Over the past decade, Gulf State sovereign wealth funds reshaped the world with the help of powerful Western leaders who lined their pockets while turning a blind eye to their benefactors’ unjust and brutal methods of usurping power.
Facing charges of acting as an undisclosed agent of the United Arab Emirates while advising his longtime friend and then-President Donald Trump, Tom Barrack's deep ties to the former head of Saudi intelligence and oil profiteering have remained in the shadows until now.