William E. Cleary Sr. | Cleary’s Notebook News

GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ (September 16, 2026)–This past April, Sweetie, my three-year-old English Labrador Retriever, and I added an evening walk to our daily routine. Including our morning walk, we average between three and four miles each day. With the waning days of summer upon us, those walks will soon be limited by winter weather until spring returns.

Because we walk so much, encountering an aggressive dog every now and then is not unusual.

Last night, for example, a hostile mixed-breed dog charged at us on Stites Avenue near Powell Street. The dog appeared to be part pit bull: short and stocky, with a wide head and muscular build.

Sweetie and I were walking west on Powell Street toward Broadway when we heard a dog barking. As we approached the corner, we found a large broken tree branch blocking the sidewalk. To continue our walk, we had to step into the street.

~ ProPublica

Time and again, ProPublica’s journalists have revealed stories like this one — stories that powerful people would rather stay hidden.

The oligarch in question, Umar Kremlev, footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of Trump Jr.’s wedding expenses, including paying for an elaborate fireworks display and renting a private island for the reception. 

And who is Kremlev? He’s the head of the International Boxing Association (IBA), a scandal-plagued sports group that has been financed by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The Trump Jr. wedding payments came from an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai that the boxing association uses for financial transactions. Kremlev appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the very intimate destination wedding with a guest list of around 50. It included Trump Jr.’s brother-in-law Jared Kushner, Eric Trump — and Kremlev. The oligarch was part of a large group whose presence puzzled other attendees. They sometimes stood off by themselves, speaking Russian.