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	Lew Rywin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lew Rywin (born November 10, 1945 in a Siberian village) is a Polish film producer associated with Heritage Films (est.
		Rywin claimed that he was sent by the prime minister Leszek Miller and had connections to an undetermined “power group” (grupa trzymająca władzę) that could cause news media laws imposing restrictions on TV station ownership for newspaper publishers not to come into force.
		However minority reports prepared by other committee members claimed otherwise and the farthest reaching of those reports, prepared by Zbigniew Ziobro, was accepted by the Sejm due to a miscalculation made by Miller's party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lew_Rywin (327 words)

	News for Lew Rywin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rywin, who was also fined $25,000, told the editor he was acting on behalf of senior politicians.
		The Pianist producer Lew Rywin has been charged with corruption in his native country of Poland.
		Rywin, who also produced the Oscar-winning Schindler's List, was formally charged over the weekend.
	indie.imdb.com /name/nm0753499/news (213 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Playing the Victim
		Testifying before a Sejm investigation committee Feb. 22, film producer Lew Rywin-at the center of a corruption scandal widely referred to as Rywingate-rejected the committee's accusations of corruption.
		Rywin added that he was in a position to support his words with evidence-which however he could not reveal for the time being due to simultaneous penal proceedings in progress in the case.
		Rywin's refusal to answer the committee's questions was "highly meaningful," said Tomasz Nałęcz, chairman of the committee, after the hearing.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/1389 (981 words)

	Warsaw \| News \| Fall Of Media Mogul
		Rywin was convicted of fraud last year for asking a leading media group for a several million dollar bribe in return for Parliamentary amendments to this country’s media ownership law.
		Lew Rywin, co-producer of such Hollywood blockbusters as Schindler’s List and The Pianist, must start serving his two year prison term on April 18.
		On his part, Rywin did not plead guilty to the charges and said he was being victimized in a fight between the Agora publishing house and the government.
	www.warsaw-life.com /news/news/407-Fall_Of_Media_Mogul (277 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| News \| Oscar-winning Polish producer on bribery charge
		Lew Rywin, the co-producer of The Pianist and Schindler's List, went to court yesterday hoping to clear his name of allegations that he solicited a bribe on behalf of the Polish prime minister.
		Rywin served as a producer on this year's Holocaust drama The Pianist, which won the best director Oscar for his compatriot Roman Polanski.
		Rywin denies the charges and claims that he has become embroiled in a conspiracy.
	film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,,1098755,00.html (271 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Polish Hollywood producer jailed
		Rywin, who was also fined $25,000, was convicted of seeking more than $17m from a newspaper editor in return for promoting changes to Polish media law.
		Rywin told the editor he was acting on behalf of senior politicians.
		The judges ruled that in the summer of 2002 Rywin went to the chief editor of the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper and asked for the bribe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3660041.stm (305 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Polish filmmaker jailed for corruption (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		POLISH filmmaker Lew Rywin, who co-produced Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, was yesterday sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail after a high profile corruption trial which shook Poland’s political establishment.
		Rywin, 58, broke down in tears as the court convicted him of trying to trick leading daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza out of $17.5 million.
		But the court dismissed suggestions senior officials were involved by ruling Rywin had lied when he had claimed he could have influenced the drafting of the media bill.
	news.scotsman.com /entertainment.cfm?id=472812004 (409 words)

	Poles Jail Schindler's List Honcho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lew Rywin was also a figure in The Piano, another anti-Polish and anti-White pro-Zionist production whose director was Jewish child molestor Roman Polanski.
		The "victim" Adam Michnik remains unindicted despite having paid fellow Jew Rywin to bend the media policies of the emerging former Communist-occupied nation, which has historically stood as a major pillar and font of European civilization.
		Interestingly, in paying off Rywin, the "anti-Communist" Michnik was seeking to influence the "post-Communist" heirs of the regime which repressed Solidarity.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /printer.php?id=2748 (310 words)

	Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Warsaw, Feb. 10: A parliamentary commission investigating the Lew Rywin bribery scandal Monday moved for the suspension of public tv boss Robert Kwiatkowski, a suspect in the case, and will ask the prosecution for insight into Kwiatkowski's phone billings as possible evidence.
		In late December film producer Lew Rywin approached Adam Michnik, head of the national daily Gazeta Wyborcza, with a suggestion that Michnik pay 17.5 million dollars in return for changes in media laws.
		At the time Rywin claimed he was acting on behalf of "circles holding power" and was backed by the prime minister and the ruling Democratic Left Alliance party (SLD).
	www.polandembassy.org /News/Biuletyny_news/p2003-02-10.htm (694 words)

	WJLA - Film Producer Rywin's Conviction Upheld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Poland's supreme court upheld the conviction on bribery charges of Lew Rywin, the Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" - concluding a three-year case that helped undermine the outgoing government.Rywin, 59, was convicted last year of being an accessory to influence peddling.
		The court said Thursday that Rywin falsely claimed to represent Leszek Miller, the prime minister at the time, and an unspecified "group holding power." It sentenced him to two years in prison and fined him $30,000.
		Rywin's Heritage Films co-produced "Schindler's List" by director Steven Spielberg in 1993 and Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," which was honored at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/1005/270707.html (253 words)

	Warsaw Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rywin, 58, broke down in tears as the court convicted him of trying to t...
		Fox News WARSAW, Poland — Lew Rywin (), the Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning "Schindler...
		ABC News WARSAW, Poland April 26 — Lew Rywin, the Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning "Schindler's...
	archive.wn.com /2004/04/28/1400/warsawbusiness (828 words)

