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What we learned about Wilbur Ross from the Paradise Papers

Season 2017 Episode 1226 | 5m 17s

Some of the world’s wealthiest corporations and individuals had offshore tax and financial dealings revealed in a leak of more than 13 million documents, known as the Paradise Papers. That includes Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose investments indirectly trace to a Kremlin-linked energy firm. Lisa Desjardins talks to Sasha Chavkin of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

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