What it's even more troubling is that, perhaps in order to explain why they hadn't really noticed it going on, observers such as Williams are suggesting such behaviour takes place in a shady, illusory, deceptive manner.
It tried to reinvent itself as an offshore tax haven, and took to hosting all manner of shady banking nameplates.
A lowly notary in Moscow, for example, may have to pay $500,000 to open an office which can then be used, extremely profitably, to regularise all manner of shady or even illegal transactions.
Although he's been more moderate in office than some human rights advocates feared, making seemingly serious moves to crack down on drug trafficking and violence, he's still been implicated in all manner of shady dealings.
Say a politician makes $100,000 per year as his or her salary, and for some reason bribes, business deals, all manner of shady shit also makes upward of $1 million in some other way.
Say a politician makes £100,000 pounds per year on salary, and for some reason – bribes, business deals, all manner of shady shit – also makes upwards of £1 million in some other way.
Say a politician makes $100,000 per year as their salary, and for some reason bribes, business deals, all manner of shady shit also makes upwards of $1 million in some other way.
Pirgu, who enjoys a successful career during the interwar despite having a shady past and coarse manners, has been defined by Amăriuţei as "the eternal and real Mitică of the Romanian world".
For some time a lot of folks have been running around telling anyone who will listen that Qatar has troubling tendency to hop into bed with all manner of super shady, extra-unsavory terrorist sorts.
But to read about the history of Disney World, as Walt constructed it, is to understand that the premise might have been shady, in an almost Trumpian manner, from the start.
