Power. Money. Connections. Properly filed.
“We keep the receipts.”

John reads the paperwork. John checks the receipts. John follows the connections. John stamps the file. John does not make criminal findings. Courts and investigators do that. John is reviewing the receipts.
The European Union Desk is public-record satire, not activism. Every factual statement is sourced and every legal status is dated. Investigated is not the same as guilty; alleged is not the same as proven. The Department states procedural facts; John supplies the satire.
Where did the money go? Who received it? Who knew whom? Who was investigated? What exactly was alleged? What was actually proven? Who was charged, acquitted, convicted? Who kept immunity? Who resigned, who stayed? What money was recovered? And, when the headlines stopped: where does the case stand today?