Investigative journalist Jacqueline Sweet just published a helluva scoop over at Rolling Stone that looks into the background of a guy I mentioned the other day: Sam Corcos, one of several people named in an executive order as allowed to access Treasury/IRS data. WaPo reported the other day, without providing much background into Corcos, that he had shown up at Treasury demanding access to all taxpayer records.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doge-staffer-corcos-wife-ties-russian-oligarch-1235291673/
tl;dr: Corcos's wife is a Russian woman who spent years at the venture capital firm GVA Capital, which has been exposed as a money laundering vehicle for Suleyman Kerimov, a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
I published a story yesterday based on research into a DOGE guy who is now director of IT at X. The story looked his and his wife's past connections to a series of Russian foundations in California. As that story noted, Jacqueline was super helpful in that reporting, and she credits me for helping with her research.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-is-the-doge-and-x-technician-branden-spikes/
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