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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichael Winship: Jack Lew, Citigroup and the Ugland Truth
Published on Friday, March 8, 2013 by Common Dreams
Jack Lew, Citigroup and the Ugland Truth
by Michael Winship
Along with its sandy beaches and quality snorkeling, the Cayman Islands reputation as an offshore tax haven for corporations, banks and hedge funds has become so well-known its financial institutions now are featured in travel brochures as yet another tourist attraction.
So as we traveled across the Caribbean this week including a stretch paralleling the south coast of Cuba past Guantanamo Bay and the Sierra Maestra mountains, where Castro and his revolutionaries once hid out we made a stop in George Town on Grand Cayman Island. A short walk along the shore took us to 335 South Church Street, a location made famous by Barack Obama a few years ago and more recently, Jack Lew, during his confirmation hearings to become Secretary of the Treasury.
There youll find Ugland House, a five-story office building that, according to a 2008 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), houses 18,857 corporations, about half of which have billing addresses back in the States. Its the business world equivalent of one of those circus cars thats packed with more clowns than you thought possible. In 2009, Obama said of Ugland House, either this is the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world.
In Foreign Policy magazine in January 2012, Joshua Keating wrote that in reality Ugland is neither but, the building makes a mockery of the U.S. tax system. .......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/08-6
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Michael Winship: Jack Lew, Citigroup and the Ugland Truth (Original Post)
marmar
Mar 2013
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MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)1. President Obama sure loves corporate whores
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)3. whoreaphilic?
KoKo
(84,711 posts)2. It's a good read....Cayman Islands... Although...Lew is already there
it's still good to keep an eye on him in case anything funny comes up that links back to the CitiGroup and Loans he took from NYU for his Million Dollar real estate investment.
This was reported but didn't go anywhere to stop his confirmation.