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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWapost doing a great job on Pandora Papers!! [10 articles in the series so far]
'PANDORA PAPERS | A GLOBAL INVESTIGATION
FOREIGN MONEY SECRETLY FLOODS U.S. TAX HAVENS. SOME OF IT IS TAINTED.' [Headlines']
By Debbie Cenziper, Will Fitzgibbon and Salwan Georges
Oct. 4, 2021
[Doing a much better job than TV news - and better than DU doing so far]
"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Across from a Holiday Inn, in a red-brick building with a welcome sign that reads The Heart of America, a little-known financial firm set up shop seven years ago and extended an invitation to the worlds elite.
Trident Trust promised to protect the fortunes and privacy of its new customers by relying on the laws of a state that had become a global destination for wealth. The company called it The South Dakota Advantage.
Among those who answered the call: a Colombian textile magnate caught in a scheme to launder the proceeds of an international drug ring, an orange juice mogul who settled with authorities in Brazil for allegedly colluding to underpay local farmers, and family members of the former president of a sugar producer in the Dominican Republic that has been accused of exploiting laborers and forcibly evicting families from their homes.
Read key takeaways from the Pandora Papers investigation
The U.S. government has long condemned prominent offshore financial centers, where liberal rules and guarantees of discretion have drawn oligarchs, business tycoons and politicians . . . ''
[Apologies. Could not pull up better cite].
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Or will it capture a few headlines, next to nothing on the Big 3 national news and then fadeaway as did the breathtaking revelation of the Sedition Memo?
spooky3
(34,460 posts)Past journalism work.
I would like the post to unleash this team on investigating Republicans collusion in Jan. 6.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)for anti-democracy because thats a clear as you can get example.
Perhaps with all the gathering mountain of evidence of sedition mixed with corporate and Uber wealthy corruption, mostly from those who are corporate shareholders, the tide will turn?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Foreign money secretly floods U.S. tax havens. Some of it is tainted.
Oct. 4, 2021 at 11:42 am
By Debbie Cenziper, Will Fitzgibbon and Salwan Georges
The Washington Post
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Across from a Holiday Inn, in a red-brick building with a welcome sign that reads The Heart of America, a little-known financial firm set up shop seven years ago and extended an invitation to the worlds elite.
Trident Trust promised to protect the fortunes and privacy of its new customers by relying on the laws of a state that had become a global destination for wealth. The company called it The South Dakota Advantage.
Among those who answered the call: a Colombian textile magnate caught in a scheme to launder the proceeds of an international drug ring, an orange juice mogul who settled with authorities in Brazil for allegedly colluding to underpay local farmers, and family members of the former president of a sugar producer in the Dominican Republic that has been accused of exploiting laborers and forcibly evicting families from their homes.
The U.S. government has long condemned prominent offshore financial centers, where liberal rules and guarantees of discretion have drawn oligarchs, business tycoons and politicians.
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)'Pandora Papers - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers
1 day ago · The Pandora Papers unmask the hidden owners of offshore companies, secret bank accounts, private jets, yachts, mansions and artworks by Picasso, Banksy and other masters. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations.'