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According to an independent report commissioned by a bankruptcy judge, at one point priests in San Diego were taking cash out of accounts and putting it in safes in the rectories because they wanted to keep it out of reach of plaintiffs.
ECONOMIST: The Catholic church in America
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Such lengthy trusts can keep large chunks of wealth out of the tax man's reach for decades, or maybe even forever, he adds.
WSJ: Family Value: New Hazards for Estate Plans
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Mr Lukashenka has also sabotaged the customs union with Kazakhstan and Russia, demanding that Russia scrap its export duty on oil and oil products, which would allow Belarus to buy them at Russia's domestic prices and to re-export them at a profit. (Russia wants to keep oil out of the union for now.) Russia's response is to reach for its favourite weapon: the gas taps.
ECONOMIST: Russia and its neighbourhood