Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company
Source: The Guardian
Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.
The leaked 2001 document comes from the corporate registry in the Bahamas. It was one of 1.3m files given to Germanys Sddeutsche Zeitung by an anonymous source. The registry is public but details of individual directors are typically incomplete or missing entirely.
Though there is nothing untoward about this directorship, it has not been reported before and is likely to raise fresh questions over Tillersons relationship with Russia ahead of a potentially stormy confirmation hearing by the US senate foreign relations committee.
ExxonMobils use of offshore regimes while legal may also jar with Trumps avowal to put America first....The Bahamas is notorious for secrecy. It has a corporate tax rate of zero.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/18/leak-rex-tillerson-director-bahamas-based-us-russian-oil-company?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Seems like this came from our side
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the successor to the KGB - had broken into his flat. He found himself tailed by men in cheap leather jackets, bugged, and even summoned to Lefortovo, the KGB's notorious prison. The break-in was the beginning of an extraordinary psychological war against the journalist and his family. Vladimir Putin's spies used tactics developed by the KGB and perfected in the 1970s by the Stasi, East Germany's sinister secret police. This clandestine campaign burst into the open in 2011 when the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow - the first western reporter to be deported from Russia since the days of the Cold War. Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia is a brilliant and haunting account of the insidious methods used by a resurgent Kremlin against its so-called "enemies" - human rights workers, western diplomats, journalists and opposition activists. It includes unpublished material from confidential US diplomatic cables, released last year by WikiLeaks, which describe Russia as a "virtual mafia state". Harding gives a unique, personal and compelling portrait of today's Russia, two decades after the end of communism, that reads like a spy thriller.
DFW
(54,050 posts)Tillerson could be the registered successor to Kim Philby, and the Republicans would still confirm his as Secretary of Anything.
"Russkies" and "Kommanists" are only bad to them when they aren't fellow Republicans with lost of money.
Rex
(65,616 posts)They will STILL blame everything on commie liberal college professors and their brain dead followers will just nod and go about their business of eating human brains.
TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)anything about this traitor they want to make Sec of State of the USA.
yardwork
(61,415 posts)They only care about what they're told to care about. We're watching the US slide into fascism in real time. Now I know what it looks like from the point of view of the people.
DK504
(3,847 posts)that voted for Trump will think Tillerson is a real "go getter" and won't bring it up.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 18, 2016, 03:23 PM - Edit history (1)
Generator
(7,770 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)for the morons down here in Mississippi that all voted for Twitterlini. Starting off at Wally World, then moving on to peoples mail boxes.
My brother and I have been working on this since the election.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)not my original...
Anything that helps awaken right wingers to the Republican sell out of America to Russian cronies is all good.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)"Dirty Deeds.... Done Dirt Cheap!"
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Republicans will be happy to support their buddies investments in the broken war torn countries.
zippythepinhead
(374 posts)is trump's favorite movie.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)TO Russia With Love
toddwv
(2,830 posts)I don't think Trump knows exactly what "America First" means...
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)old international capitalists of the 1930s, they will fund and do anything
anywhere to make growth and money. Many backed Nazi Germany as a
growth engine and a moderate form of socialism to counterbalance
U.S.S.R., not knowing Hitler would turn into a monster.
Um, history echoes.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)come to think of it, that didn't seem to bother very many Democratic politicians, even after Saudi Arabia attacked us on 9/11.
The difference between the Democrats and Republicans is most GOP conflicts of interest don't need to be leaked--they flaunt them.
DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)none dare call it treason..
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)when a corporate takeover would occur, or some said prior to 9/11,
derivative trades would occur and someone would make a bundle.
Several stories on put options on airline stocks in the weeks prior to
9/11 for example. I don't think they ever prosecuted anyone, but a
few times the investigation would dead-end in a Cayman Islands
Post Office box.
To be fair, that's not to say stocks weren't overbought at 9/11,
airlines in particular, and some speculators do use puts as an
ordinary strategy for such loftiness.
ffr
(22,645 posts)That's all we hear anymore. The GOP has sold us out!
Initech
(99,912 posts)Bettie
(15,998 posts)They'll just idiot-splain that it is GOOD that Russia is in charge of our nation and foreign policy by proxy, because it gets us away "liberal" policies and puts us on the path to "strong" (read: authoritarian, militaristic) policies.
ReverendHeretic
(45 posts)Trumplethinskin. Could not stop laughing, until I realized that the erectoral college (unlike FSU being a football team that has a college, the Erectoral College is a useless remnant of antiquity, ineffective, and misdirected in the face of technology) will be selecting Herr GropingFuehrer shortly. Then, I cried. mixed emotions, I guess.
Bettie
(15,998 posts)in a month, it will be deadly serious.
We get to watch as he and his minions take apart everything that benefits us peons, to extract whatever cash they can while dancing on the grave of our failed experiment in democracy.
I have no hope for even a mixed result. We are totally screwed. But, the .01% are going to come through just fine.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Until tRump tweets another turd for them to chew on.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)if they say six minutes EXXON MOBIL and these ties they ( EXXON MOBIL, will threaten them and will cut off there revenue source for f***ing commercials
And then the jerk off Prebius (sounds like what a colonoscopy should sound like) goes on the air and yells "Prove that the election was rigged".
Okay dumb s*** lets have a total recount in all the states using hands and eyeballs to see what the f***ing ballots say, lets see the PROOF, that it wasn't tainted dips***. Prove to us that it wasn't and say lets have a complete re-count chicken****
How in the hell does 65 million lose to 62 million dick**** show us, besides the "electoral college" and the media calling elections using worthless exit polling in between commercials, the person that was trying to find out got denied you f***ing fascist
elmac
(4,642 posts)protected by the FBI, military and police forces.
ReverendHeretic
(45 posts)Apparently Trumpenstien heard that Tillerson supports carbon taxes and is aware of Global Climactic Change. That was enough for Carrot Top, so he leaked info about one of many, many potentials for Tillerson's conflicts of interest.
Of course, I am making this all up. But, hey, if it works for Whirled Nut, Breitbart and Faux, why cannot we join in the fun?
Today's Chi Trib has an "editorial" claiming that two nominees, including Tillerson, were actually liberal about key positions. Like Climactic Change.
Excuse me while I find another bucket. My first one is full.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)If I were to extrapolate about the future...
It looks, before any inauguration, as if this oligarchic-run administration points to the end of national sovereignty and the interests of continental inhabitants.
It looks as if there's nothing to stop what's happening or its continuance. No military, no mass protests, no corporations.
Except some guys in a Senate committee who might join others in slowing this globalization process down.
It's been happening everywhere, and is going to keep happening -- not if, but when. First, rulers of the inhabitants will eventually get used to the idea, then spend more time interpreting this new global reality to those who put them into the last vestiges of national and state governments.
Inhabitants might be full of fight for the next four years, but global rule looks, right now, to be the eventuality.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)That was probably a ü (u-umlaut, equivalent to ue) in the original text.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/exklusiv-trumps-aussenminister-im-steuerparadies-1.3299793
suegeo
(2,571 posts)I took some notes about the article and did a tiny amount of further research on Tillerson and Exxon Neftegan.
I put the notes here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113319015