After Zac Brettler mysteriously fell to his death in the Thames, his parents, Matthew and Rachelle, discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son, including in dealings with Akbar Shamji and Verinder (Dave )Sharma. Patrick Radden Keefe reports on the case’s many complexities, including an oddly curtailed police investigation.
Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe , a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2006. His books include “ Empire of Pain ” and “ Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland .”
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A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues? Patrick Radden Keefe reports on the investigation.
Patrick Radden Keefe on a new documentary, “We Feed People,” and how the chef’s World Central Kitchen has served twenty million hot meals to displaced Ukrainians since February.
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Patrick Radden Keefe on how Mark Burnett, who produced “The Apprentice,” mythologized Donald Trump as the ultimate business titan, paving Trump’s way to the Presidency.
Patrick Radden Keefe on Astrid Holleeder, who was the star witness in the murder trial of her mob-boss brother, Willem Holleeder, after secretly recording his confessions.
Patrick Radden Keefe on how the Sackler family and its firm, Purdue Pharma, ruthlessly marketed painkillers to generate billions of dollars—and millions of opioid addicts.
Patrick Radden Keefe on the author of “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky,” and his attempt to track down terrorists in Libya, make a film, and crack the case.
Patrick Radden Keefe on the defense attorney Judy Clarke and the Boston Marathon bombing trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2015 report on Gerry Adams and the notorious murders and secret burials that the I.R.A. claimed he authorized during the Troubles, in Northern Ireland.
In 2012, prosecutors accused S.A.C.’s Mathew Martoma of “engineering the most lucrative insider-trading scheme in history.” Patrick Radden Keefe reports.
Patrick Radden Keefe on the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who is known as El Chapo, the notorious head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.
Patrick Radden Keefe on Amy Bishop, a mass shooter with a tragic past.