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Bot de Nouvelles de Olympique LyonnaisEnsemble. Avec le coach. <a class="hashtag" href="https://lyon.collabfc.com/tag/europaleague" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#europaleague</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://lyon.collabfc.com/tag/ol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://lyon.collabfc.com/tag/olympiquelyonnais" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#olympiquelyonnais</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://lyon.collabfc.com/tag/football" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#football</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://lyon.collabfc.com/tag/fonseca" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fonseca</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8xY_NoEjkA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8xY_NoEjkA</a><br> <a class="hashtag" href="https://lyon.collabfc.com/tag/collabfcbot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CollabFCBot</a>
Chuck Darwin<p>Rarely do private companies find themselves punished for using <a href="https://c.im/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>companies</span></a> to move capital and avoid taxes. </p><p>The fine accountants at Ernst &amp; Young cooked up a complicated scheme in 2008 for a restructuring of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Koch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Industries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Industries</span></a> via shell entities in Luxembourg, <br>a notorious tax haven, with the reasonable expectation that the ruse would never be revealed. </p><p>But then someone leaked a raft of private documents from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mossack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mossack</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fonseca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fonseca</span></a>, a law firm in Panama that specializes in the creation of shell companies. </p><p>The info dump became known as the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Papers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Papers</span></a>, and among its many revelations was Koch Industries’ bid to reinvent parts of the company, on paper, <br>as tax-avoidant Luxembourg shell companies. </p><p>According to the Center for Public Integrity, the essence of the Koch Industries deal was to <br>“reorder the ownership of many subsidiaries and centralize them under Luxembourg companies that are all served by internal corporate finance companies, <br>akin to a company’s own bank.”</p><p>Maybe that’s where the Koch siblings got the idea to get behind <a href="https://c.im/tags/DonorsTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonorsTrust</span></a><br>—a sort of house bank for the array of political entities and think tanks they fund. </p><p>Of course, as with all of the organizations funded by Koch, they’re not in it alone. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Betsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Betsy</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dick</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeVos</span></a> helped fund DonorsTrust, according to Mother Jones.</p><p>And then there are the many Koch-network “pass-through” groups, such as "Freedom Partners"<br>and the "Center to Protect Patient Rights", <br>which function much the way that shell companies do in the world of private capital: <br>-- they add layers of obfuscation over the provenance of the dollars flowing from one right-wing organization or institution to the next.</p><p>For instance, there’s the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wellspring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wellspring</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Committee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Committee</span></a>, <br>a pass-through funded in part via the Koch network, whose director, Ann Corkery, also sat for six years on the board of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Becket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Becket</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fund</span></a> for <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religious</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Liberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberty</span></a>, <br>a pro-bono law firm, according to tax filings. </p><p>With its portfolio of so-called religious freedom cases, <br>the Becket Fund gained notice as the firm representing the principals of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hobby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lobby</span></a> company in <br>a 2014 Supreme Court challenge to a mandate in the Affordable Care Act <br>for employer-based health insurance to cover, <br>without a co-pay, the costs of prescription <a href="https://c.im/tags/contraception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contraception</span></a>.</p><p>One type of private company is the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/closely" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>closely</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/held" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>held</span></a>” variety, which may occasionally trade stock publicly, but has only a few shareholders. </p><p>The Supreme Court’s decision in favor of Hobby Lobby (number 106 on the 2016 Forbes list of the nation’s top private companies) specifically cited its “closely held” status as a qualification for its exemption from the ACA contraceptive mandate.</p>
Variety<p>Fonseca, Alok, Maria Becerra and More to Appear in Latin Grammys Premiere Ceremony (EXCLUSIVE)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Variety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Variety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alok</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fonseca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fonseca</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LatinGrammys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LatinGrammys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MariaBecerra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MariaBecerra</span></a></p><p><a href="https://variety.com/2024/music/news/latin-grammys-premiere-ceremony-performers-presenters-1236195666/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">variety.com/2024/music/news/la</span><span class="invisible">tin-grammys-premiere-ceremony-performers-presenters-1236195666/</span></a></p>
EUCUP<p><a href="https://www.eucup.com/777857/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">eucup.com/777857/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> CLA-MO-RO-SOOO‼️ PARMA-MILAN 2-1: CHE BATOSTAAA‼️ UDINESE-LAZIO 2-1‼️😱 <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/2026FIFAWorldCup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2026FIFAWorldCup</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/2026WorldCup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2026WorldCup</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/2030FIFAWorldCup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2030FIFAWorldCup</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/2030WorldCup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2030WorldCup</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Calcio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Calcio</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FIFA2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FIFA2026</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FIFA2030" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FIFA2030</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FIFAWorldCup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FIFAWorldCup</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FifaWorldCup2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FifaWorldCup2026</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FIFAWorldCup2030" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FIFAWorldCup2030</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Fonseca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fonseca</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/gabboman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gabboman</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Lazio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lazio</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Milan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Milan</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Parma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parma</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ParmaMilan21" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParmaMilan21</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Qatar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Qatar</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/R%C3%B3R%C3%B3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RóRó</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SerieA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SerieA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Udinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Udinese</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UdineseLazio21" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UdineseLazio21</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldCup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldCup</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldCup2026" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldCup2026</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldCup2030" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldCup2030</span></a></p>
tagesschau<p>"Panama Papers"-Skandal: Anwalt Fonseca mit 71 Jahren gestorben</p><p>Ramón Fonseca half jahrelang reichen Menschen, ihr Vermögen in Steueroasen zu verstecken. Öffentlich wurde das mit den "Panama Papers". Nun ist der 71-Jährige gestorben. Das Urteil in dem Geldwäscheprozess wird bald fallen.</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/fonseca-panama-papers-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&amp;at_campaign=tagesschau.de" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/</span><span class="invisible">fonseca-panama-papers-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&amp;at_campaign=tagesschau.de</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ard.social/tags/PanamaPapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PanamaPapers</span></a> <a href="https://ard.social/tags/Fonseca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fonseca</span></a></p>