David Barstow

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By David Barstow, Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner and Megan Twohey

Punishment of banks and big companies accused of malfeasance has declined precipitously since the Obama era.

By Ben Protess, Robert Gebeloff and Danielle Ivory

State and city officials announced they were looking into the maneuvers after an investigative report in The New York Times.

By Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and David Barstow

A Times investigation found that the president's father created scores of revenue streams for his children.

By Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, David Barstow and Gabriel J.X. Dance

Based on a trove of confidential financial records, the Times report offers the first comprehensive look at the inherited fortune and tax dodges that guaranteed Donald Trump a gilded life.

By Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and David Barstow

The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.

By David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner

The MSNBC host Rachel Maddow disclosed information from President Trump’s 2005 tax return on Tuesday night.

By Peter Baker and Jesse Drucker

As a businessman and candidate, Donald J. Trump often made dubious statements, but even jaded political veterans have been astonished by his false claims since he took office.

By David Barstow

Donald J. Trump’s stock holdings are not a significant portion of his business empire, but the sale described by a spokesman would alleviate some concerns about his conflicts.

By Susanne Craig

Would he be into this White House thing for the country’s benefit or his own? His business record reveals a willingness to change course to suit his needs.

By David Barstow

Thanks to a maneuver later outlawed by Congress, Mr. Trump potentially escaped paying tens of millions of dollars in federal personal income taxes.

By David Barstow, Mike McIntire, Patricia Cohen, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner

The Republican nominee reported nearly $1 billion in losses in 1995, opening the door to tax avoidance in subsequent years.

By David Barstow, Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner and Megan Twohey

Mr. Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns allowed Hillary Clinton to suggest at the debate that perhaps he has not paid income taxes.

By Steve Eder and Patricia Cohen

Mrs. Clinton and her husband reported $10.6 million in adjusted gross income for 2015.

By Steve Eder and Kitty Bennett

Over the span of his career, project after project has produced allegations of bad faith, broken promises, blatant lies or outright fraud.

By David Barstow

Conversations with volunteers at a small Trump campaign office in an old cigar factory yielded some surprises on the subjects of race, ethnicity and bigotry.

By David Barstow

The death of the protester, coming after right-wing Hindus had pressured the government to cancel the event, is part of a string of escalating sectarian violence.

By David Barstow and Hari Kumar

The battle for Bihar played out against a national debate over whether the prime minister’s India is becoming increasingly intolerant of secularists, Muslims and political dissent in general.

By David Barstow

Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, has staked his prestige on helping his party gain control in the populous but poor state of Bihar.

By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj

The foreign minister said there had been more plots to assassinate the president after an explosion aboard his boat in September.

By David Barstow

It was the fourth time in six weeks that Hindus had killed Muslims they suspected of slaughtering, stealing or smuggling cows, which are seen as revered religious symbols.

By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj

India’s prime minister sent a political enforcer on Sunday to order leaders not to make statements condoning bigotry or violence against beef eaters.

By David Barstow

The revolt now confronts Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a critical test of his vaunted ability to shape the public narrative of his administration.

By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj

Recent eruptions of deadly violence have been sparked by rumors of harm to cows, which are considered sacred by the country’s Hindu majority.

By Hari Kumar and David Barstow

Ten men were charged with murdering a Muslim man over rumors that a cow had been killed, raising questions about a group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party.

By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj

If the claim is verified, the killing of Cesare Tavella, 50, would be the Islamic State’s first attack in Bangladesh.

By Julfikar Ali Manik and David Barstow

Resentment has gelled into opposition to India’s version of affirmative action, a system of strict quotas that reserves nearly half of jobs for those from disadvantaged castes or tribes.

By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj

Teesta Setalvad, who seeks to hold the Indian prime minister responsible for deadly riots in 2002, has been overwhelmed by attacks emanating from entities controlled by him or his allies.

By David Barstow

The result also increases the likelihood that there will be a careful accounting of Mr. Rajapaksa’s decade in power.

By David Barstow

Mahinda Rajapaksa said he was unlikely to lead Sri Lanka’s next government as results were still being tallied Tuesday morning in Colombo.

By David Barstow

Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was voted out of office in January, is trying to become prime minister, but opponents are determined to bury his political hopes once and for all.

By David Barstow

Three networks were accused of violating rules by showing interviews that criticized the execution of Yakub Memon for the 1993 Mumbai bombings.

