Coming 9/20: Something Big
Suspicious Activity: Inside the FinCEN Files
Pineapple Street Studios, BuzzFeed News
4.2 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So Jason, I have a really easy first question for you. Can you explain what this story is? |
| 0:08.1 | Well, what is this story? |
| 0:11.0 | Let's stop that right there, because I can't tell you what this story is. Not yet. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Azeen Gureshi, a reporter and editor at BuzzFeed News. For over a year now, my colleagues at BuzzFeed, Jason Leopold, Anthony Cormier, and loads of others, |
| 0:25.6 | have been chasing down the biggest story of their lives. |
| 0:27.6 | It's a massive investigation into a pervasive pattern of global criminal wrongdoing. |
| 0:32.6 | You know, our reporting shows that they always get away with this. |
| 0:36.6 | We see actual human beings pulling the levers. You know, our reporting shows that they always get away with this. |
| 0:45.3 | We see actual human beings pulling the levers that allow this sort of criminal misconduct to go on. |
| 0:47.4 | It's a story so big. |
| 0:51.5 | It's not just bigger than anything that I've done or the BuzzFeed's done. |
| 0:54.5 | I think this is literally the biggest reporting project. |
| 1:00.8 | Ever. And still, the story is so commonplace that it touches all of us. |
| 1:05.8 | The course of your life can be dictated by something that you can't see, most of us can't understand, and yet the power that exerts is huge, you know? |
| 1:10.0 | On September 20th, we'll reveal what this story is |
| 1:13.6 | and give you an inside look into how BuzzFeed got it. |
| 1:17.1 | I've never seen anything like it in my life. |
| 1:20.1 | There were so many incoming messages. |
| 1:22.7 | Again and again and again and again. |
| 1:23.9 | It was going ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. |
| 1:25.1 | Like, it was going crazy. |
| 1:31.3 | From Pineapple Street Studios and BuzzFeed News, it's... I'm sorry, we can't tell you the title of the show either. |
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