Reported by Michael Levenson (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/kars4kids-advertising-banned-california.html) Kars4Kids, the charity known for its repetitive jingle that sticks like glue in a listener’s brain, must stop broadcasting its ads in California, a judge ruled. Judge Gassia Apkarian of the Superior Court of California, in Orange County, found that Kars4Kids’s […]

Reported by Dan McGarry (OCCRP), Emanuel Stoakes (OCCRP), Gareth Vaughan (Interest.co.nz), Mattias Carlsson (Expressen), Yana Mickevich and Dzmitry Charapahau (BIC), Karolis Jursys, Gabrielė Navickaitė and Jūratė Damulytė (15Min.lt) (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-worldclear-files/inside-the-tiny-new-zealand-firm-that-transferred-millions-for-high-risk-clients) The story uncovered by the  Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is not really about one tiny […]