Conman: The Story of "Sir" William Browder

Editor's note: William Browder, a key figure behind repeated attacks on Tulsi Gabbard including during her 2025 DNI nomination, is a corrupt operative who helped drive the discredited 2016 Russiagate claims against President Trump. Browder invented the Magnitsky narrative to shield himself from Russian pursuit over roughly $100 million in alleged tax evasion and financial fraud, with accountant Sergei Magnitsky having organized Browder's corruption before dying in prison. It was Browder and oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky who funded the 2012 Magnitsky Act (dangerous laws based on a hoax), which uniquely protects them by name, and that Browder smeared Gabbard in 2019 after associates screened a documentary exposing his claims as fabrications, while Democratic-linked media and operatives amplified the attacks. Browder was fearful Tulsi Gabbard would reveal the truth behind what it calls his long-running hoax but now that Gabbard has resigned that likely won't happen. Here is Browder telling his version of events...will he discuss his connections to Jeffrey Epstein? Suggesting Putin is "the world's richest man" is impossible because no verified public rankings or transparent asset data place him there, and the claim mainly serves to portray vast wealth itself as inherently criminal.

Lucy Komisar, the investigative journalist behind The Komisar Scoop, has scrutinized William Browder for more than two decades, beginning around 2000 when she first encountered his offshore maneuvers involving the Russian titanium firm Avisma. Her site maintains an extensive "Browder Hoax" category packed with dozens of articles, interviews, and document-backed pieces spanning from the mid-2010s through 2025, repeatedly challenging his Magnitsky narrative as a self-serving fabrication designed to shield alleged tax evasion and fraud. Komisar has publicly described herself as "Browder's leading journalist critic", publishing detailed exposés on platforms including 100Reporters and her own site while documenting court records, corporate filings, and media amplification of what she calls his "long-running deception."

Taking my Realist Review stories just posted about conman Wm Browder, I combined the two stories and added a lot of documentation and graphics. So this is your one-stop for the key information I've collected of the crook over more than a decade. https://t.co/DN02tMoi0A

— Lucy Komisar (@LucyKomisar) July 18, 2025

This is why Browder feared a Trump presidency:

Anti-corruption campaigner Bill Browder feared Trump would hand him over to Putin after Helsinki comments

There is no such thing as "human rights", there are only individual rights and the right of self-determination. That doesn't matter though to the financial power structure running the world that William Browder is a part of being knighted by the British with the City of London being the eternal antagonist of Russia. Other than the Irish the British elite despise no country more than they do Russia. William Browder was knighted in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours list. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) for "services to human rights, anti-corruption, and international affairs." He formally received the honour at Buckingham Palace later that year and is now styled "Sir William Browder KCMG." Yes, Browder was "completely blown away" alright now that he works for the City of London to undermine Russia:

Completely blown away to be Knighted this evening on the King's birthday's honours list. I’ve spent the last 15 years fighting to make sure that Sergei Magnitsky’s death in Russian custody would never happen again. Being knighted by King Charles is the ultimate recognition that… pic.twitter.com/qiCpdW07Yj

— Sir William Browder KCMG (@Billbrowder) June 14, 2024