Wretched Excess
When it comes to savoring the spoils of wealth, no one does it better than corrupt government officials, greedy business executives and their entourages. Their houses are bigger, their yachts are...
View ArticleA Most Frequent Flyer: Robert Mugabe, Traveling in Style
Summertime is travel time and no one is taking to the friendly skies more than Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president who has brought nothing but poverty and pain to his country.
View ArticleKleptoWatch
This week, more than 90 heads of state and their entourages will descend on the city for the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly. Undoubtedly, there is serious business afoot on the...
View ArticleDiamonds are a Dictator’s Best Friend
Global Witness’s announcement this week that it was withdrawing from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which is designed to prevent “blood diamonds”
View ArticleFBI Called Off Gingrich Sting
The FBI prepared a sting operation against Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in the 1990s when he was Speaker of the House,
View ArticleAristide Redux
Who is the mystery foreign official at the heart of a bribery case unfolding in a Miami courtroom? Sources have told The
View ArticleDisappearing Diamonds
The spectacular heist of some $50 million in diamonds at the Brussels airport Monday throws a rare spotlight on the largely invisible global traffic in diamonds, estimated to total a staggering $200...
View ArticleMade in China: The Secret of Mugabe’s Election Success
In February, speaking at his birthday, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe described his leadership as a “divine task,” and his certain victory at
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