Scott Stedman
@scottstedman
Investigative journalist thenewsground.com
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The official White House app uses code from Elfsight, a software company whose founders continued operating in Russia, holding accounts at sanctioned Russian banks and traveling back to Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
🚨 The White House app uses code from a vendor still operating in Russia. Its founders kept accounts at sanctioned Russian banks after the invasion. One also complained privately about being summoned by Russian tax authorities. NEWS from The Newsground (link below)
Russian model Kira Dikhtyar recruited 40 young women, ages 17-25, for Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade. WHERE are the investigations?
Who was Jeffrey Epstein paying in Russia? Per Sen. Wyden's investigation, over $200M flowed into Russian banks across ~15 years, and the vast majority is still unaccounted for.
The money behind one of the developers of Trump Tower Tbilisi traces back through shell companies to an offshore gambling network linked to illegal operations Who's doing business with the President?
I launched The Newsground 10 weeks ago because I wanted to build something hard to find right now: deep-dive investigations with no paywall, and no corporate control. Now, digital memberships are just $5/month. Here's what 10 weeks of true investigative journalism looks like:
Trump's loyal bootlicker and Russian spy collaborator Michael Caputo obtained and leaked my private emails while he was an aide to the DOJ's "weaponization czar." This is government gangsterism at its finest. So I wrote to Acting AG Todd Blanche for a slice of DOJ's weaponization fund.
BREAKING: Epstein's prolific recruiter Kira Dikhtyar dated Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov. After Epstein's death, Dikhtyar rebranded as a children 's-rights activist, seeking to raise the age of consent. She had the backing of Putin's longtime partner and Trump family insider Paolo Zampolli.
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NEWS 🚨 “I will get you massage one way or another.” Russian model Kira Dikhtyar procured dozens of young women for Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction, and built ties to Paolo Zampolli, a Trump family insider and current State Department official.
EXCLUSIVE: El Salvador's Nayib Bukele secretly sought to obtain spyware after international condemnation for his government's use of Pegasus to target journalists and activists. The Newsground has the documents.
NEWS: An ICE contractor settled a detainee abuse case in January, 2025. Weeks later, it received the first of over half a billion dollars in federal contracts. Then, the company's Chief Technology Officer was indicted for making terroristic threats related to his sports gambling.
What motivated me to create a newsroom funded by the sale of coffee? Why coffee?
