David Marchant
David Marchant is a British journalist who is the owner and editor of OffshoreAlert, a news service and conference organizer that specializes in exposing serious financial crime while in progress. Marchant and/or OffshoreAlert have received several death threats and have been sued in several countries and jurisdictions, including state and federal court in the USA, Vancouver, Toronto, London, Panama, Grenada, and the Cayman Islands. Marchant says he does not have insurance against libel cases in order not to have to approve his stories with lawyers before publishing them, and claims that "We've never lost a libel action, never published a correction or apology to any plaintiffs and never paid-or been required to pay-them one cent in costs or damages. In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that 11 people had been charged with crimes as a result of his work of which five had been jailed.
