Headline: New York Times, 9/20/2025
Debra Kamin explains:
To help us mobilize, editors across the investigation units broke the reporters into smaller groups and gave us each a focus. My group was charged with investigating Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy to the Middle East. Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Witkoff made his fortune in real estate, and the real estate development company that he founded, the Witkoff Group, is now being run by his son Alex.
My teammates and I began mapping out Steve Witkoff’s financial empire, compiling spreadsheets listing all of his properties and the people he was partnered with. We asked the research team at The Times to pull every lawsuit they could find in which Mr. Witkoff was named as a defendant, so we could get a clear understanding of any potential legal entanglements he was still facing. Who was he invested with? Which banks did he take loans from? \
That work led me to a key source who told us to look closer at Mr. Witkoff’s partnerships with sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf, especially Qatar. Qatar, which has served as a key moderator alongside Mr. Witkoff in the Israel-Hamas negotiations, has for years used its oil wealth to buy influence across the world. Mr. Witkoff, our source told us, had deep entanglements with the Qataris.
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