Wilbur Ross, Trump and Paradise Papers -graph....

This revelation is only a week old but seems to off the radar already. Hoping Senator Blumenthal keeps it on the front burner.




Paradise Papers: Tax haven secrets of ultra-rich exposed

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41876942#


By Paradise Papers reporting team BBC Panorama

6 November 2017

......................Embarrassment for Ross and Trump?

Wilbur Ross helped stave off bankruptcy for Donald Trump in the 1990s and was later appointed commerce secretary in Mr Trump's administration.





The documents reveal Mr Ross has retained an interest in a shipping company which earns millions of dollars a year transporting oil and gas for a Russian energy firm whose shareholders include Vladimir Putin's son-in-law and two men subject to US sanctions.

It will again raise questions about the Russian connections of Donald Trump's team. His presidency has been dogged by allegations that Russians colluded to try to influence the outcome of last year's US election. He has called the allegations "fake news".

Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal has called for an investigation, telling NBC News that Mr Ross had given Congress the impression he no longer held shares in the shipping company.

"Our committee was misled, the American people were misled by the concealment of those companies."

Read the full story here.............


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41876939