Panama Papers and Lawyers

 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/business/dealbook/panama-papers-show-how-lawyers-can-turn-a-blind-eye.html

"Some lawyers are willing to go right up to the line of legality. Has the legal profession lost its moral compass?"

A profound question.  Easily answered by a quick empirical look at it.  

Looking at this whole thing like Darwin looking at the Species and doing empirical research on what he observed to create a structural understanding on the nature of relationships and conclude what actions may implement the emergence of those relationships.  If that is not the way he looked at things, like I think it is, then that is my way of looking at things.

In general I do not like to learn the established doctrine of how conceptual social systems work.  I would rather do my own zero based analysis based on logic and reason.  Aided of course by access to information I seek on the World Wide Web (which is not the same as the Internet if anyone simply looks at what each one is....the Internet is a physical structure...the WWW is the conceptual structure of information on networked physical devices capable of information communication and storage.  It is as different as my brain and what is on my mind.

Side bar:  There, I figured out the Internet and WWW just by looking at it and conclude that what people call the Internet is really the WWW.  If they looked at it they would see that too.  It is a basic misconception based maybe on the simple reason that the chicken or the egg came first.  Of course the physical thing came first that enabled the more important conceptual thing.  So call the primary conceptual thing it created by the name of the physical thing that gave it birth.   As if my surname was my primary name and my given name a secondary but actually more important identification of who I am not what I derived from.

Returning to the point:

Lawyers are key players in offshore accounts.  However, their exact role is as murky, by intention as the entire structure and function of off shore accounts.  They are facilitators but how do they facilitate?  What is their relationship to banks, corporations and clients.

It would appear that the position of the lawyer may be "in house" as an employee of a bank or corporation or out house as an independent law firm hired by anyone seeking to create an off shore account.

Fascinating to look at lawyers like they were some kind of species and figure out just exactly what made them that way and why the do the things they do.

There are many answers to that question.  Most are jokes that deliver the truth about a predatory species.  Most dangerous in packs and extremely dangerous in sheep's clothing.

Darwin probably had some good guesses about predators and food chain.

I look at money in this blog to figure it.  Lawyers are equally elusive.  Maybe I will look closer at lawyers in the problem domain of Off Shore Accounts.  When the names are published as to who is related to off shore accounts then how do I find the lawyers that set these accounts up.  Easy in the case of the lawyer being the only name associated with the account.  Why would they do that when they are only representing a client?  Because they are so well protected by the law that they have privileged privacy sanctuary in a client/lawyer relationship?  Because they own the legal system to a great extent just like bankers own the monetary system?

This is where I refer to the WWW to draw the picture based on empirical observation of the relationships revealed by searching.  As in a previous blog entry, that is the Information Age tool that ties things together.   Data mining is an Information Tool used by computers programmed by algorithms. 

Crowd Sourcing with millions of "bot" people looking at mass data is another way of distilling mass data to usable, actionable knowledge.

Make the Panama Papers public information.

Praise and glory to the leakers that make it so....

No honest people were injured in the making of this movie...........

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/unaoil-lawyer-anti-corruption-report_us_57043a07e4b0a506064d7f96?oba10pb9


"A prominent Washington lawyer who wrote a report finding no significant concerns of corrupt practices at Unaoil, the company now at the center of a massive bribery scandal, later provided legal services to Unaoil itself, according to internal emails obtained by The Huffington Post and Fairfax Media."