	Ukrainian-related news stories from RFE
		Second, Rywin could have acted on behalf of a "group in power," but his true intention was not getting a bribe but compromising "Gazeta Wyborcza" and Agora through involving them in a corruption case.
		Lew Rywin used Premier Leszek Miller's name in a mendacious and criminal way, without being empowered to do this," Michnik stressed.
		More and more often, I come to the conclusion that Lew Rywin has mighty defenders and protectors who are doing everything to sink this case," he noted.
	www.infoukes.com /rfe-ukraine/2003/0218.html (2211 words)

	Irish Examiner - 2004/04/27: Schindler’s List producer jailed
		LEW RYWIN, the Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning Schindler’s List and The Pianist, was found guilty of fraud charges in a bribery scandal in Warsaw and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.Rywin, 58, remained free pending an expected appeal against Warsaw provincial court’s verdict, which also includes a £12,000 fine.
		The Warsaw provincial court ruled that Rywin falsely claimed he represented Prime Minister Leszek Miller when he allegedly sought an £8m bribe from Agora, publisher of the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, in 2002.
		Rywin has denied the charges, claiming he was set up by Agora.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/2004/04/27/story258088210.asp (128 words)

	AsianFanatics Forum > Schindler's List co-producer 'must serve prison... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In December, a panel of three judges sentenced Lew Rywin, 59, to two years and fined him 100,000 zlotys (23,900) as an accessory to influence-peddling.
		Rywin will "report at the prison today with the intention of serving his term," Malecki said.
		Rywin was the owner of Heritage Films, a Polish company that co-produced Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning Schindler's List and Roman Polanski's The Pianist, which was honoured with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.
	forum.asianfanatics.net /lofiversion/index.php/t96215.html (385 words)

	Poland - Rywin Affair - Corruption - Worldpress.org
		Rywingate, also known as the Rywin scandal or Rywin affair, is Poland’s most serious corruption scandal in a decade.
		Rywin claimed to be speaking for people in the ruling Democratic Left Alliance (SLD).
		Prime Minister Leszek Miller, a friend of Rywin, and President Aleksander Kwasniewski were said to be aware of the shakedown, but they, too, remained silent until news of the bribery became public.
	www.worldpress.org /Europe/1098.cfm (399 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Polish Hollywood producer jailed
		Lew Rywin co-produced the Oscar-winning Hollywood films Schindler's List and The Pianist.
		In return the 58-year-old film producer promised to lobby for changes to a media bill to allow the newspaper's parent company, Agora SA, to buy a television station.
		Rywin's lawyers have said they will appeal against the decision.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3660041.stm (305 words)

	Polish Politics Parliament starts inquiry into 'Rywingate'
		"Gazeta Wyborcza" Editor in Chief Adam Michnik told journalists on 15 January that, had he known that the bribery scandal involving Rywin and Premier Miller would affect such wide circles in Poland, he would have written about it earlier, PAP reported.
		Michnik said he also regrets that he did not notify prosecutors about Rywin's alleged solicitation of a bribe.
		"If Rywin came to me and said he would sort something out for me [for a bribe], without referring to the prime minister's name, I would have simply shown him the door.
	www.templetonthorp.com /fr/news214 (209 words)

	'Schindler' Producer Rywin Jaileded In Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		WARSAW, Poland -- Polish filmmaker Lew Rywin, who co-produced Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail on Monday in a high profile corruption trial which shook Poland's political establishment.
		Rywin, 58, broke down intears as the court convicted him of trying to trick leading daily Gazeta Wyborcza out of $17.5 million.
		He told the paper he could use his influence with lawmakers to get them to change media laws allowing its publisher to buy a television station.
	www.webprowire.com /summaries/763029.html (206 words)

	Rywingate Scandal Head of Polish Television comments on bribe
		The head of Polish Television Robert Kwiatkowski has told the parliamentary commission investigating the so-called Rywingate scandal that it was not his idea to send film producer Lew Rywin to Gazeta Wyborcza to solicit a bribe.
		Gazeta Wyborcza Editor in Chief Adam Michnik suggested that Kwiatkowski might have been interested in compromising the daily through a bribery scandal in order to eliminate it as a potential buyer in the possible privatisation of Polish Television's second channel.
		Meanwhile, Rzeczpospolita has published Kwiatkowski's phone bills, which show that he telephoned Rywin 13 times over a two-week period in July, when Rywin allegedly made his offer to Agora, the publisher of Gazeta Wyborcza.
	www.templetonthorp.com /pl/news245 (183 words)

	Brooklyn On Line - Lew Rywin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Does anybody remember Lew Rywin from the years 1962-65?
		He's a major film producer in Poland now and has co-produced films with Spielberg (Schindler's List)and Robin Williams, among others.
		Re: Lew Rywin nadia rywin bojan@cache-mtc-ab05.proxy.aol.com 11:15:12 3/30/2003 (
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	Lew Rywin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	AAP, Rywin Set Holocaust Tale 'Survivor' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Holders of annual and monthly season tickets for London's public transport network will be able to buy the Oyster smartcard online or via a dedicated
		LONDON -- Startup London- and New York-based indie production house Atlantic Alliance Pictures has partnered with veteran producer Lew Rywin ("The Pianist") to make "Love Is a Survivor," a love story set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
		AAP partners Harris Salomon, Matt Salzberg and Abi Sirokh sealed the deal with Rywin through his Poland-based production company, Heritage Films.
	www.webprowire.com /summaries/528486.html (202 words)

	Brooklyn On Line - Re: Lew Rywin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Posted by nadia rywin bojan@cache-mtc-ab05.proxy.aol.com on March 30, 2003 at 11:15:12:
		In Reply to: Lew Rywin posted by Vlady Rozenbaum@pool-138-88-86-190.res.east.verizon.net on December 28, 2002 at 23:41:59:
		: : Does anybody remember Lew Rywin from the years 1962-65?
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