An Exiled Mogul’s Jailed Aide Has a Secret Backer. The Description Matches Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui in July 2018.Don Emmert/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s been nearly three weeks since Yanping “Yvette” Wang was arrested and charged with helping her boss—exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui—orchestrate a $1 billion international fraud scheme. Her attorneys are…
A MAGA Mogul Urged a “Flame Revolution.” After His Arrest, His Apartment Caught Fire.
The Sherry-Netherland Hotel, after a fire at the penthouse residence of Guo WenguiBebeto Matthews/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hours after the arrest last week of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui at his Upper East Side penthouse apartment in the tony Sherry-Netherland Hotel, a…
Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire
Mother Jones; Anna Moneymaker/Getty, Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In late November 2021, Steve Bannon appeared in a live broadcast on GTV, a media outlet that he’d helped his friend Guo Wengui launch a year earlier. Bannon used the appearance to celebrate…
MAGA Mogul Guo Wengui Charged in $1 Billion Fraud Scheme
Guo Wengui at his Upper East side apartment on November 28, 2017.Timothy Clary/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Guo Wengui, a far-right mogul on the run from criminal charges in China, has worked for years with Steve Bannon to promote charitable organizations and for-profit…
Steve Bannon, an Exiled Mogul, and the Ukraine Rescue Effort That (Mostly) Wasn’t
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As Yana Ibragimov and her two young children waited at the Lviv train station, it was snowing. This was March 7, 2022, early in the war in Ukraine. Russian troops were advancing. A day earlier, Russian shells had killed…
Biden: Those Three Aerial Objects We Shot Down Probably Aren’t Spy Balloons
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Biden on Thursday, in his most detailed remarks addressing the recent spate of aerial objects that were shot down over North American skies, said that there is no evidence tying the three unidentified objects to…