How Cambridge Analytica fueled a shady global passport bonanza

July 1, 2018 Good afternoon, The now-bankrupt political firm Cambridge Analytica faces a litany of [investigations and lawsuits]( over its work for Donald Trump and others in the US and the UK, but it also left its mark on elections in dozens of other countries. Today, Ann Marlowe (who broke open part of the [Cambridge Analytica stor](y at Tablet back in 2016) [investigates the ways the Anglo-American firm helped undergird a quiet, lucrative, and fast-growing market for passports](. Citizenship by investment programs, or CIP, give wealthy buyers greater freedom, but authorities allege, they also help bypass sanctions, and abet criminals and terrorists. "Political refugee asylum can be purchased," Jay Z rapped on 2017's "Otis," (as Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen, has pointed out.) "Everything’s for sale / I got five passports, I’m never going to jail.” For SCL, the work was also a chance to deploy an arsenal of dirty campaign tactics, according to one former employee who spoke with Fast Company. During a final confrontation with then-SCL CEO Alexander Nix, "I said to him, 'You're going to get someone killed.'" —Alex Pasternack [How Cambridge Analytica fueled a shady global passport bonanza]( [How Cambridge Analytica fueled a shady global passport bonanza]( A controversial multibillion-dollar citizenship-for-sale business led the disgraced data firm to work on political campaigns in a number of island nations. [My three decades at Disney taught me not to fear automation]( [My three decades at Disney taught me not to fear automation]( Data and artificial intelligence can combine to achieve extraordinary things, but robots will never be able to eclipse the human imagination. [Watch IBM’s TV ad touting its first portable PC, a 50-lb marvel]( [Watch IBM’s TV ad touting its first portable PC, a 50-lb marvel]( For as little as $9,000, this tabletop machine let any business enter the computer era. [There’s only one way for T-Mobile/Sprint to satisfy regulators]( [There’s only one way for T-Mobile/Sprint to satisfy regulators]( If T-Mobile and Sprint try to sell the merger as a simple combo of minor wireless carriers to an antitrust-happy DOJ, even Corey Lewandowski will be powerless to help. [America’s slow, scary transformation into “The Handmaid’s Tale”]( [America’s slow, scary transformation into “The Handmaid’s Tale”]( A prominent TV journalist urged others in the media to not compare America to Gilead. This week proved to be a remarkably Gilead kind of week, though. [How Atlanta United’s innovative recruiting changed Major League Soccer]( [How Atlanta United’s innovative recruiting changed Major League Soccer]( Atlanta United wanted something different from their star designated players—and that decision radically changed recruiting for the MLS. [These low-tech indoor gardens bring vegetables to your kitchen]( [These low-tech indoor gardens bring vegetables to your kitchen]( Aggressively Organic wants to improve diets (and fight food insecurity) by making growing your own produce as simple as possible. Share This Newsletter Did someone forward you this email? Subscribe [here!]( Like this email? Consider signing up for our other newsletters [here](. Too many emails? Update your subscription preferences [here](. No longer want to receive this newsletter? Unsubscribe [here](. Mansueto Ventures, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007-2195