NYT: In 2021, the US government secretly entered into a contract with spyware developer Pegasus, which it had sanctioned 5 days earlier
In November 2021, the US government, through a series of front companies, entered into a contract with the Israeli company NSO Group, which had been sanctioned five days earlier for developing spyware. This is reported by The New York Times, whose journalists studied the contract. The deal was concluded between a small government contractor and one of the "daughters" of the Israeli company, according to the investigation.