The Pandora Papers have prompted policymakers to consider legal changes that would bring more transparency to the murky world of financial trusts and restore some of…
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The United States House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee heard testimony Wednesday on the Pandora Papers and hidden wealth. While conservatives blew plutocratic smoke complaining…
Bloomberg sends Anders Melin to downtown Sioux Falls to look into South Dakota’s facilitation of global corruption. Melin gets the usual a-few-bad-apples downplaying of the…
The hottest October ticket in Sioux Falls won’t be Kristi’s Showcase by Scheels™, her excuse for moving the Governor’s Hunt closer to cameras and crowds…
Along with his guest column yesterday, law professor and South Dakota Task Force on Trust Administration and Review member Thomas Simmons sent me an infographic Lemonly of…
There’s a guest column down here somewhere… The release of the Pandora Papers and the resulting press coverage of South Dakota’s central role in facilitating…
South Dakota Republicans are trying to tell us that our complicity in global corruption and wealth concentration via perpetual trusts is good for our economy.…
Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) says South Dakota’s racket of hiding money for dictators and drug dealers is great because all those trust companies packed into…
Here’s another reason South Dakota’s trust industry is not the great economic development driver that the Republican lawyer/banker clique are pretending it is. New businesses…
The SDGOP spin machine had to say something in response to the Pandora Papers, the massive journalism project that points out South Dakota’s role in…