WSJ won’t respond to evidence its Browder story is full of fabrications

WSJ won’t respond to evidence its Browder story is full of fabrications

July 8, 2019 – On June 20th, the Wall Street Journal ran this article by reporter Kristin Broughton, “Financier Bill Browder Plays the Long Game to Expose Russian Money-Laundering.” The paper invited comments to moderator@wsj.com, so I sent this, first explaining my background as a prize-winning journalist on financial crime whose past stories have been published by the Journal.

Russian Indictment of Browder for tax evasion and tax refund fraud

Russian Indictment of Browder for tax evasion and tax refund fraud

June 1, 2019 – This is a new and startling Russian charge that William Browder orchestrated the $230 million 2007 tax refund fraud. It claims that Browder organized the use of Hermitage shell companies to claim a fake tax refund in December 2007. He has blamed Russian tax officials for the scam, saying their collaborators re-registered the companies and carried out the legal scam.

Browder lawyer Jonathan Winer files perjured claims in Hermitage court case

Browder lawyer Jonathan Winer files perjured claims in Hermitage court case

May 31, 2019 – What happens when a US lawyer files a court statement that is perjured? Jonathan Winer, a Washington DC counsel to convicted tax evader William Browder, filed a declaration this week supporting a legal petition of Browder‘s Hermitage Capital Management to get banks operating in the US to provide documents he says he needs to defend himself against Russian charges of tax evasion.

Browder files a legal action in US Federal Court, repeats his fakery

Browder files a legal action in US Federal Court, repeats his fakery

May 29, 2019 – William Browder, the owner of the Hermitage Fund, who was run out of Russia in 2006 for tax evasion, is still battling Russian law enforcement authorities attempting to collecting on multi-millions of dollars of tax he failed to pay during his decade as the country‘s largest foreign investor. He has just gone to court in New York to counter yet another Russian indictment for tax evasion. Case 1:19-mc-00262-JMF Document 6-1 Filed 05/28/19

Corrupt “good guys,” Tax Justice Network kills my Browder podcast

Corrupt “good guys,” Tax Justice Network kills my Browder podcast

May 11, 2019 – The Tax Justice Network, organized in 2003 to fight offshore tax evasion and corruption, has censored a podcast its founding director recorded when I spoke at the Offshore Alert Conference in November in London. I didn’t write about this before now, because I though the TJN leaders might change their minds. But it turns out they are either cowardly or corrupt.

Ex-diplomat‘s CFR report relies on “commentaries” as evidence to support Browder hoax

Ex-diplomat‘s CFR report relies on “commentaries” as evidence to support Browder hoax

May 4, 2019 – When journalists, pundits and analysts promote the Browder hoax, one usually has no chance to confront them with facts. They ignore emails. But April 15th, I had the opportunity to ask one. The speaker was Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations. It was an event to promote his report, “Trump‘s Foreign Policies Are Better Than They Seem.”

Offshore Alert Browder hoax panel, London, Nov 2018

Offshore Alert Browder hoax panel, London, Nov 2018

March 5, 2019 – This is the audio of the panel on the Browder/Magnitsky hoax that filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov, Browder tax-fraud collaborator Jamison Firestone of Firestone Duncan, and I spoke at in November 2018 in London. It was called “The Sergei Magnitsky Case: Fact vs. Fiction.” Andrei and I spoke fact, Firestone repeated Browder’s fiction!

On Fault Lines: Bill Browder’s Visit to the European Parliament

On Fault Lines: Bill Browder’s Visit to the European Parliament

Feb 27, 2019 – This is my radio interview today on Fault Lines with Lee Stranahan and Garland Nixon, the latest in a series blowing the whistle on convicted tax cheat and fraudster William Browder. Browder, who used offshore shells to move and launder profits on which he evaded taxes, was invited by the tax committee of the European Parliament to talk about how to combat offshore tax evasion. French member of parliament Nicolas Bay, the only truth-teller there, asked why he had gotten Andrei Nekrasov’s film The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes banned from a screening at the parliament. Browder was enraged!

European Parliament Tax3 Comte bows before offshore tax evader Browder

European Parliament Tax3 Comte bows before offshore tax evader Browder

Feb 19, 2019 – The European Parliament‘s tax committee a few weeks ago invited an admitted tax cheat, William Browder, and welcomed him as an honorable guy who could tell them how to solve the problem that he, evidence shows, represents. It seemed surreal.

The European Parliament created the Tax3 committee to deal with issues raised by the Panama Papers, Luxleaks, Paradise Papers and the like. And Browder, who set up his Russian investment fund on a network of offshore shell companies in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, including one listed in the Panama Papers, was the chief expert at the Jan 29 hearing.

Letter to European Parliament Green Sven Giegold on a resolution to protect tax cheat William Browder

Letter to European Parliament Green Sven Giegold on a resolution to protect tax cheat William Browder

Jan 22, 2019 – To Sven Giegold, German Green member of the European Parliament who heads the Greens-Left caucus on corporate, financial and offshore corruption. We met in 2003 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, when we both were founding members of the Tax Justice Network, set up to fight international tax fraud. I am concerned that the Parliamentary Assembly, a sister organization of the European Parliament where you serve, has Jan 22 adopted a major resolution to urge member countries to pass “Magnitsky Acts” of the sort the US passed in 2012 that would build higher the barrier to the Russians‘ attempt to collect on tax cheat William Browder‘s offshore tax scams.

