Leah McGrath Goodman🌻 (@truth

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Jun 15, 2022

JERSEY: Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein used offshore companies to build & conceal their wealth—while trafficking children. Now, an offshore leak from island of Jersey exposes the finances of her family. Big story I just did w/

@MiamiHerald

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@OCCRP

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Offshore leak exposes financial secrets of Ghislaine Maxwell’s family

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell occupied the highest reaches of society, hobnobbing with royalty and world leaders while hopscotching the globe on Epstein’s private jets.

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Do not give me accolades -- I am suspicious of them -- give me your withering criticism

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A docu-series, 'planet finance' about be released on Dutch TV

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, featuring interviews I did with them -- the promo looks TERRIFIC. #markets #oil #OOTT

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Slapend rijk worden of werkend arm blijven? 'Planet Finance' is een onvoorspelbare en veelal ondoorzichtige wereld waar geld te verdienen is als je denkt te weten wat de toekomst brengt. Vanaf maandag 16 januari wekelijks om 22.15 uur op NPO 2.

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Leah McGrath Goodman

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Feb 3

Controversial question: What is fact? How do you know it when you see it? And what should determine when you change your mind? We got into the science of research and facts with students

@SITStudyAbroad

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@SITGrad

professors this week. Misinformation top of mind.

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Feb 2

One of the best-kept secrets in global education, the School for International Training was the original ground for the

@PeaceCorps

and to this day blows doors with its 90-year-old Experiment in International Living

@TheExperimentWL

& uni & grad programs: studyabroad.sit.edu/programs/

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Such a delight to be in NY and speak to students at the School for International Training

@SITStudyAbroad

about human rights, resistance, ethics, research & how to (safely) speak truth to power. Thanks much,

@azimsherwani

! For more on this fab program: studyabroad.sit.edu/program/fall-2

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NY winter really does look tonight like a Georgia O’Keeffe painting from her ‘city painting’ years

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Feb 1

A mocktail garden gimlet (behaving myself) and some John le Carré on my way to something fun tonight. Love being back in New York !

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Jan 31

A special thanks to Eric

@ericgarland

for finding the apparent link between FTX and the island of Jersey: clifton-bay.com and yahoo.com/now/ftx-ventur

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BONUS: A spirited discussion on Prince Harry’s uniquely strange memoir, “Spare,” and what we believe to be the love quotient of the Royal Family. For more from Column C, find us here:podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/col, here leahmcgrathgoodman.com/column-c-pod/ or or on Substack: leahmcgrathgoodman.com/column-c-pod/

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‎Column C, with Leah McGrath Goodman on Apple Podcasts

‎News · 2023

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NEW *COLUMN C* (Season 2): American Sam Bankman-Fried ran an offshore empire of 134 entities (including in Jersey) worth tens of billions of dollars from the Bahamas that has now vaporized. If there’s ever been a story like this, we haven’t heard it: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/col

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More coming out. SBF stalled FTX bankruptcy proceedings so he could transfer assets from his cryptocurrency exchange into the hands of foreign regulators, DOJ says — thinking offshore regulators might be more lenient.

wsj.com

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Sought Leniency From Foreign Regulators, Says Justice Department

The founder tried to transfer assets, hoped to regain control of crypto exchange, prosecutors allege in a filing.

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Jan 30

NEW TRAILER - COLUMN C: We're taking a break from Jersey to catch you up on one of the biggest crypto blowups, ever, and how Sam Bankman-Fried went from running a $32 billion empire to house arrest. For full 1.5 hour episode, subscribe to Column C: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/col #FTX

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Jan 29

Downtown Brattleboro, VT. Perfect snow this w/e. #VermontLife

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Jan 26

A video of the video? Taken on someone's phone after reviewing the CCTV footage to view the blast. But who did it? Jersey could (should) release original CCTV footage, with the sound, if there is any, as block of flats where blast happened reportedly owned by Jersey's government.

Is it normal for CCTV footage to be this shaky and show singular volition? As the fires burn near the end of the footage, showing the fallout of the explosion, the camera manually pans in to get a closer look. Seems very un-CCTV-like. Does anyone know more about this footage?

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Video has sound, but it seems to be picking up on close-range, unrelated background noises from a contained, indoors space. During seconds 6-11 when explosion is at its most severe there is a hammering sound, then a machine-processing sound and then some random clanking around.

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Can anyone confirm this is CCTV footage? Video shows what seems to be a window frame at top & side view (reportedly taken at Albert Pier Cafe in St. Helier, Jersey). Camera is shaky & appears to be manually operated and aimed at what will be the explosion. youtube.com/watch?v=-8MgRb

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Jan 26

JERSEY: 10 dead. More than 30 officers and specialists, 601 lines of inquiry, 230 statements taken and 490 exhibits recovered in the razing of a residential building in gas explosion. But no answers in sight and none seen "for some time." Deeply troubling. bbc.com/news/world-eur

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I like all my gas station receipts to be round #s when I pump and when I tip on a bill, I do it so the total is also a round #. Order over chaos. It’s just pleasing to me.

