Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 105: M&A Insider Trading Ring, Gabbard Probe & Cartel Strategy - 5/8/26

Episode 105 opens with a deep dive into the DOJ's sweeping indictment of 30 people tied to a decade-long insider trading scheme operating through elite M&A law firms including Latham and Watkins and Goodwin Proctor. Ghost connects the indicted network to Trump's executive orders forcing those same firms into $600M of free pro bono work, suggesting Trump had leverage over them long before the arrests. One of the indicted traders, David Brotslovsky, gave a 2013 speech to Jewish business leaders about communal unity the same year the scheme allegedly launched. Ghost also covers Tulsi Gabbard's DNI investigation into intelligence agencies suppressing evidence of Chinese and Venezuelan 2020 election interference, the FBI raid on Virginia senate president Louise Lucas's office, and the DOJ probe of a Fairfax County prosecutor for shielding violent offenders. Trump's new counterterrorism strategy targeting cartels and hemispheric threats gets unpacked alongside the US review of all 53 Mexican consulates. The episode closes with the Iran ceasefire holding in name only, the USS Gerald Ford quietly departing the Middle East, and the EU moving toward sanctions on Israeli West Bank settlements.