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  Ponzi Schemes, Private Yachts, and a Missing $250 Million in Crypto: The Strange Tale of Quadriga

  Vanity Fair - Nathaniel Rich

  “THE MERCY OF THE WAVES” The smiling boy visited Sunnybrook Yachts in the summer of 2017, after the value of Bitcoin had reached an all-time high, having tripled in five months. Sunnybrook is the largest yacht brokerage on Canada’s east coast. Its clients tended to be surgeons and litigators and …

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  Lindsey Graham Gives Trump the Biden Investigation He's Been Begging for

  Vanity Fair - Alison Durkee

  President Donald Trump may not have ultimately been successful in his pressure campaign to get the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden—but at least he has Senator Lindsey Graham to do his bidding instead. Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, signaled his …

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  Fiona Hill Sets Republicans’ Impeachment Defenses On Fire

  Vanity Fair - Bess Levin

  A common thread throughout the impeachment hearings has been Republicans’ attempts to get witnesses to agree with some completely baseless conspiracy theory they think will exonerate Donald Trump. We’re paraphrasing slightly, but most of the questions have been along the lines of: “Are you familiar …

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  “Everyone Knows What Happened. Let’s Vote.”: Democrats Hope to Close the Impeachment Deal at the Thanksgiving Day Table

  Vanity Fair - Abigail Tracy

  It’s hard to believe it’s only been a week. The public phase of the House impeachment inquiry has proven to be a head-spinning display of career bureaucrats and diplomats, and in one case a political appointee, laying out in excruciating and damning detail Donald Trump’s effort to pressure the …

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  “It Is Hard to Read This as Anything but a Warning”: New Polling Suggests Democrats’ Impeachment Push Could Alienate Key Voters

  Vanity Fair - Ken Stern

  It was a brief, shining moment for congressional Democrats: As details of Trump’s Ukrainian phone call spilled out, and as House Democrats revved the impeachment engine, early polls evidenced strong support for removing Donald Trump from office. Though much of that support came from Democrats, …

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  Mark Zuckerberg Had a Secret Dinner With Trump and Peter Thiel

  Vanity Fair - Eric Lutz

  When Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Washington last month to discuss his controversial cryptocurrency with lawmakers, he had another meeting that wasn’t publicly known: a dinner with Donald Trump at the White House. As NBC News reported Wednesday, Zuckerberg and Trump-supporting Facebook board member …