Miami

May 15, 2023 | David May |

Amid Escalation in Gaza, Tunisian Soldier Murders Local Jews

A Tunisian national guardsman murdered two Jewish cousins and three Tunisian officers last Tuesday, turning a festive occasion into a tragedy. Aviel and Benjamin Haddad were among thousands of...

August 12, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Ivana Stradner

Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth

When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.

May 17, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Murder on the Beach

Paraguay’s slain criminal prosecutor Marcelo Pecci made many enemies in his lifelong effort to protect the rule of law. One of them was Hezbollah.

January 5, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The new conquistadores

U.S. adversaries are becoming South American hegemons

December 17, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Paraguayan Raids Further Expose U.S. Intermediaries’ Role in TBA Money Laundering Schemes

Paraguayan authorities last week raided the offices of a dozen U.S.-linked companies and their accountants tied to suspected Paraguayan drug kingpin Reinaldo Javier Cabaña Santacruz, alias Cucho. Asunción’s...

October 8, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Florida Businessman Indicted in Nader Mohamad Farhat’s Money Laundering Case

Florida’s Southern District Court in Miami indicted Florida businessman Elias Daher last week on money laundering charges, making him a co-defendant in the Mohamad Nader Farhat money laundering case....

September 10, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Businessman’s Extradition to U.S. Could Expose Turkish-Venezuelan Collusion to Evade Sanctions

Cape Verde’s constitutional court issued a ruling on September 7 paving the way for the extradition of Alex Saab, a U.S.-designated Colombian-born businessman whom U.S. prosecutors indicted in 2019 for...

August 24, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How American Weapons Find Their Way to International Criminal Organizations

It’s a complex problem that won’t be solved by Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. manufacturers.

July 8, 2021 | Samantha Ravich, Annie Fixler

Russian Criminals Cross Biden’s Cyber Red Line

Over the weekend, Russian cybercriminals launched a supply chain-based ransomware attack of unprecedented scale that began with the breach of an American information technology (IT) firm. Coming three weeks...

April 14, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s bad deals

His diplomats, like Obama’s, give without getting

January 8, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah: Narco-Terror and Crime in Latin America

Will the Biden administration go after Hezbollah’s drug trafficking and money laundering networks? Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the drug trade is well documented, ongoing, and a threat to U.S national...

September 23, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir |

Iran’s Turkey-Based Sanctions-Evasion Scheme More Extensive Than Previously Reported

Iran’s sanctions-evasion schemes involving Turkey “started earlier, lasted longer, extended further, and involved more people and countries” than previously known, according to a series of deeply...

September 22, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How Hezbollah Collaborates With Latin American Drug Cartels

Plus, an explanation of "black cocaine" and why authorities should worry about charcoal exports.

July 12, 2020 | John Hardie |

Time to Close the Legal Loopholes that Facilitate Russian Illicit Finance

It is long past time to close this gaping hole in America’s defenses against illicit finance and malign influence.

April 3, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

Turkish Public Lender Pleads Not Guilty for Evading Iran Sanctions

Halkbank, a public lender majority-owned by the Turkish government, pleaded not guilty at a Manhattan court on March 31 to criminal charges that it helped Iran illicitly transfer tens of billions of dollars...

February 12, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The return of the Monroe Doctrine

Sanders aside, Trump finds bipartisan support for a pro-U.S. Venezuelan leader

January 29, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Brenna Knippen

U.S. Prosecutors Propose Massive Contempt Fine for Sanctions-Evading Turkish Bank

U.S. prosecutors in New York asked a federal judge on January 21 to impose escalating fines on Turkey’s Halkbank for failing to respond in court to criminal charges that it helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions....

November 14, 2019 | Eric S. Edelman, David J. Kramer

Erdoğan’s Undeserving and Underwhelming Visit to DC

Trump’s ongoing bromance with Turkey’s authoritarian leader notwithstanding, Congress and the Administration must act to make clear that the United States isn’t giving Erdoğan a blank check to act in the Middle East.

October 16, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Department of Justice right to go after Hezbollah

An excerpt from the op-ed Attorney General ...

June 15, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Lebanon Is Protecting Hezbollah’s Cocaine Trade in Latin America

Days after the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, Washington ramped up ...