the middle of the South Pacific. So the Russians were very clever at bypassing the normal codes of conduct that banks had to have in Switzerland or Monaco or Luxembourg or the Cayman Islands or the Isle of Man and most of those are what we call tax havens. So the idea of a tax haven or data haven in our era is a place that's slightly off the grid. So Nauru, for me, became a very compelling place to think about global finance and I wanted to do this project based on its
where I'm diving, it's a vertical trench wall. I'm on the edge of the Cayman Trench. And there's basically a band of rock around most places in the world that looks very much like this photo here
And they have four legs and a little lure between their eyes. So there was another operation in the Cayman Islands.
And actually part of the reason I'm here is, it's like a little bit of thank you to the Schmidt Ocean Institute which, with this boat, the Falkor, that they run, they had been doing a project in the Cayman Islands and then were relocating through the canal. And the scientists that had worked with them had worked with me and realized that there was a unique opportunity here to do some multibeam sonar
spending a lot of time on flight delays with some of the greatest chefs in the world, sitting at judges' table with them and discovering little roadside street stalls from Colorado to the Cayman Islands to Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan. And so it's been a wild ride, and I've had to eat a lot of food.
well. And you've actually extended. So you have three other restaurants, right, besides Lebron in New York. So we have a restaurant in Washington DC and one in Philadelphia and one in Cayman Island. And are they all different? It's not Liber. Okay. It's a more casual
necessarily across the other cities. Well, Cayman Island is Leonard by the beach. Um, so it's go in barefoot. Being in the Caribbean is not bad. And then uh in Washington DC and in Philadelphia
more and more every day and you will be on out then then we have three other restaurants one in Cayman Island and one in Washington DC one in Philadelphia and the way I
singers, professional athletes and movie stars and the men and women who import and export drugs and manage and launder other people's ill-gotten and sometimes inherited money and hedge-funds and offshore accounts in the Caymans , Turks and Caicos and Bahamas. Along the canals the mostly Moorish-styled estates hide flood-lit manicured gardens, terraces and Olympic-sized pools behind ten-foot walls alarmed and topped with razor wire. Looking
So I called up US Airways and talked to Peggy and became her best friend. And somehow our family of six went on a free trip to the Cayman Islands. And so that's when I really-- that was in the '90s.
cars we replaced engines just because we felt like in racing you you refresh cars and race cars and normally missed a that that reminds me of so in in racing so we're The Underdogs right so we're racing against Porsche cayman 's we're
It's, in fact, close to the legal limit, which is 8%, a year before the bank collapsed. so basically in the beginning, they lent money into SPVs in Cayman Islands and offshore, lent money
Oh, they listened to me. Somebody's saying, yeah, yeah, our company is based in the Cayman Islands, but I live in Kensington.
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And he's like, let's go to Orlando or somewhere basic. And sassy old 12-year-old me was like-- I had just read the book "The Firm" by John Grisham, and they went to the Cayman Islands. And I would just remember-- this sounds amazing!
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