December 14, 2020 2:38 pm
By Scott Stedman
U.S. Sen Mark Warner, the Ranking Member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, has deep connections to a founder of the spyware company NSO Group according to corporate and government documents, open-source information, and sources who spoke to Forensic News, raising questions of a potential conflict of interest. As the […]
November 2, 2020 2:42 pm
By Scott Stedman
President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani quietly met with a Kremlin-insider days after being informed that the Russian authorities had obtained damaging information on Hunter Biden, Forensic News can reveal. Lev Parnas, Giuliani’s former confidant and partner in the search for material on the Bidens, confirmed to Forensic News […]
October 22, 2020 1:31 pm
By Scott Stedman
Senator Ron Johnson recently accepted a packet of information from disgraced former Ukrainian prosecutor Kostiantyn Kulyk, in what appears to be the most recent example of a Russian-backed disinformation campaign targeting Johnson’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In the files sent to Johnson and exclusively obtained by Forensic News, […]
April 2, 2020 11:18 am
By Eric Levai
U.S. citizens acting as foreign agents for a Moscow law firm attended U.S. congressional hearings, researched American politics, and monitored U.S. news during 2019, registering under FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) in February 2020, detailing work described by experts as “puzzling”, according to recent FARA filings. BurgherGray LLP, a law […]
February 20, 2020 12:38 pm
By Eric Levai and Scott Stedman
Florida’s official Republican Party Facebook page, along with nine other Florida Republican county Facebook pages, have a page manager located in Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia with no public affiliation to Florida Republicans or political social media consultants. All ten of the Facebook page managers from Turkmenistan disappeared after […]
November 14, 2019 4:41 pm
By Scott Stedman
Listen to this article on Jamal Khashoggi and Wikistrat: Documents and interviews with former Wikistrat employees cast new suspicion on the company and its relationship to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Last month, Forensic News detailed a series of troubling documents and events relating to Wikistrat’s connections to Khashoggi and to […]
September 13, 2019 1:33 pm
By Scott Stedman and Jess Coleman
A former Ukrainian politician scrutinized by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Andrey Artemenko, is behind the purchase of a shelf company in Wyoming which subsequently bought Ukrainian polling data and resold it to a fake oil company. The shelf company is part of a large portfolio of once-inactive businesses sold out […]
September 5, 2019 2:50 pm
By Scott Stedman and Jess Coleman
A defense contractor managed by a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician and a Soviet-born businessman tied to the Russian mafia landed a license from the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during the Obama Administration to import and export weapons, including machine guns and explosives, according to documents […]