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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Not to worry, I'm sure this will be all over the news.

Yep.

Aaaaannny minute now, the billionaire-owned news corps will . . . . will talk about this in depth.

Mmm hmm.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

LOL, Russia oligarchs.

Who do you think bought Donvict and the Repedolicans?

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 points 48 minutes ago

It's actually a gift to American private equity. It's kind of wild they had to jump straight to stereotypes in the title lol.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

This is the part where the senate and congress make themselves completely obsolete by continuing to legalize corruption. Where have I seen this before?

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

This so obviously xenophobic propaganda. As if we don't have our own homegrown shitheels who will abuse this FAR AND AWAY more than the foreigners. This is direct gift to the AMERICAN oligarchs specifically. That is no better for you, the peasant, but it is not foreigners coming here to ruin shit. We are perfectly capable and willing to do it to ourselves it seems.

[–] Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Extreme Privacy book author must be celebrating

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

And, of course, tax evaders.

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You know what...okay. I'd love to have a shell company. Who wants to start scamming magrats? I only need like 12 people to make sure we get liability protections.

[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

Count me in

Time for everyone to setup a shell company since companies have more value than humans

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 17 points 5 hours ago

Biggest American cartel hard at work.

[–] Evrala@lemmy.world 56 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, right after they limited the number of houses a corporation can own, they make it legal for a corporation to hide how many houses they own.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Mf looks like he says 'nyah' unironically.

[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 71 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

In what god forsaken way is this a sensible thing to do?

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

There was recently a report from NPR about kushner and his dealings in albania.

She compares her investigation to opening a set of Russian matryoshka dolls, one after another. She's discovered several of the shell companies share the same address in Amsterdam and that each of them is worth a single euro.

They lead to the smallest matryoshka doll, a company named Interroyal BV, established with 18,000 euros in 2004 by a Russian citizen named Nikita Maximovich Vinogradov and a Bulgarian citizen named Zoya Georgieva Gyurova. Cela says each controls 25% of the company, but she says she hasn't been able to track either individual down. Neither has a public profile, but, on paper at least, she says the mysterious pair owns hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of Albanian property

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/16/g-s1-128162/albania-resort-protests-kushner-trump

[–] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It makes perfect sense if the president is a money launderer.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Helps anonymize all bribes too. Like the ones that control all of our politicians. As if our republic wasnt already on fire, this pours more gasoline all over it and sticks knives in everyones back. Happy end of the republic day everyone.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Congress doing all it can to make itself a free market.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 44 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Well you see, now they themselves can spin up shell companies legally without having to be on the hook personally when said company does reprehensible shit.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago

Plus there's demand for Congress to stop making money on insider knowledge. This allows them to hide that so much better.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Well you see, it benefits the ultra rich and corrupt politicians while causing more harm to the poor and middle class. What is more sensible than that?

[–] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

This is just extending the rights the CIA has to private businesses so it's more just leveling the playing field and allowing global Capital to directly do ops instead of needing to use government apparatus to do so.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Yea this is some bullshit!

[–] droniecarp@lemmy.zip 26 points 6 hours ago

This is fraud and corruption.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a gift to Donald J. Trump and his crooked ass family

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I can remember all the both-sidering dumbasses acting like Hunter getting money for paintings was just as bad as anything the Republicans do. Same thing for him trying to trade on Daddy's name.

I'm just so thankful for all the extremely online activists upholding Murc's Law, as well as the reactionary centrists and the armchair leftists doing so much to drive down Democratic enthusiasm and turnout and give us another term of Donvict.

I'm very sure that Kamala and her family would be raking down billions in naked corruption and trying to position themselves to profit from every dollar that moves. Because both sides.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 5 hours ago

It's not a gift to them, that's an unintended consequence. It's for Trump and all his corrupt pedophile friends.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago

Rich people anywhere. They already have assets five layers deep in shell companies to hide taxes and basically launder money. This just removes yet more ability to engage in oversight.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Not Congress, MAGAs. There better not be a single Democrat that votes for this.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That's a fair point. I'm so very tired of decades worth of the Murc's Law Media usually ascribing things to "Congress" instead of naming the perpetrators - it's almost always the Republicans doing the horrible shit. It's not "Congress".

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Incoming "Fetterman was the deciding vote"

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I still don't get why the Dems don't just expell his ass from the party, I feel like that's happened before with blatantly shit folks before. Or maybe I'm thinking of Teddy Roosevelts purge of equivalents in the Republicans back in the day.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Because he’s a useful lightning rod for the blame while the rest of them continue to collect their bribe checks.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

He's not a dem after his brain damage.

They might as well, they already dismantled the entire system the SEC set up to track them.

RIP CAIS, thanks for the laughs.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

That is such a trumpy thing to do.