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🎯 Goldman Used Chinese Government Money to Acquire US and UK Companies. Despite increasing tensions between Beijing and Western nations, Goldman has inked seven transactions through a $2.5 billion private equity "partnership fund" it created with China Investment Corporation (CIC) in 2017. The Messenger
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🌎 Judge Won’t Let Banks and Insurers Hide Their Trump Docs. Companies that did business with the Trump Organization as it allegedly inflated the value of the company can't magically hide documents showing their ties to Trump. Daily Beast
🌎 Shady export leaks suggest Russian sanctions work. EU exports to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan jumped 80% in the 18 months starting in January 2022. There are clear signs that some of the goods were redirected to Russia. Reuters
🌎 Honduran mayor detained for assisting cartels in shipping 90 tons of cocaine to the U.S. via boats and planes. Honduran officials suspect that Mexican cartels transport Colombian cocaine to the U.S. via Central America and Mexico, initially landing in Honduras' Mosquitia and other Atlantic regions. Daily Mail
🌎 Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico. The incident kicked off a flurry of urgent meetings among top national security and administration officials at a time when Republicans have hammered Biden on the security of the southern border. CNN
🌎 Putin moved $90M superyacht weeks before Ukraine invasion to avoid having it seized. Russian journalist Maria Pevchikh revealed documents showing the Russian president's yacht 'Graceful' sailed from Blohm & Voss in Hamburg to Kaliningrad two weeks before the war. Independent
🌎 US commerce secretary rejects Chinese appeal to ease export controls. Raimondo also pressed Chinese leaders to disclose more information about restrictions on U.S. technology companies that appeared to be arbitrary and too unpredictable, but said she received no commitments. AP
🌎 SEC's Secret Binance Court Filing Has Observers Bracing for Bad News. The Securities and Exchange Commission late filed a sealed motion in its case against Binance that includes more than 35 exhibits. CoinDesk
🌎 Boosters, fencers, and cleaners: Inside cartels' newest criminal enterprise of organized retail theft. In recent years, cartels have gone from illicit drug manufacturing and smuggling, human smuggling and trafficking, and illegal firearm smuggling to commandeering crime in the retail environment. Washington Examiner
🌎 FBI announces it has dismantled global network of hacked computers used in major fraud scheme. The Justice Department seized over $8 million in cryptocurrency from the hackers and removed their malicious code from an unspecified number of infected computers in the US and around the world. CNN
🌎 H-1B doctor’s jihadist plot: How well do we vet visa applicants? A Pakistani doctor who got an H-1B temporary work visa to join the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is going to federal prison for incubating a plot to kill fellow Hippocratic oath takers while “behind enemy lines.” NY Post
🌎 Connecticut oil trader hit with new charges in Petrobras bribery case. The DOJ said that between 2010 and 2018 Oztemel and Eduardo Innecco, a Brazilian-Italian oil and gas broker, paid bribes to Brazilian officials to help two Connecticut trading companies secure contracts and learn confidential details about Petrobras' fuel oil business. Reuters
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