By David Barstow

Without warning, the government acted just weeks after the nation’s Supreme Court declined an activist’s request to block access to online pornography.

By David Barstow

India’s news media has been stirred by a robust debate over whether Yakub Memon, a Muslim in this predominantly Hindu nation, deserved to die.

By David Barstow

Audio, video and documents that show how the military’s talking points were disseminated.

Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited, an examination by The New York Times found.

By David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

An inquiry is now looking at activities in Brazil, China and India, along with Mexico, Wal-Mart said. Its quarterly results showed lower-than-expected sales.

By Stephanie Clifford and David Barstow

Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out wrongdoing, an examination by The New York Times found.

By David Barstow

The Pentagon cultivated close ties with retired officers who worked as analysts for television and radio networks.

By David Barstow

Interviews, sworn testimony and statements from crew members show that the oil rig should have weathered the well blowout, but it didn’t because every one of its defenses failed.

By David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul

More than populism, the movement is about a transformation from political indifference to bracing for tyranny.

By David Barstow

What thousands could not achieve in three decades of relentless protest, a gunman accomplished on May 31 when he shot Dr. George R. Tiller in the head.

By David Barstow

George R. Tiller, the Wichita, Kan., physician who police say was shot dead in his church by an abortion opponent, was remembered at his funeral as a man of courage.

By David Barstow

The Defense Department withdrew a report that exonerated a Pentagon program that had retired officers working as military analysts for TV and radio networks.

By David Barstow

McWane Inc. was fined $8 million on Friday for dozens of workplace safety and environmental crimes at its New Jersey plant.

By David Barstow

The news of the suicide of Sylvia Plath’s son, Nicholas Hughes, has cut through two distant and disconnected worlds in vastly different ways.

By David Barstow

By David Barstow and Mike Mcintire

By David Barstow and Mike McIntire

As the Obama administration prepares to lay out plans for a revamped bank bailout, the initial instinct to shield banks from public scrutiny has created new problems.

By David Barstow and Mike McIntire

The inspector general’s office found no wrongdoing in a Pentagon program that made use of retired officers who worked as military analysts for television and radio networks.

By David Barstow

The Congressional panel overseeing the $700 billion federal bailout has expressed growing concern about the effectiveness and execution of the rescue plan.

By David Barstow

By David Barstow

A retired Army general and analyst has flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce.

By David Barstow

By David Barstow

The Government Accountability Office will give a legal opinion on whether prohibitions against using public money to spread propaganda were violated.

By David Barstow

The Pentagon said it was halting briefings and all interactions with retired military officers who appear as analysts in the media, pending an internal review.

By David Barstow

By David Barstow

By David Barstow

By David Barstow

The Pentagon has cultivated “military analysts” in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the Bush administration’s wartime performance.

By David Barstow

There are several examples of how, as governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee bristled at public criticism of his clemency decisions.

By David Barstow

Mike Huckabee produced a legacy in Arkansas like few other Republican governors in the South, but he tended to freeze out anyone who disagreed with his plans.

By Adam Nossiter and David Barstow

By Duff Wilson and David Barstow

North Carolina’s attorney general said an overzealous district attorney had wrongly accused lacrosse players of sexual assault.

By Duff Wilson and David Barstow

The decision threw new doubt on the future of a prosecution that has already suffered a series of setbacks.

By Duff Wilson and David Barstow

The North Carolina Bar Association accused the district attorney, Michael B. Nifong, of making misleading and inflammatory public statements about the defendants.

By David Barstow and Duff Wilson

North Carolina State Bar files formal ethics complaint against Michael B Nifong, prosecutor in Duke lacrosse sexual assault case; accuses him of making inflammatory remarks about team to news media and misleading public about evidence (M)

By David Barstow and Duff Wilson

Admission by Brian W Meehan that his preliminary report on DNA material in Duke lacrosse rape case was intentionally incomplete through agreement with Durham County District Atty Michael B Nifong adds substantiality to long list of questions about accuser's credibility and Nifong's judgment; Nifong has dropped rape charges but has said he will proceed with kidnapping and sexual offense counts; claims defense attack on DNA report reveals ruthless strategy aimed at vilifying him and intimidating victim of brutal assault; photos (L)

By David Barstow and Duff Wilson

A laboratory director’s testimony added to a list of questions on the accuser’s credibility and the district attorney’s judgment.

