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Aspiration Partners co-founder Joe Sanberg sentenced to 14 years in prison for US$248 million fraud
“This case has touched almost every badge of fraud.”
 • Chris Lang
How a US$29.5 million deal failed to deliver a single carbon credit. Featuring Zero Carbon Holdings, Four Thirteen, Aspiration Partners, Sea…
And two very iffy-looking REDD projects in Brazil: The Zero Carbon Aripuanã Valley REDD project 1; and the 413 REDD project.
 • Chris Lang
Joe Sanberg, co-founder of carbon trading company Aspiration, pleads guilty to US$248 million fraud
But will the Commodity Futures Trading Commission complete its investigation into the carbon credits that Aspiration bought?
 • Chris Lang
Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: Featuring Steve Ballmer, Aspiration Partners, the LA Clippers, and Kawhi Leonard’s “no show…
The podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out” obtained 3,487 pages of internal corporate documents from Aspiration.
 • Chris Lang
Joe Sanberg, co-founder of Aspiration Partners, to plead guilty to US$248 million scheme to defraud investors
Sanberg “admitted to being nothing more than a self-serving fraudster”.
 • Chris Lang
Verra has suspended the Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon project for the second time
Survival International: This is “an unprecedented indictment of the scheme” which “highlights Verra’s repeated failures”.
 • Chris Lang
Aspiration Partners, a company that signed a deal to sell 6.75 million carbon credits to Meta, has filed for bankruptcy
Aspiration’s co-founder Joe Sanberg has been arrested. Board member and investor, Ibrahim AlHusseini, has signed a plea agreement.
 • Chris Lang
Aspiration’s Joe Sanberg arrested
Ibrahim AlHusseini has signed a plea agreement.
 • Chris Lang
Criminal fraud case against major Democrat donor Ibrahim AlHusseini dismissed
AlHusseini was accused of involvement in a US$150 million fraud case linked to Aspiration Partners.
 • Chris Lang
The unravelling of Aspiration and the arrest of Ibrahim AlHusseini. “Clean rich is the new filthy rich”
An investor allegedly lost more than US$150 million. “AlHusseini personally received more than $12 million in ill-gotten gains,” according to court…
 • Chris Lang
Aspiration is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission about the quality of its carbon offsets
How Aspiration went from a fintech investment firm to a carbon broker.
 • Chris Lang
The International Finance Corporation’s Carbon Opportunities Fund: Cryptocarbon, blockchain, and US corporations registered in the tax haven…
The International Finance Corporation has launched the Carbon Opportunities Fund, “a global investment platform that will raise private capital for an…
 • Chris Lang
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