• Stories by Traver Riggins

Bluefin, Inc.

For decades Japan has been the final stop of an Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna supply chain riddled with fraud, criminal misconduct, and lack of oversight.

Mar 16, 2012
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Investigation: The Black Market in Bluefin

Mexican tobacco growers: Economically shunned by industry, still used as lobbyists

In October, in chaotic Mexico City, a small army of protestors, sporting placards and shouting into bullhorns, worsened the usual traffic snarl around San Lazaro, the nation’s congressional office complex. Television news accounts showed screaming-mad tobacco farmers, some of whom had boarded buses and traveled 500 miles to warn federal legislators that new taxes on cigarettes would put them out of business.

Mar 16, 2012
Investigation: Smoke Screen