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In reply to the discussion: Massive leak exposes how the wealthy and powerful hide their money [View all]starroute
(12,977 posts)158. The Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Googling on Mossack Fonseca brought me to this:
http://archive.freedomandprosperity.org/update/upd02-15-01/upd02-15-01.shtml
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity just completed a successful 5 day visit to Panama. Panama is one of the 35 regimes on the original OECD list of low-tax countries. Indeed, Panama has the unfortunate distinction of being on all three of the international blacklists (OECD, FATF and FSB).
CFP was invited to participate in the First Forum on Competitiveness of Panama's Service Export Industry. The forum was very successful with more than 100 participants. During our trip, we met with senior government officials, top business leaders, local and international reporters, as well as average Panamanian citizens. Dan Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation and Mark Warner of Hughes Hubbard & Reed joined me with local speakers at the forum. Dan spoke on why tax competition is important and why the OECD project is misguided, Mark, a former OECD top trade lawyer, said the blacklist of tax havens was discriminatory under World Trade Organization rules, and I discussed the activities of the Center. Our remarks were received with much applause (see FT articles above and below).
The Center also meet with the Panamanian Business Association (sponsors of our trip) and the International Lawyers Association which is made up the 15 largest Panamanian firms including Morgan & Morgan, Sucre Arias & Reyes, Mossack Fonseca, Arosemena Noriega & Contreras, and Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee.
And just who are these people? I'm glad you asked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Freedom_and_Prosperity
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CFP or CF&P) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for flat taxes, territorial taxation systems, and offshore tax havens. The organization and its subsidiary, Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (a tax-exempt organization), publish studies and conduct seminars analyzing the benefits of jurisdictional tax competition, financial privacy and fiscal sovereignty.
The stated objectives of the CFP are:
* Thwarting the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s attempts to create a cartel of high-tax nations arguing that tax competition should be celebrated, not persecuted, and advocating that high tax regimes should not be able to shield themselves from globalisation.
* Protecting world commerce and open trade it asserts that discriminatory financial protectionism against low-tax nations is a bad idea in principle and should be stopped. . . .
(More about them and founder Dan Mitchell at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/1/22/1057028/)
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Jackson Stevens ties also to the Clintons, Alltel, Systematics, Beverly Enterprises
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#31
wondering how long it will be before the clintons and their foundation are implcated
Ferd Berfel
Apr 2016
#129
I don't think they will be and if they were it would not make any difference at all.
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#131
The way I see it is that most of the HRC supporters are for big business less regulation.
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#135
Of course not, it'll be all 'we had NO idea what that investment firm was up to, we're as outraged
AtheistCrusader
Apr 2016
#133
Leak from just one firm. Imagine what the rest of them have, helping offshore tax dodgers?
Octafish
Apr 2016
#16
As Ambassador DeSadesky said: ''That is an astonishingly good idea you have there, Doctor.''
Octafish
Apr 2016
#71
Bumping, in response to the DU'er who dissed Octafish some time back on one
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Apr 2016
#5
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bemildred
Apr 2016
#6
Yeah, I think our media is working overtime to cover up the Americans involved.
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Apr 2016
#117
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Apr 2016
#68
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#9
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Apr 2016
#154
Phil Gramm toils at UBS with Bill Clinton in WEALTH MANAGEMENT (cough OFFSHORING?).
Octafish
Apr 2016
#156
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LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#11
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Apr 2016
#14
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bemildred
Apr 2016
#15
This is one reason that going after "Wall Street" is like regulating buggy whips...
Sancho
Apr 2016
#19
You are right about the need for "stronger agreements and cooperation with other governments" but
pampango
Apr 2016
#82
Wouldn't be surprised CGI donors on this list awa in the Unaoil/Ahsani bribe machinery
stuffmatters
Apr 2016
#44
Wonderful Octafish! This will take a while....you bring the good stuff! Thanks! nt
haikugal
Apr 2016
#41
They're not hoarding it or stashing it on an island - they're hiding the flows
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2016
#80
Zeitung responce to lack of U.S. individuals in the docs, saying "Just wait for what is coming next"
krawhitham
Apr 2016
#46
Certainly does. Remember how Princess Christina of Spain is under indictment for tax evasion?
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Apr 2016
#99
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Octafish
Apr 2016
#149
This isn't news, this is information. None of this is a shock or scandal to anyone who is
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Apr 2016
#70
So these are all the non-U.S. tax dodgers in just one (smallest) of the top four
valerief
Apr 2016
#93
and in 1987 reagan repealed the fairness doctrine and a CIA connected company
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Apr 2016
#118
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#115
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#120
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#126
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#147
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#155