Column C, with Leah McGrath Goodman

By: Leah McGrath Goodman
  • Summary

  • Adventures in corruption, climate change, crypto and other calamities with investigative journalist Leah McGrath Goodman. Why live in Column A or Column B – when you could live in Column C? An alt-alt-thinking podcast for those unafraid of the darkness.
    2022
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Episodes
  • 7. Secrets of the Royal Family's Money
    Jun 14 2023

    The much-awaited UK Coronation episode featuring King Charles III and Queen Camilla is not really about the Coronation (although we do dish on the details). It's about the Royal Family's heaping mass of wealth and their long history of hiding it, while demanding their subjects generously fund their lifestyles. Unbeknownst to many, the most sophisticated "legal" financial arrangements in the world take place on tax shelters that answer to the British Crown. Here's what we know about how the Royal Family makes its money, takes its money, and how they conceal it from the public by creating tax havens to serve themselves and the world's wealthiest people, multinational corporations and other royal families. Why should we care? Because these networks are enriching themselves while assiduously exploiting you. 

    Show notes:

    https://www.thedailyupside.com/new-king-old-money/

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/paradise-papers-queen-offshore-investments-royal-family-duchy-lancaster-estate-millions-tax-avoidance-a8039636.html

    https://www.thedailyupside.com/uk-king-warned-of-damage-caused-by-his-tax-havens/

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/05/how-the-british-royal-family-hides-its-wealth-from-public-scrutiny

    https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1qwpnk6j1zv70/The-Heiress-the-Queen-and-the-Trillion-Dollar-Tax-Shelter

     
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    50 mins
  • 6. Sex, Lies and Offshore Empires: How a Bahamas Startup Worth $32 Billion Became a Mirage
    Jan 31 2023

    Sam Bankman-Fried is a 30-year-old American cryptopreneur who ran a sprawling empire of 134 entities (including in Jersey) worth tens of billions of dollars from an offshore aerie in the Bahamas. With a bunch of his closest friends. Some of whom were romantically entangled. He is now denying stealing billions of dollars in customer funds from house arrest. If there’s ever been a story like this, we haven’t heard it.    BONUS: A spirited discussion on Prince Harry’s very strange memoir, “Spare,” and what we believe to be the love quotient of the UK Royal Family. 

    Show Notes:

    Crypto’s Tax Shelter Problem - Leah McGrath Goodman, Institutional Investor, January 11, 2023.

    ftx.com

    alameda-research.com

    COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, FTX TRADING LTD D/B/A FTX.COM, ALAMEDA RESEARCH LLC, CAROLINE ELLISON and ZIXIAO “GARY” WANG Defendants. Case 1:22-cv-10503-PKC Document 13 Filed 12/21/22

    FTX CEO [John Ray] Testifies on Cryptocurrency Company's Collapse - C-Span, December 13, 2022.

    SBF's Substack

    CFTC complaint against FTX Trading, et al.

    Keeping Up with the Bankman-Frieds https://puck.news/keeping-up-with-the-bankman-frieds/ SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX

    Press Release: SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in Crypto Asset Trading Platform FTX

    United States Attorney Announces Charges Against FTX Founder Samuel Bankman-Fried 

    Prince Harry: The 60 Minutes Interview

    Spare by Harry

    Mikey Guggenheim - I Like the Stock feat. Derik (Visualizer) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp_bGdp_yhc

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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • 5. How Jersey Got Abramoviched: Only $7 Billion at Stake
    Dec 14 2022

    On April 12, 2022, Jersey Police raided a number of properties linked to Russian billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich and his business activities on the island. Jersey also froze $7 billion of his assets. By November, Jersey authorities were suddenly calling their own raid "unlawful," offering a "private" apology to Abramovich and taking the liberty of destroying the materials it had confiscated in the police raid. Jersey also used funds from the public purse to pay the globally sanctioned billionaire undisclosed damages. What happened? Additional topics: Financial secrecy, Trump, television series (plural) on Jersey's scandals from 1988 to the present and the color of the Lamborghini Countach.

    Show notes:

    The mighty Lamborghini Countach
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Countach

    Worldwide coverage of Roman Abramovich’s tangle with the island of Jersey

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/jersey-freezes-54bn-of-assets-linked-to-roman-abramovich

    https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2022/11/10/police-admit-conducting-unlawful-searches-at-premises-allegedly-linked-to-abramovich-and-agree-to-pay-damages-according-to-news-agency/

    https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/court-documents-released-abramovich-case/#.Y5jianbMIuU

    https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2022/11/23/roman-abramovich-no-comment-from-jerseys-attorney-general-on-unlawful-office-raids/

    https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-oligarch-european-union-sanctions-lose-in-court-still-keep-money/

    Jersey tries to shrug off the Roman Abramovich mess

    https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2022/11/21/unlawful-roman-abramovich-raids-not-damaging-to-jersey-finance-industrys-reputation/

    World in Action, Episode 28, “Dirty Money” (1988): 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPNjyucEDs

    French film series just out this autumn on Jersey’s scandals titled, "La Ventre de la Bête" (translation: "The Belly of the Beast"): https://www.zed.fr/en/catalog/758/screening_room/3330

    Trump sues journalist over his true worth: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-time-trump-sued-over-the-size-of-hiswallet/2016/03/08/785dee3e-e4c2-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html

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    1 hr and 1 min

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