The Laundromat

Author: Jake Bernstein
Publisher: W H Allen
ISBN: 9780753553992
Category : Corruption
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In The Laundromat, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca - a trove now known as the Panama Papers - as well as other journalistic and government investigations. Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe. The Laundromat offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted.

How To Find, Evaluate, and Buy a Laundromat

Author: Jason Lombardo
Publisher: Jason Lombardo
ISBN: 0982162677
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
This book provides all the knowledge and tools you need to find, evaluate and buy a Laundromat. From offering unique strategies that will help you find Laundromats that are for sale -- even if they are not advertised -- to helping you evaluate a Laundromat by determining its typical income and expenses, calculating its turns per day and checking whether a seller is honest about his or her revenues, this book will help you avoid costly mistakes. But this book will also help you save thousands when buying a Laundromat and offers business plans, financing tips and information on dealing with competition.

The Panama Papers

Author: Frederik Obermaier
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786071495
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 535

Book Description
From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history. In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super-rich hide billions of dollars in complex financial networks. Thus began the ground-breaking investigation that saw an international team of 400 journalists work in secret for a year to uncover cases involving heads of state, politicians, businessmen, big banks, the mafia, diamond miners, art dealers and celebrities. A real-life thriller, The Panama Papers is the gripping account of how the story of the century was exposed to the world.

Laundromat

Author:
Publisher: powerHouse Books
ISBN: 1576876233
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Laundromats are a quintessential part of the New York City landscape: an indispensible element to many city dwellers' lives, they're an ersatz utility room shared with dozens of strangers at any given time, a moist environment of humming machines and strange clothes. No other public facility gathers so many people under one roof to engage in one of the most intimate rituals in which the modern human routinely performs, that of making clean again one's outer and under garments. What New Yorker has never experienced the dread of removing another's...stuff...from a dryer having completed its cycle in order to get on with it and be released from the temporary prison of chore.... Laundromats are as varied as the people inside. They often reflect the social, cultural, and economic fabric of the neighborhood they reside in (announcements, flags, and symbols displayed often reveal something about their mainly mom-and-pop owners), yet they additionally possess a story of commercial storefront design, inspired and mundane: the trend date of awning design and lettering; the poster advertising for cleaning; the refreshment options for adults and their charges. Neighborhood laundromats are one of the last holdouts of the disappearing storefronts of New York City as small shops are driven out of business by chains and venture-capital initiatives. Like the beloved Korean green grocer/bodega/Arab deli, someday soon there could be far fewer of these ugly ducklings, and another genuine element of New York's street life will be...washed away. Laundromatwas photographed from 2008 to 2012 and represents all five New York boroughs and most of its neighborhoods.

Love at the Laundromat

Author: Rona S. Zable
Publisher: Starfire
ISBN: 9780553272253
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Joanne finds romance at her mother's laundromat but not without humorous complications.

The Laundromat Chronicles

Author: Jeffrey Chatham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304176630
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
A first collection of blog entries spanning a year in the life of jeffrey chatham from standing too close to the edge.

The Laundromat Essay

Author: Kyle Buckley
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1552452069
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
"The laundromat is across the street from the narrator's apartment. The narrator, also nameless, is looking at it through his window but can't seem to get there to pick up his clothes. The narrative then detours as he tries to navigate a city that is fracturing around him at the same time as he confronts the failure of poetry and memory inside the labyrinthine architectures of language." "Written as a narrative essay that continuously dissects a never-finished conversation, and annotated with fragments of poems that were maybe never written about a childhood that maybe never took place, The Laundromat Essay is a spiralling poem about the pathology of failure and of forgetting, a poetic narrative of credible absurdity."--BOOK JACKET.

Curious George at the Laundromat

Author: Margret Rey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780395453674
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description

Angels Laundromat

Author: Lucia Berlin
Publisher: Turtle Island Foundation, Netzahaulcoyotl Historical
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description

The Library

Author: Scott Z. Burns
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822232138
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 47

Book Description
After Caitlin Gabriel survives a deadly shooting at her high school, she struggles to tell her story to her parents, the authorities, and anyone who will listen. But there are other narratives that gain purchase in the media and paint her in a different light. Renowned Hollywood screenwriter Scott Z. Burns returns to the stage with this bold and chilling play that asks us to examine our relationship to the truth and the lies that claim to heal us.