Lies of WSJ’s Strassel and DOJ indictment

Lies of WSJ’s Strassel and DOJ indictment

Jan 10, 2019 – Lies exposed on my Fault Lines interview today: Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel’s declarations that William Browder’s accountant Sergei Magnitsky was arrested for exposing a tax fraud by Russian officials. Echoed by a US Justice Department indictment of Russian lawyer Nataliya Veselnitskaya, who defended the Russian company Prevezon, target of a political attack by the DOJ on behalf of Browder. Both claims are fabrications based on no evidence.

WashPost is wrong again on Browder

WashPost is wrong again on Browder

Dec 21, 2018 – Yet another fake Browder story.

The Trump Tower meeting gets another intriguing layer
By Philip Bump Washington Post, Dec 20, 2018

“…..When they met, Trump Jr. didn‘t get what he was hoping for. Veselnitskaya, working from prepared notes, walked through an intricate and tangential accusation that a businessman named William Browder had allegedly committed tax fraud in the United States and Russia, as had one of Browder‘s partners, Ziff Brothers Investments, owned by Dirk, Edward and Daniel Ziff. (Notes Manafort took during the meeting and provided to investigators match the narrative above.)

London Offshore Alert Conf video details Browder offshore network

London Offshore Alert Conf video details Browder offshore network

Dec 8, 2018 – Here are videos of my talk at the Offshore Alert Conference in London Nov 13, 2018. Subject: how fraudster William Browder used a Mossack Fonseca network to organize his tax evading. Offshore Alert is a Miami-based newsletter run by journalist David Marchant. It chronicles offshore corruption. People at the 2-day event included government officials, lawyers, accountants and journalists. Video is in 3 sections. First videos talk about Browder’s offshore corruption. The last talks about NBC’s killing its reporter Ken Dilanian’s exposé of Browder’s fakery. It also includes filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov’s comments. Audio is low, so ramp it up on your computer.

Fakery of Marie Brenner’s Browder article in Vanity Fair

Fakery of Marie Brenner’s Browder article in Vanity Fair

Nov 30, 2018 – This is an analysis of the worst William Browder acolyte article I have seen to date, by Marie Brenner, published by Vanity Fair, November 11, 2018. It eschews evidence and simply writes what Browder says as a stenographer would do. The full text is here. Below are the most egregious excerpts with my comments marked **. They are extensive, as the piece is replete with fakery.

Stealing Russia’s energy assets is the real “Russiagate”

Stealing Russia’s energy assets is the real “Russiagate”

Nov 2, 2018 – I spoke today on Fault Lines radio about how Mikhail Khodorkovsky and William Browder scammed Russian energy sector companies by Khodorhovsky getting control of Yukos oil through rigged auctions in the corrupt Yeltsin regime and then using transfer-pricing to cheat minority shareholders and Russian taxpayers and Browder buying shares in Russian energy conglomerate Gazprom through cutout companies to evade rules that banned purchases of its stock in Russia by foreigners.

Browder book fantasy: Magnitsky during beating in prison phones him

Browder book fantasy: Magnitsky during beating in prison phones him

Oct 24, 2018 – Waiting for William Browder’s Red Notice to be listed as fiction. Red Notice, p 276-7: “That night, at 12:15 a.m., the voice mail alert on my BlackBerry vibrated. Nobody ever called my BlackBerry. No one even knew the number. I looked at Elena and dialed into voice mail.…I heard a man in the midst of a savage beating. He was screaming and pleading. The recording lasted about two minutes and cut mid-wail.”

The Paradise Papers: What do you want to know?

The Paradise Papers: What do you want to know?

Oct 4, 2018 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists which with 95 other media organizations last November published a major report known as the Paradise Papers about offshore corruption. Now it is asking “our much-valued readers, what do you want to know about the impact of the Paradise Papers? Do you have a lingering question?” Answer: That is part of your ongoing offshore corruption inquiry. This focuses on the first part, the Panama Papers. Why don‘t you investigate William Browder‘s Mossack Fonseca connections?

Radio interview: Mass Western Censorship & The Lockdown of Truth Surrounding Browder and Magnitsky

Radio interview: Mass Western Censorship & The Lockdown of Truth Surrounding Browder and Magnitsky

Oct 1, 2018 – On Fault Lines today I talked about how NBC-TV killed its reporter Ken Dilanian’s exposé of William Browder. That happened in May 2016, a month before the Trump Tower meeting that fueled Russiagate and jump-started the Mueller investigation. US media refuses to publish my investigation of what happened, so I have started a GoFundMe page and will post and make the story available when I reach $5,000.

How Should @POTUS Deal with @BillBrowder?

How Should @POTUS Deal with @BillBrowder?

Aug 21, 2018 – This is my interview today on Fault Lines with Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan. I took the open letter in Time that William Browder wrote to President Trump before his meeting with Russian President Putin and simply transposed it. For example, Putin values money far more than human life became Browder values money far more than human life.

New Yorker’s fake Browder story

New Yorker’s fake Browder story

Aug 17, 2018 – The New Yorker story about Browder: How do you get credibility for a story that is mostly lies? You throw in a few negatives about the person you are going to white-wash. Then you repeat all his unproved assertions as if they were fact. And you don‘t bother to provide evidence. And you ignore the major story you ought to be telling.

I’ve Been Browder‘s Number One Journalist Critic for Two Decades. Here’s What President Trump Should Know About Handling Him

I’ve Been Browder‘s Number One Journalist Critic for Two Decades. Here’s What President Trump Should Know About Handling Him

July 20, 2018 –

Dear President Trump,

William Browder sent you a letter before your meeting with President Putin, and I‘d like to offer you a perspective about Mr. Browder that you probably aren‘t getting elsewhere. I am copying the form of his letter, but substituting Browder where he wrote Putin, and including facts you and the public probably don‘t know. Though there are indications your State Department does know.