Welcome back to the podcast, bribe, swindle, or steel.

Today we're talking about a foreign financial crime story involving Ukrainian oligarch

Kolomoisky, with tragic consequences and right in the heart of America.

It hasn't received the level of interest and outrage that I at least

think it should. Joining me is Michael Sala. Michael is a Pulitzer Prize winner and now Senior Investigations

editor with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and he's going to talk us through the Dirty Dollars

Investigation. Thank you for joining us, Michael. Hi, glad to be here, Alexandra. I'm going to turn this straight over to you to set the scene.

It's an extensive story you've done phenomenal work on it,

and I'd like to just let you tell it for our listeners.

This started a couple of years ago, actually.

I was with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ.

We launched a project with BuzzFeed News called The Fence and Files.

We were able to get secret records from the banks when they filed these suspicious activity reports.

And we came upon millions of dollars coming over to the United States through Deutsche Bank. And the money belonged to was for the benefit of Igor Kolomoisky, a power broker,

oligarch from a Ukraine, very controversial character,

who we've always had an interest as one of these characters who's kind of out there,

pulling the strings in Eastern Europe and other places.

And he had actually emerged in the midst of the first impeachment investigation involving

President Trump, very small role.

But we started, so we started really looking at what was going on between him, Deutsche Bank,

and the money coming in the United States, millions and millions of dollars.

So as we tracked this, we were able to get other records, forensic audits that were already done

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