The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, encompasses 3 islands in the western Caribbean Sea. Grand Cayman, the largest island, is known for its beach resorts and varied scuba diving and snorkeling sites. The Cayman Islands, a UK Caribbean overseas territory, is an offshore financial center. Most money laundering that occurs in the Cayman Islands is primarily related to foreign criminal activity and involves fraud, tax evasion, and drug trafficking, mostly cocaine. Betsy DeVos, current Secretary of the Department of Education in the Trump Administration whose husband Richard DeVos was listed by Forbes in 2016 as having a net worth of $5.1 billion, making him America's 88th wealthiest individual. Betsy DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, is the founder of Blackwater USA, a private military services contractor, and currently under investigation by Robert Mueller. Mrs. DeVos, recently
When the DeVos family’s 164-foot yacht was untethered from a Huron, Ohio, dock, it was flying a flag of the Cayman Islands, where the yacht is registered, according to VesselTracker. According to federal records, the yacht is owned by RDV International Marine, which is an affiliate of the company that controls the DeVos family’s fortune.
Federal records detail how Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton and Federal Reserve board appointee Randal Quarles held parts of their personal fortunes in investments based in the Cayman Islands, which are not necessarily required to adhere to America’s domestic financial regulations. A new report paints an unflattering portrait of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, depicting him as a businessman who may have improperly had a role in siphoning more than $120 million from business associates.
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands is an island country near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger group of Micronesia. We already know that Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s family shipping consortium routes its business through the Marshall Islands—a notoriously secretive tax haven.
The Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa. Thanks to its offshore industry, Seychelles, an island nation with a population smaller than Davenport, Iowa, maintains a Zelig-like presence in the annals of international corruption and money laundering. Where there’s an odor of financial scandal, there’s often a good chance Seychelles is involved. Rumors, just rumors so far suggest that some of the Trump Family and Trump Corporation along with the myriad of Russian Oligarchs as well as Vladimir Putin have preferred The Seychelles as their banking branch of priority.
On the Corner of most major cities, located in both the rough urban communities, as well as the gentrified neighborhoods, are Easy Cash/Get Cash Fast/Easy Loan/and so-called Gold Exchange-Bail Bonds-Check Cashing storefronts. Many middle to upper-income Americans drive by those locations, placing their noses high in the air, and almost instinctively assume that the people using those places of business are low life or just too lazy to get real jobs that pay real money. And as the thought process of who uses THOSE places drifts beyond the assumed homeless, drug addict, inferior human clients, often times the same adjectives of negativity to reflect on the owners, calling them leeches, snake oil salesmen, and parasites. What I want to know, HONESTLY what is the difference between the demographic that users and owners the Corner Banking Center and the users and owners of the Banking Centers located in the Cayman Islands/The Marshall Islands/and The Seychelles. To me if someone shits does it matter which toilet they use, because it all smells just like SHIT, anyway!