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Not OCD — just what I like to call ‘round number awareness.’

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Liking your own tweet so it has 100 likes

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But did gas cause the explosion? Jersey Police's Robin Smith: "You will have heard the police service say they work on hypothesis and a number of those hypothesis are being looked at. It seems most likely it was a gas explosion...But we rule nothing in and we rule nothing out."

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Jersey's fire service was called to check on a suspected gas leak just hours before the blast flattened 3-story building. Officers handed the case over to Island Energy, Jersey's supplier of energy. Here's the rub: The building was *not connected to a gas network.* Confounding.

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Those who died in the explosion at Haut du Mont on the island of Jersey 10 Dec 2022 were: Peter Bowler, 72; Raymond Brown, 71; Romeu and Louise De Almeida, 67 and 64; Derek and Sylvia Ellis, 61 and 73; Ken and Jane Ralph, 72 and 71; Billy Marsden, 63, and Kathleen McGinness, 73.

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JERSEY: 10 dead. More than 30 officers and specialists, 601 lines of inquiry, 230 statements taken and 490 exhibits recovered in the razing of a residential building in gas explosion. But no answers in sight and none seen "for some time." Deeply troubling. bbc.com/news/world-eur

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Dec 17, 2022

JERSEY: Could it have only happened a week ago? A gas leak taking an entire building out is almost unprecedented in modern times. The apartments & people lost in this tragedy reportedly did not even use gas & were not on a gas line. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/d m.youtube.com/watch?v=ltrOXx

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Glorious snow day in Vermont ! View from my office window

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Prof.

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that the scale of misuse of customer funds by #FTX is unprecedented, while warning customers against the risk of investing in offshore, unregulated exchanges.

institutionalinvestor.com

Crypto’s Tax Shelter Problem

Playing hide-and-seek from tax havens is hardly a new game, but for blowup-prone crypto companies and investors, it’s an increasingly problematic one. (Part of the crypto column series.)

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Jan 12

But let's not kid ourselves: Crypto companies are real. They have executives, employees, clients, billions of dollars in assets. They are based somewhere in the physical world. Their CEOs do not live outside of the law. They do not exist solely in the ether as digital 1s and 0s.

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This is not the last we'll see of the crypto tax shelter blowups, but let's hope crypto CEOs try to be more accountable (dare I say transparent?). Crypto is a fascinating financial experiment and lord knows the crustier, rustier parts of finance certainly need some disrupting.

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When it comes to the loss, theft and mistreatment of customer money, FTX scandal has some serious Bernie Madoff and MF Global energy: newsweek.com/stalking-jon-c justice.gov/opa/pr/justice But the role played by tax shelters is a new twist.

justice.gov

Justice Department Announces Total Distribution of Over $4 Billion to

The Department of Justice announced today that the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its eighth distribution of approximately $372 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. government in connection with

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Playing hide-and-seek among crypto’s toy villages has become a hallowed pastime. But anyone on Wall Street can tell you taking customers’ funds is career-ending, it's the third rail -- and it can also lead to a lengthy prison sentence, such as the one SBF is now facing.

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SBF, by all accounts a truly gifted and privileged whiz kid who's just 30 years old, now stands accused of money laundering, defrauding customers and lenders, committing securities and commodities conspiracy and violating campaign-finance laws from his beachy tax shelter idyll.

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A great piece on how SBF's parents played a role in the FTX mess can be found here (very readable and, frankly, jaw-dropping) by

@teddyschleifer

:

puck.news

Keeping Up with the Bankman-Frieds

At the core of the S.B.F. dilemma is the brainy academic milieu in which he came of age: a place where effective altruism was discussed at the dinner table, shape-shifting was au naturel, and the...

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SBF's offshore web of FTX companies (remember, his parents were tax law experts) was so complex & the ownership structures so deeply intertwined, his own reference to one of his "top" 7 companies was jumbled and didn’t match the spelling in the other bankruptcy documents filed.

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This is not to malign all things offshore. But when a crypto company CEO won't say where his company is based after repeated questioning (Binance, here, at minute 40:20, thanks to

@laurashin

: conferencecast.tv/talk-35387-fir) you cannot say that's above-board. #FTX #crypto #taxhavens

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Is it even surprising that offshore crypto scandals, including FTX, are rife with reported hacks, thefts and, in the case of FTX, billions lost with no reasonable paper trail? The list of offshore crypto cataclysms traces as far back as crypto itself.

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Any investigation of FTX should instead be asking: Why ARE there so many crypto havens? Why do so many crypto companies obfuscate where they are based and which laws they answer to? What is the role of tax shelters in crypto -- and how is that working out?

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We're seeing a lot of journalists covering the FTX debacle with a sort of 'financial crime meets spring break' vibe, casting the Bahamas as the sexy, if now-spurned, side character of "sun, sand and crystal waters" (literally, a reputable magazine said that ytday).

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