By David Barstow and Duff Wilson

By David Barstow and Duff Wilson

By Duff Wilson and David Barstow

The district attorney, however, plans to go forward with sexual assault and kidnapping charges.

By David Barstow and Duff Wilson

Dist Atty Michael B Nifong drops rape charges against former Duke lacrosse players David F Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, but says he will continue to pursue kidnapping and sexual offense charges that carry equally stiff sentences; Nifong, who has faced rising criticism for his handling of case, says he dismissed rape charges because accuser had begun to waiver on crucial details; photos (M)

By David Barstow and Duff Wilson

The district attorney dropped rape charges against three former Duke University lacrosse players, but plans to go forward with sexual assault and kidnapping charges.

By Duff Wilson and David Barstow

Federal jury finds Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co of Phillipsburg, NJ, which is owned by McWane Inc, and four of its managers guilty of conspiring to evade workplace safety and environmental laws by lying to regulators, tampering with evidence and bullying employees into silence about working conditions; McWane has extensive record of similar violations, and verdict marks fifth time one of their plants has been found guilty of federal crimes since 2003; verdict could cost McWane millions in fines and restitution but company predicts it will be vindicated on appeal; trial marks first test of new federal effort to prosecute employers who repeatedly put workers at risk by violating safety and environmental laws (M)

By David Barstow

A pipe foundry and four of its managers were found guilty of lying to regulators, tampering with evidence and bullying employees into silence.

By David Barstow

By David E. Sanger and David Barstow

Classified information on Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain uranium revealed by Vice Pres Dick Cheney's chief of staff I Lewis Libby to former New York Times reporter Judith Miller on authority of Pres Bush was already being discredited by administration officials; finding sheds light on how Bush and some top deputies had begun to pull in different directions; events took place at time when administration's failure to find illicit weapons in Iraq had raised serious questions about credibility of pre-war intelligence (M)

By David E. Sanger and David Barstow

By David E. Sanger and David Barstow

By David Barstow

Many television news stations, including some from the nation's largest markets, are continuing to broadcast reports as news without disclosing that the segments were produced by corporations pitching new products, according to a report to be released today by a group that monitors the news media. Television news directors have said that the segments, known as video news releases, are almost never broadcast, but the group assembled television videotape from 69 stations that it said had broadcast fake news segments in the past 10 months.

By David Barstow

At 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, with Hurricane Rita gathering strength and aimed at Texas, Mayor Bill White of Houston ordered mandatory evacuations from low-lying sections of the city while urging voluntary evacuations from flood-prone neighborhoods and mobile homes. His pleas were entirely consistent with the region's established evacuation plans, plans that disaster officials had rehearsed and honed for years. Under those plans, 1.25million people, at most, were expected to leave. The big worry was whether enough people would heed evacuation orders.

By Ralph Blumenthal and David Barstow

McWane Inc., a major pipe manufacturer based in Birmingham, Ala., has agreed to plead guilty to federal safety and environmental crimes, the third successful prosecution against McWane this year. McWane owns foundries in several states, including New York and New Jersey, and it produces cast iron sewer and water pipes for municipalities and major construction projects across the country. McWane has faced a widening criminal inquiry by the Justice Department since January 2003, the same month The New York Times published a series of articles describing workplace deaths and injuries, as well as illegal pollution, at several McWane plants.

By David Barstow

Partnership between Occupational Safety and Health Adm, Environmental Protection Agency and select group of Justice Dept prosecutors has been forged to identify and single out for prosecution nation's most flagrant workplace safety violators; goal is to end practice in which employers with extensive records of safety violations pay insignificant fines and continue to ignore basic safety rules; effort described (M)

By David Barstow and Lowell Bergman

A California Democrat accused the Bush administration on Thursday of failing to cooperate fully with the inspector general at the Education Department in an investigation of the government's hiring of Armstrong Williams, a prominent conservative commentator, to promote the president's signature education legislation. The comments of the Democrat, Representative George Miller of California, came as the Federal Communications Commission and the Senate stepped into a second controversy over the public relations policies of the Bush administration, and moved toward strengthening the rules that govern how video news releases are produced and broadcast.

