You get the idea.
1. What number of the Vulture fund corporations are of U.S. origin?
1a. Did they start as collection agencies then branch out?
2. If 1 and 1a are true, would outlawing the collection agencies businesses in the U.S. and their practices help to reduce the Vulture fund industry?
3. Is there a list of the Vulture fund corporations somewhere? (I'm reading and googling as you read this)
edit to add: so far from the article
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Debt Advisory International (DAI) manages a number of vulture funds which buy up the debts of highly indebted poor countries cheaply and then sue for the original value of the debt plus interest. (can't find a website for them yet - they have offices in DC and are listed on lobbyist reports)
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the company founder Michael Sheehan outside his home in Virginia.
<snip> (shrub and guiliani and republican connections - surprise /sarcasm and they use the U.S. court system to bankrupt countries *sigh*)
The vulture funds raise most of their money through legal actions in US courts. Those actions against foreign governments can be stayed by the word of the US President and that is where lobbying and political influence becomes important.
Debt Advisory International are very generous to their lobbyists in Washington. They have been paying $240,000 a year to the lobby firm Greenberg Traurig - although recently they jumped ship to another firm after Greenberg Traurig's top lobbyist was put in jail.
Paul Singer has more direct political connections. He was the biggest donor to George Bush and the Republican cause in New York City - giving $1.7m since Bush started his first presidential campaign.
Rudi Guiliani is the favourite to be the next Republican presidential candidate and a leaked memo from his campaign shows that Paul Singer has pledged to raise $15m for Guiliani's campaign.
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still googling names and companies and such