Investigative Articles
Long-form analyses of money flows, corporate mechanisms, and systemic patterns across the investigation.
Published
The $30.5 Billion Startup Rewriting Defense
How a VR company founder and a Palantir veteran built an autonomous weapons manufacturer in seven years — and what happens when startup culture meets the defense procurement system.
The Corporate Shell Network
Thirty entities, six jurisdictions, every one properly filed — how legal infrastructure creates invisible ownership
The $20 Million Bag of Copper Dust
How a NASDAQ-listed rare earth company paid 1,200 times the wholesale rate for 40 kilograms of metal powder — and why nobody noticed
DOGE: The Data Operation
How temporary advisors got permanent access to the federal government's most sensitive systems
Golden Dome's Black Box
The most expensive defense program in history has no public cost schedule, no competitive bidding on its core contracts, and its lead contractors are run by the people who designed the program.
The Gulf Intelligence Web
Inside the private diplomatic network connecting Qatar's ruling family, the UAE's port authority, and the Saudi royal court — with Epstein as the switchboard
The Parallel Diplomatic Corps
How IPI, HDI, and Gratitude America functioned as influence infrastructure outside FARA
The Thiel Network: From Stanford Review to Pentagon
How a single ideological network went from a campus newspaper to controlling the personnel, capital, and infrastructure of the American national security state
Planned
The Apollo Money Pipeline
How $158M+ flowed from 3 billionaires to a convicted sex offender
Wexner Trust Architecture
A masterclass in using trusts to obscure beneficial ownership
Deutsche Bank Plumbing
What 579 transactions and $304M tell us about compliance theater
The Legal Shield
When your lawyers are also your intelligence service
Science & Tech Interface
Philanthropy as a social technology
Inner Circle Operations
The org chart of a criminal enterprise that filed its taxes
USVI Operations
Why the US Virgin Islands is the Delaware of the Caribbean