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Special: Does NY's Pension Fund Invest in Terror?

By Elizabeth Christensen

Albany, NY – A California-based think tank says over 400 publicly traded firms do business and supply technology to countries that support
terrorism.

The Claremont Insititure has sent letters to the comptrollers of all 50 states asking them to examine which companies their pension funds are invested in and whether they may be unwittingly supporting terrorism.

WRVO's Elizabeth Christensen took a look at the issue... and at New York's pension fund.

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