Tag: Michael Brassington

  • Russian Oligarch in Election Probe Linked to Drug Cartel

    Russian Oligarch in Election Probe Linked to Drug Cartel

    New evidence indicates that Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who paid $10 million a year to Paul Manafort between 2004 and 2009, has been in business since 2004 in Guyana with a politically powerful crime family involved in international drug trafficking whose most famous member is a drug pilot who had also been the chief pilot of…

  • Oleg & Me

    Oleg & Me

    Publishing a story called “Oleg & Me” the day after the “Oleg” in question runs a half-page ad in the New York Times ad offering to sue the Associated Press is probably a little foolhardy for someone who’s not even—you know—associated. But it has to be done.

  • ‘Alt-right’ Trump operative running stock fraud ‘hyena pack’

    ‘Alt-right’ Trump operative running stock fraud ‘hyena pack’

    How can Donald Trump “drain the swamp” in Washington when some of its slimiest denizens work for his own campaign?

  • Rudi Dekkers and the American Oligarchy

    If you’re the kind of man who occasionally relinquishes the remote and “watches what she wants for a change,” you may already understand that there are strange and valuable truths which conjoin very different worlds.

  • EXCLUSIVE: Drug Traffickers Own Jenni Rivera Death Plane

    The owner of the Learjet  whose crash in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains killed popular singer Jenni Rivera is from a prominent family in Monterrey which supplied drug planes during the 1990’s to drug baron Amador Carrillo, known as “The Lord of the Skies” for flying tons of cocaine, often on Boeing 727’s, into the U.S.