Timothy L. O'Brien. Journalistic Fraud.

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Timothy L. O'Brien

"It is rarely a good idea in a news story for the subject and the reporter to be the same person." Richard Tofel (The Wall Street Journal)

What started as a scoop for Times reporter Tim O'Brien became an obsession... O'Brien can become emotional in the pursuit of a story and he had clearly become obsessed with Zeltser (New York Magazine)

"The real dirt in the Bank of New York story isn't only its subject - the Russian mafia - but the strive between a reporter and his source." (Brill's Content)

"Is Timothy O'Brien of the New York Times an aggressive reporter -- or simply aggressive? ... Emanuel Zeltser, a lawyer and board member of the American Russian Law Institute, charges O'Brien went "out of control" last August when he learned Zeltser, one of his best sources, was talking to the Wall Street Journal and other papers." Source Turns on Times Reporter (New York Post)

Timothy O'Brien, who opened the"Russiangate" hysteria in August of last year and then "raised doubts" about his source in January of this year, now, more vigorously than anyone else predicts new scandalous revelations. It is as though he is trying to buy forgiveness for his sin." (Moscow News) "...

"Why was O'Brien permitted
to write January 17 story at all?"
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"I was doing my job, period, says
Times reporter Timothy O'Brien."

FROM RUSSIAN MONEY LAUNDERING TO RUSSIAN BORSCHT: O'Brien, once Times' business reporter debuts in Restaurant Reviews. Frustrated with the Wall Street Journal's beating him to the breaking Bank of New York-Russian money laundering story, Tim O'Brien strikes back with a "breaking review" on a Russian restaurant. Borscht and Small Talk. NY Times, April 16

Is Tim O'Brien of the NY Times conducting a legitimate journalistic inquiry? You'll be the judge. Click here for O'Brien's "Questionnaire"

The Bank of New York

Russian Mob Scandal

"Why was O'Brien permitted
to write January 17 story at all?"
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"I was doing my job, period, says
Times reporter Timothy O'Brien."

HAS TIM TEAMED UP WITH

KAGALOVSKY's GUMSHOES?

The New York Times scandal - 2003

Letter from MT Editor in Chief to the Editors of the New York Times

IS TIMES REPORTER MAKING FOOL OF HIMSELF? - YOU'LL BE THE JUDGE!

February 15, New York. In his bizarre January 17, 2000 article Timothy L. O'Brien wrote that Emanuel Zeltser, once the Times primary source for the BoNY-Russian laundering stories, discontinued granting interviews to the idiosyncratic reporter with the following comment: "I tried to give you every measure of respect, and you only tried to make a fool of yourself. Now that you have succeeded, don't call me any more" ("Doubts Raised About Source in Bank of New York Inquiry". New York Times, 01/17/00)

O'Brien, whose articles triggered massive media exposure of Russian financial machinations in the US in August of last year, published a de facto retraction in January of this year, suggesting that the New York Times and other press may have been drawing tainted information from Zeltser who is one of the attorneys in a class action against BoNY.

Today's Times front page article by Raymond Bonner and Timothy O'Brien (Guilty Pleas Seen in the Laundering of Russian Money, NY Times, 02/15/00) reported that two major suspects in the federal investigation, Lucy Edwards, a former senior officer at the Bank of New York, and her husband, Peter Berlin, agreed to plead guilty to the money laundering charges and will surrender to the authorities today.

Was Zeltser correct in suggesting that O'Brien is making a fool of himself? You'll be the judge.

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