Why are so few prominent Americans named in the Panama Papers?

Julia Glum tries to understand why there are not more prominent Americans named in the Panama Papers.

Why aren’t there more Americans implicated in the Panama Papers? Well, there might be: An editor with Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German newspaper that has been leading the investigation of the records, tweeted Monday to “just wait” until more were released. But some tax experts suggest the reason is that U.S. executives simply don’t have to leave the country to find places to make sly-but-legal business deals. The practices detailed in the documents are simply standard in many parts of the country, including Nevada and Delaware.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz tries to undermine the CFPB and protect payday lenders

I wrote yesterday about Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida and chair of the Democratic National Committee, who epitomizes the fake populism that the Democratic party has long been good at espousing to mask their pro-corporate agenda. She has joined with the Republicans to attack and undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a new agency that was created as a result of the efforts of senator Elizabeth Warren to protect consumers.
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Challenging the Democratic party’s corporate allegiance

Florida congresswoman and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, an oligarch-friendly party hack who is adept at spouting faux-progressive rhetoric, is for the first time facing a strong primary challenge in her congressional district from a real progressive Tim Canova. His challenge has prompted an unusual action from president Obama, who normally does not get involved in primary races, and he endorsed her. But that seemed to have given a boost to Canova’s fundraising.
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What Bernie Sanders said about Panama in 2011

The program Democracy Now! had an interview about the Panama Papers with Michael Hudson, senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which published the Panama Papers, and Frederik Obermaier, investigative reporter at Germany’s leading newspaper, the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung that first received the papers from the secret source.
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The Democratic party’s undemocratic superdelegate system

Today the state of Wisconsin holds its primary elections which, on the Republican side, has 42 delegates up for grabs in a ‘winner-take-all’ system (actually, the winner of each of the state’s eight Congressional district gets 3 delegates, while the winner of the whole state gets 18) while the Democrats have 86 delegates to be elected on a proportional basis, plus 10 superdelegates. Both primaries are open. The total number of possible Democratic delegates is 4,763 of which 4,051 are elected and 712 are superdelegates (there is a slight disagreement about the exact number). Hillary Clinton has won 1,243 of the elected delegates so far while Sanders has won 980. But Clinton has a huge lead among the unelected superdelegates, 469 to 31. The strength of the campaign of Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side has prompted closer scrutiny of their entire superdelegate system.
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