I visited Russia twice, before and after the collapse of Communism and even attempted to learn Russian, not getting much beyond waiter and taxi talk, though I can pick up film and political speakers with the help of subtitles. So as an investigative reporter, not a film critic, to understand this film about a Russian editor who won a Nobel Prize, I sent a screening of this film to world-class Russia expert, Richard Sakwa. He is Emeritus Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent (England). He was also the head of the University’s Politics and International Relations department, has lived and taught in Russia and has published sixteen books on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs.
March 4, 2023 – Catherine Austin Fitts writes: “As soon as I learned Lucy had published a new investigation, I immediately asked her to join me on the Solari Report.”
” Lucy found a disturbing pattern. Americans buy an insurance policy. And then quietly, the company starts to move or lower the quality of its assets in a manner that impacts or threatens the value of our policy. Policyholders have no burglar alarm to warn there fundamental change in the deal – or the price at which the deal was made – and we need to pay attention.”
Dec 12, 2022 – This is a video interview by journalist Regis Tremblay of Lucy Komisar providing a step by step analysis of the Browder hoax. How he did it.
Nov 5, 2022 – Canadian journalist Matt Ehret interviews Lucy with details that the naive or corrupt Chartered Financial Analysts of Canada, meeting in Toronto, might like to know about their conman guest speaker. With links to documents that legitimate accountants might want to examine before they honor an infamous tax fraudster.
Sept 22, 2022 – Lucy Komisar talks to Hrvoje Morić about the Browder hoax, including Browder’s start as a crook skimming profits from Russian titanium company, Avisma, illicit buys of Gazprom shares for himself and the Ziff Brothers, the role of the Trump Tower meeting, proof Magnitsky wasn’t murdered, how Magnitsky Act was passed in a deal for the Jackson-Vanik trade amendment repeal and why Congress and the media lie about it all.
April 8, 2022 – Read or listen, how William Browder’s Magnitsky hoax, supported by the Deep State, was the first pillar of Russiagate. That was 2012. And it’s brought us to today’s U.S./Ukraine (proxy) war against Russia.
Sept 27, 2021 – Former hedge fund CEO Marc Cohodes discusses in this one-hour interview Overstock’s charges that Cohodes and associates faked reports to drive down the price of Overstock they were shorting, Overstock’s case against Goldman Sachs that it (and Merrill Lynch) used naked shorting to drive down its price, Cohodes’ testimony in that case about Goldman creating shares out of options trades, and why he thinks the Citadel empire should be broken up.
Aug 18, 2021- Democratic Party insider Robert Shapiro, an economist who was a top advisor to the campaign of Bill Clinton, served as his undersecretary of commerce, and then advised the Democratic nominees after him, breaks with establishment economics to target the corruption of naked short selling.
June 2, 2021 – This is my interview of Wes Christian, the Houston attorney who has been in the forefront of bringing naked short selling cases for twenty years.
By Catherine Austin Fitts, Aug 19, 2021 – Lucy Komisar is one of the top financial fraud investigative reporters in the new media. Lucy is known for unraveling the most complex financial frauds – particularly those involving sophisticated cross-border transactions.
When I learned Lucy was doing a deep dive on the GameStop trading war, including the latest on naked short selling oversight and regulation – a problem that has plagued American capital markets for a long time – I had to get her back on the Solari Report. If you have not yet discovered Lucy and her website The Komisar Scoop, you are in for a treat.
June 8, 2021 – This is a one-hour video. Click the first arrow to see it all. Starting with why you don’t read or hear this in the corporate media. You can see video segments of it below. With some of the longer key sections in text at the end.
June 6, 2021-The Securities and Exchange Commission, set up after the 1929 stock market crash, has been a corrupt operation captured by the stock brokers and Wall Street actors it was supposed to regulate. Here is the history, told in text and in a video I did for Superstonk.
May 20, 2021 – My interview on youtube tells through three dramatic stories how corrupt brokers, hedge funds and their accomplices in government and the media steal from stock market investors. This article includes some of text.
Feb 13, 2021 – The Backstory 9 Feb with John Kiriakou & Lee Stranahan ran this interview with me about the corruption of former Haiti President Aristide, and, then relating to the Browder hoax, the fakery of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and the fake news printed by The Economist.
Feb 1, 2021 – How to understand the GameStop Robinhood stock spike. It says a lot more about the corruption of the stock-trading system than you have read about in corporate media.
Nov 26, 2020 – A foreign affairs subcommittee of the Australian Parliament is considering a William Browder Protection Act, ie a Magnitsky Act. It is a law which strengthens his campaign to block Russia from obtaining normal international legal cooperation in a case involving his $100mil+ tax evasion and illicit stock buys. See this video that explains what you need to know about it.
Oct 16, 2020- On The Backstory October 15th, I talked about the film “The Spider’s Web: Britain‘s Second Empire” about how in the 1960s the Brits took Swiss bank secrecy of the 1930s and expanded it to enable money-laundering by The City of London, the protected British banking cutout made independent from the government.
May 18, 2020 – On Fault Lines today, I spoke about the May 15th Australian Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on the proposed Magnitsky Act. William Browder revealed Friday at a hearing before an Australian Parliament foreign affairs subcommittee that UK Foreign Secretary Dominick Raab told him about setting up an information sharing network with Canada and the U.S. on sanctions against their adversaries. Read Five Eyes.
May 12, 2020 – German Press Council rejects William Browder complaint against Der Spiegel. This starts my interview on Fault Lines today. First, the revelation yesterday that the German Press Council had rejected the complaint by William Browder, a former billionaire investor in Russia, against German reporter Benjamin Bidder and newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Their November investigative report nailed Browder as a fraudster and his death of my accountant Magnitsky story as fake.
May 5, 2020 – On Fault Lines today I revealed that I have obtained never published forensic photos of Magnitsky‘s body that show not a mark on his torso. Browder claims he was beaten to death by prison guards. Magnitsky died at 9:30pm Nov 16, 2009, and the photos were taken the next day. The half-hour interview starts at 2:30:00.
The Fault Lines broadcast today is about two main elements of the Browder hoax, an introduction to the story.
First, Browder‘s tax evasion: taking the 5% profits tax
allowed by the Russia-Cyprus double taxation treaty for Cyprus investors when
he wasn‘t entitled to it.
Feb 13, 2020 – On Fault Lines today, I talked about some of Pete Buttigieg‘s corrupt billionaire contributors, the Ziff Brothers. Here are some of the key points.
Dec 16, 2019 – I talked today on Fault Lines about the illicit Russian stock buys and tax evasion of the Ziff Brothers, whose Russian investments were handled by William Browder. This expands on and explains what I said in the half-hour broadcast.
Dec 2, 2019 – On Fault Lines today, I talk about two important financial corruption stories the U.S. press ignores. Both involve the offshore system that western banks and governments protect, the first in the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey and Cyprus, the second in Antigua.
Nov 22, 2019 – There have been revealed links between lawyers representing Julian Assange, William Browder and his collaborators, and the U.S. government.
Here is an article. And here is an audio interview on Fault Lines.
