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3 Oct, 6 tweets, 6 min read
Today is the day. I'm so delighted to have reported tons of stories for @ICIJorg's #pandorapapers investigation.

Today is only the start. For an introduction, check out @washingtonpost's explainer video

washingtonpost.com/video/national…
Jordanian authorities have reportedly blocked @ICIJorg, @washingtonpost's websites in the country. #pandorapapers

We presume because of this story about how the King of Jordan snapped up fancy properties through secretive shell companies.

icij.org/investigations…
"What we own, what we have, is open to the public," Kenya's president told journalists in 2018.

Ummmmm.....not so much, @ICIJorg and @FinUncovered and @AfUncensored 's #pandorapapers reveals.

Have a look at the Kenyatta family's offshore empire, here.

icij.org/investigations…
And if you still haven't had enough, read @shirafu, @michaelwhudson, my and others' overview story to understand why #pandorapapers matters.

Like my boss, @RyleGerard says, the people who could fix the offshore system are actually benefiting from it.

icij.org/investigations…
So much more to come from @ICIJorg's entire time and from 600 reporters around the world. We'll have more the share in the hours and days to come.
And don't forget that if you like what @ICIJorg does, you kinda (aka DEFINITELY) need to donate so we can keep going! #pandorapapers

icij.org/donate/#:~:tex….

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4 Oct
1/ When @ICIJorg first got the #pandorapapers, I wanted to see what we could learn about the U.S. as a tax haven. I’d heard rumors, but wanted to see WHO and WHAT was using secrecy inside the US.

@debbiecenziper and I went on a journey, lemme tell you

washingtonpost.com/business/inter…
2/ With @delreuter, we spent months poring over 12 million records to identify more than 200 U.S. trusts, many of which were in South Dakota.

Of those, almost 30 trusts were tied to people, firms and assets linked to allegations of wrongdoing, including human rights abuses.
3/ @debbiecenziper, @salwangeorges @BrendaMedinar travelled to California, South Dakota and the Dominican Republic to connect the wonky world of trusts (what they heck are they, anyway?) to real people.

And real suffering. (Check out @salwangeorges's moving photos)
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21 Sep 20
1/ @ICIJorg’s new investigation - #FinCENFiles - is our largest collaboration with journalists in Africa so far. There are new faces for us in Togo, Cameroon, The Gambia and beyond.

A thread with nearly all the African stories.
2/ We spend huge resources, time and energy being the best cross-border investigative news organization on the planet. Collaboration isn’t cheap or easy. This time around for #FinCENFiles we had support from @CENOZO_Afrique and @freepressunltd. cenozo.org/en/articles/24…
3/ Reporters in Africa dealt with threats from powerful people and the perils of the Coronavirus. Here’s a rundown of stories from each country!

#FinCENFiles isn’t only about your country. It’s about theirs, too.
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20 Sep 20
1/ When @ICIJorg started the #FinCENFiles investigation 1 year ago, I thought I’d do what I usually do – work with great partners in places like Liberia, Turkmenistan, beyond. Then Covid19 happened.

But collaboration means we could do our work despite a global lockdown.
2/ I found myself reporting from North Carolina about a family devastated by fentanyl, a deadly opioid, and the financial circuit it had taken from China to the Tar Heel State.

icij.org/investigations…
3/ The story started with just one line in an Excel spreadsheet. From there, @ICIJorg and others pieced together the story through court documents, interviews, media reports.
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23 Jul 19
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1/ #mauritiusLeaks is @ICIJorg’s latest offshore project. It started with a story we wrote in 2017 as part of the #paradisepapers investigation and continued when an anonymous source sent us a USB key in the mail that contained 200,000 files (thank you, whistleblower!)
2/ This was hard, dry stuff. No juicy emails to or from presidents or prime ministers trying to hide money. Instead, it was about a bunch of profitable companies trying to pay less money to rich and poor countries around the world.
3/ To understand the documents, I spoke to more than 70 tax and policy experts and to more than 20 tax officials from countries including Thailand, India, Egypt, Zambia and Nigeria.🇱🇸
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