A fraud from the start. Another smart SBF piece by my colleagues Zeke Faux and Max Chafkin.

Thrilled for Leila Hussain, Simon Marks and Bloomberg Originals for winning an Overseas Press Club award for their 'visually stunning and thoughtfully reported' documentary about sexual violence against elite women runners in Kenya. You can watch it here: bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

Five years after Zeke Faux and Zachary Mider series on Confessions of Judgment, New York's attorney general filed a $1.4 billion lawsuit against the worst offender. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg
You can read the series here:
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This just out from Zachary Mider Zeke Faux. Tankers suspected of carrying Iranian oil in violation of US sanctions are buying their insurance from a surprising source: a New York City-based company called American Club. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg

An amazing investigation by K. Oanh Ha of fuel smuggling in Libya. There's a Benghazi warlord, a fearless auditor, a ship called the Queen Majeda and a $5 billion mystery. bloomberg.com/features/2024-… via Bloomberg

Where do solar panels come from? Not an easy question, as Sheridan Prasso found out trying to untangle the supply chain. What she found: India may be opening a back door to components made with forced labor in China bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Technology

We analyzed 38 million mortgage records and found nonbank lenders charge comparable Latino and Black homebuyers more than White customers. Thanks to Ann Choi 최주연, raeedah رَیدہ, Jason Grotto, Yue Qiu, Caleb Melby, Polly, Nadia Lopez bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-… via @bbgvisualdata

Outstanding reporting about upsetting subject by ⁦⁦⁦⁦Olivia Carville⁩ and
⁦Margi Murphy⁩ on the cover of ⁦Businessweek⁩ this week. No Laws Protect People From Deepfake Porn. These Victims Fought Back bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Congratulations to Zachary Mider Swati Gupta Modou Joof for winning the Foreign Press Association story of the year award in London this evening for their outstanding reporting on contaminated cough syrup.

Please watch this powerful new doc about the murder of long-distance runner Agnes Tirop and gender-based violence in Kenya. Proud to have played a small part in bringing it to life. All credit to Bloomberg Originals. bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

November 11 is Veterans Day. This is no way to celebrate. Caleb Melby Polly Ann Choi 최주연 investigate what went wrong with a Covid-era mortgage program that has lenders foreclosing on veterans at an alarming rate. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Businessweek

Congrats to Zachary Mider Swati Gupta Modou joof for making the FPA short list for your outstanding story about contaminated cough syrup. You can read the piece here: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

A wacky deal, a promise of free money...what could go wrong? Joe Mysak has the tale. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Markets

And now...BW Max! Watch.

A cache of secret documents, a rivalry between two of Africa's best-known leaders, an investigation of the head of the World Health Organization in the midst of the Covid epidemic. Disturbing story by Simon Marks
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A banker, a farmer and a crypto scam in rural Kansas. Amanda Albright uncovers the amazing story of the collapse of Heartland Tri-State Bank. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek

Congratulations, Zeke, on publication day. You've done a great job turning your adventures in Cryptoland (some of which I sent you on) into a wonderful book. Funny, scary, smart, beautifully written. May your number of readers keep going up.

This is what I call good writing. An excerpt from the new book 'Number Go Up' by Zeke Faux chronicling his adventures in cryptoland. Read the whole thing.
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My colleagues Zeke Faux and Zachary Mider have spent a lot of words on this guy over the years. They're finally getting paid back. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

WHO dunit. The World Health Organization issued a global alert today about a tainted cold medicine found by Bloomberg in Iraq. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg