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Reporter who challenged Federal Reserve secrecy dead of heart attack
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Bloomberg News
Posted: December 9th, 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=af7QohP8...
Mark Pittman, the award-winning reporter whose fight to make the Federal Reserve more accountable to taxpayers led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died Nov. 25 in Yonkers, New York. He was 52. Pittman suffered from heart-related illnesses. He was one of the great financial journalists of our time, said Joseph Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University in New York and the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for economics. His death is shocking. 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 "Wall Streets Faustian Bargain," a series of articles on the breakdown of the U.S. mortgage industry. Pittmans push to open the Fed to more scrutiny resulted in an Aug. 24 victory in Manhattan Federal Court affirming the publics right to know about the central banks more than $2 trillion in assistance to financial firms.
Note: To see a one-minute video of mind-blowing US Congressional testimony on a CIA dart gun which can easily cause a heart attack, click here. The poison from this gun is undetectable on autopsy. Could such a weapon be used by the rich and powerful bankers who might want to silence someone who threatens literally billions of dollars of profits, someone like Mark Pittman?
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