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...Martin Shell, vice president for university development at Stanford, told BusinessWeek yesterday that Stanford’s high level of donations was the result of strong relationships between the university and its alumni community...
...Iranian charity started by the Shah faced a dilemma with its American properties, as Washington tightened a squeeze on all entities tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Government. But U.S. law allowed a simple solution for the renamed Alavi Foundation: disguise its properties' real owners through the use of shell companies, multiple ones if need...
...story skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, registered as the 650 Fifth Avenue Company, was owned by Assa Corporation, a New York shell company, which listed its owner as Assa Company Ltd., a Jersey, Channel Islands entity. In most cases that's as far as investigators get - but here authorities were eventually able to determine that Assa was in fact entirely owned by the state-owned Bank Melli, which is banned in the U.S. for supporting Tehran's nuclear program. (See the best business deals...
Other notable users of U.S. shell companies: Viktor Bout, the notorious Russian arms trafficker; the Sinaloa drug-trafficking cartel; and Semion Mogilevich, the "brainy don" of Russian mafia dons, recently named on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. "Each of these examples involves the relatively rare instance in which law enforcement identified the perpetrator misusing the U.S. shell companies," senior Justice Department official, Jennifer Shasky, told a Senate panel recently. Added a senior Treasury official before the same hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee: "Years of research and law-enforcement investigations have conclusively demonstrated...
...ills these shell companies facilitate, it's getting easier and easier to open one. That's because it's big business and states compete at offering ever more secure anonymity along with other benefits. Delaware is the well-known leader. The state recently won the dubious top rank in a new Financial Secrecy Index, for the aggressive secrecy and dollar volume it handles, outdoing Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and Panama...