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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 03:37 PM Aug 2018

Rick and Ann Scott's financial trail leads to Cayman Islands tax haven

Source: Miami Herald

BY STEVE BOUSQUET Herald/
August 27, 2018 12:27 PMUpdated 1 hour 9 minutes ago



The portfolio of Gov. Rick Scott and first lady Ann Scott includes earnings last year of at least $2.9 million in two dozen hedge funds registered in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven for U.S. and foreign investors.

The investments had a minimum total value of $25 million and a potential value of $62 million, according to the financial disclosure statement Scott filed last month as a U.S. Senate candidate.

The 125-page statement included details of Scott’s blind trust, managed by a New York trustee who’s a former business associate of the governor’s.

“The governor had no role in selecting that investment,” said a spokesman for Scott’s campaign, Lauren Schenone. “The blind trust is managed by an independent financial professional who decides what assets are bought, sold or changed.”

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article217391445.html

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Rick and Ann Scott's financial trail leads to Cayman Islands tax haven (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2018 OP
No! 2naSalit Aug 2018 #1
+1 ffr Aug 2018 #11
And almost certainly this miscreant: sandensea Aug 2018 #22
OMG, NO! jrthin Aug 2018 #2
Mr. Pyle: Surprise! Surprise! Sneederbunk Aug 2018 #3
Mr. and Mrs. Crook louis c Aug 2018 #4
Now who would have guessed this????? bluestarone Aug 2018 #5
The Drug Wars were a lucrative time for those two. bluedigger Aug 2018 #6
Kicking for Florida tavernier Aug 2018 #7
A crooked lowlife. drain the swamp. rockfordfile Aug 2018 #8
Scott drained the swamp.... SergeStorms Aug 2018 #20
Medicare Fraud Racerdog1 Aug 2018 #9
Fucking Frankenstein!!! wolfie001 Aug 2018 #10
If this man is sent to jail , I will packman Aug 2018 #12
Bookmarking gay texan Aug 2018 #13
republican millionaires FAIL to pay taxes Achilleaze Aug 2018 #14
It was indeed a sad day when my fellow Floridains choose this creature of an individual The Liberal Lion Aug 2018 #15
It won't matter RhodeIslandOne Aug 2018 #16
Can't fix stupid. Racerdog1 Aug 2018 #17
this is normal for cons elmac Aug 2018 #18
Scott is carpet bombing TV with his Ads in FL at140 Aug 2018 #19
but according to his commercial onethatcares Aug 2018 #21
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! Initech Aug 2018 #23
How many other elected and appointed officials The Wizard Aug 2018 #24

ffr

(22,670 posts)
11. +1
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 05:00 PM
Aug 2018

You beat me to it.

It's hard to believe that these drain the swamp Russian are out themselves narcissists would do the very thing they ran in their campaigns about cleaning up.

Shocking!

You hear that you freeper rubes?

sandensea

(21,639 posts)
22. And almost certainly this miscreant:
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 06:37 PM
Aug 2018


No, not Jim Bakker - but Paul Singer, head of the notorious Caymans laundry NML, famous for being offshore bank of choice for the likes of Mitt Rpmney and Central American narcos, and of course for buying up defaulted third-world bonds from the black market, and then suing for 1600% payoffs.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
20. Scott drained the swamp....
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 06:03 PM
Aug 2018

right out into the Gulf of Mexico, where the Red Tide has blossomed into a Scott killing machine the likes of which we've never seen.

wolfie001

(2,252 posts)
10. Fucking Frankenstein!!!
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 04:27 PM
Aug 2018

What would one expect from a graduate of the Charles H. Keating school of finance?

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
12. If this man is sent to jail , I will
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 05:11 PM
Aug 2018

-Climb Mt. Everest without oxygen and naked
- Swim with the crocodiles in a piranha filled lake
- Clean the back porch of years of BBQ grease
- Rejoice in the most obscene manner which will defy all decency
- Buy and drink the most expensive wine my local booze store carries and eat a bag of pork rinds while racing up and down the street
- Wear a silly hat for a year indoors, outdoors, awake and sleeping

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
15. It was indeed a sad day when my fellow Floridains choose this creature of an individual
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 05:25 PM
Aug 2018

over the honorable Alex Sink.

 

Racerdog1

(808 posts)
17. Can't fix stupid.
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 05:47 PM
Aug 2018

There is a never ending supply of dumbfucks in this state. Education is not high on the priority list.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
18. this is normal for cons
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 05:49 PM
Aug 2018

they hide their ill gotten assets and get away with it because we are a capitalistic fascist country.

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
21. but according to his commercial
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 06:28 PM
Aug 2018

he is a po boy that grew up in public housing and his moms' car was repo'd and he is one of us.

and we should overlook the 75 5th amendment pleadings in his deposition about HCA.

That fucking geek lizard asshole.

But the fine repukers in floriduh will elect him to the senate.

I GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE.

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
24. How many other elected and appointed officials
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 07:05 PM
Aug 2018

are hiding money in off shore money laundries? Any public official with an off shore account should be removed from office forthwith. Scott didn't accumulate all that wealth by being honest, or stupid. Unethical on a good day.

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