Category Archives: Fonseca Files
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca Raided by Organized Crime Prosecutors
PANAMA CITY — Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients. Soon after news reports based on a trove of documents from the firm began… Read More »
Miami Beach’s stoner gun-runner drama — now a Hollywood movie —
The tale of how three young guys from Miami Beach won hundreds of millions in weapons contracts from the Pentagon has been turned into a Rolling Stone article, a book and a soon-to-appear Hollywood movie called War Dogs. Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz and Alexander Podrizki sold aging weapons and ammunition originally from China and… Read More »
How secret offshore money helps fuel Miami’s luxury real-estate boom
At the end of 2011, a company called Isaias 21 Property paid nearly $3 million — in cash — for an oceanfront Bal Harbour condo. But it wasn’t clear who really owned the three-bedroom unit at the newly built St. Regis, an ultra-luxury high-rise that pampers residents with 24-hour room service and a private… Read More »