May 26, 2020 1:45 pm
By Scott Stedman
Forensic News can exclusively report that a District Attorney’s office in Central California is considering a slew of charges against a businessman, Yorai Benzeevi, and his associates who hired the Israeli intelligence company Psy Group to intervene in a 2017 local hospital board election, according to multiple sources directly involved. […]
December 13, 2019 1:00 pm
By Scott Stedman
Over the past few months, Forensic News has been working with many sources who worked at the company Wikistrat and saw suspicious events and who wanted to share their stories. One such source was Matt Penn, a former Outreach Coordinator for the company who shared emails with us showing that […]
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 […]
August 22, 2019 10:27 am
By Scott Stedman, Adrienne Cobb, Alex Hulvalchick, Eric Levai, Robert J. DeNault and Jess Coleman
Wikistrat, a hybrid geopolitical analysis/intelligence gathering company connected to Saudi and Israeli leadership, claimed to have “recruited” slain Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi shortly before his murder, and approximately one year after the firm’s owner met with senior advisors to the Saudi government. Thousands of documents obtained exclusively by Forensic […]
May 19, 2019 9:41 pm
By Scott Stedman
In September 2016, a merchandizing professional in Zagreb, Croatia named Maja Bogovic received an email from a management and consulting services company based in Hong Kong. Bogovic learned that an executive at the company, Francesco Gianelli, was looking for a personal assistant. She assumed that the company had looked at […]