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January 22nd, 2014 at 8:36:40 PM permalink

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At a single address in this sleepy city of 60,000 people, more than 2,000 companies are registered. The building, 2710 Thomes Avenue, isn't a shimmering skyscraper filled with A-list corporations. It's a 1,700-square-foot brick house with a manicured lawn, a few blocks from the State Capitol.

Neighbors say they see little activity there besides regular mail deliveries and a woman who steps outside for smoke breaks. Inside, however, the walls of the main room are covered floor to ceiling with numbered mailboxes labeled as corporate "suites." A bulky copy machine sits in the kitchen. In the living room, a woman in a headset answers calls and sorts bushels of mail.

A Reuters investigation has found the house at 2710 Thomes Avenue serves as a little Cayman Island on the Great Plains. It is the headquarters for Wyoming Corporate Services, a business-incorporation specialist that establishes firms which can be used as "shell" companies, paper entities able to hide assets.

Wyoming Corporate Services will help clients create a company, and more: set up a bank account for it; add a lawyer as a corporate director to invoke attorney-client privilege; even appoint stand-in directors and officers as high as CEO. Among its offerings is a variety of shell known as a "shelf" company, which comes with years of regulatory filings behind it, lending a greater feeling of solidity.

"A corporation is a legal person created by state statute that can be used as a fall guy, a servant, a good friend or a decoy," the company's website boasts. "A person you control... yet cannot be held accountable for its actions. Imagine the possibilities!"

Imagine the possibilities!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/28/us-usa-shell-companies-idUSTRE75R20Z20110628

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

January 23rd, 2014 at 7:02:11 AM permalink
Face Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 61 Posts: 3941	Is there anywhere on Earth better than Wyoming? =D Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it.

January 24th, 2014 at 3:43:41 AM permalink
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212	Quote: Face Is there anywhere on Earth better than Wyoming? =D Weather like WNY but no toll roads? The President is a fink.

January 24th, 2014 at 6:19:44 AM permalink
Face Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 61 Posts: 3941	Quote: AZDuffman Weather like WNY but no toll roads? No toll roads, little to no taxes, no road salt, no nanny-statery, no NYC/Albany, no gun laws, no people. NY's got a looong ways to go to reach that level of utopia =) Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it.

January 25th, 2014 at 6:36:16 PM permalink

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No toll roads, little to no taxes, no road salt, no nanny-statery, no NYC/Albany, no gun laws, no people.

NY's got a looong ways to go to reach that level of utopia =)

Yeah, but without downstate NY upstate would have nowhere to keep sending all of their money and get less back.

BTW: I notice you did not say "No Long Island." Even in utopia I guess it is hard to imaging getting rid of that place.

The President is a fink.

January 25th, 2014 at 7:12:12 PM permalink

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Yeah, but without downstate NY upstate would have nowhere to keep sending all of their money and get less back.

Oh, whatever would we do? =p

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BTW: I notice you did not say "No Long Island." Even in utopia I guess it is hard to imaging getting rid of that place.

I also don't separate fish heads from used condoms. It's all garbage =p

I hold a grudge on the last ice age for giving us downstate. I say cut the bridges and let the whole damn thing float away. Barring that, the wise thing would be to secede. I can't believe that idea hasn't yet gained momentum.

Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it.

January 25th, 2014 at 8:37:15 PM permalink
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212	Quote: Face I hold a grudge on the last ice age for giving us downstate. I say cut the bridges and let the whole damn thing float away. Barring that, the wise thing would be to secede. I can't believe that idea hasn't yet gained momentum. "Happiness is Long Island in the Rear View Mirror." There has to be a country song in that. The President is a fink.

January 26th, 2014 at 1:21:52 AM permalink
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831	Quote: Face No toll roads, little to no taxes, no road salt, no nanny-statery, no NYC/Albany, no gun laws, no people. NY's got a looong ways to go to reach that level of utopia =) You forgot coal and oil. More oil than in Saudi Arabia according to some experts, but seven times as deep.