David Cay Johnston has an article in Mother Jones in the US in which he says (amongst much else): In 1983 just 10 percent of
Read the full article…
There’s no love lost
This comes from Nation News in Barbados, regarding the Madoff fraud: The largest known loser in the Caribbean is M-Invest Limited, an offshore company in
Read the full article…
What really happens in secrecy jurisdictions
TJN has an important blog on its site by Rudolf Elmer, who also comments here on occasion. Rudolf is a whistleblower in what really happens
Read the full article…
Answers are still needed
This from a blog containing a lot of good stuff on Naked Capitalism: Dick Fuld reportedly spends much of his days allegedly wondering why he
Read the full article…
Time for adult supervision of auditors
The FT has reported: Top accounting firms were hoodwinked by Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50bn fraud as well as several leading banks and some of the
Read the full article…
Tightening up on the intermediaries
The Tax Justice Network is beginning new research project. As is asked on the TJN blog: Some jurisdictions license and regulate intermediaries such as legal
Read the full article…
Monbiot on the Pinstripe Pirates
George Monbiot has hit the tax haven theme in the Guardian today: If you want to know why Britain has never completed the process of
Read the full article…
All are under suspiscion
First there was Madoff, and his massive fraud. On a slightly smaller scale last week was the arrest of Marc Dreier, an American lawyer who
Read the full article…
Hedge funds have to be regulated and transparent, or be put out of business
Almost all hedge funds are incorporated offshore. Indeed, the UK’s FSA has said that it would not know what to do if one sought to
Read the full article…

Buy me a coffee!
