Today’s New York Times has a valuable investigative report that explains how days before the end of Donald Trump’s term, U.S. Treasury Department economic sanctions that had hampered Israeli businessman Dan Gertler were mysteriously lifted. The report shows how celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz, along with “high-powered connections in Israel,” helped get the stiff sanctions rolled back for a year, which gave Gertler “access to money frozen in U.S. banks and allowed him once again to do business with financial institutions worldwide.”

Alan Dershowitz convinced Trump to remove criminal Israeli businessman Dan Gertler from a blacklist in last days in office. The DR Congo will suffer. The country is torn by the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II; by one estimate, 5 million people have died in series of wars.

Dan Gertler, Israeli looter of oil assets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is too corrupt for the Trump administration, which has ruled that he cannot do business in the U.S. But Alan Dershowitz has now registered as a lobbyist for Gertler, presumably to argue for the removal of Treasury Department sanctions against Gertler as a “malign” actor.

A retired Israeli general commits crimes in Africa, and his government does nothing. Israel Ziv has sold $150 million of weapons to the South Sudan gov’t, and the US gov’t says he stoked the conflict so as to get even more business.

Alan Dershowitz has a new cause. The criminal Israeli businessman, Dan Gertler, has looted the DR Congo, one of the poorest nations on earth.