What keeps companies like McKinsey in the business of whitewashing the regimes of bloodthirsty dictators? Increasingly, it’s the consequences of crossing them.

Are foreign influence peddlers developing a taste for local and municipal politicians?

Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has changed the game by sinking its hooks into three U.S. sports franchises.

It may not be up there with East Timor, but the practice of turning vast global contacts into wealth has been horrible for American democracy.

One of the only good transparency innovations of the Trump era has come to a quiet end.

As if dodgy oligarchs and shifty tax cheats didn’t have enough help hiding their ill-gotten gains, your state government may have stepped up to join the con.

Some of the grifters who paved the way for the Russian invasion of Ukraine want to be seen as being on the right side of the war.

British lawyers have long helped corrupt oligarchs protect their ill-gotten loot. The Tennessee Democrat wants to hold these enablers to account.

Trump’s son-in-law may be the hot new player in Washington’s seamy influence-peddling game, but he’s following in the footsteps of many of the Beltway’s major players.

They’ve had it coming for a very long time.

In a lengthy screed, the Russian dictator made it clear that his ambitions are to restore his nation’s status as a colonizer of Europe.

It wasn’t the drive to bring security to Europe that led to the brink of war. It was providing corrupt autocrats with secure havens for their stolen loot.

Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar’s not the only lawmaker illicitly involved with the regime, he’s just the one who (maybe) got caught.

Long sold as an island of stability in a sea of chaos, the nation has collapsed into misrule, requiring swift action against its kleptocratic rulers.

Biden ended 2021 advancing some much needed measures to battle foreign kleptocrats. Next year, he can win the war.

The best place in the world to hide one’s money isn’t Switzerland or the Caymans. It’s the United States. That may be about to change.

Biden’s bill will revive a moribund and underfunded agency, cut down on corruption, and bring in a ton of revenue.

Despite what you may have heard, the Pandora Papers did not let the United States off the hook for facilitating global corruption.

Joe Biden might be the perfect president to restore America’s standing as a champion against foreign corruption.

Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc has been sanctioned by Trump’s State Department. So why is he now holed up in the U.S.?