First. (notes).(Letter to the Editor)

An overseas government suppresses a national television news report about scandals in one of its nation's hallmark industries--one that makes a healthy product Americans are buying in droves.

Meanwhile, an American journalist traveling in the country hears rumors about the scandals and begins to question her sources, including one of the world's richest men, who's directly involved in the industry.

When she returns home, a pirated videotape of the report mysteriously shows up on her doorstep. She has the tape translated into English.

As the story unfolds, she learns that a well-known manufacturer of the product has been involve in a high-stakes lawsuit, that crooks on the high seas variously mislabel the product and that organized crime is possibly involved.

That journalist is Kimberly Lord Stewart, who is one of our top freelance reporters. And that means BN got the story first. Her exclusive report on fraud in the olive oil industry begins on p. 53.

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