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  1. Jun 2018
    1. #CourtSecrets

      Webteam > For some reason the #CourtSecrets twitter link does not carry the hashtag through to the Twitter search. Will delete this when updated :)

    1. http://cookislandsnews.com/national/local/item/13335-brown-back-for-documentary/13335-brown-back-for-documentary

      Working for CBC?

      No. I was not "working for" CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. I was funded by CBC to fly back from New Zealand to Rarotonga as a public source for a CBC story. On offshore banking, and the background to offshore banking in the Cook Islands.

      My impression? They needed a local "talking head" to illustrate their story, safely. Having gained footage of what they were interested in, the CBC reporter leading the story has rejected my own story about offshore banking.

      Good enough to be a CBC headline source, but not good enough to be a CBC investigative source.

  2. Aug 2017
    1. Football Leaks, which consists of 1.9 terabytes of information and some 18.6 million documents, ranging from player contracts to emails revealing secret transfer fees and wages, is the largest leak in the history of sport.

      "Football Leaks, which consists of 1.9 terabytes of information and some 18.6 million documents, ranging from player contracts to emails revealing secret transfer fees and wages, is the largest leak in the history of sport."

      A pity this information is not available to the public.

      Given the limited release of documents, is it really the largest leak in the history of sport?

      The ICIJ offshore database may not be complete, but there is at least something, and it is searchable.

      Hopefully EIC will also follow this example.

    1. Joan Withers, TVNZ’s chair, added that Fletcher was on a guaranteed fixed price contract. Either that was literally true and Fletcher took a bath it hasn’t disclosed. Or, it kept ratcheting up the fixed price as the work expanded.

      One wonders which it is - Fletcher hiding a $30m loss, or TVNZ hiding a $30m cost blowout.

      Hmmm www.fyi.org.nz ..