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Published on 11/23/2019 | Author: Charlie Neil
What do presidential bribery scandals, multinational mega-corporations, untraceable cryptocurrency, and foreign slush funds have in common? Wyoming.
After the weirdness surrounding the Thankful Thursday event, I started looking into Wyoming’s involvement with shady organizations and businesses over the last century.
There’s a lot.
Many say that Wyoming wasn’t founded by people, it was founded by The Union Pacific Railroad, at the time one of the largest companies in America. Rumor has it that when the Capitol was built, they built a more expensive train depot right across from it to remind the government who owned Wyoming.
But it goes deeper than that, here are some more fun examples I’ve managed to dig up:
Around 1913, President William Howard Taft reserved several large oil fields in Wyoming for military use. One of these reserves was called the Teapot Dome Oilfield. It was incredibly valuable – producing large amounts of oil for the US military.
Ten years later, President Harding’s administration accepted bribes to lease the land to one of the largest oil companies on earth. After it came to light, it became one of the biggest corruption scandals in United States history.
And then, over the next few years, it disappeared out of the public eye. It almost vanished overnight. Researching it was difficult. Like so many strange things that happened in Wyoming, it‘s almost like history is being actively erased.
Just under 100 years later, another global controversy. A small two-bedroom house in Wyoming was born.
This little house was the headquarters for over 2,000 businesses. Some were humongous multinational mega-corporations.
They were all based out of Wyoming, out of a single house. Supposedly it was because Wyoming is so friendly to these types of giant businesses – but so are a whole bunch of other states. There’s something else that’s attracting these businesses here.
