and george ciccariello-maher of drexel university speaking from philadelphia. when we come back, paradise papers. how to they implicate everyone from the current commerce secretary to the queenen of england? stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we end today's show with a slew of shocking revelations about how the world's richest men -- ridges people stash away billions of dollars in wealth in offshore tax havens. the revelations, known as the paradise papers, implicate multiple members of president trump's own administration. among them wilbur ross, who continueued to invest in a after rossmpany even became commerce secretary. the shipping company, navigator holdings, is also linked to a russian oligarch subject to u.s. sanctions. the papers also show president trump's secretary of state rex tillerson was the director of a bermuda-incorporated oil and gas company, linked to exxon mobil, which ran a controversial scheme to export tens of millions of barrels of natural gas from the