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Panama Papers: World Leaders from Iceland to Argentina Exposed in Massive Tax Evasion Scheme

In recent activity on the current articles the  biggest leak in the history of data journalism just went live, it has unmasked what really goes in behind the scenes on how certain countries work to take care of their money.  A man by the name Edward Snowden tweeted about the Panama Papers, which were released Sunday and revealed how the rich and powerful in numerous countries use tax havens to hide their wealth. Millions upon millions of files were leaked from one of the world's most secretive offshore companies in Mossack Fonseca, a law firm based in Panama, and passed to  pored over by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that 12 heads of state and a number of other politicians, their family members and close associates, including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives and other people Involved would be affected by the leak. The framing behind the story, people are trying to get what they lost from the leak, they are protesting the Story of a Worldwide Revelation,"

Could Citizens United Help Foreign Billionaires Buy This Election?
An FEC Commissioner Speaks Out
In this next article the release of the Panama Papers grew a  concern about undisclosed campaign contributions here in the United States, so-called dark money. Now, some members of the commission are calling for greater enforcement to help in the campaign to gain the people they need. Finance regulations and a narrower interpretation of the Citizens United ruling, which opened the floodgates to gaining money the wrong way (dark money). Americans deserve assurances and reasoning behind every action taken in or out of the election that they contribute too from American corporations that they are not using the money of foreign shareholders to influence the country's elections. She also calls for federal and state policymakers to ensure corporations are not being used as a front to allow foreign money to seep into U.S. elections.