Up to $32 trillion stashed offshore ... oops ... caught with their hands in the hidden cookie jar

[MichaelSoE]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/03/offshore-secrets-offshore-tax-haven

Sample offshore owners named in the leaked files include:

• Jean-Jacques Augier, François Hollande's 2012 election campaign co-treasurer, launched a Caymans-based distributor in China with a 25% partner in a BVI company. Augier says his partner was Xi Shu, a Chinese businessman.

• Mongolia's former finance minister. Bayartsogt Sangajav set up "Legend Plus Capital Ltd" with a Swiss bank account, while he served as finance minister of the impoverished state from 2008 to 2012. He says it was "a mistake" not to declare it, and says "I probably should consider resigning from my position".

• The president of Azerbaijan and his family. A local construction magnate, Hassan Gozal, controls entities set up in the names of President Ilham Aliyev's two daughters.

[House of Roberts]

1. If you ever wondered where most of the $16 trillion in US debt went,

there's your answer.

[wordpix]

2. I'd look there for the missing Iraq billion$, too

[KansDem]

3. "He says it was 'a mistake' not to declare it..."

"...and says 'I probably should consider resigning from my position'."

Just like the "well-connected:" rules only apply to the "little people."

Like Clarence Thomas not declaring his wife's income on a disclosure form because he "didn't understand the directions."

Initially, the liberal watchdog group Common Cause estimated that Virginia Thomas had made about $700,000 in the years her husband was claiming she made nothing. But the group has recently come up with new figures showing Virginia Thomas actually earned around $1.6 million—more than twice as much as the original estimate. That's a decent chunk of change the Thomas family was earning from a party with an interest in what could be one of the court's biggest cases in years.

Thomas has amended his disclosure forms to correct the omissions and has claimed that he misunderstood how to fill out the forms. But Common Cause noticed that Thomas had actually filled the forms out properly for many years before he suddenly stopped recording his wife's employers. "There is now more than enough evidence to merit a formal inquiry as to whether Justice Thomas willfully failed to make legally required disclosures, perhaps for as long as 13 years," Common Cause president Bob Edgar said in a statement. "Given that we now know he correctly completed the reports in prior years, it's hardly plausible—indeed it's close to unbelievable—that Justice Thomas did not understand the instructions."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/clarence-thomass-non-disclosure-form

That's what we need! A Supreme Court justice who doesn't understand the instructions on a disclosure form.


These f*ckers get away with murder!

[rhett o rick]

5. Steve Martin says to just say, "I FORGOT". And if that doesnt work, then, "EXCUSE ME". nm

[cbdo2007]

4. Can't believe more of these people haven't been outed by hackers....

People in the US, politicians, heads of companies....the data is all out there for the picking, for those who know how to get it.