Owner of speeding Ferrari in Beverly Hills is drag-racing Qatar prince who has fled the country
Source: Los Angeles Times
He’s racing royalty. Literally. And to Beverly Hills residents, obnoxiously. The owner of a yellow Ferrari valued in the seven-figures captured on video speeding through stop signs and blazing past pedestrians in the wealthy city is Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al Thani of Qatar’s ruling family.
... Over the weekend, the twenty-something was just a guy driving a very fancy car very fast, police said. Al Thani denied to officers who investigated the incident that anyone was driving recklessly. He also said he had diplomatic immunity, Beverly Hills police said.
After discussing the matter with the U.S. State Department and the Qatar consulate, authorities concluded the sheikh did not have such immunity, police Chief Dominick Rivetti said during a news conference Thursday.
... Al Thani has fled the country, police said. The Ferrari and white Porsche seen in the video also are gone.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-beverly-hills-cars-qatar-20150917-htmlstory.html
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All you have to do here in the USA to get a permanent visa is invest in some kind of business. I worked for the businesses that catered to and enabled them and they do not follow the rules that much. Sales tax to an oil billionaire is nothing. It's such a small drop of their revenue they don't even miss it. Many of them use their Board of Equalization license to make personal purchases wholesale (no sales tax involved) In the meantime they only pay 1% property tax on their Bel-Air mansions. One of those Middle Eastern moguls that I knew had several mansions in Bel Air and Beverly Hills, one for each wife. Many of the servants are slaves that they bring from their country of origin with them. Many of the servants are undocumented workers whom they pay practically nothing to. One such woman I knew used to drag her Honduran maid everywhere with her being very abusive to the woman when she didn't please her.
Really, we are not making the rich foreigners from all countries, not just the Middle East, or even American out of staters pay for the privilege of owning property here and using our commons, our water, our electricity and anything else that puts their footprint on our state. How many homes does John McCain have here on the beach in California? How about Oprah, who has a huge estate just a hundred miles down the coast from where I live and so many others. We need them to pay their share in taxes and they need to be punished for breaking the law just like we punish our poor people here.
