2012: Crow family granted passports through a cash-for-citizenship scheme.
🚩 Documents provided to the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation suggest Crow and his brother Trammell S. paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the passports. 🎩 @RNDog12
"The documents were leaked from Henley and Partners, a London-based firm known for assisting the ultra-wealthy in obtaining “golden passports,” which allow the holders to shield assets from their home country’s tax authorities."
Even when tens of thousands of St. Kitts and Nevis business documents appeared in the “#ParadisePapers” leak, company ownership was still hidden because the jurisdiction keeps so little information filed.
GINGER HOLDINGS S.A.
#PanamaPapers
AGENT: Mossack Fonseca
"Fonseca and his business partner Jürgen Mossack were arrested and jailed in February 2017"
Panama Papers was a leak of 11.5 million docs from law firm Mossack Fonseca
Gottlieb, Latham & Watkins
Justice Ginni Holdings: "The Post said that, since 2006 when the real estate firm shut down, Thomas, whose annual salary is $285,000, has reported receiving between $270,000 and $750,000 from it." #HarlanCrow #Paoletta
"Even when tens of thousands of St. Kitts and Nevis business documents appeared in the “Paradise Papers” leak, company ownership was still hidden because the jurisdiction keeps so little information filed."
"But in 2005, an architecture firm appealed to the Supreme Court in a case alleging misuse of copyrighted designs, and sought $25 million in damages from Trammell Crow Residential, a firm founded by Crow’s father and in which the Crow family was invested at the time, as Bloomberg
Payments For Passports
"To obtain golden passports in St. Kitts and Nevis, the Crow family paid into the Sugar Industry Diversification Fund, one of several options for the citizenship-by-investment program at the time..."
The fund, controlled in part by lawyers associated with the firm, made several investments into cos connected with the chairman of Henley and Partners, according to an @OCCRP investigation, and the arrangement was eventually terminated.
GETS REALLY BAD, GOOD FOR US!
"The report investigated several cases where Credit Suisse was facilitating these arrangements on behalf of wealthy Americans, finding hundreds of millions of dollars hidden offshore, sometimes using St. Kitts entities."
😃 TAX EVASION
"The Inflation Reduction Act provides a historic investment in the IRS, and the agency has pledged to use that money to pursue any tax avoidance by high-net-worth individuals."
NOTE: IS THIS CLAIMED INCOME FOR JUSTICE THOMAS?
Ginger Holdings, Panama Papers
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