Tenet Media abruptly shut down on September 5, 2024, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment revealing the company had received nearly $10 million in covert Russian funding. The shutdown triggered cascading actions: YouTube terminated Tenet Media and all Lauren Chen channels, …
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On March 15, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice arrested Ho Wan Kwok (Guo Wengui) in a landmark twelve-count federal indictment alleging a complex, multi-year fraud scheme defrauding thousands of victims of approximately $1 billion. The sophisticated conspiracy involved fraudulent investments …
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Chinese exile billionaire Guo Wengui (Miles Guo) began a $1 million contract with Steve Bannon for media consulting, marking the start of a complex political influence operation targeting Chinese Communist Party leadership. Bannon was hired to introduce Guo Media to political personalities and help …
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Major multinational tobacco companies secretly coordinated a long-running
strategy to resist regulation and scientific consensus on smoking harms—an
effort known as ‘Operation Berkshire.’ Internal documents and litigation
disclosures show executives met in the late 1970s (including a …
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