Founder Investigation
The record, read closely
The Record Check

Soar Aviation: what the public record actually shows

Australia's largest independent flight school collapsed in December 2020, and the internet has been assigning blame ever since. We went back to the primary record: who owned what, who ran what, and when. The answer is more precise than the coverage.

Investigation

The blood test that never worked

Theranos remains the reference case for founder fraud: the claims, the trial, and what was actually proven in court.

Investigation

FTX: the eight billion dollar hole

How customer funds moved, what the trial established, and why "it was a liquidity crisis" did not survive contact with the evidence.

Investigation

Wirecard: the money that never existed

A DAX company, an auditor, and 1.9 billion euros that was never there. The European fraud that rewrote diligence rules.

Investigation

Greensill: the model was the risk

Supply-chain finance, concentrated insurance, and a collapse that reached into governments and global banks.

Investigation

WeWork: a governance failure, not a fraud

No charges were ever brought. What the S-1 revealed, what the collapse in valuation proved, and the difference between the two.

The Record Check

"WeWork was a fraud": testing the claim

A claim repeated daily online, checked against filings, reporting and the absence of any enforcement action.