Actor Leonardo DiCaprio walked away from a fender bender in the Hamptons without a scratch. But the outspoken liberal should not escape unscathed from his train wreck of high-dollar financial dealings with donors and businessmen in one of world's most rotten regimes.

Tinseltown's self-proclaimed “King of the World” is entangled with accused kleptocrats in Malaysia. The activist celebrity ostentatiously condemned the “politics of greed” at the Oscars in February. Yet, he's been partying it up with some of Kuala Lumpur's most corruption-stained elites.

Recent investigations by The Hollywood Reporter tied donations received by DiCaprio's charitable foundation to a shady Malaysian government “sovereign wealth fund” known as 1MDB. Instead of being spent on economic development as intended, an estimated $3 billion from the public investment fund allegedly disappeared into offshore companies, shell accounts and the pockets of the prime minister's cronies.

The alleged money-laundering scheme that spans three continents is the subject of a sprawling Justice Department probe and asset recovery case.

DiCaprio is not accused of any wrongdoing, but two key players named by DOJ are more than just passing acquaintances of his. They are Riza Aziz, the stepson of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, and Malaysian billionaire businessman Jho Low, who financed Aziz's film company, Red Granite — which underwrote DiCaprio's 2013 flick, “The Wolf of Wall Street,” with $100 million.

Low — a frequent party pal of DiCaprio's, with the around-the-world carbon footprint to match — allegedly used purloined funds to pay for lavish art, real estate and a week-long, 11-million-dollar Las Vegas gambling jaunt with DiCaprio.

This is not the first time DiCaprio has been enmeshed in funding funny business. In exchange for his equity investment and political advocacy of electric carmaker Fisker Automotive (an infamous beneficiary of President Obama's crony green energy loan-guarantee program), the company agreed to support his charitable foundation and join him in a “mutual promotional arrangement via his organization dedicated to global sustainability.”

Unfortunately for taxpayers who were forced to subsidize unsustainable Fisker to the tune of $529 million in green stimulus bucks, the company's product was a bust. While DiCaprio proudly touted his ownership of the first Fisker product to roll off the production lines, the $100,000 luxury hybrid Karma, the government-backed vehicle became an embarrassing symbol of federal eco-scams.

For every car sold, Fisker squandered $660,000 in tax dollars and private investment. It outsourced manufacturing to Finland, laid off its American workforce and went bankrupt in 2013.

Recently DiCaprio raised eyebrows when he bowed out of hosting a tony campaign fundraiser for his gal Hillary Clinton amid concerns that her own pay-for-play foundation troubles might invite more scrutiny of his.

I can't stop feeling that if Hollywood gets its way in November, Madam Moneybags soon will be dispensing more government-funded quid pro quo favors disguised as DiCaprio-esque do-goodism to show her appreciation. Dirty birds of a feather flock together.

Michelle Malkin is a senior editor at Conservative Review.

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