Smashmouth Investigative Journalism
UPDATE 6-3-13: I reported for Growth Capitalist today that the firms who ZST went to for their ‘go dark’ plan in 2011 were Scorpion Capital and Global Hunter Securities. Original Text A wealthy businessman from New Canaan, CT is single handedly taking on a China company, ZST Digital, that gutted U.S. investors who bought into […]
ContinueThis story has been updated with the results of the anti-SLAAP hearing. See bottom of Story. The Texas oilman who sued his son for invasion of privacy after he wrote a tell-all blog about T.Boone Pickens parenting problems is now facing a counterclaim suit for millions. Michael Pickens filed a lengthy and detailed list of […]
Continue
A few months back I asked readers to help fund an upgrade of this news publication so the stories could come to life in photos and text that was easier to read. Now thanks to your generous donations we have a new and improved place to see what I’m reporting on. The text and graphics […]
Continue
Update 5-13-13 12:30pm: The New Canaan police have finally released the name of the parent charged with a felony for delivery of alcohol to minors. It is Nils Erik Berg, age 56, of 501 Spring Water Lane. Apparently when the two arresting officers brought Berg into the station for processing someone in the NCPD decided […]
Continue
Texas oil millionaire T. Boone Pickens is trying to use the Dallas state courts to squash his son’s first amendment rights after Mike Pickens wrote a tell-all blog about the famed hedge fund manager’s troubling family dynamics. The blog titled 5 days in Connecticut posted ‘my story’ which centers on how 85-year old Boone’s emotional […]
Continue
New Canaan’s town council received an external audit management letter that warned of possible material miss-statements in the town’s financials. The management letter, sent to town council and obtained by this reporter, talks about police overtime booked as receivables instead of an expense, a finance director for the Board of Ed having unchecked spending on […]
Continue
The SEC investigation into SunTrust Banks alleged gaming of Fannie Mae by the bank’s wholesale mortgage division is back in the news. Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times columnist and reporter, has picked up on my exclusive news reported in November for finance trade publication Growth Capitalist. Morgenson has a habit of journalism shoplifting by writing […]
Continue
Your Voice