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For decades, the U.S. government has condemned prominent offshore tax havens.

But a cache of secret documents obtained by @ICIJorg and shared with The Post and other media outlets found that some of the most sought-after tax havens are now in the U.S. washingtonpost.com/business/inter…
The cache also shows that the expanding U.S. trust industry is becoming a repository for some fortunes linked to individuals or companies that have been accused of worker exploitation and other human rights abuses.
In South Dakota, shares of a Dominican sugar company are being sheltered, part of a $14 million portfolio connected to family members of its onetime president. wapo.st/3oXh5xA
Among those who set up trusts in the U.S. were family members of the former chief executive of the largest sugar producer in the Dominican Republic. wapo.st/3oXh5xA
This company — Central Romana — has faced allegations that it pays their workers substandard wages and force them to work in unsafe conditions.

The company has denied mistreating its workers. wapo.st/3oXh5xA "We work for the company, but what we earn here are pen
Workers for Central Romana say they earn around $125 a month cutting sugar cane, well below the country’s average monthly salary of $777, according to the latest figures from the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic. wapo.st/3oXh5xA "I spend a lot of time an effort to cut the cane. Now I
It’s not just workers who have accused Central Romana of wrongdoing.

The company has been blamed for a pattern of forced evictions — periodically driving people from their homes and seizing the land for sugar cultivation. wapo.st/3oXh5xA

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