When it comes to tax cheats, the government has been vocal about catching the little guys but hasn't focused on the big-time frauds, like Swift Boat financier Sam Wyly, who happens to be a top-tier Republican contributor.
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, one of the world’s richest men, and head of AIG, one of the world’s largest financial companies, was forced to resign this week as prosecutors closed in on him and the company.
As a senator, John Kerry was a tenacious investigator and exposed BCCI, an international criminal bank, and its murderous clients. The experience should serve him well in dealing with the international threats we face today.
Posted on: Apr 24, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
As states and municipalities reel from service cutbacks caused by lower tax earnings, big corporations use elaborate "shell" games to pay virtually no taxes on huge profits.
Posted on: Aug 25, 2002, Source: Pacific News Service
How to be a world-class good-guy pro-environmentalist, pro-sustainable development billionaire industrialist, while your family company is spewing poisons into the air and being sued and fined.
Posted on: Jan 20, 2002, Source: Pacific News Service
How did Enron executives cause the world's biggest bankruptcy while making off with millions? By using the same secret money system used by terrorists and financial swindlers.
Posted on: Oct 3, 2001, Source: Pacific News Service
A controversial European book that exposed the secret banking systems possibly used by terrorists remains unpublished and unknown in the U.S. Ironically, Rudy Giuliani may already know its details.
Posted on: Sep 20, 2001, Source: Pacific News Service
For years the banking laws of the United States and its allies have protected money laundering, allowing terrorists to move money quickly and secretly.