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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWanna know who the people are in the Pandora Papers?
easy peasy...the creators of the Pandora Papers ( same ones who put out the Panama and the Paradise papers, have all the names and all the money stashes on their website, here:
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/power-players/
Sure explains why nothing never gets better........
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Wanna know who the people are in the Pandora Papers? (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Oct 2021
OP
Is it just leaders? Any random billionaires that think they should have more influence?
tenderfoot
Oct 2021
#3
viva la
(3,286 posts)1. let's see if this too gets dropped down the well and forgotten forever.
There have been SO many scandals that should have resulted in resignations and prosecutions.
mucifer
(23,530 posts)2. was hoping to find trump in there :(
Arazi
(6,829 posts)7. He doesn't have any real money to stash anywhere
His name brand properties aren't owned by him and are simply money laundering vehicles for his mob bosses.
He gets a cut but he's not a player, he's just a slimeball criminal
tenderfoot
(8,426 posts)3. Is it just leaders? Any random billionaires that think they should have more influence?
Like Thiel, Richard Branson, etc.?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Haven't found any USA peeps so far. Did find Tony Blair.
There ARE non-leaders pages, altho most of them are linked in some way to a thieving leader.
Nice thing about the site is it is so easy to navigate and to find links to other crooks and to various other shell companies.
Overall, it covers leaders and former leaders/people of dozens of nations,, demonstrating what we already knew; greed and fraud is global.
malaise
(268,930 posts)5. Tony BLIAR
a corrupt piece of war criminal shit
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)6. Gosh, a lot are Friends of Putin.
Many more leaders are helping rip off their nations treasures.
Thank you, dixiegrrrrl!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)8. I remember you, now...
as Octafish......seems eons ago.....
As to your comment......some countries have had many corrupt leaders, and in some cases a corrupt leader gets replaced by a corrupt relative.
Between this report and the Panama Papers they did a few years back, it really seems any country havng an honest leader is rare, just a brief respite from thieveness as normal.
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)11. Been gangster government a long time.
The Mafias President: Nixon and the Mob
Posted on November 14, 2017
by Don Fulsom
Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nations top mobsters.
By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in representing mobsters, Nixon had participated in secret criminal dealings for more than 20 years with sketchy figures such as Mickey Cohen, Mob financial guru Meyer Lansky, Teamsters union chief Jimmy Hoffa, and New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello. And with Chotiner as one of his key behind-the-scenes advisors in the White House, Nixons ties to the Mafia didnt end there. The Mafias President reveals a mind-blowing litany of favors Nixon exchanged with these sinister characters over decades, ranging from springing Jimmy Hoffa from prison to banning the federal government from using the terms Mafia and La Cosa Nostra. Drawing on newly released government tapes, documents, and other fresh information, The Mafias President by Don Fulsom offers a carefully reported, deeply researched account of Richard Nixons secret connections to Americas top crime lords. Read an excerpt of The Mafias President below.
Mobsters in Cuba
Santos Trafficante Jr., based in Tampa, was one of the most powerful Mafia godfathers in the countryand he was brutally vicious to his enemies. Known as the Silent Don because he was a keen adherent of the Mobs vow of silence, he wore thick glasses and dressed more like a bank president than a hood.
Yet Santos never hesitated to order hits on fellow mobsters who tried to encroach on his territoryor who had committed, in his deep green eyes, any other unpardonable sin. Among those Mafiosi reportedly bumped off on Trafficantes orders were Brooklyn boss Albert the Mad Hatter Anastasia; Chicago godfather Sam Momo Giancana; and Giancana lieutenant John Handsome Johnny Roselli. Trafficante also played a leading role in secret U.S. murder plots against Cuban leader Fidel Castro, instigated in 1959 by Vice President Richard Nixon.
Snip
Later, as vice president, Nixon summoned the loyal gangster who had shielded him from a potential Havana gambling scandal into service for a hush-hush government assignment. Always scheming, Nixon wanted to take advantage of Norman Rothmans old Batista-era contacts in Cuba.
