Lucy Komisar
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Lucy Komisar is a New York City-based investigative journalist. She writes about offshore bank and corporate secrecy and international money-laundering, and the like.
Her articles on the subject include:
- Haiti Telecom Kickbacks Tarnish Aristide - CorpWatch, December 29, 2005.
- Follow Aristide's Money Offshore: How Haiti was looted with the help of tax haven shell companies & secret bank accounts and U.S. Citizens & Corporations - Haiti Democracy Project, November 10, 2005.
- Yukos Kingpin on Trial - CorpWatch, May 10, 2005.
Komisar is a member of the steering committee of the international Tax Justice Network (located at [1]) and author of its report, Citigroup: a History and Culture of Tax Evasion (January 2006). She is co-chair of TJN-USA, TJN's American branch.
She exposed the secret 1976 meeting in Santiago at which Henry Kissinger told Augusto Pinochet to ignore the criticisms Kissinger had been pressured to make publicly regarding Pinochet's violations of human rights.
She wrote about Gladio, the secret American funding of a rightist paramilitary in Europe after World War II (Turkey's Terrorists: A CIA Legacy Lives On) - The Progressive, April 1997.
[edit] External links
- CV and extensive article-list @[2]
- Website: The Komisar Scoop @[3]
[edit] Articles written by Komisar
- on The Komisar Scoop - Fees for Our Friends: the Scandal that Taints Andrew Cuomo (see[4])
- on Alternet ([5])
- in The Nation (see[6])
- on In These Times (see[7])
- Lucy Komisar. "Tracking Terrorist Money -Too Hot for US to handle?", Pacific News Service, October 4, 2001. Retrieved on February 1, 2006.
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