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BBC6Music 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot<p>🇺🇦 <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BBC6Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBC6Music</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MaryAnneHobbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaryAnneHobbs</span></a></p><p>Shell Company:<br> 🎵 Salt Fields (feat. Richie Culver)</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://accidentalmeetings.bandcamp.com/track/salt-fields-ft-richie-culver" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">accidentalmeetings.bandcamp.co</span><span class="invisible">m/track/salt-fields-ft-richie-culver</span></a></p>
Dave Volek<p>The Tax Shell Game</p><p>I worked for a multinational oilfield service company in the 1980s. Here's how it avoided paying Canadian taxes: </p><p><a href="https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&amp;id=17" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tiereddemocraticgovernance.org</span><span class="invisible">/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=19&amp;id=17</span></a></p><p>The tax evasion and avoidance techniques have got better since then. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tiereddemocraticgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiereddemocraticgovernance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shellcompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shellcompany</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FactCheck</span></a>: <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChuckSchumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChuckSchumer</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hoax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hoax</span></a> Story Originated On <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Satire</span></a> Website -- NO 16$ Million <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scam</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/05/fact-check-chuck-schumer-nasa-shell-company-new-jersey.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/fact-check-chuck-schumer-nasa-shell-company-new-jersey.html</span></a></p>
BBC6Music 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot<p>🇺🇦 <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BBC6Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBC6Music</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NewMusicFix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMusicFix</span></a></p><p>Shell Company &amp; Older Brother:<br> 🎵 In The Silence It Only Gets Louder (6 Music Session, 22 April 2025)</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OlderBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OlderBrother</span></a> <br> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/newRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newRelease</span></a> 🆕 single</p><p><a href="https://nmbrs.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-silence-it-only-gets-louder" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nmbrs.bandcamp.com/track/in-th</span><span class="invisible">e-silence-it-only-gets-louder</span></a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1dqAMybF59MiDZTQu3bCQb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/track/1dqAMyb</span><span class="invisible">F59MiDZTQu3bCQb</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…In simplified form, the process involves 2 basic parties. One is a private company that wants to go public. The other is a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a> that is already trading on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StockMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StockMarket</span></a> but has no operations — just a pile of cash that it can use to acquire a business. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPAC</span></a> shells are often called “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlankCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlankCheck</span></a>” companies because their investors have given them a certain amount of money but have no idea yet who the check will be made out to.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEC</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VoteBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoteBlue</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harris2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harris2024</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DanielRotstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanielRotstein</span></a>, the man <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pecker</span></a> used in an ultimately failed effort to secretly obtain reimbursement for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KarenMcDougal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KarenMcDougal</span></a> deal, was his own <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fixer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fixer</span></a> of sorts. Pecker had long used him to deliver the news that employees would be fired, to the point that Rotstein became known at Pecker's company as "Dr.<br>Death."</p><p>David Pecker is describing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelCohen</span></a>'s creation of a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ResolutionConsultants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResolutionConsultants</span></a>, to reimburse Pecker for his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/payoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>payoff</span></a> to McDougal.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTrial</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Media &amp; Tech stock fell 18%, erasing hundreds of millions from its *market value* — &amp; putting a dent in Trump’s majority stake, worth &gt;$3B. Since a surge in its 1st days of trading as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpMedia</span></a>, which lifted the value of the co to ~$8B at one point, the company’s shares have dropped by &gt;50%.</p><p>Trump Media was expected to register the potential sale of new shares after the completion of its merger w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DWAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DWAC</span></a>, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a> known as a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPAC</span></a>.</p>
Nonilex<p>Thru leaked docs, the Guardian has learned that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ESFamilyTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESFamilyTrust</span></a> operated like a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a> for a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a>-American businessman named <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntonPostolnikov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntonPostolnikov</span></a>, who co-owns <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaxumBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaxumBank</span></a> &amp; has been a subject of a yrs-long joint <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> investigation by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> into the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpMedia</span></a> merger.</p><p>The trust’s existence has previously been reported…. However, who controlled the acct, how the trust was connected to Paxum, &amp; how the money had been funneled thru it to TrumpMedia was unknown.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>You may be wondering just whence that staggering <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/valuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>valuation</span></a> arises,then. There are a couple factors at play—namely, rich friends &amp; retail-level suckers.<br>…As a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a> established w/the express purpose of gathering <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/investments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>investments</span></a> &amp; absorbing them into the minimally operational <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpMedia</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DWAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DWAC</span></a> curried investments from all manner of private institutions,most significantly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SIG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SIG</span></a>… meaning <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffYass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffYass</span></a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/megadonor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>megadonor</span></a> who’s been floated as potential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>treasury</span></a> sec if <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is reelected.</p>
Nonilex<p>…fresh from a merger w/a cash-rich <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ShellCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellCompany</span></a>… Trump’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> co jumped on its 1st day of trading on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Nasdaq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nasdaq</span></a> Tues, giving the co an estimated market value of ~$8B…</p><p>The biggest beneficiary…has been <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, who owns about 60% of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpMedia</span></a>, making him the largest shareholder. His stake in the co — the parent of TruthSocial, the online platform that is Trump’s main megaphone… — is worth ~$4.6B *on paper*.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/business/trump-media-stock.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/03/26/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/trump-media-stock.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb</span></a></p>
Saethelred the Unsteady<p>Actual question: why are shell companies allowed to exist? Are they an accident of law, or were they created in law for nominally god reasons? <a href="https://c18.masto.host/tags/shellcompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shellcompany</span></a></p>
Marcel 🛡 ♻ ✨<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@EricChrSmit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EricChrSmit</span></a></span> <br>"Martin is a world-level expert on the kind of international <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moneylaundering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moneylaundering</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shellcompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shellcompany</span></a> chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and drug gangs alike. He’s made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and he’s been paid pretty well. It’s been a good life. Now he’s been roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before—and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a></p>
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