So what's up with this? Rep. Alan Grayson is the topic (target?) of a blistering piece in the Tampa Bay Times:
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the outspoken, populist Democrat who thunders against Wall Street fat cats,and used to to joke about Mitt Romney's low tax bill, incorporated a couple hedge funds in the Cayman Islands so investors could avoid taxes.
Grayson Fund Ltd. and Grayson Master Fund were incorporated in 2011 in the Cayman Islands, a well known tax Haven that Romney used as well, records show.. That was the same year he wrote in the Huffington Post that the IRS should audit every Fortune 500 company because so many appear to be "evading taxes through transfer pricing and offshore tax havens."
In a phone interview Wednesday, Grayson said the funds were incorporated in Grand Cayman at the advice of an attorney he declined to name. It was a vehicle for foreign investors to invest in his funds while limiting their tax liabilities, he said, but no money had been invested in them yet.
The paper's political editor, Adam C. Smith, wrote up this searing take-down of Grayson under the headline
"Potty-mouthed Alan Grayson and his offshore investments." You can read it all by clicking the link.
Those who know Grayson will not be a bit surprised by his response to the interviewer, who tweeted it out for all the world to see:
Good talk w @AlanGrayson: "R u some kind of sh*ttng robot?! U go around sh*tting on people?!" he inquired, loudly
6:34 AM - 13 May 2015
This was picked up by
Mother Jones and will probably have the blogosphere abuzz for a bit.
Does anyone care? Not I, particularly, but, if it is true, then egg surely belongs on Grayson's face. If not true, then the egg goes straight to the "sh*tting robot."