LEO DICAPRIO'S DIRTY DOLLARS

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LEO DICAPRIO'S DIRTY DOLLARS

A look inside the celebrity activist's entourage of corrupt foreign government leaders and other sleazy associates.

 

August 25, 2016 Michelle Malkin

Actor-playboy Leonardo DiCaprio walked away from a fender bender in the Hamptons this weekend without a scratch.

 

But the outspoken liberal should not escape unscathed from his train wreck of high-dollar financial dealings with donors and businessmen in one of world's most rotten regimes.

 

Forget about the saving the environment, son. Clean up your entourage.

 

Tinseltown's self-proclaimed "King of the World" is entangled with accused kleptocrats in Malaysia. The activist celebrity ostentatiously condemned the "politics of greed" at the Oscars in February. Yet, he's been partying it up with some of Kuala Lumpur's most corruption-stained elites.

 

Recent investigations by The Hollywood Reporter tied donations received by DiCaprio's charitable foundation to a shady Malaysian government "sovereign wealth fund" known as 1MDB. Instead of being spent on economic development as intended, an estimated $3 billion from the public investment fund allegedly disappeared into offshore companies, shell accounts and the pockets of the prime minister's cronies. The money-laundering scheme that spans three continents is the subject of a sprawling Justice Department probe and asset recovery case