Here is a link to a story written about David Baines, the reporter that put the facts on the table from stories researched here, and many many more. As you can see, in the past, anyone exposing the truth would come under a common form of intimidation. Here is the piece Seeingeye spoke of several days ago, relating to the intimidation of David Baines.

{No Vancouver reporter ever took seriously the periodic death threats (“I’ll kill you if you print that”) until the detectives from the Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit rolled up one day to tell Baines that someone was shopping a contract on his life. Given this history of conflict, it’s no surprise that Baines is also party to the largest libel award in B.C. history. The surprise is that, on this occasion, Baines was the plaintiff. Of the 18 suits filed against him, only three have made it as far as examination-for-discovery – and none has made it to court. The single suit that Baines filed against a detractor yielded a judgment, in Baines’s favour, of $825,000 and an ultimate settlement of $350,000. Half of that went to legal bills but there was enough left over that Baines began, for the first time in his life, to invest in the stock market – mostly blue-chip TSE and NASDAQ stocks in a portfolio that is permanently available for review by Sun management. Baines also donated $60,000 towards a David Baines/Vancouver Sun scholarship in business journalism at UBC, potentially somenting a whole new generation of David Baineses. Or perhaps not. On this, at least, everyone agrees: Baines is one of a kind}

http://www.bcbusiness.ca/people/david-baines-the-most-hated-man-in-business