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ASolo ago

This is VERY INTERESTING:

In 2014, The Brightwater Fund passed off $100,000 to AFGB. Brightwater is operated by Gloria Jarecki, the wife of physician and investment mogul Henry Jarecki. The Jareckis are so far into the global 1 percent they actually own an entire island in the Bahamas; anti-Wikipedia activists are accusing the free encyclopedia of, in exchange for massive donations, allowing the couple to shape the narrative on their own Wikipedia page.

1980s Child Sex Case Is a Cause He Cannot Drop

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/06/nyregion/filmmaker-still-fights-outcome-of-80s-child-sexual-abuse-case.html

If someone ever decided to make a documentary entitled “Capturing the Jareckis,” the family in question would look a lot more like a 1970s version of J. D. Salinger’s Glass family than the Friedmans. It would feature a brainy group of serial overachievers, a commitment to film and social justice and a politically engaged soundtrack by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs.

Aside from disparate documentary urges, an upbringing in expensive suburbs and several male offspring, there is very little overlap between the Friedmans, the dysfunctional Great Neck, N.Y., family whose sex abuse case provided the basis for Andrew Jarecki’s Oscar-nominated documentary, “Capturing the Friedmans,” and Mr. Jarecki’s family, which includes high-powered parents and two other accomplished filmmaking siblings.

Capturing the Friedmans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capturing_the_Friedmans

Production[edit]

Jarecki initially was making a short film, Just a Clown, which he completed, about children's birthday party entertainers in New York, including the popular clown David Friedman ("Silly Billy"). During his research, Jarecki learned that David Friedman's brother, Jesse, and his father, Arnold, had pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse, and the family had an archive of home movies. Jarecki interviewed some of the children involved and ended up making a film focusing on the Friedmans.[3]

Synopsis[edit]

The investigation into Arnold Friedman's life started after the U.S. Postal Service in 1987 intercepted a magazine of child pornography received from the Netherlands. In searching his Great Neck, New York home, investigators found a collection of child pornography. After learning that Friedman taught children computer classes from his home, local police began to suspect him of abusing his students.

Hmmm.

ASolo ago

In one of the few negative reviews, Los Angeles Times writer Kenneth Turan wrote a critique of both the film and Jarecki, stating, "Jarecki's pose of impartiality gets especially troublesome for audiences when it enables him to evade responsibility for dealing with the complexities of his material."[12]

Criticism intensified as Jarecki's role in deliberately choosing not to pursue his firm belief in the Friedmans' innocence became publicly known. In his review, Ebert had recounted Jarecki's statement at the Sundance Film Festival that he did not know whether Arnold and Jesse Friedman were guilty of child molestation. Ebert roundly praised Jarecki for communicating this ambiguity.[11] It has since emerged that Jarecki funded Jesse Friedman's appeal.[13] Writing for The Village Voice, Debbie Nathan – who was hired by Jarecki as a consultant after having been interviewed for the film – wrote of Jarecki, "Polling viewers at Sundance in January, he was struck by how they were split over Arnold and Jesse's guilt. Since then, he's crafted a marketing strategy based on ambiguity, and during Q&As and interviews, he has studiously avoided taking a stand