So in 1960, at Nixons direction, Trafficante and several other Mafia heavyweights signed up as co-conspirators in secret Nixon-led Mafia-CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. And among the key players in implementing the plots were Norman Rothman, former Nixon dirty trickster (and Hughes and Mafia associate) Robert Maheu, and CIA agents (and future Nixon dirty tricksters) Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt. All of the Castro murder plots, of course, were miserable failures: the longtime ruler of Cuba died a natural death in his homeland in 2016.
Continues
https://www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/mafias-president-nixon-mobsters-in-cuba/
None of the above was reported to the Warren Commission.
Big Liars. Thieves. Mass Murderers. Kleptocrats. Conservatives. Racists. Republicans. Traitors.
And We the People are told, Its a mystery!
So very happy to see you fighting the Good Fight, as always, dixiegrrrrl!
Posted on November 14, 2017
by Don Fulsom
Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nations top mobsters.
By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in representing mobsters, Nixon had participated in secret criminal dealings for more than 20 years with sketchy figures such as Mickey Cohen, Mob financial guru Meyer Lansky, Teamsters union chief Jimmy Hoffa, and New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello. And with Chotiner as one of his key behind-the-scenes advisors in the White House, Nixons ties to the Mafia didnt end there. The Mafias President reveals a mind-blowing litany of favors Nixon exchanged with these sinister characters over decades, ranging from springing Jimmy Hoffa from prison to banning the federal government from using the terms Mafia and La Cosa Nostra. Drawing on newly released government tapes, documents, and other fresh information, The Mafias President by Don Fulsom offers a carefully reported, deeply researched account of Richard Nixons secret connections to Americas top crime lords. Read an excerpt of The Mafias President below.
Mobsters in Cuba
Santos Trafficante Jr., based in Tampa, was one of the most powerful Mafia godfathers in the countryand he was brutally vicious to his enemies. Known as the Silent Don because he was a keen adherent of the Mobs vow of silence, he wore thick glasses and dressed more like a bank president than a hood.
Yet Santos never hesitated to order hits on fellow mobsters who tried to encroach on his territoryor who had committed, in his deep green eyes, any other unpardonable sin. Among those Mafiosi reportedly bumped off on Trafficantes orders were Brooklyn boss Albert the Mad Hatter Anastasia; Chicago godfather Sam Momo Giancana; and Giancana lieutenant John Handsome Johnny Roselli. Trafficante also played a leading role in secret U.S. murder plots against Cuban leader Fidel Castro, instigated in 1959 by Vice President Richard Nixon.
Snip
Later, as vice president, Nixon summoned the loyal gangster who had shielded him from a potential Havana gambling scandal into service for a hush-hush government assignment. Always scheming, Nixon wanted to take advantage of Norman Rothmans old Batista-era contacts in Cuba.
So in 1960, at Nixons direction, Trafficante and several other Mafia heavyweights signed up as co-conspirators in secret Nixon-led Mafia-CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. And among the key players in implementing the plots were Norman Rothman, former Nixon dirty trickster (and Hughes and Mafia associate) Robert Maheu, and CIA agents (and future Nixon dirty tricksters) Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt. All of the Castro murder plots, of course, were miserable failures: the longtime ruler of Cuba died a natural death in his homeland in 2016.
Continues
https://www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/mafias-president-nixon-mobsters-in-cuba/
None of the above was reported to the Warren Commission.
Big Liars. Thieves. Mass Murderers. Kleptocrats. Conservatives. Racists. Republicans. Traitors.
And We the People are told, Its a mystery!
So very happy to see you fighting the Good Fight, as always, dixiegrrrrl!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)12. Ty for that site link! n/t
AllaN01Bear
(18,159 posts)9. hokey smokes bullwinkle . wonder how many will see jail time ?
Mr. Evil
(2,839 posts)10. I'll take 'none of the above' for $1000, Alex.