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Why do individuals and institutions move money offshore? To avoid detection. There are estimates on how many trillions are stashed in secret offshore caches, but nobody really knows. ==================== I always wanted to know how individuals were able to take money offshore without getting audited or otherwise busted. You cannot move more than $10K through a bank account without the IRS being notified. I can see how large corps could do it through subsidiaries, but not wealthy individuals. On 60 Minutes a few weeks a go they had a guy from United Bank of Scotland who said he smuggled diamonds out of the USA-but what about cold hard cash??? Does anyone know how they move $$ move it out of the country??— September 6, 2010 2:47 p.m.
Accounting Group Disciplines Former City Auditor
who signed off on the order to hire these turkeys ? any financial connection there? =============== Of course there was a connection related to hiring a tiny little outfit like this-and it was documented in the UT althouhg I do not remember the details of it. A MAJOR accounting firm should have been doing the books (although Arthur Anderson proved big firms can cook the books too). I am confident 100% of gov emplpoyment/contracting of services, especially at the higher paying/comp levels, are mainly based on politics.— September 6, 2010 2:40 p.m.
Compared with Orange and L.A., San Diego Underspends on Firefighting
Nan, it's like K-6 all over again! Pretty funny when you think about it-grown adults we call ourselves!— September 6, 2010 10:59 a.m.
Compared with Orange and L.A., San Diego Underspends on Firefighting
Hey, it looks like Jay Allen erased my comment yet again. Hey Jay-I have this one saved, and I am going to keep reposting it just for you buddy; 153. Looks like russl is now having his buddy erase my comments-hey russl, like I said, please let us know how you how you were able to access flagged comments. I see my post about Jay Allen is missing too!!! Wow, that is a shocker! By SurfPuppy619 7:21 p.m., Sep 5, 2010— September 6, 2010 8:24 a.m.
Compared with Orange and L.A., San Diego Underspends on Firefighting
You could moderate the GED statements ======= I will work on that.— September 5, 2010 7:35 p.m.
Compared with Orange and L.A., San Diego Underspends on Firefighting
It was a giveaway that originated with the City draining the pension fund to pay for the Republican convention of 1996, and unions demanding something in return. ======== That was a quid pro quo bribe, and the union/pension fund directors VIOLATED their fiduciary duty by agreeing to the bribe. The duty of the pension fund directors- first, foremost and primary- is to make sure the pension fund is financially secure and stable-and by agreeing to te under funding (in exchange for huge retro benefits increases) they violated that fiduciary duty, because the under funding has basically bankrupted the pension fund. The public employees should NOT blame me, Don, the taxpayers or anyone else-they should blame their UNION DIECTORS and the elected officials that hatched the scam-it was not the public that caused the meltdown. The blame lies squarely on the pension fund directors and the elected officials.— September 5, 2010 7:33 p.m.
Compared with Orange and L.A., San Diego Underspends on Firefighting
Maybe he is saying that an untruthful statement uttered on a prior blog is an indication of character. ========== russl is still whining about some comments of his that were deleted (for violating the Readers terms of use) from nearly a YEAR AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now that is a whiner.— September 5, 2010 7:27 p.m.
Compared with Orange and L.A., San Diego Underspends on Firefighting
Looks like russl is now having his buddy erase my comments-hey russl, like I said, please let us know how you were able to access flagged comments. I see my post about Jay Allen is missing too!!! Wow, that is a shocker!— September 5, 2010 7:21 p.m.
Compared with Orange and L.A., San Diego Underspends on Firefighting
I'll PM the flagged comments if you've forgotten them, but not here. By russl 11:29 a.m., Sep 5, 2010 ============= BTW- Why not tell us all how you got these so called flagged comments.— September 5, 2010 6:01 p.m.
Compared with Orange and L.A., San Diego Underspends on Firefighting
Any idea how we might get a listing of the "public employees who were given unearned, retroactive pension increases of 50%, which have driven the city into a cash flow bankruptcy"? ============== Every cop and FF working for the city in 2001, when they passed that pension multiplier increase from 2% to 3%. So a cop or ff earning a base pay of $100K in 2000 would have retired with a maximum of $60K after 30 years of service-2% of pay for every year worked. BUT if they retired in 2001 after the multiplier was retroactively increased by 50% (that did not work for or earn), to 3% for every year worked-that boosted the pension to $90K after 30 years of service, 3% for every year worked instead of 2%. It was a give away plain and simple.— September 5, 2010 5:36 p.m.