One of Putin’s most notorious oligarchs–Oleg Derispaka.
He owns two Manhattan townhouses, or, more accurately, they are owned by two separate Delaware shell corporations. Betcha they aren’t the only entanglements.
Is everybody OK with that? Shouldn’t the General Assembly at least call the Secretary of State and its corporate enablers before a panel and ask them what the fuck is going on? More importantly, ask them what they are gonna do to fix this?
The Delaware Department of State has always been the Third Rail of Delaware politics–everybody has known that its activities are marginally legal, but putatively in service to the Greater Good of low taxes.
Shouldn’t we draw a line at oligarchical activity that benefits Putin? Shouldn’t someone in office at least ask?
Or is dealing with autocrats, kleptos, and murderers merely the cost of keeping our tax rates low? You know, collective shrug.
Somebody, anybody?