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Port Authority: Battle at the Waterfront
This investigation was about lies and obfuscation, and the stakes were enormous: A mayor’s election, a growing media empire and potentially billions of dollars in development. Our reporting revealed how within months of purchasing the largest media operation in San Diego County, the new owners of U-T San Diego were using their power and status to influence -- and even threaten -- government officials into helping them realize lucrative plans for developing the downtown waterfront. It also illuminated an insidious practice suspected nationwide: use of private electronic accounts to conduct the public’s business. Our reporting defined much of the discussion around the mayor’s race in the weeks before the election. In the end, the candidate at the heart of the probed was defeated.
Tags: Mayoral election; fraud; government officials; San Diego
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Manager with the Vintu Empire-Inmate at the Chisinau Penitentiary
Sorin Ovidiu Vintu is the owner of the “most important and dynamic media empire in Romania.” He owns a number of media outlets and began expanding in neighboring countries. For years, Vintu’s source of income was unknown, until recently the media empire began losing money and the details came pouring out. The article brings to light the unknown details of his media empire, including details associated to his companies.
Tags: Media Empire; Romania; Media; News; Journalism; Offshore companies; Crime; Managers
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With God There's No Cap
Newsweek reports that "television evangelist Pat Robertson, who runs a vast Christian ministry and business empire, is one of the most recognizable and powerful members of the religious right movement in the United States today. A man of considerable personal wealth, he has been portrayed in much of the media as a business genius. Newsweek reveals that some of Robertson's followers, enticed by him to join a multi-level marketing company owned by his tax-exempt ministry, the Christian Broadcasting Network, now complain that they were unable to sell."
Tags: non-profits; fraud; investments
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Thomas Maier wrote "NEWHOUSE: All the Glitter, Power, and Glory of America's Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It," as an investigative look at Newhouse and his media empire, Oct. 27, 1994.
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Washington (D.C.) City Paper profiles the corporate empire of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church which include the Washington Times, Insight Magazine, an international media conglomerate, book publishers, video production companies, a major American cable network, travel agencies, health-food stores, real-estate agencies, and a whole area protected from government scrutiny as a result of an entanglement of nonprofit organizations, June 11, 1993. # DC Zilliox Green
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Boys just wanna have fun
San Francisco Bay Guardian recounts the shooting death of a man by his brother after a drunken brawl, and of the trial in which the killer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter; the two men had been media and countercultural celebrities throughout the '60s and '70s while running a pornography empire.
Tags: Jim Mitchell; Artie Mitchell; murder; pornography
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New York Times articles look into the private lives and public scandals of the Bingham family of Kentucky--former owners of the Louisville newspapers and other media properties--following the decision to sell its media empire, Jan. 19 and Dec. 21, 1986.