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Stories by Lucy Komisar

Lucy Komisar, a New York-based journalist, is writing a book on the offshore bank & corporate secrecy system and international money laundering.

The Real AIG Scandal: How the Game Is Rigged at Wall Street's Casino

Congress has deftly avoided the real story of AIG's collapse, which will make a few million in bonuses seem like peanuts.
Posted on Mar 26, 2009

How Tax Cheats Are Using Your Money to Fund Republicans

When it comes to tax cheats, the government has been vocal about catching the little guys but hasn't focused on the big-time frauds, like Swift Boat financier Sam Wyly, who happens to be a top-tier Republican contributor.
Posted on Apr 17, 2007

The Evidence Is There: It’s Time for Congress to Investigate the Ties Between the Bush Family and Osama bin Laden

How the Bush family's private connection to a dirty offshore bank is the only link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
Posted on Apr 5, 2007

The Fall of a Titan

Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, one of the world’s richest men, and head of AIG, one of the world’s largest financial companies, was forced to resign this week as prosecutors closed in on him and the company.
Posted on Mar 17, 2005

Take The Money And Run Offshore

How insurance companies are aiding tax evasion by over-charging in America and shipping the money to offshore firms.
Posted on Dec 22, 2004

Shell Games

A decade of lax industry regulation laid the groundwork for corporate scandal at one of the world's largest insurance conglomerates.
Posted on Nov 22, 2004

The Case That Kerry Cracked

As a senator, John Kerry was a tenacious investigator and exposed BCCI, an international criminal bank, and its murderous clients. The experience should serve him well in dealing with the international threats we face today.
Posted on Oct 22, 2004

Kerry Family Values

Peggy Kerry, John Kerry's sister, talks about her experience as a social activist and her deep shared value system with her family.
Posted on Sep 13, 2004

How Big Business Evades Taxes

As states and municipalities reel from service cutbacks caused by lower tax earnings, big corporations use elaborate "shell" games to pay virtually no taxes on huge profits.
Posted on Apr 25, 2004

Funding Terror, Saudi Style

Thanks to its cozy relationship with the Saudi royal family, the Bush administration is unwilling to target Saudi banks that fund Al Qaeda.
Posted on Jan 7, 2003

HBO Recycles the Incubator Hoax

Live From Baghdad claims to tell the true story of reporters on the frontline. But the film presents fabricated stories of Iraqi brutality as fact.
Posted on Dec 3, 2002

Global Greenwashers

How to be a world-class good-guy pro-environmentalist, pro-sustainable development billionaire industrialist, while your family company is spewing poisons into the air and being sued and fined.
Posted on Aug 26, 2002

Enron and Al Qaeda's Shared Link

How did Enron executives cause the world's biggest bankruptcy while making off with millions? By using the same secret money system used by terrorists and financial swindlers.
Posted on Jan 21, 2002

Tracking Terrorist Money -- Too Hot For U.S. to Handle?

A controversial European book that exposed the secret banking systems possibly used by terrorists remains unpublished and unknown in the U.S. Ironically, Rudy Giuliani may already know its details.
Posted on Oct 4, 2001

U.S. Bank Laws Fund Terrorists

For years the banking laws of the United States and its allies have protected money laundering, allowing terrorists to move money quickly and secretly.
Posted on Sep 21, 2001