How to Spot Corporate Bullshit

 

Almost everyone can describe the bottom of the mountain.

Roy A. Ngansop

“Unseen, unfeared, destruction’s might

Descends and shall descend again.”

Andrew Leigh @ALeighMP The Liberals voted against transparency laws that today revealed the tax affairs of 2,713 large companies.

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Washington | The US Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) against three people accused of running a “high-end brothel network” in the Washington and Boston suburbs and unveiled an investigation into potentially hundreds of high-profile clients who had paid for sexual services.

“They are doctors, they are lawyers, they are accountants, they are elected officials, they are executives at high-tech companies and pharmaceutical companies, they are military officers, government contractors, professors, scientists,” Joshua Levy, the acting US attorney in Boston, said at a news conference on Wednesday. “Pick a profession, they’re probably represented in this case

Prosecutors did not name any of the clients.

The prostitution scheme was run through at least two websites that advertised appointments with Asian women, one of which purported to be a nude modelling service for professional photographers, according to an affidavit from a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security filed in the US District Court in Boston.

The three suspects, who were arrested, are Han Lee, 41, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Junmyung Lee, 30, of Dedham, Massachusetts; and James Lee, 68, of Torrance, California.

They are accused of using “coercive tactics” to draw the women into providing sexual services, for which clients were charged about $US350 to $US600 ($550 to $940) an hour. The meetings took place in high-end apartments in well-off suburbs of Washington and Boston, including Fairfax and Tysons Corner in Virginia, and Cambridge and Watertown in Massachusetts. Some of the properties were leased in Han’s and Junmyung’s names, according to the affidavit from the homeland security agent. 

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