Big @nytimes investigation: How the private equity industry conquered the US tax system:
• Industry whistle-blowers have repeatedly flagged potentially illegal tax avoidance to IRS.
• Yet IRS has stopped auditing the industry. @JesseDrucker@dannyhakimnytimes.com/2021/06/12/bus…
If you earn less than $25K, you are much more likely to face IRS audit than a billionaire private equity exec.
Meanwhile, the industry has steamrolled the Treasury in GOP and Dem administrations.
Billions of dollars in income go untaxed.
More to come in this vein. Stay tuned.
Industry lawyer says move on, there’s nothing new to see here ⬇️⬇️
One indication of how far the balance of power has tilted against aggressive enforcement of tax laws is that lawyers for private equity firms are not only publicly boasting about their successes but are even willing to sit for @nytimes photo shoots.
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At least 6 people, including 4 Cascade employees, complained to Bill Gates about Larson’s inappropriate behavior. Cascade made payments to at least 7 who knew about his behavior.
Yet Larson remains in charge of Gates’s personal fortune and his foundation’s endowment.
Sources told us that Larson did things like asking men which female employees they’d like to "fuck." He asked one woman if she’d strip for him. He compared nude photos to Cascade’s head of HR.
"Everybody knows that Black people don’t vote," he told a Black employee.
Exclusive: The breakup of Bill and Melinda Gates’s marriage is shedding new light on an open secret within Microsoft and his foundation: Gates has at times behaved badly in work-related settings.
Among our findings:
• Gates asked Microsoft and foundation subordinates out on dates.
• His money manager was accused of sexual harassment; Gates agreed to a secret settlement.
• His relationship with Jeffrey Epstein went on longer than previously known.
A couple of examples of Bill Gates's inappropriate workplace conduct.
Breaking: Leon Black paid $150 million to Jeffrey Epstein – more than twice as much as was previously known. Following an attempted boardroom coup, he will step down as CEO of private-equity firm Apollo. @MattGoldstein26@katierosmannytimes.com/2021/01/25/bus…
The $150M figure means Leon Black was almost singlehandedly supporting Epstein for years before he died.
This news is a direct result of 18+ months of dogged reporting by @nytimes@MattGoldstein26, whose stories led Apollo to launch an outside review of Black’s ties to Epstein.
In particular, this front-page story in October – which showed Black had secretly provided at least $75M to Epstein – led to an outcry among some of Apollo’s clients and prompted the company's board to open an investigation. nytimes.com/2020/10/12/bus…
Breaking: Justice Dept is about to penalize @DeutscheBank for violating anti-bribery laws as it tried to win business in places like China. The bank is expected to pay more than $100 million in penalties. nytimes.com/2021/01/08/bus…
The charges involve Deutsche's efforts to win business in China (and possibly other countries), where the bank for years doled out lavish gifts and huge amounts of money to Chinese insiders.
Deutsche and DOJ are expected to enter into a so-called deferred prosecution agreement.
It is very noteworthy that this settlement is coming in the dying days of @realDonaldTrump's presidency.
He owes the bank more than $300M, which he personally guaranteed and is coming due soon. There is no avoiding the appearance of a conflict of interest here.
BREAKING: Rosemary Vrablic, the longtime @DeutscheBank official who oversaw the @realDonaldTrump relationship, has abruptly handed in her resignation from the bank, I'm told. She's leaving effective 12/31. nytimes.com/2020/12/22/bus…
The exact reasons for Vrablic's departure – as well as the resignation of her longtime associate, Dominic Scalzi – aren't clear.
She doesn't have a new job lined up. She says she is leaving voluntarily and is looking forward to retirement.
Vrablic has been under intense scrutiny because of her role facilitating huge loans to Trump and Kushners.
Deutsche has been conducting a months-long internal review of a 2013 real estate deal involving her and a company part-owned by Jared Kushner.