Category: Current Events

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

** spoiler alert ** Wow. My brain is fried from reading this.

I’ve been following the 1MDB scandal closely ever since it was raised by Sarawak Report. And I have talked to innocent acquaintances who had worked there as well. But nothing could have prepared me for the scale and scope of the 1MDB scandal that has been vividly retold in this grippingly well researched book.

Malaysians have recently been bombarded with political mudslinging from both sides of the aisle. The relentless exchange of political bombs not only failed to abate during the fasting month– when tempers are usually kept in check– but instead, intensified. Scandal after scandal dominated both mainstream and alternative media, setting tongues wagging and social media on fire.

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