By Anne E. Kornblut and David Barstow

Presidential commission's most significant new information about United States' prewar intelligence failures recounts tense struggle over single Iraqi defector, codenamed Curveball, who had been cooperating with German intelligence officials; he was key source of claim that Saddam Hussein was building hidden network of mobile labs in Iraq capable of producing biological weapons; he was subject of 100 American intelligence reports despite fact that CIA never met him, and that when CIA sought to meet him they were told by Germans that he had nervous breakdown, and was 'crazy'; as pieced together by intelligence commission, story of Curveball shows how frightening claim embraced by White House rested 'almost exclusively' on single, shaky pillar of evidence; it also reveals how 'culture of enforced consensus' inside CIA acted to suppress and resist any doubts raised; photo (M)

By David Barstow

Tyler Pipe, foundry owned by McWane Inc, major manufacturer of cast iron sewer and water pipe, pleads guilty to federal environmental crimes in Tyler, Tex; is fined $4.5 million, placed on probation for five years and required to spend estimated $12 million on plant upgrades; plea is significant for McWane, which is facing sweeping federal criminal investigation of its plants in several states (S)

By David Barstow

At least 20 agencies have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments under Bush administration; many were broadcast on local stations without any acknowledgement of government's role in their production; law contains provisions to prevent domestic dissemination of government propaganda but line between facts and propaganda is easily blurred; administration sees 'good news' segments as powerful tools for shaping public opinion; photos (L)

By David Barstow and Robin Stein

Bush administration brushed aside doubts of its foremost nuclear experts in leadup to war with Iraq when it embraced theory that high-strength aluminum tubes being acquired by Iraq were part of Saddam Hussein's program to develop nuclear weapons; Vice Pres Dick Cheney would go on to argue 'with absolute certainty' that tubes were intended for uranium centrifuge despite considerable evidence supporting alternative theory that they were in fact rocket parts; centrifuge idea was first championed by junior CIA analyst in April 2001, and momentum gathered behind it built on pattern of haste, secrecy, ambiguity, bureaucratic maneuver and persistent failure in Bush administration and in Congress to ask hard questions; tube episode is case study of intersection between politics of pre-emption and inherent ambiguity of intelligence; photos; drawings (L)

This article was reported by David Barstow, William J. Broad and Jeff Gerth

Federal grand jury in Birmingham, Ala, issues 25-count indictment alleging illegal dumping and other environmental crimes by McWane Inc, major pipe maker and one of nation's most persistent violators of workplace safety and environmental laws; charges that company managers, including Charles Robison, vice president for environmental affairs, conspired to dump huge quantities of polluted wastewater into creek that runs through McWane's oldest foundry, McWane Cast Iron Pipe Co, on outskirts of downtown Birmingham (M)

By David Barstow

Sen Edward Kennedy says Democrats wll press for stronger criminal sanctions against employers whose safety violations cause deaths of workers; about 100 people die yearly because of willful violations but prosecutions are almost unheard of; bill would increase maximum prison sentence to ten years, from six months; Sen Jon Corzine says he drafted bill last year in response to articles in The New York Times (S)

By David Barstow

Private security companies are performing crucial jobs once entrusted to military far more in Iraq than in any other conflict in American history; Pentagon is relying on them to guard reconstruction projects, provide security for American administrator L Paul Bremer III and other officials, escort supply convoys through hostile territory and to defend key locations; company executives see clear boundary between their defensive roles as protectors and offensive operations of military, but as insurgency increases, companies are becoming more deeply enmeshed in combat, in some cases all but obliterating distinctions between professional troops and private commandos; security firms have sent force of roughly 20,000 to Iraq on top of American military presence of 130,000; most security firms' recruits are former members of American military; photo; chart (L)

This article was reported by David Barstow, James Glanz and Kate Zernike

Four private security contractors killed, burned and mutilated in Falluja last week were reportedly lured into carefully planned ambush by men purporting to be friendly members of Iraqi Civil Defense Corps; investigation by Blackwater USA, victims' employer, has not yet determined whether Blackwater employees were led into Falluja by active members of Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, or by imposters wearing defense corps uniforms; Blackwater official notes that imposters or not, incident underscores deepening concern about reliability of Iraqi civil defense forces at time when allied troops are fighting in many parts of Iraq to suppress militant Sunni and Shiite groups; Pentagon says it cannot confirm conclusions of Blackwater investigation and is conducting separate military inquiry; Blackwater's account, if confirmed, could deflect blame for incident from company (M)

