business top russian tycoon operating through firms registered on cyprus it's been previously so uncooperative that it was added to russia's blacklist threatening tax penalties for companies registered there in new double taxation agreement is expected to remove cyprus from the notorious list but will boost information exchange between the two tax authorities but will mean a lot for structuring of russian business until most of putting more thoughtful so broad in terms of restructuring of their management structure in terms of their. explaining and we have been looking at what. is behind the first transaction what is the business i think this will be a very important change in the minds of that russian businessman analysts say no less than half of the russian real estate business resides in cyprus a common practice has been to register a separate offshore firm as the owner of the russian real estate project it makes it easier to sell the construction by selling as part of the offshore company while in russia this kind of deal would be taxed twenty percent in cyprus it's not subject to do to an

she was very uncooperative at first, and then she just kind of wavered back and forth whether we can do this without her name being mentioned et cetera. and then around august, i believe, i mentioned the phone conversation, and she was a little unwilling for me to go with that story. >> did she finally just give up and cooperate? >> no, we received everything that we have is from a third party. she is a little more tau -- mortified and i can believe why. the main focus of the story is whether or not brett did this and whether or not the jet knew about it too. >> there are interesting aspects of the photographs. the footwear, is he wearing crocs? >> that's what was originally told to me. i think it is actually a buck skin slip on, perhaps a male ugg. i don't know if that ruins the story, but the whole rock outfit with the croc outfit ruins it. >> i would say that's repug-nent. salon noticed that the watch -- i guess when he is holding mr. happy, you can see his watch. the watch was very similar to brett favre's watch. is that a clue? >> that was one of the original things that lead je

s office from what i'm hearing didn't have that much of a choice because they had three uncooperativeitnesses. the three victims in the case apparently didn't want to testify or come forward. there is no accident that this got settled five years after the allegations surfaced. >> bill: three girls involved, 15 at the time. one was 16, i guess. age of consent in new york is what? >> 16 allegedly and we don't have this confirmed but allegedly sources familiar with the case say they may have had connection with, you know, sex for payment. that doesn't excuse it. >> bill: prostitutes. >> still statutory rape with sex with a 15-year-old girl. >> that's what lawrence is in trouble for now. >> right. now these three girls are 20 and they don't want to take the stand. how is the d.a. supposed to the make this case? >> bill: i don't know. i'm asking you. so the d.a. cy vance. he is the son of the diplomat, he brings the case any way despite the reluctant witnesses. >> they bring it five years ago but it lang gicious for five years. it doesn't go anywhere. >> bill: five years in the system, who

. >> he has been defiantly uncooperative in the past. >> some come with the least sympathetic. >> congresstep in and pass a law restricting where protests take place without infringing on the right to do so. karen traverse, abc news, washington. >> 6:32. this morning deep-pocketed entrepreneurs including famous talk show hosts are all vying for what could be some of the biggest marijuana warehouses in u.s. history. they have the money. now they're focusing on the oakland city council waiting to find out what else they'll need. live in oakland the council is beginning to set the ground rules other. just to be considered, each candidate is required to have about a million dollars in capital to start one of these mega-pot growing businesses and on top of that they're issuing only four permits. business candidates, including talk show host montel williams ready to get into this growing cash crop business. last night what city council was doing is debating the rules for selection process to decide which growers will be awarded the four permits allowing industrialized marijuana farming. they'll

police say the 10-year-old is presumed dead and her father is being uncooperative.g whitman is saying she acceptsiery brown's apology for an aide calling her a whore. the chief of now, the california chapter steps into the fray saying that word describes whitman to a "t." nice support, now. janine turner founder and co-chair of constituting america. this is unbelievable. we get now, the national organization coming out and saying anyone who uses that term from this point forward should be fired. anybody who calls a woman a whore should be fired. then the california now saying meg whitman can be described as a political whore. she said yeah i said that. >> i'm glad to see that now has abandoned of any pretense of being an organization that stands up for women. they are just an organization that stand for liberalism. they are an arm of the liberal political machine and acknowledging that, i think is probably good. maybe they need to rename themselves. megyn: let me ask you this. >> what i think is interesting is it gets us off to i can. i think that's what they are tr

in fact, there were many reports of physical abuse and restraints used on those who were uncooperativeved. >> we knew that christopher sutton had complained that he had been hogtied, beaten. >> reporter: when his family was allowed to visit him a year later the did seem to beep a distinct change. a huge improvement. they found the buff, cleaned up young man who excelled at sports. it was, asou can clearly see, a happy family reunion. >> the is was really happy ent. we cried. we hugged. we said, y know, our hellos, and loved each other, and he was proud of, you know what he had learned and showed off at least to . > reporter: then five months after this reunion. christopher turned 18. time for him to come home. or so he thought. >> he was banking on getting out when he turned 18. but we also learned that john sutton, being a lawyer had an order signed by a judge that said when you turn 18, if you haven't completed the course you are going to stay. which infuriated christopher sutton. >> reporter: whit dy did you de to keep him there when he turned 18? >> we had concernse wasn't ready to

following up on an uncooperative jurisdictions will also be on our list, and we will product -- press for the report by the compact root during the year 2011 to ensure that the exchange of information addendum to non double taxation treaties are actually ratified, implemented, that there is actually compliance with the madness that have been made under the 500 agreements that have been signed in the last 18 months. turning to your question, i was thinking to myself that we should rename this and call it financial transaction contribution. i know the word taxation does not sound right. and no one country where the word taxation is sort of presented. so financial transaction contribution i think would probably be a nicer way to christen this initiative. but clearly, it is one that president sarkozy, chancellor merkle, and most recently the european commission endorsed the project. we hope many more will agree that it is more about innovative financing ways to actually finance the combination of development on the one hand and climate change on the other. we'll have plenty of time to dis