Ex-US Senator: Don't Waste Panama Papers Scandal

Former U.S. senator Carl Levin says public anger over the Panama Papers offers an opportunity to "make real progress" in ending financial abuses. The retired Democratic senator from Michigan says Washington should harness this anger and not let the scandal "go to waste." For a decade, Levin pushed Washington to require collection of accurate information on the true owners of offshore shell companies and similar firms incorporated by foreigners in the United...

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