The just-published book “Dark Money,”
penned by New Yorker staff reporter Jane Mayer, reveals that the Koch
Brothers hired the former commissioner of the New York Police Department
(NYPD) — and his daughter, a former FBI agent — to smear her as a “plagiarist” in the months after the release of her August 2010 bombshell article on the Kochs.
That article, titled “Covert Operations,”
served at the time as one of the first in-depth pieces of long-form
investigative journalism on David and Charles Koch and the influential
right-wing political and climate change denial Tea Party network they had Frankensteined. Mayer's book exposes that the Kochs hired the firm Vigilant Resources International, run by former NYPD head Howard Safir and his daughter Jennifer Safir (the former FBI special agent), to do dirty work on their behalf.
The story, as Mayer told it in “Dark Money,” began when she received a
January 3, 2011 email from her New Yorker editor, David Remnick. MORE
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