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tangent4ronpaul
12-01-2009, 08:33 AM
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Bloomberg "Sue the Fed" FOIA Reporter has died

Submitted by Robert Oak on Sat, 11/28/2009 - 12:54. bloomberg deaths Wall
Street

Looks like we have lost one of our financial truth seekers. Mark Pittman,
only 52, died yesterday. He had a history of heart problems.

Mark Pittman, the award-winning investigative reporter whose fight to open
the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny led Bloomberg News to sue the central
bank and win,

This is a true bummer for it appears Pittman was the cause of Bloomberg
getting a spine by suing the Federal Reserve to find out what happened to $2
trillion dollars.

A former police-beat reporter who joined Bloomberg News in 1997, Pittman
wrote stories in 2007 predicting the collapse of the banking system. That
year, he won the Gerald Loeb Award from the UCLA Anderson School of
Management, the highest accolade in financial journalism, for ³Wall Streetıs
Faustian Bargain,² a series of articles on the breakdown of the U.S.
mortgage industry.

³He was one of the great financial journalists of our time,² said Joseph
Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University in New York and the winner of
the 2001 Nobel Prize for economics. ³His death is shocking.²

Pittmanıs fight to make the Fed more accountable resulted in an Aug. 24
victory in Manhattan Federal Court affirming the publicıs right to know
about the central bankıs more than $2 trillion in loans to financial firms.
He drew the attention of filmmakers Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, who gave him
a prominent role in their documentary about subprime mortgages, ³American
Casino,² which was shown at New York Cityıs Tribeca Film Festival in May.

ŒOne Reporterı

³Who sues the Fed? One reporter on the planet,² said Emma Moody, a Wall
Street Journal editor who worked with Pittman at Bloomberg. ³The more
complex the issue, the more he wanted to dig into it. Years ago, he forced
us to learn what a credit- default swap was. He dragged us kicking and
screaming.²

DamianTV
12-01-2009, 02:58 PM
Hmm, anyone else smell murder?

Matt Collins
12-01-2009, 03:24 PM
Oh geeze... conspiracy theorists unite.

Matt Collins
12-01-2009, 03:25 PM
But seriously though, what was the cause of death?

FrankRep
12-01-2009, 03:29 PM
Mark Pittman, Reporter Who Challenged Fed Secrecy, Dies at 52

Bloomberg
Nov. 30, 2009

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=afp8OC.OvRnI&pos=12

Pauliana
12-01-2009, 03:30 PM
This is one reason medical records could be useful to some... If he had a history of heart problems and they had, say, a poison dart that indetectably mimics a heart attack, it doesn't look like an assasination, does it?

http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-US-Intelligence-Examiner~y2009m11d29-CIA-secret-weapon-of-assassination