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Richard Behar is an American investigative journalist who has written on the staffs of ''Forbes'', ''Time'' and ''Fortune'' since 1982. His work has also been featured on BBC, CNN, PBS, FoxNews.com and Fast Company magazine. Behar coordinates Project Klebnikov, a media alliance to probe the Moscow murder of Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov. He is the Contributing Editor (Investigations) for Forbes, and is at work on a book about Bernard Madoff. Behar is co-founder of The Mideast Reporter. ==Education and career== Behar was born to a Jewish family〔(Forbes: "There He Goes Again: Egypt's Morsi Stuns U.S. Senators In Meeting With 'Jews-Control-Media' Slur" by Richard Behar ) January 25, 2013 |''"Next in the big-media batter’s box was the piece in Forbes, written by a fairly powerless Jew (me) who — it turns out — controls nothing at the magazine except this blog, just like hundreds of other journalists with blogs at Forbes and elsewhere."''〕 in Manhattan and raised on Long Island and Levittown, New York. He is a 1982 graduate of New York University. Before joining ''Time'' in 1989, he was a reporter and associate editor for ''Forbes'' magazine for six years. He has also worked at the ''New York Times'' as a researcher and writer. Behar reported extensively about organized crime and the business backgrounds of politicians for ''Time'', for whom Behar wrote a widely acclaimed 1993 cover story on the World Trade Center bombing. In 1991, he wrote "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", a ''Time'' cover story on Scientology.〔Richard Behar, ("Ruined lives. Lost fortunes. Federal crimes: ) Scientology poses as a religion but really is a ruthless global scam – and aiming for the mainstream", book rev. of ''"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power'', ''Time Magazine'', May 6, 1991: 50, rpt. in ''cs.cmu.edu'', accessed May 11, 2007. (of "Special Report (cover story)". )〕 The acclaimed article won several awards. The Church of Scientology brought several lawsuits over the article, all of which were eventually dismissed.〔 While investigating the story, he experienced some of Scientology's Fair Game tactics: I later learned, a copy of my personal credit report – with detailed information about my bank accounts, home mortgage, credit-card payments, home address and Social Security number – had been illegally retrieved from a national credit bureau called Trans Union. The sham company that received it, "Educational Funding Services" of Los Angeles, gave as its address a mail drop a few blocks from Scientology's headquarters. The owner of the mail drop is a private eye named Fred Wolfson, who admits that an Ingram associate retained him to retrieve credit reports on several individuals. Wolfson says he was told that Scientology's attorneys "had judgments against these people and were trying to collect on them." He says now, "These are vicious people. These are vipers." Ingram, through a lawyer, denies any involvement in the scam. ... After that, however, an attorney subpoenaed me, while another falsely suggested that I might own shares in a company I was reporting about that had been taken over by Scientologists (he also threatened to contact the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). A close friend in Los Angeles received a disturbing telephone call from a Scientology staff member seeking data about me – an indication that the cult may have illegally obtained my personal phone records. Two detectives contacted me, posing as a friend and a relative of a so-called cult victim, to elicit negative statements from me about Scientology. Some of my conversations with them were taped, transcribed and presented by the church in affidavits to TIME's lawyers as "proof" of my bias against Scientology.〔Richard Behar, ("Ruined lives. Lost fortunes. Federal crimes: ) Scientology poses as a religion but really is a ruthless global scam – and aiming for the mainstream", book rev. of ''The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power'', ''Time Magazine'', May 6, 1991: 50, accessed May 11, 2007. (of "Special Report (cover story)". )〕 A 2003 report by Behar in ''Fortune'' explored Donald Rumsfeld's role in helping North Korea build its potential Nuclear weapon capacity, in an article entitled "Rummy’s North Korea Connection: What Did Donald Rumsfeld Know About ABB’s Deal to Build Nuclear Reactors There? And Why Won’t He Talk About It?" Behar is the only known journalist to have read the classified Phoenix Memo, the infamous pre-9/11 FBI document which warned the FBI about Osama bin Laden supporters enrolling in flight-training schools across the country. In October 2004, Behar left ''Time, Inc.'' to pursue book writing and various independent projects, including the launch of Project Klebnikov, a global media alliance investigating the July, 2004, murder of Paul Klebnikov, who was then the editor-in-chief of ''Forbes Russia''. Behar also serves on the advisory committee of New York University's business journalism Master's program (BER). In December 2008, he was commissioned by Random House to write a book about Bernard Madoff. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Behar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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