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To: willcousa who wrote (255821)	5/16/2002 6:04:30 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Respond to of 769670

Never called you a liar, Will. Never said any such a thing. I just find it incredulous that a high-priced, big-city tax attorney would claim to have no knowledge as to how these Bermuda "Potemkin Offices" are set up. Every newspaper story I've seen on the subject the past few weeks has indicated that the process of registering a company in Bermuda is relatively easy: File the necessary papers (pay off the necessary officials, too), open up a P.O. box, rent a fax machine and wait for the phone to ring. Re: "My schemes are much more clever and well-constructed than that." No doubt they are. That's why you earn the big bucks. Back to "Potemkin Village": Your sarcastic comment insinuated that perhaps I embraced the term because I'm a Commie or some such. Ha ha ha. Actually, I first ran across the term taking a Russian history class in college. "Potemkin Village": Something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance, i.e., "the Potemkin village of this country's borrowed prosperity." (Lewis H. Lapham). Etymology: After Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages constructed for Catherine the Great's tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea.