Sunday, May 19

Cults, Corruption and Scams: Here’s Some of Our Top Crime Stories

ILLUSTRATION: OWAIN ANDERSON

It’s difficult to develop a “finest of” list of criminal offense reporting, since real criminal activity stories can make quite dreadful reading. They’re typically the most impactful, and they’ve been a part of VICE given that our starts back in the 90s. Authorities corruption, fraudsters, business rip-offs, frontline stories of cartel violence– you call it, we’ve covered it.

Take our Andrew Tate stories– our protection of everybody’s least preferred male influencer is a traditional example of our signature mix of culture and criminal offense, like this VICE World News unique of his WhatsApp messages, for example or our intimate profile from the culture desk of a boy who left Tate’s get-rich cult.

There’s stories like this Noisey traditional about wannabe rap artist Chad Focus, who scammed his day task to money his music and purchase phony fans. Or this VICE World News longread about how cops failures resulted in serial killer Stephen Port practically getting away with actual murder. Or this Broadly profile of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, performed while she was still in maximum-security prison. Whether it was on VICE, VICE News, Noisey or any of our other storied verticals of the past, we covered a few of the most significant stories worldwide, with gain access to that no one else might get. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of a few of that reporting.

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