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Investigating Jared And Ivanka’s ‘Bond Villain Lair’ In Albania (S01E85)
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026, Istanbul
Tiny Albania has upended Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s multi-billionaire scheme to use Gulf money to buy an island and an environmentally sensitive stretch of mainland for resort projects. For now it looks like EU-empowered anticorruption prosecutors, emboldened by continued mass protests against the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, have put the projects on ice.
In today’s podcast, I speak with Albania-based investigative journalist Mitch Prothero, who has been covering…
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