Source: The New Republic
by Timothy Noah
“In 1922, Interior Secretary Albert Fall collected about $400,000 from two very rich oilmen, Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny, and granted them government leases to pump $100 million worth of petroleum from Navy reserves in Elk Hills and Buena Vista, California, and in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. … In May, Zach Witkoff, the 32-year-old son of the billionaire Steve Witkoff, announced at a Dubai conference — while sitting beside Eric Trump — that he’d collected $2 billion from one Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who controls the sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates. That $2 billion purchased a stablecoin called USD1 from World Liberty Financial, a crypto firm of which Witkoff père et fils are co-founders, and in which the Trump family owns a 60 percent stake.” (09/17/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200551/trump-witkoff-emiratis-bribery-corruption