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Saudi embassy hired mafiosi to smuggle Turkish PM Erdoğan's son out of Italy...
Italian police spokesman Lt. Colonel Domenico Grimaldi says that Bilal Erdoğan was able to jump bail on money laundering charges because the Saudi embassy paid the mafia to help get him clear,...
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Panama Papers: Largest leak in history reveals political and business elite...
An anonymous source has handed 2.6TB worth of records from Mossack Fonseca, one of the world's largest offshore law firms, to a consortium of news outlets, including The Guardian. (more…)
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Panama Papers reveal the tax-avoidance strategies of David Cameron's father
The fact that Ian Cameron -- father of UK Prime Minister David Cameron -- ran a firm called "Blairmore Holdings" that rich Britons used to move their assets offshore and out of reach of UK taxation is...
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Iceland's Prime Minister says he won't resign, mass demonstrations gain momentum
After storming out of an interview where he was questioned about his ownership of an offshore company implicated in the Icelandic banking scandal, Iceland's Prime Minister, Sigmundur Davíð...
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To understand the link between corporations and Hillary Clinton, look at...
When Hillary Clinton supporters are confronted with the evidence of their candidate's financial ties to dirty coal and oil, dirty finance, dirty autocratic governments, and so on, they insist that...
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The international art market is a money laundry whose details are in the...
If you've got $50M you need to hide, and want to be able to move around invisibly, what better way than to buy a painting through a secret, numbered offshore painting, stick it in a vault in Basel,...
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Tax investigators and bill collectors use Rich Kids of Instagram to uncover...
One of the perks of being insanely wealthy is you can hide your money, so when you rip people off or hide your taxes or divorce your spouse, your victims can't figure out how to get their due. (more…)
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Congresscritters spend 4 hours/day on the phone, begging for money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylomy1Aw9Hk John Oliver is, as always, a flamethrower crisping the Shield of Boringness that protects a corrupt, terrible system: this time, it's Congressional...
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Mass arrests at DC protest over money in politics
At least 400 people were arrested at a Democracy Spring demonstration at the US Capitol yesterday. The protesters were calling for controls on the influence of big money over politics. (more…)
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Walmart heiress donated $378,400 to Hillary Clinton campaign and PACs
Alice Walton, heiress to the Walmart fortune, donated $353,400 to Hillary Clinton's "Victory Fund" and another $25,000 to the Ready for Hillary PAC. (more…)
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Lady Liberty arrested at US Capitol with 400 others protesting money in politics
Journalist Alejandro Alvarez took this striking photo of a campaign finance reform activist being arrested at a Democracy Spring demonstration at the US Capitol yesterday. (more…)
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Jeremy Corbyn overpays his taxes
The Sun, a Murdoch-owned UK tabloid, accused the socialist Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (previously) of dodging his fair share of taxes, claiming he understated his income from speeches by £450. After...
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How corporate America's lobbying budget surpassed the combined Senate and...
For more than a decade, corporate America's lobbying budget has exceeded the entire budget for the operation of both houses of Congress, and this year's lobbying spend ($2.6B) is the largest in...
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Barack Obama: Taking money from 1 percenters compromised my politics
In last night's Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton defended her enormous super PAC fundraising machine by saying, "President Obama had a Super PAC when he ran. President Obama took tens of millions of...
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High tech/high debt: the feudal future of technology makes us all into lesser...
Sarah Jeong continues her excellent series of critical perspectives on technology with a piece on the way that technology is being used to let computers control their users, on behalf of the...
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What is neoliberalism?
As recently as a couple years ago, using the word "neoliberalism" here on Boing Boing would inevitably provoke an outraged comment from someone who wanted to know why we were "liberal-bashing." Though...
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George Clooney's neighbor threw a $27/plate Sanders fundraiser to counter...
99 Cents Only store magnate Howard Gold lives next to George Clooney. On Saturday night, both of them threw political fundraisers for would-be 2016 Democratic presidential candidate. (more…)
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Heads of UK's tax havens to Her Majesty's Government: go fuck yourself
When the premiers of the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands (British Overseas Territories that are notorious tax-havens) visited the UK last year, Tory government ministers sent formal...
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Podcast explains the corrosive effects of tax havens
Nicholas Shaxon, author of Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens (previously) appeared on The Foreign Desk podcast (MP3) this week to discuss the nature of tax...
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America's wealth gap has created an ever-increasing longevity gap
In The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, economists from Stanford, MIT and Harvard analyzed...
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