered in the U.S. District Court for the S...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC and its affiliated political action committees are major contributors in US federal elections. They support candidates across both parties who align with a pro Israel policy agenda. Campaign finance analyse...

Former private equity executive David Gentile will no longer be required to pay $15.5 million in restitution after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in late November 2025. Gentile had been convicted in a $1.6 billion investment fraud, misleading ...

Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was convicted in federal court in November 2023 on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of FTX. Prosecutors stated ...

Sam Bankman‑Fried, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, became central to one of the largest financial collapses in the digital asset industry. In 2023, he was convicted of defrauding customers of approximately $8 billion and was sentenced to 25 year...

Alex Mashinsky, founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network, became central to the financial collapse of the company. Originally from a Jewish family in Ukraine, Mashinsky emigrated to Israel before moving to the United Sta...

In January 2023, Ukrainian authorities announced a series of corruption investigations and dismissals involving senior government and military officials during the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky. The actions followed reports by Ukrainian law enforcement, ...

In late 2022, Iraqi authorities intensified investigations into one of the country's largest alleged corruption cases, involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from tax authority accounts. The case became widely known as Iraq's "heist of the centu...

On December 23, 2020, President Donald Trump issued a full pardon to Michael Milken, the former financier who had pleaded guilty in 1990 to securities and tax violations. The pardon removed any remaining federal legal penalties associated with Milken’s conv...

Amir Bramly is an Israeli businessman who operated multiple investment funds that later collapsed amid allegations of financial misconduct. Investigations by Israeli authorities revealed extensive fraud, money laundering, and theft affecting thousands of in...

WE Charity, which was involved in a major Canadian federal grant program, faced scrutiny over conflicts of interest involving members of the Trudeau family and the awarding of public funds. The controversy led to parliamentary investigations and widespread ...

Eliezer Berland is an Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbi and leader of the Shuvu Bonim sect. He was previously convicted in Israel of sexual offenses in a separate case and served a prison sentence prior to the events described in this report. On February 9, 2020...

In January 2020, a man described by Israeli authorities as a rabbi in his 60s was arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of running a closed religious community in which dozens of women and children were allegedly held in conditions described by police as slave...

In July 2019, public reporting revisited the long-standing financial relationship between billionaire retail executive Leslie Wexner and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner granted Epstein broad financial authority in the 1990s, including power of attorney, a...

Samuel “Mouli” Cohen, an Israeli‑American businessman born in Jerusalem, was involved in multiple investment schemes targeting individual and institutional investors in the United States. Investigations revealed fraudulent misrepresentations, false promises...

Amendment of the Smith–Mundt Act in the National Defense Authorization Act On 28 December 2012, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 into law. The legislation was designated H.R. 4310. Section ...

Rabbi Saul Kassin, a senior religious leader associated with the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced in June 2011 to two years of unsupervised probation in connection with a federal corruption and money laundering case in New Jersey...

In July 2009, federal authorities in New Jersey arrested 44 individuals, including five rabbis, in a large-scale corruption and money laundering investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service. The operation i...

Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, a financier of Jewish faith, was sentenced on June 29, 2009, in Manhattan federal court to 150 years in prison for operating the largest known Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. The scheme defrauded thousands of investors and involved te...

Background and Decision-Makers On March 20, 2003, the United States, the United Kingdom, and coalition allies launched a military invasion of Iraq. The primary justification presented to the public was that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapo...

The Watergate Affair: Timeline, Operatives, And Unresolved Questions On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. The individuals were Bernard Barker, Virgilio G...

The Haavara (Transfer) Agreement was signed on August 25, 1933, between Nazi Germany and Zionist organizations, including the Jewish Agency. The agreement facilitated the emigration of German Jews to Mandatory Palestine by allowing them to transfer a portio...

Financial backers of Hitler in 1933 In early 1933, Adolf Hitler received financial support from multiple sources as he rose to power in Germany. Major contributions came from industrialists, corporations, and ordinary Nazi Party members. According to a Lif...