And nothing of value was lost.
The longest-serving U.S. senator in Michigan history, Mr. Levin was regarded by colleagues and Washington observers as a paragon of probity.
Carl Levin, a liberal Michigan Democrat who served 36 years in the Senate and scared the wits out of America’s biggest C.E.O.s by demanding explanations for shadowy schemes that hid billions in profits overseas and avoided vast corporate taxes at home, died on Thursday in Detroit. He was 87.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/u...evin-dead.html
He used to be my Senator. A good man. Old school, worked for the good of the nation.
And nothing of value was lost.
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The link is well worth a read:
Teaser:
https://prospect.org/power/tax-evasion-exposed/Financial Exposure: Carl Levin's Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax Abuse
By Elise J. Bean
Palgrave Macmillan
This article appears in the Fall 2018 issue of The American Prospect. Subscribe here.
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who retired in 2015, was one of the Senate's legendary workhorse progressives. He used his chairmanship of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to probe the corruption of American capitalism as enabled by feeble or complicit government policies. One of his prime subjects was tax evasion. Indeed, a lot of what we know about techniques of tax avoidance and evasion is courtesy of Levin's work and that of his staff.
For 15 years, Elise Bean, a lawyer educated at the University of Michigan, worked as an investigator and then staff director and chief counsel for Levin's subcommittee. Bean passes on in plain English what she learned about the secretive schemes of people who owe their fortunes to the American system, but lack the character to behave with integrity. Individual dishonesty—mere venality—is not her focus. Rather, she looks at the system and at how weak government rules, insufficient to nonexistent oversight, and abuse of power by corporate interests, especially at some of the “too big to fail” banks and the Big Four accounting firms, promote and protect white-collar criminality.
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
It is believed that he was worth less than $3 million when he died.....that's a honest Joe.
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
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