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		<title>Murdoch the tax dodger</title>
		<link>http://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2011/07/murdoch-the-tax-dodger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 19, 2011 - I am waiting for the media analysts and critics of Rupert Murdoch to mention that the fellow is an egregious tax evader.
An article I posted on the subject four years ago was called "Tax dodging helps Murdoch buy the Journal" and starts out: 

Where did Rupert Murdoch get $5 billion to buy up the Wall St. Journal? Beyond normal profits, his coffers were stuffed by dodging taxes in the U.S. and elsewhere. Some of that is your money! ]]></description>
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		<title>German documentary &#8220;Transit&#8221; searches for truth about a brother who fled to East Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 20, 2011 - "Transit," a fascinating documentary by German filmmaker Angela Zumpe, seeks to understand the story of her 21-year-old brother Reinhard, who in 1968 immigrated from West to East Germany and eight months later – never contacting his family -- jumped from a window to his death.]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Deputy PM says 1,000 Russian banks are money-launderers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 4, 2011 - 

Sergey Ivanov, the Russian deputy prime minister, spoke at a Council on Foreign Relations lunch today. I asked if he thought the U.S. and Russia should get together to put a stop to offshore tax evasion. He smiled and agreed that the two countries need to deal with the international offshore system. That was something to consider in the future. And then he said, "There are more than 1,000 banks in Russia. They are not banks but launderers."]]></description>
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		<title>A Russian spook operation? &#8220;Khodorkovsky&#8221; film mysteriously stolen twice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feb 5, 2011 - The final edit of a film about the jailed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a film to which I contributed, has been stolen from the offices of German director Cyril Tuschi. The documentary, "Khodorkovsky," is to have its world premier at the Berlin International Film Festival Feb. 14. I did reporting for the film and also was video-interviewed for it. The film tells Khodorkovsky's story from his youth to the build-up of his oil empire and his political challenge to then President Vladimir Putin. Putin had told the "oligarchs," men who had stolen the Russian patrimony to build their wealth, that he wouldn't bother them as long as they stayed out of politics. Khodorkovsky, however, sought to influence the Duma election. He was arrested in 2003 and then tried and jailed for tax evasion. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-employee who claimed firing over opposition to Haiti bribery settles suit against IDT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan 24, 2011 - The lawsuit filed by a former employee against the Newark-based global telecom IDT is over. J. Michael Jewett, who was an IDT executive, claimed in 2004 that he was fired for opposing bribes to Haitian officials. Lawyers for both sides agreed to drop the complaint and counterclaims in an accord filed with the U.S. District Court in Newark on January 13th. This has not been reported before now.

IDT spokesman Bill Ulrey said, "We have no comment…as usual. Thank you." Jewett's attorney William Perniciaro also declined to discuss the matter. When both sides don’t talk about an agreement to dismiss a case, that normally means a confidential settlement has been reached.]]></description>
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		<title>A preview of what Rudolf Elmer gave WikiLeaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan 17, 2011 - 

Rudolf Elmer appeared with WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange in London today and announced that he had given WikiLeaks two CDs with information about more than 2,000 prominent individuals and companies who evaded taxes or were involved in other criminal activities.

I used Elmer's documents two years ago  to show how  the Julius Baer group adopted a plan in 1996 to utilize its Grand Cayman shell company Baer Select Management (on whose board he served) to help investors in Julius Baer Investment Management New York and JBIM London evade taxes.
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		<title>Lucy asks Condoleezza Rice about WikiLeaks</title>
		<link>http://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2010/12/lucy-asks-condoleezza-rice-about-wikileaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec 6, 2010 - Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday and used the occasion to attack WikiLeaks. I used the occasion to ask her a question: "If WikiLeaks should be charged criminally for putting up this information, should The New York Times be charged criminally for doing the same thing?"]]></description>
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		<title>CNBC Power Lunch: I blame Congress for prisoners&#8217; fraudulent tax refunds</title>
		<link>http://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2010/12/cnbc-power-lunch-i-blame-congress-for-prisoners-fraudulent-tax-refunds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec 4, 2010 - I was invited to CNBC's Power Lunch to talk about a report by the IRS Inspector General that prisoners had received $112 million in tax refunds they shouldn't have gotten. I surprised the interviewers by turning the question to tax cheating by those outside prison walls.]]></description>
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		<title>Lucy on Canadian TV defending WikiLeaks</title>
		<link>http://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2010/12/lucy-on-canadian-tv-defending-wikileaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 30, 2010 - I went on CTV, the Canadian News Network, to debate Martin Collicott, a former Canadian ambassador, over the WikiLeaks document release. Here's a link to the video, done live yesterday, and then the text of what I said.]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists from 40 Countries Join in Support for Wikileaks</title>
		<link>http://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2010/11/journalists-from-40-countries-join-in-support-for-wikileaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 7, 2010 - 

<em>[Update, by Dec it's 60 countries and more than 460 signers.]</em>

Journalists from every region of the world have joined together to support the whistle-blowing organization Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange who, they say, have provided an extraordinary resource for journalists around the world and made "an outstanding contribution to transparency and accountability on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars".

I am one of the organizers of the campaign.

The journalists, many of whom are prominent investigative reporters, come from countries as diverse as Russia and Namibia, and Israel and Indonesia, plus many from European countries and North America. The journalists, who are linked through investigative journalism networks, decided to speak out publicly after watching a growing campaign of threats and unfair criticisms against Assange and Wikileaks.]]></description>
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