The Heiress, the Queen, and the Trillion-Dollar Tax Shelter
An ugly family battle on the island of Jersey spills into the open.
David Miranda and the Human-Rights Black Hole
David Miranda is many things—a boisterously proud, gay Brazilian; an outspoken civil liberties evangelist; a freshly minted university graduate; and the spouse of Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who has been publishing highly classified material leaked by former CIA systems analyst and National Security Agency (NSA) senior adviser Edward Snowden.
But one thing Miranda is not is a terrorist.
Miranda Is Not a One-Off; it Happened to Me.
Before David Miranda was detained for nine hours at London’s Heathrow Airport, there was me..
Child Abuse Inquiry on Top Tax Shelter Jersey Island Delayed Again
In 2008, police unearthed the remains of at least 10 children, ages 6 to 12 years old, under a shuttered residential care home, on the island of Jersey—a territory of the British Crown, off the coast of France.
9/11’s Second Wave: Cancer and Other Diseases Linked to the 2001 Attacks Are Surging
As many as 400,000 people are estimated to be affected by diseases, such as cancers, and mental illnesses linked to September 11. This figure includes those who lived and worked within a mile and a half of Ground Zero in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the vast majority of whom still don’t know they’re at risk. Mark Farfel, director of the World Trade Center Health Registry, which tracks the health of more than 71,000 rescue workers and survivors, says, “Many people don’t connect the symptoms they have today to September 11.”
Why Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal Could Happen Again
Why Volkswagen's Emissions Scandal Could Happen AgainLeah McGrath Goodman Newsweek June 15, 2016n a repeat of the events that preceded Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is once again...
Cheating Death: Volkswagen Thrives Despite ‘Dieselgate’
Late last year, at the height of its “Dieselgate” scandal, Volkswagen unfurled a white banner across the front of its iconic 1930s-era plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. Written on it was an appeal in German that translated to: “We need transparency, energy and courage—but most of all, we need you.”
Goldman Sachs and Other Big American Banks Abound in New Panama Papers Database
Facing pressure to disclose more information on how the world’s wealthiest people may be avoiding their taxes, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung released on Monday a searchable database of the Panama Papers, detailing names, banks, trusts and other entities participating in offshore tax shelters.
Panama Papers: What Stanley Kubrick Can Teach You About Tax Shelters
Stanley Kubrick once wrote the script to a film called I Stole 16 Million Dollars that was rejected by Kirk Douglas as badly written and never got made. Because of the Panama Papers, we now know that Kubrick’s millions were concealed in tax shelters, along with the riches of hundreds of other Americans.
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca Was a Tax Shelter Nobody
“There is something very simple that people are missing about the Panama Papers leak,” says James Henry, managing director at Sag Harbor Group, a consultancy that specializes in economic, legal and tax strategies in Sag Harbor, New York. “And that is that Mossack Fonseca was a gritty little law firm in Panama doing grunt work, with dingy little storefronts all over the world.
As Man-Made Earthquakes Thunder Through Oklahoma, Residents Get Innovative With the Law
In Oklahoma, a stone or brick home might save you from a tornado. But it might kill you if there’s an earthquake—and the Dills, who live in the one-story stone-and-mortar farmhouse with their five dogs, have been overwhelmed with quakes.
Why Volkswagen Cheated
In December 10, Volkswagen Chairman Hans-Dieter Pötsch made a public admission: A group of the company’s engineers decided to cheat on emissions tests in 2005 because they couldn’t find a technical solution within the company’s “time frame and budget” to build diesel engines that would meet U.S. emissions standards. When the engineers did find a solution, he said, they chose to keep on cheating, rather than employ it.
The Lost U.K. Child Abuse Testimonies
The Lost U.K. Child Abuse TestimoniesLeah McGrath Goodman Newsweek November 4, 2015nvestigators probing thousands of allegations of child sexual abuse in the United Kingdom set up a website this past summer to gather evidence. They invited...
As Wealth Inequality Soars, One City Shows the Way
As Wealth Inequality Soars, One City Shows the Way Leah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekSeptember 24, 2015Traffic travels under a sign on Washington Boulevard in Ogden, Utah, August 17. The city, together with its neighboring communities, has the narrowest wealth gap among...
Survivors Question Role of U.K. Home Office in Child Abuse Inquiry
Survivors Question Role of U.K. Home Office in Child Abuse InquiryLeah McGrath GoodmanNewsweekAugust 18, 2015fter years of horrifying revelations about sexual abuse of children by people of power and influence, Britain called in a judge from New...