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  1. December 14, 1999

    Vice President’s Quarters Draws Fund-Raisers’ Bucks

    WASHINGTON, December 14, 1999 — A man's home might be his castle, but for Al Gore, the vice president’s official residence is more than that: It’s a tool to cultivate some of his biggest donors. Read more

  2. December 09, 1999

    San Francisco Bank Linked To Laundering Probe At Bank of New York

    November 9, 1999 — FROM ALL OUTWARD APPEARANCES, Boris Avramovich Goldstein is a model immigrant, a successful businessman in the San Francisco Bay area, where he lives in a $1.2 million home and where he founded a variety of firms. Read more

  3. December 07, 1999

    Belying His Rhetoric, McCain Worked for Megamerger Sought by Campaign Patron AT&T

    WASHINGTON, December 7, 1999 — Republican Senator John McCain, outspoken advocate of campaign-finance reform, has built his presidential candidacy on the argument that special interests play too big a role in politics. Read more

  4. December 01, 1999

    ICIJ Member Works: Hier’s Higher Connections

    TEL AVIV, Israel, December 1, 1999 — This article was originally published in Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper on December 1, 1999. It is reprinted here with permission. Read more

  5. December 01, 1999

    Federal Elections Panel Too Swamped to Check Campaign Finance Abuses

    December 1, 1999 — The Federal Election Commission is mired in an investigation backlog and will be swamped by thousands of cases, giving it little chance for enforcement or for regulating campaign spending abuses, according to an analysis of FEC records by the Center for Public Integrity. Read more

  6. November 08, 1999

    ICIJ Member Works: ‘It is a Spider Web’

    November 8, 1999 — Liechtenstein residents are amazed at what dubious financial transactions can be found in the their tiny country, if one only looks closely enough. A special investigator had seven suspect financiers arrested, including one politician. Even the president of the national judiciary is under suspicion of misuse of power. Read more

  7. November 08, 1999

    ICIJ Member Works: An Invitation to Launder Money

    HAMBURG, Germany, November 8, 1999 — Whoever wishes to hide funds from the grips of tax authorities will find willing assistants in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Bank managers assert that they are working within legal means, but the files of the Bundesnachrichtendienst [German intelligence] present a differing version of the story: Mafia organizations, drug cartels, and major Russian criminals are virtually invited to do business in the diminutive country. Read more

  8. November 02, 1999

    How U.S. Policy on Marketing Tobacco Overseas Fell Through the Cracks in Malawi

    November 2, 1999 — The economically impoverished country of Malawi in southern Africa is an example of what fell through the cracks in U.S. tobacco policy abroad. Read more

  9. November 02, 1999

    U.S. Support for Tobacco Overseas: Going Out of Business?

    November 2, 1999 — The exquisitely appointed anterooms leading to the secretary of state's office are a mix of 18th century antiques, crystal chandeliers, oil paintings of past envoys and carved moldings in the shape of tobacco leaves, blossoms and seed pods. It gives new meaning to the term tobacco lobby. Read more

  10. October 26, 1999

    Caballero Wins International Press Freedom Award

    WASHINGTON, October 26, 1999 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based non-profit organization, presented its International Press Freedom Award to ICIJ member María Cristina Caballero for her courageous reporting on Colombia. Read more

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