Wendy Siegelman
@wendysiegelman
Independent journalist covering Trmp, kleptocracy, far-right networks, OSINT, bylines Daily Beast, Guardian, Buzzfeed, Byline Times, footnote in Senate Intel Russia report, subscribe to , tips: wendy@newstracs.com
US Dept of Energy created an Office of Fusion and published a 'Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap' that includes leveraging public private partners One of 13 companies listed is TAE Technologies which plans to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group www.energy.gov/documents/fu...
Talk about a big payday - Asher Genoot (31 yrs old) and Michael Ho (32) run American Bitcoin with Eric Trump who owns 9.3% Genoot & Ho also run Hut 8 (8B market cap, owns American Bitcoin) 2024: Genoot & Ho salary+bonus+stock was $10M 2025: Genoot's comp $239M, Ho's comp $121M
Here's the SEC filing for Tron Inc, majority owned by Justin Sun's father, which notes they signed a lease agreement through 2028 in Trump Tower in NYC www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Feb 2015 email in which Epstein said he will lend Kates 6 million to buy Golden Gate out, and to offer 5 to start "my name cannot be involved. of course." www.justice.gov/age-verify?d...
SEC filing for IPO of Swarmer where Erik Prince is Board Chairman - filing includes list of company executives and beneficial owners www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Here's the SEC filing for Dominari Holdings showing the 2025 Executive Compensation packages worth over $66 million www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
2022 chart on Erik Prince's Unplugged newstracs.com/new-erik-pri... Unplugged US, LLC registered in Nevada in Dec 2025 opencorporates.com/companies/us... Unplugged US, LLC registered in North Carolina in Jan 2026 opencorporates.com/companies/us...
An example of what I mean by grandiose, from the AlphaTON X account
Don Jr is an investor in Thumzup which plans to acquire Dogehash Technologies A filing this week reveals Titan Multi-Strategy Fund I Ltd - run by Jonathan Honig - loaned Doge $1.9million After acquisition former Doge shareholders will own over 60% of combined company www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Trump, Crypto and a New Age of Corruption Report on how Trump profits from crypto deals (World Liberty Financial, memecoins, Trump Media etc) and $ from foreign actors & corp interests, while regulations scale back, from @democrats-judiciary.house.gov democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
From 2023: Brad Parscale is working for Trump 2024 campaign and is linked to Texas billionaire Tim Dunn, Hexagon and Angel Protection a company piloting technology to detect school shooters Story mentions Campaign Nucleus, Dyspatchit, BCVM Services work for Trump PACs newstracs.com/brad-parscal...
A few notes on the 1730 page Jack Smith subpoena released by Chuck Grassley Jan 6th is mentioned almost 100 times Various Trump PACs (200+ times) Bradley Parscale (286) Andrew Surabian (262) Gary Coby (236) Along w/Parscale, Surabian, Coby companies www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Don Jr is a partner at 1789 Capital founded by Omeed Malik, Chris Buskirk, Rebekah Mercer - all part of the Rockbridge Network An item not getting enough coverage: 1789 initially raised $150M+ from Rebekah Mercer per an SEC filing communication from Malik www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
My 2024 piece featuring Chris Buskirk - Chart and overview of key links for J.D. Vance with mentor Peter Thiel, the little-known Rockbridge Network and 2016 kingmaker Rebekah Mercer newstracs.com/chart-and-ov...
Here's my 2019 chart on the alleged Kazakhstan Bayrock money laundering scheme involving Felix Sater - this recent trial was against Sater (not Bayrock) newstracs.com/alleged-kaza...
Brittany Kaiser is CEO of AlphaTON, formerly named Portage Biotech co-founded by Brexit supporter Jim Mellon, who is a large investor Selling shareholders lists Yat Sui's Brisk Thrive Int'l with 17.59% and Hogarth Ventures (at same address) with 11.59% www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
AlphaTON Capital leadership team and advisors Strategic advisors, include "Anthony Scaramucci, CEO of SkyBridge; Michael Terpin, widely recognized as the “Godfather of Crypto” and author of The Bitcoin Supercycle; and Jaime Rogozinski, founder of Wall Street Bets." www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
The Financial Times reported that Brittany Kaiser was in discussions with Canadian investment group RSV Capital I noted there is an RSV Capital aka Red Shark Ventures in Canada led by several businessmen from Russia and many had been involved with Russia's Skolkovo newstracs.com/eric-trumps-...
Yesterday I published this piece on PragerU spending tens of millions on Facebook/Google advertising newstracs.com/prageru-is-m... Today PragerU published a 55 min interview with their CEO Marissa Streit interviewing (aka reputation laundering) Hungarian PM Viktor Orban
For anyone not familiar with PragerU here is an overview of the nonprofit (which is not accredited to award any degrees) and some of their largest donors I report on top 5 contractors 2018-2024 with $44.5M spent on Facebook and $38M on Google newstracs.com/prageru-is-m...
The prospectus shows beneficial owners of New America Acquisition 1 Corp before and after the offering with a footnote saying CEO Kevin McGurn "only has a direct economic interest in a limited number of the shares held by New America Sponsor I LLC" - begging the question, who owns the other shares?
My story from 2023 on Rowland Marcus Andrade How a crypto case involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff links to Maria Butina, Paul Erickson and a U.S.-Ukraine businessman with oligarch ties newstracs.com/how-a-crypto...
An entity called Etoiles Trust gave $50K to Empower NYC - but I can't find any information on who is behind them (let me know if anyone can find more info) www.transparencyusa.org/ny/committee...
I put together a compilation of some 5 min PragerU videos for older students, with titles: As the rich get richer, the poor get richer Why you should love Fossil Fuel Income inequality is good Why I don't want and don't deserve reparations Gun rights are women's rights newstracs.com/financial-hi...
I searched SEC database on part of note from the World Liberty Financial Form D filing - "excludes amounts offered and sold to non-US persons" - and those words don't appear on other Form Ds It's striking that almost 100% of offering will be paid out to Trump and friends bsky.app/profile/wend...
Since Trump likes it so much when other people get media coverage, can Time please do one of these for Stephen Miller?
In March I published a story on a Russian-American businessman who loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022 and apparent links to Don Jr. and Eric Trump's new business ventures I found that Brittany Kaiser was Gryphon Board Chair during a deal linked to that network newstracs.com/news-on-russ...
It's good to see the media finally covering Dominari - I reported a lot of the information in the Bloomberg article previously - including that Dominari paid $750K in rent to Trump Tower and that in addition to Eric and Don Jr, 3 other Trump Org execs own Dominari shares newstracs.com?s=dominari
In March I reported on some of Don Jr and Eric Trump's business partners and found a connection with Gryphon Digital where Brittany Kaiser had been board chair I noted "maybe there is more to these connections than meets the eye" - today's news shows I was right newstracs.com/news-on-russ...
Oh the irony - Trump Media & Technology Group which operates Truth Social (Truth+ and FinTech brand Truth.Fi) announced today that Trump Media streaming apps are now available in Canada and Mexico "Truth+ Apps Can Be Downloaded North and South of the Border" www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...