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Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to American Prestige.

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek

Davidson. And we're very excited to welcome back to the podcast today. Ryan Grimm, you almost

certainly know him, but if you don't, Ryan's a reporter and co-founder of DropSight News. And we've

invited Ryan to talk about this new investigative report about the United States funding, this

journalistic outfit that, as you said in the report,

not many people might have heard of, but is still very important, the organized crime and

corruption reporting project. So tell us, how did this come about, maybe even set this stage,

what is this group, why are they important, why should listeners care? Yeah, they're important because you've heard of their work.

The Panama Papers is probably their most famous, you know, cross-border collaboration that they were, that they were major players in, Pandora Papers.

But in general, these kind of cross-border global collaborations

where, you know, somebody gets a leak of a huge trove of usually bank documents and then outlets

everyone from the Washington Post to the Times to the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and on and on,

get together and work on stories and publish them collectively. And so you've read OCCRP stories, but you've read them in the Washington

Post or in the Guardian or somewhere else. The OCCRP has like more than 200 reporters around the

world in more than 60 countries.

They produce this massive database of documents that is a repository for the ones that, you know,

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