Investigative journalist exploring the shadow world of finance at risk-intelligence platform @KharonData
Washington, DC
Joined October 2009
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Iran’s Cyber Attacks on U.S. Infrastructure Look Less Like a New Terror Front and More Like Psyops
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"A very convenient cover." Nearly $200M in gold entered Iran through a network selling eggplants, bell peppers and tomatoes.
As the U.S. zeros in on one of Tehran’s last financial lifelines, @KharonData mapped out how Iran has scrambled to shore up its battered economy.
Citing @HudsonInstitute's @M_S_Billingslea & @Norman_Roule of @CSIS
How a Chinese military spin-off won a @USArmy future-warfare contract --- and why it matters:
A @KharonData investigation:
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A $2 billion U.S. Army project aims to engineer the next generation of U.S. combat vehicles: Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, robotic weapons platforms, and the autonomous systems the Pentagon is betting on to dominate future battlefields.
Last year, according to a Kharon investigation, a Colorado-registered equipment-testing company linked to China’s state defense apparatus got a slice of that contract.
Former senior officials said it illustrates the risks of what the White House last month cast as a mounting vulnerability in U.S. national security: defense supply chains that remain, in many cases, a big black box.
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New @KharonData Exclusive:
A Firm Linked to China’s Missile Program Won a $2M Deal to Test a Major @USArmy Project
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"Countries hired mercenaries in the 18th century...In the 21st century, they buy space services from global companies.” -Clayton Swope, deputy director of the CSIS Aerospace Security Project
My @KharonData colleagues @ccjanetang & Yu-Jie Liao detail how China's commercial rocket economy is arming Iran and Russia: kharon.com/brief/china-space…
"A Kharon investigation found a cluster of companies...whose links to Hizballah signal a risk they could help the group retain access to critical technology and Western financial systems."
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Boom or Bust?
Europeans keep investing in a Russian drone project--But is it a military prototype or a pyramid scheme?
My @KharonData colleagues @RyanBacic & @kiyan_olga find out:
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Archiving Blood Money Media today as I move to a new venture.
Grateful to everyone who read, shared, supported, and contributed.
Continuing this work under a new banner—more soon.
Archive remains available.
Blood Money Media archived here:
bloodmoneymedia.com/
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Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent tapped Gene Lange, a Treasury counselor who worked with him at Key Square, to be administrator of the department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, following the departure of John Hurley, the TFI under secretary.
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BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on the Kremlin, allowing Indian refineries to buy the millions of barrels of Russian crude on floating storage until early April (the new rules cover all the oil already loaded in a tanker by March 5, 2026). Massive win for Putin.
Iran's terror-proxy use of #crypto was just "crowdfunding," they said.
But facts. #IncovenientTruth
Tehran embedded crypto into the exchange networks that power its shadow financial system.
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Notable in the US Treasury's sanctions today is the targeting of a Lebanon currency exchange.
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🕵️Call us the 'Headquarters Hunters': together with @pustota, we found the 'mail center' of the GRU 'Africa Corps.' You will – and will not – be surprised where we found it. Full thread below 🔽
Ian Talley retweeted
Cryptocurrency’s capacity for reuse and conversion facilitates large-scale cross-border operations by transnational criminal, terrorist and state-linked actors. Illicit proceeds are generated through activities such as crypto theft, extortion, laundering, sanctions evasion, scams, fraud and terror financing. These funds converge on a small number of recurring conversion nodes, where they are converted into assets that are more difficult to trace and seize.
Explore the latest #ChartingCyberspace analysis by @JuliaVoo and Dara Eoy: bit.ly/4cpxvYv
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That investor is Benjamin Mauerberger. He fled Bangkok for Dubai last year as investigations mounted, yet he still managed to legitimize himself as a major UAE property player. The reality? He’s accused of laundering billions for the brutal "pig-butchering" scam compounds of Southeast Asia, syndicates that target and ruin thousands of American families. 2/4
