‘QUICK TO ANGER’
Huu Can Tran met his ex-wife at a dance—and subsequently offered her free lessons.
Will Bredderman is a researcher at The Daily Beast. He previously covered politics for Crain's New York Business and the New York Observer, where he utilized public records and social media to score scoops on everybody from Michael Bloomberg to Jeffrey Epstein to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Send him tips: william.bredderman@thedailybeast.com or tips@thedailybeast.com.
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BACK IN THE USSR
The alleged Ponzi firm that hired George Santos made a payment of more than $400,000 into a bank in Uzbekistan, The Daily Beast can reveal.
RED SCARE
Pete Ricketts has invested in firms linked to China and North Korea for years. Now he’s in the U.S. Senate where a quagmire of conflict-of-interest claims await.
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LA FAMIGLIA
Serial liar and border-hardliner George Santos accepted support from an Italian caught piloting a yacht full of Chinese migrants and from his prominent restaurant-owning family.
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RENT-FREE
George Santos was seen moving his stuff into his sister’s place last week, but court records show she’s facing eviction for allegedly failing to fork over $40,000 in unpaid rent.
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COMPANY MAN
Rep.-elect George Santos managed to loan his campaign $700,000. How he did that has been a bit of a mystery. But it also may have been illegal.
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ON THE WATERFRONT
Two confessed criminals who have backed Robert Menendez’s campaign are entangled with the company at the middle of a federal investigation into the Democrat Senator.
VANISHING ACT
Robert Honeyman said they lost their sister to COVID—and that the disease sent their husband into a coma. Was it all a lie?
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Andrew Intrater, money manager to Russian Viktor Vekselberg, gave $56,100 to committees tied to Rep.-elect George Devolder-Santos, who called Ukraine “totalitarian.”
‘A COMPLETELY INSANE STORY’
Mark Handel was a politically connected L.A. property developer but what few knew was he was also moonlighting as Khan Tusion—one of the most notorious figures in hardcore porn.