By Robert A. Johnston Jr., Melissa L. Wiley, Paula A. Ladd, Samantha Sigelakis-Minski, Sara Lazarevic, and Stephanie Stephenson On Dec. 22, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the New York Limited Liability Company Transparency Act (“NY LLC Transparency Act”) into law.1 The NY LLC Transparency Act is modeled on the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), a federal law aimed at tackling tax evasion […]
Reported by Edward Helmore It has long been known that the disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein operated at the center of a globe-spanning network of the rich, famous and powerful but the documents released Wednesday were nonetheless shocking in revealing the sheer magnitude of his elite circle. Through the prism of a defamation lawsuit involving allegations against […]
Reported by Vivian Nereim and Tariq Panja When Senator Robert Menendez arrived in Qatar in 2022 to attend the country’s lavish production of the men’s soccer World Cup, he gave an unusual interview to the authoritarian government’s news agency praising the progress that Qatar had made on labor rights. The tiny Gulf state was facing […]
Reported by Anonymous The flight manifests of Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet and the black book are an invaluable primary source of Epstein’s network available to the public. The flight manifests, available at https://www.epsteinsblackbook.com/flights, was used as evidence in a trial against him, and is as such a public document. His plane was dubbed the “Lolita […]
Reported by Megan Munsell Watch video below (click play) and learn how to file the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) report as a single member LLC.
Reported by Alexis Wiggley and Rachel Lilienthal Stark The considerations for current and future entities and beneficial owners to keep in mind now that the CTA has become effective are (i) the reporting requirements; (ii) the beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) that must be reported; and (iii) the privacy considerations that come with the CTA. It […]
Reported by Tripti Garg In February 2022, Putin began his special ops in East Ukraine in a bid to make the Donbas region free of Ukranian Neo Nazis. The attack led to immediate pushback from the American led west coalition and they tried the strongest missile in their arsenal – the economic sanctions missile. In […]
Reported by FinCEN Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) began accepting beneficial ownership information reports. The bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act, enacted in 2021 to curb illicit finance, requires many companies doing business in the United States to report information about the individuals who ultimately own or control them. Filing is […]
Reported by Edward Helmore Nearly 200 names connected to the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking conspiracy could be released by a New York judge as soon as Tuesday, exposing or confirming the identities of dozens of associatesof the disgraced financier that until now have only been known as John and Jane Does in court papers. A […]
Reported by Associated Press Finance Deutsche Bank pledged nearly $5 million in funding Thursday to help combat human trafficking in New Mexico, the bank announced in a joint statement with Attorney General Raúl Torrez. The announcement comes seven months after Deutsche Bank settled a U.S. lawsuit for $75 million that claimed the German lender should have seen […]
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