By David Barstow

Bush Administration releases some information about Pres Bush's service in Texas Air National Guard; critics have questioned whether Bush family influence was used to secure Bush spot in guard, why he missed training during eight months of 1972-1973, why he failed to take required annual flight physical in 1972 and how he received early honorable discharge; photo (M)

By David Barstow

Alabama Air National Guard officials, responding to growing scrutiny of Pres Bush's military record, have been searching for documents proving his service and informal search is also on among former members of 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group for anyone who remembers seeing Bush in 1972; interviews with some retired officers, pilots and senior enlisted men who served with 187th that year find strong support for Bush, but no recollection of him (M)

By David Barstow

For decades, Portuguese dairy farmers have dominated this wisp of a town on the windswept edge of the San Joaquin Valley. Tough, stubborn and hard-working, their families have prospered in a dusty land where death and injury are as close as a falling hay bale or a thrashing bull. It is accepted fact here that life is hard and cruel, that risk is everywhere, that death is as random as the summer lightning. When your time comes, words will be spoken over your coffin at Our Lady of Miracles, and then life will push on, as it always has. ''We're a 'forgive and forget' community,'' is the way one town elder put it some years back.

By David Barstow

Second of three articles, When Workers Die, examines government action, or inaction, in face of workplace deaths; 100 workers die each year as result of acts of intentional wrongdoing or plain indifference; they died because boss removed safety devices to speed up prodcution, or because company ignored explicit safety warnings, or because worker was denied proper protective gear; officials at Occupational Safety and Health Adm have long described these cases as 'horror stories' and pledged to press wherever possible for criminal charges against those responsible; examination of workplace deaths over span of two decades, from 1982 to 2002, finds that OSHA declined to seek prosecution in 93 percent of such 'horror stories' it investigated; finds OSHA's reluctance to seek prosecution persists even when employers have been cited before for very same safety violation, or when violations caused multiple deaths or when victims were teenagers; says this reluctance to prosecute persists even where reviews by administrative judges found abundant proof of willful wrongdoing; current and former OSHA officials describe bureaucracy that fails to reward, and sometimes penalizes, those who push too hard for prosecution; some cases described; photos; graph (L)

By David Barstow

First of three articles, When Workers Die, examines death of plumber's apprentice in collapsed trench, and government's response to lax safety procedures at company he worked for; Patrick M Walters, plumber's apprentice for Moeves Plumbing of Cincinnati, worked unprotected in 10-foot trench, a blatant violation of federal safety laws by company that had lost another worker in collapsed trench in 1989; Walters' family, seeking justice, finds that although it is federal crime for employer to cause worker's death by willfully violating safety laws, to initiate prosecution case must be referred to Justice Dept by OSHA, and that OSHA has shown great reluctance to prosecute even very worst cases; former OSHA employee cites as reasons scarce resources, fear of bad publicity, and collective belief that Justice Dept does not like these cases; in Walters case, OSHA concluded that Moeves Plumbing was guilty of serious safety violations but did not recommend criminal charges; OSHA would later say it achieved 'good solution' by obtaining Moeves Plumbing's promise of additional vigilance and training, same promise company made in 1989 after first worker died in collapsed trench; photos (L)

By David Barstow

Sweeping federal indictment unsealed in Newark charges that senior managers of New Jersey foundry owned by McWane Inc, nation's largest manufacturer of cast-iron pipe, conspired for years to violate workplace safety and environmental laws and then obstructed repeated government inquiries by lying, intimidating workers into silence and systematically altering accident scenes; indictment says motive was to enrich foundry, Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe in Philippsburg, NJ, and its managers by maximizing production 'without concern to environmental pollution and worker safety risks'; indictment charges that foundry's managers routinely dumped thousands of gallons of contaminated wastewater into Delaware River, repeatedly exposed workers to unsafe conditions and regularly deceived environmental and workplace safety regulators; photos (L)

By David Barstow

Epic blackout brings day of colossal disruption to New York City; at Port Authority Bus Station, waves of confused commuters are met by small contingent of harried police officers trying, vainly, to push everyone back out; commuter trains are evacuated; hotels scramble to accommodate thousands of guests suddenly cut off from rooms by useless elevators and room keys; buses are packed; level of anxiety is clearly eased by fact that so many crucial city institutions are continuing to provide some services because of backup generators; normally garish Times Square billboards are black; photos (M)

By David Barstow