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As part of a broader crackdown on thousands of foreign-funded organizations, a major Christian charity, Compassion International, was shut down in 2017 amid accusations it was masterminding religious conversions.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2019

But his coup de grace was masterminding Obama’s stand-up performances at multiple White House Correspondents’ dinners, including the one featuring Keegan-Michael Key as Luther the Anger Translator.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2017

Tourre, a Goldman Sachs bond trader, also wrote in the emails of the impending collapse of the subprime mortgage market and how he was masterminding ways at Goldman to make money from it.

From Reuters • Apr. 25, 2010

The next month, Mr. Yukawa joined Goldman, where Mr. Egol was masterminding the Abacus deals.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2010

By 1988 he was masterminding 220 separate appeals in a single month, creating a legal logjam.

From Time Magazine Archive