Russia's Best Friend in India Just Got a $300 Billion Deal From Trump

Mar 26

HEADER: IRS Criminal Referrals Against the Ultrawealthy Collapsed Under Trump DESCRIPTION: At most 2 criminal referrals in Trump's first year, down from 7 per year. Zero from Oct 2025 to Jan 2026. The billionaire audit unit lost 38% of its staff. Tax scheme investigations collapsed 63%. A former cor...Read more

HEADER: IRS Criminal Referrals Against the Ultrawealthy Collapsed Under Trump DESCRIPTION: At most 2 criminal referrals in Trump's first year, down from 7 per year. Zero from Oct 2025 to Jan 2026. The billionaire audit unit lost 38% of its staff. Tax scheme investigations collapsed 63%. A former corporate tax lobbyist is now acting IRS chief counsel. FEATURED LINK: dekleptocracy.substack.com SECONDARY LINKS: - ICIJ investigation: IRS criminal referrals plummeted - Common Dreams: Who is leading Trump's IRS? - Sen. Whitehouse: Probing collapse in IRS investigations - ICIJ: How the IRS went soft on billionaires - ICIJ: After mass firings, audits of wealthy at risk TAGLINE: Anti-corruption investigations that follow the money and name the names.

Mar 26

HEADER: War Profiteering: $580 Million Traded Before Trump's Iran Post DESCRIPTION: Someone traded $580 million in oil futures 16 minutes before the president announced a pause on Iran strikes. Polymarket traders with anonymous accounts made hundreds of thousands. The SEC enforcement director resign...Read more

HEADER: War Profiteering: $580 Million Traded Before Trump's Iran Post DESCRIPTION: Someone traded $580 million in oil futures 16 minutes before the president announced a pause on Iran strikes. Polymarket traders with anonymous accounts made hundreds of thousands. The SEC enforcement director resigned. The DOJ Public Integrity Section was gutted from 36 lawyers to 2. FEATURED LINK: dekleptocracy.substack.com SECONDARY LINKS: - Axios: Trump Iran oil insider trading investigation - CBS News: $1.5 billion suspicious trading before Iran announcement - Fortune: Polymarket war bets investigation - NOTUS: DOJ Public Integrity Section reduced to two lawyers - Public Citizen: 159 enforcement actions canceled TAGLINE: Anti-corruption investigations that follow the money and name the names.

Mar 26

HEADER: Trump created a fraud task force. He's pardoned $1.3 billion in fraud. DESCRIPTION: Yesterday Trump signed an EO creating the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Since January 2025 he has pardoned at least 16 convicted fraudsters, wiping $1.3 billion in restitution owed to crime victims. Lobbyist...Read more

HEADER: Trump created a fraud task force. He's pardoned $1.3 billion in fraud. DESCRIPTION: Yesterday Trump signed an EO creating the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Since January 2025 he has pardoned at least 16 convicted fraudsters, wiping $1.3 billion in restitution owed to crime victims. Lobbyists charge $1 million for pardon applications. The task force targets food stamp fraud, not the pardoned billions. FEATURED LINK: dekleptocracy.substack.com SECONDARY LINKS: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-judiciary-democrats-analysis-reveals-trump-s-corrupt-pardon-spree-cheated-crime-victims-of-13-billion | whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-the-task-force-to-eliminate-fraud/ TAGLINE: Dekleptocracy Alliance — Putting anti-corruption on the national political agenda.

Mar 26

HEADER: Russia Delivered Attack Helicopters to Iran — The €500M Arms Pipeline Goes Both Ways DESCRIPTION: Up to six Mi-28NE Night Hunters confirmed in Tehran. A secret €500 million arms deal signed in Moscow, December 2025. Iran supplied Russia $4B+ in drones for Ukraine. Now Russia is paying back i...Read more

HEADER: Russia Delivered Attack Helicopters to Iran — The €500M Arms Pipeline Goes Both Ways DESCRIPTION: Up to six Mi-28NE Night Hunters confirmed in Tehran. A secret €500 million arms deal signed in Moscow, December 2025. Iran supplied Russia $4B+ in drones for Ukraine. Now Russia is paying back in attack helicopters. FEATURED LINK: dekleptocracy.substack.com SECONDARY LINKS: united24media.com/latest-news/iran-receives-first-russian-mi-28ne-attack-helicopter-as-us-pressures-escalate-15465 | carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2026/02/russia-iran-military-support TAGLINE: Dekleptocracy Alliance — Putting anti-corruption on the national political agenda.

Mar 26

HEADER: Bannon Says ICE at Airports Is a Test Run for Armed Agents at Polling Places DESCRIPTION: Steve Bannon admitted ICE airport deployments are rehearsal for stationing armed federal agents at polling places during the 2026 midterms. Federal law 18 USC 592 makes this a crime. Project 2025 built ...Read more

HEADER: Bannon Says ICE at Airports Is a Test Run for Armed Agents at Polling Places DESCRIPTION: Steve Bannon admitted ICE airport deployments are rehearsal for stationing armed federal agents at polling places during the 2026 midterms. Federal law 18 USC 592 makes this a crime. Project 2025 built the framework to do it anyway. FEATURED LINK: dekleptocracy.substack.com TAGLINE: Putting anti-corruption on the national political agenda.