[8] From the late 1990s, the newspaper printed detailed reports on government corruption, written by ombudsman Marie Noelle Patterson.
[8] In 2001, the Trading Post revealed Prime Minister Barak Sope's involvement in a case of forged bank guarantees.
The deportation order was overturned by Chief Justice Vincent Lunabek; Sope was later convicted of forgery and sentenced to three years in gaol.
He was released that same day without charge after an intervention by his lawyer, but not without first having talked to fellow inmates about living conditions in the prison.
[1][8] In March 2011, Minister for Infrastructure Harry Iauko led a group of men into the newspaper's offices and watched them kick and throttle Neil-Jones.