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The Shipment and the Missing Name

Investigators can follow fentanyl from a chemical supplier to a payment and a tested shipment.…

What Happened to the Other Dollars?

A $200 million monthly estimate became one of the most durable numbers in accounts of…

After Assad, the Pills Kept Moving

The factories opened to reporters. The border erupted. Then the seizures kept coming—revealing how much…

Venezuela’s Brokers: The Networks That Outlasted Maduro

When private executive jets taxied across the tarmac of Caracas’s Maiquetía airport, the passengers boarding in the Caribbean dusk were…

The Case Files Washington Had to Join

When Jeff Sessions gathered a new team of prosecutors in Washington in January 2018, the file folders on his desk…

Project Cassandra: The Investigation That Outlived Its Team

Inside the fortified, windowless operations bunker of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division in Chantilly, Virginia, a whiteboard once…

The Accountants Behind the Apparatus

To an outside auditor glancing over the ledger books of a Beirut construction firm, Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Kallas appeared to be…