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Sheldon Whitehouse: “It's only five stories high, only a couple of windows wide, clearly as Kent would say, the business was being done in…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2024
It's only five stories high, only a couple of windows wide, clearly as Kent would say, the business was being done in Ugland House was monkey business, rather than real business.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse critiques tax avoidance practices using a metaphor about a building in the Cayman Islands.

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