A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar Crime
Initial work in this series was recognized with an LA Press Club award in 2022. In 2023, the series was selected as a finalist for Floodlight, an initiative by Fundación Gabo and the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project.
NOTA EDITORIAL: Esta serie de investigación galardonada con un premio del LA Press Club en 2022 fue producida por Aitana Vargas para Investor News entre 2021 y 2026. A continuación reproducimos el trabajo original, acompañado de los documentos y las fotografías que forman parte del expediente. En las próximas semanas, iremos difundiendo las entregas completas, las cuales se divulgaron públicamente después de que la justicia de Los Ángeles desestimara intentos judiciales por parte de una de las presuntas implicadas, Hadari Oshri, de prohibir su publicación. Este trabajo está protegido por la Ley de Protección de Periodistas de California (Cal. Const. Art. I, § 2(b); California Evidence Code § 1070). La Cronista no renuncia a ningún privilegio o derecho al proceder a su difusión.
AN IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 22, 2021, Hadari Oshri –Marc Lubaszka’s business partner– filed a frivolous civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) against me to stop the publication of my investigative series “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar crime,” and any subsequent installments or future media coverage. On August 3, 2021, I filed an anti-SLAPP motion to strike Oshri’s CHRO petition. In a hearing held on September 13, 2021, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Doreen Boxer granted my anti-SLAPP motion and denied Oshri’s civil harassment petition for failure to sustain the applicable burden of proof. CA's powerful anti-SLAPP statute mandates that the losing party, in this case Oshri, pay the prevailing party's attorney’s fees. She also declined to go on a recorded interview or provide statements via email. And what follows are the next installments of my months-long investigative series whose publication Oshri desperately attempted yet failed to stop.
"It's been ten years of desperation" - Steve Gern
"Your publication (Aitana) may be the only satisfaction any of us ever receive" - David Coonrod
The Investigation
The Legal Journey: The Court Records & Legal Battles to Suppress this Investigation
Published Series Chronology
May 30th, 2021: Marc Lubaszka, the ultimate white-collar conman on the run: From a Hollywood Hills mansion to Venezuela’s illegal gold mines and back
September 15th, 2021: Hadari Oshri loses anti-SLAPP court battle to award-winning news correspondent Aitana Vargas
October 13th, 2021: Hadari Oshri's losses mount up as she fails again to silence her victims
November 9th, 2021: The Legal Bullies Club - The SLAPPers: Featuring Hadari Oshri
November 12th, 2021: Marc Lubaszka’s nonexistent private jets failed to deliver PPE amid the COVID-19 pandemic
November 14th, 2021: Pursuing flash money, rapper Dylan Rottkov (aka Dylan Raw) partners with conman Marc Lubaszka and becomes his patsy
February 22nd, 2022: Hadari Oshri allegedly linked to attempted $370M nonexistent PPE COVID-19 scheme
March 10th, 2022: Hadari Oshri deactivates LinkedIn account following PPE exposé
April 2nd, 2022: Hadari Oshri sued for copyright infringement in 2017
July 7th, 2022: Hadari Oshri's meritless legal plan and sloppy PR campaign backfired
April 9th, 2022: A 2019 court case against Hadari Oshri exposes her dodgy, aggressive legal maneuvers
August 13th, 2022: Hadari Oshri and Patrick Seller sued for $225K for non-delivery of COVID-19 i-home test kits
May 14th, 2023: Hadari Oshri’s Gaya Ventures site claims she’s joined forces with convicted businessman Orlando Birbragher in new biz venture
PRESERVATION EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY. WE'LL CONTINUE TO ADD EXISTING CONTENT TO THIS PAGE.
PRESERVATION OF RECORDS: Screenshots, source documents and published versions of this investigation are being contemporaneously archived at the Internet Archive (archive.org) for public record and evidentiary purposes.














