July 6, 2020
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#332 WE Charity: Lawyers, Guns and Money
We really didn’t expect to find ourselves writing about the WE organization again. But then it became part of the biggest politics story in the country, and we obtained a recording of a strange conversation between one of its founders and a person who was then a senior employee in the group’s Kenyan operations.
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Andréa Schmidt
Managing Editor, Podcasts

Jesse sits down with our managing editor, Andréa Schmidt, to discuss what we learned — and how, while we were investigating WE, one of its lawyers had commissioned his own investigation of us.

 

You can read WE’s responses in full here:

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