This story is based on an investigation by Zack Kopplin and Kevin Hall for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Delaware-based lawyer Jonathon Moore received a request in 2007 from an associate of a real estate investor scooping up commercial and residential properties in Washington, D.C.
The associate asked Moore to keep the owner’s name “off public records.”
It was a standard request in real estate. Developers and celebrities use the anonymity of Delaware LLCs to conceal information from pesky reporters, neighbors…