Just over five months ago, Edi Rama, leader of Albania’s Socialist Party, won his fourth consecutive election to remain prime minister, a post he has held since 2013. As Albania’s Riviera became the in-destination for the jet-setting crowd, Rama became the toast of society.

Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative Forum in May 2025, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, spoke about how he met Rama on the Rothschilds’ yacht in 2021 while cruising the Adriatic Sea. In June 2025, Rama gave a toast at Alexander Soros’s Hamptons wedding to Huma Abedin. And while diplomats like then-U.S. Ambassador to Albania Yuri Kim cruised on Rama’s boat and, according to Albanian officials, accepted his gifts while rationalizing the imprisonment of his political rivals, Rama has transf

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