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    smokeytreatMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 3:36pm

    I feel like holding $2 billion in your name for Vladimir Putin would be the scariest fucking favor in the world.

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      TrumpsTinyHandssmokeytreat
      4/03/16 3:56pm

      No, write a rock-solid will leaving all your money to charity and tell Vlad that the money is all his as long as you’re alive.

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      Wayward Apologysmokeytreat
      4/03/16 4:02pm

      I don’t think it is so much as a favor as a request that you don’t turn down if you want your body to stay in one piece.

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    The Double DoucheMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 3:51pm

    Biggest leak in history.

    “Nice"-BP Oil

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      Kenhe LoginThe Double Douche
      4/03/16 3:55pm

      Well to be fair the BP oil leak was more like an oil volcano.

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      The Double DoucheKenhe Login
      4/03/16 3:59pm

      But they fixed it with all that Dove detergent. Even Steven.

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    gramercypoliceMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 3:27pm

    Wendy Deng is going to be very unhappy to learn that Vladimir Putin is hiding money from her.

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      gramercypolicegramercypolice
      4/03/16 3:47pm

      D’oh! I meant Wendi. The “y” is so...common.

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      ThatFatScatCat fucking loves muddy puddlesgramercypolice
      4/03/16 3:49pm

      Only sometimes.

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    Donald J OrangutrumpMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 3:45pm

    and Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.

    Well, at least ONE of them is going to jail - Iceland is the only country with the stones to prosecute and imprison these types of scum bags.

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      eadingasDonald J Orangutrump
      4/03/16 4:13pm

      Yup, they’ve already called an election.

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      iCowboyDonald J Orangutrump
      4/03/16 4:35pm

      This could bring down the Icelandic government. Both the PM and the finance minister are on the list as having dealings in foreign currency, but their official policy has been to place very tight currency controls on regular Icelanders, at one point requiring them to go to the bank with their plane tickets to allow them to export money from the country.

      Sigmundur Davíð has also been very vocal in condemning people and companies making claims against the banks which wrecked the Icelandic economy as ‘vultures’.

      It’s not just the ruling party (the same one that rode Iceland on to the rocks in the first place) that’s in trouble, opposition MPs are also being linked to offshore holdings.

      Right now the most popular party in Iceland is the Pirate Party, and with a big demo planned outside Parliament, it’s not unlikely that there could be a very unpredictable outcome to all this.

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    JeangenieMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 3:41pm

    Does this mean that Mr. Snowden might have to find a new haven? Even if just tweeting about it, I wouldn’t think Putin would like this.

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      thatsmylampJeangenie
      4/03/16 3:48pm

      I was going to write the same.

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      MysTerriJeangenie
      4/03/16 3:49pm

      Putin likely stopped taking any interest in Snowden once Snowden was no longer an active irritant to Obama.

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    ArkMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 4:54pm

    A year from now, nobody will actually remember any of this.

    Corruption stories break all the time in the third world, and nothing ever happens, because cops and judges and journalists and everyone else are on the payroll. Money makes everything go away, even accountability.

    Kind of curious what’s in there regarding tax evasion by US companies, though...

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      FieryrebirthArk
      4/03/16 6:17pm

      Not just money, but general apathy too; public, companies, even those who run said companies. They. Don’t. Give. A. Damn. The kind of apathy we’re seeing is not out of fear or stagnation, but probably more along the lines of “what else is new?” and the presumptions that follow that nothing will change.

      Money rules us now.

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      BCDFGArk
      4/03/16 8:05pm

      Panama is full of condo towers which are supposedly built by and for Americans. Of course, there’s a noticeable issue: even though the condos are bought up, the lights are never on; the supposed “gold coast” is pitch black. It’s clear, the owners just buy the condos to maintain a paper presence in the country so they can take advantage of the banks.

      Also, never forget that before the U.S. orchestrated his downfall, Manuel Noriega was the CIA’s sonofabitch. He was on the payroll precisely because he looked the other way at narcotics traffickers laundering money through the country’s banks (which made covert finance of the Contras possible). He only fell out of favor when he proved too much of a free agent and started leaking details about the CIA to the Cuban government.

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    Kenhe LoginMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 3:47pm

    I’m not surprised that it was a Panamanian law firm because Panamanian trusts are the most notorious for not being able to recover money from for criminality.

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      WildNightsWildNightsKenhe Login
      4/03/16 4:20pm

      I have a friend whose nutball father-in-law is getting ready to flee the country for Panama if anyone but Trump wins the election because he believes that the whole financial system is going to collapse and then Panama will be the safest place to be. Sounds like he picked a winner.

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      Kenhe LoginWildNightsWildNights
      4/03/16 4:46pm

      In terms of the current legal system it is very safe, but things can change.

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    burnermankeyMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 3:28pm

    Any US news angencies participating in the release tonight? Has there been an explanation as to why so few (or no) US citizens are on the list?

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      Rikki-Tikki-Deadlyburnermankey
      4/03/16 3:45pm

      It deals with foreign banks, many of which (due to U.S. banking regulations) refuse to accept American clients/funds.

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      OnGreyStreetburnermankey
      4/03/16 3:47pm

      31 American journalists were on the team that sifted through the stuff, so I would imagine some US papers will release it. Miami at least. It sounds like the businesses in the leak are predominantly UK-based, according to the Guardian, so that may be a factor in why there seem to be less Americans reported so far. It is a well known issue in the US, and some of the businesses listed are already under investigation. Global Witness, an international watchdog organization, is planning a march on DC Aprill 11 to pressure Congress into passing legislation on it.

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    EldritchMelissa Cronin
    4/03/16 3:39pm

    Oh jeez. That’s a hell of a thing. And I bet nothing will change at all.

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      OneofyouMelissa Cronin
      4/03/16 3:25pm

      I can’t wait to find out about all of the americans on the list.

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        Mystik SpiralOneofyou
        4/03/16 3:40pm

        While I’m not ruling it out, I have to think that if any prominent Americans were on the list, the picture at the top of this article wouldn’t be of Putin.

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        SuperflyDiggzOneofyou
        4/03/16 3:43pm

        There won’t be many, the American system is already rigged in their favor so the need to hide it is much less.

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