the game (follow the money) (wire)

First thing is we need the names of all front companies limited partnerships, LLCs, and all that mess.
 - LLCs?
 - Limited liability corporations.
Start with the night club which Barksdale owns.
Look up Orlando's, by address, you match it, and you see it's owned by who?
It's on Baltimore street, right?
Got it. D & B enterprises.
Hand it over to Prez, who's going to get off his ass and walk on over to the state office buildings on Preston street.
 - Preston street?
 - corporate charter office.
corporate who?
They have the paperwork on every corporation and LLC licensed to do business in the state.
You look up D & B enterprise on the computer.
You're going to get a little reel of microfilm.
Pull the corporate charter papers that way ...
write down every name you see:
corporate officers, shareholders, or more importantly
the resident agent on the filing who is usually a lawyer.
While they use front names, you know, as corporate officers, they'll usually use the same lawyer to do the charter filing.
Find that agent's name, run it through the computer ...
find out what other corporations he's done the filing for ...
and that way we find other front companies.
While he's doing that, what do I do?
You're going to keep your head in this assessment book.
Look up any properties that you can connect to Barksdale.
How do you know it connects to Barksdale, right?
You work off of what Prez gets you from the corporate charter documents.
Whatever companies he links to Barksdale or people connected to Barksdale, you look for those companies in the city land records.
For examples:  McNulty said that he heard that Barksdale owned an apartment building up on Druid park lake.
You look up all the blocks on Reservior hill.
See if there's anything owned by D & B enterprises or any other company that Prez finds through corporate charter or anything similar.
If you find something that fits, you write down the folio number so that you can look it up later at the court house.
You don't find anything ...
just take the names of all the corporate listings for the multi-units near the lake.
You call that list over to Prez, who pulls the charter papers and he'll look for connections.
 - It's like a scavenger hunt.
 - But what if Barksdale is careful?
I mean, what if we can't find his name on anything?
In this country somebody's name has got to be on a piece of paper.
A cousins, a girlfriend, a grandmother, a lieutenant he can trust, somebody's name is on a piece of paper.
And here's the rub:  You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers.
But you start to follow the money and you don't know where the fuck it's going to take you.
While we're running around on this, what are you going to do?
 - You need something?
 - Yeah.
Let me get the campaign financial reports for the western districts and actually, any city wide race.
You want quarterly reports or individual donor lists?
 - Both, please.
 - It'll be a couple hundred pages.
Really?  I'll take all of it.
   

source:
        The wire (2002-2004) (2006-2008)
        HBO (home box office)
        David Simon
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Sharon Weinberger, The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the pentagon agency that changed the world, 2017

pp.290-291
p.290
White House of National Drug Control Policy in the mid-1990s funded DARPA's simulation experts to create a model of drug tafficking to see if there might be ways of cutting off the drug cartels in South America.

p.291
“The big issue was and still is the movement of cocaine from Central and South America into the United States”, explained Dennis McBride, who was in charge of the effort.  He named the project after Iolaus, who in Greek mythology had helped Heracles battle Hydra.  The name ended up more appropriate than he had imagined.

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  “We built this incredible complex end-to-end model from seed planting down in South America through the changing to a product at a wholesale level, the transportation across myriad modes of transportation, ultimately into warehouses in the United States of America”, McBride said.  Yet the more DARPA modeled the problem, the worse it looked.  If one cartel was defeated, it ended up just strengthening another cartel.  Like the Greek Hydra, if you cut off one head, two more rose in its place.  DARPA came up with answers, but the answers did not fit what the White House wanted.  If the Drug Enforcement Administration put more aircraft in the air, it did not help, because the cartels still had more planes.  No matter which way DARPA modeled the drug war, it could not come up with a scenario that cut off the supply.  “We built this very big model. We played with it every way we could. We said, ‘Let's do this’, and ‘Let's do that’. At the end, this huge model would say here's the result and it was not good news.”

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  The simulation showed the limits of technology to solve what was essentially a policy problem:  simulation was not going to teach anyone how to win the drug war, it could only demonstrate that it was unwinnable, and that was not a message the government wanted to hear.  The reaction was denial:  law enforcement would just have to try harder.  “I don't know if we're a hell of a lot better off that we now kind of understand the problem because we have the simulation”, McBride reflected. “It's like a massive wounds all over the body; blood is pouring out from everywhere. We can understand that, but there is nothing we can do about it.”

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  The counter-drug simulation failed because technology hit up against the limits of policy.

  (The imagineers of war : the untold story of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world / by Sharon Weinberger., New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017, united states. defense advanced research projects agency──history. | military research──united states. | military art and science──technological innovations──united states. | science and state──united states. | national security──united states──history. | united states──defenses──history., U394.A75 W45 2016 (print) | U394.A75 (ebook) | 355/.040973, 2017, )
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Pentagon paper ( Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force )
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Panama paper
en.wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

Estate planning is another example of legal tax avoidance.

American film-maker Stanley Kubrick had an estimated personal worth of $20 million when he died in 1999, much of it invested in an 18th-century English manor he bought in 1978. He lived in that manor for the rest of his life, filming scenes from The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut there as well. Three holding companies set up by Mossack Fonseca now own the property, and are in turn held by trusts set up for his children and grandchildren.[35] Since Kubrick was an American living in Britain, without the trust his estate would have had to pay transfer taxes to both governments and possibly have been forced to sell the property to obtain the liquid assets to pay them.[36] Kubrick is buried on the grounds along with one of his daughters, and the rest of his family still lives there.[35][36]

Holly Watt; David Pegg; Juliette Garside; Helena Bengtsson (April 6, 2016). "From Kubrick to Cowell: Panama Papers expose offshore dealings of the stars". The Guardian. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/06/panama-papers-reveal-offshore-dealings-stars

 Leah McGrath Goodman (April 15, 2016). "PANAMA PAPERS: WHAT STANLEY KUBRICK CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT TAX SHELTERS". Newsweek. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
http://www.newsweek.com/panama-papers-stanley-kubrick-tax-shelters-448494
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David Cay Johnston
en.wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cay_Johnston
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