Bruceyg; I note your apparently basis allegation re funding of the ICIJ - one that is NOT documented and as far as I can find out' without basis in fact:
"...
Who funds ICIJ?
ICIJ is a non-profit organization. We rely heavily on charitable foundations and on financial support from the public.
We do not take funding from governments. Without our readers’ support, we cannot exist.
Recent ICIJ funders include: Adessium Foundation, Open Society Foundations, The Sigrid Rausing Trust, The Ford Foundation, Fritt Ord Foundation and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. We also receive support from Australian philanthropist Graeme Wood.
We welcome
individual donations in support of our work. ..."
https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160406-FAQs.html
"... Founded in 1997 by the respected American journalist Chuck Lewis, ICIJ was launched as a project of the
Center for Public Integrity to extend the Center’s style of watchdog journalism, focusing on
issues that do not stop at national frontiers:
cross-border crime, corruption, and the accountability of power. Backed by the Center and its computer-assisted reporting specialists, public records experts, fact-checkers and lawyers, ICIJ reporters and editors provide real-time resources and state-of-the-art tools and techniques to journalists around the world.
Our advisory committee consists of some of the biggest names in investigative journalism worldwide: Bill Kovach, Chuck Lewis, Rosental Calmon Alves, Phillip Knightley, Gwen Lister, Goenawan Mohamad, Reginald Chua and Brant Houston. ..."
https://www.icij.org/about
