• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    This is going to be another Panama files isn’t it? Overwhelming evidence that billionaires are shits and world governments everywhere collectively do fuck all about it.

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      4 days ago

      I’m certain some people will go to jail.

      You can’t just release information about politicians and billionaires and not go to jail.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        From your links:

        Von der Goltz pleaded guilty in December 2019 to conspiracy to commit tax evasion, fraud and submitting false documents. He has already repaid the government more than $230,000.

        Original indictment:

        These shell companies and bank accounts made investments totaling tens of millions of dollars.

        Make it make sense

        “Not world changing” is insulting for the amount of money these people hid to avoid taxes.

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          3 days ago

          Yeah can’t make sense of your last comment, or maybe you misunderstood something?

          I’m saying the impact of Panama paper surely wasn’t instant-world-changing that you might wish for, the world simply doesn’t work that way. Researches, investigations, lawsuits, trails, laws and legislation tooks years or even decades to conclude.

          Joking about nothing has been done after Panama paper every time everywhere the topic came up over and over and over again is tiring and insulting to the hard working people around the world fighting against corruptions and billionaires FOR YOU every day every night.

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            3 days ago

            Researches, investigations, lawsuits, trails, laws and legislation tooks years or even decades to conclude.

            After FTX imploded, Sam Bankman Fried was indicted within weeks and in prison within months. The Enron investigation and indictments came down four years after the company officially filed bankruptcy in December of 2001.

            To claim prosecutions under the Panama Papers (or the Trump indictments or the Sackler oxycotin scandal or the Epstein case dismissal or the SEC investigations into Tesla or any number of other endlessly delayed prosecutions) required decades to wrap up only illustrates a deliberate attempt by domestic governments to slow roll and bury investigations that prosecutors had no personal interest in pursuing.

            Joking about nothing has been done after Panama paper every time everywhere the topic came up over and over and over again is tiring and insulting

            Ramón Fonseca Mora, the central figure behind Mossack Fonseca, was let out on bail a few months after his arrest and remained unconvicted until his death. How is that not a joke to you?

            • PsychoWiz@lemmy.world
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              3 days ago

              Because that’s not what I said at all?

              Of course there are far too many frustrating cases than we wish for but still

              “Joking about NOTHING has been done after Panama paper every time everywhere the topic came up over and over and over again is tiring and insulting to the hard working people around the world fighting against corruptions and billionaires FOR YOU every day every night.”

              Maybe instead of whining about Panama paper doesn’t do as much as one can fantasies, read the report I linked again, focus on what has been done, and pay some respect to the people fighting for you this time?

              • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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                3 days ago

                Maybe instead of whining about Panama paper doesn’t do as much as one can fantasies, read the report I linked again

                The man running the law firm that managed the fraud never saw a trial, much less a conviction.

                Your article of "Um, actually!"s doesn’t change that.

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      4 days ago

      Technically only half true. They know, but they’re not doing fuck all about it, they’re murdering the journalists that expose the rampant corruption.

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      4 days ago

      I mean world governments are run by and for billionaires. People gotta pitchfork if they want something done about it.