A little house of secrets on the Great Plains

In 2009 TJN ranked the United States of America as the world's leading secrecy jurisdiction. We based our assessment on a variety of factors, including the activities of corporate secrecy providers in states like Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming. When we spoke with people working in the corporate secrecy industry in these states we were shocked by how up front they were about protecting felons. Now Reuters has published the following:

CHEYENNE/ATLANTA - The secretive business havens of Cyprus and the Cayman Islands face a potent rival: Cheyenne, Wyoming.

At a single address in this sleepy city of 60,000 people, more than 2,000 companies are registered. The building, 2710 Thomes Avenue, isn't a shimmering skyscraper filled with A-list corporations. It's a 1,700-square-foot brick house with a manicured lawn, a few blocks from the State Capitol.

Neighbors say they see little activity there besides regular mail deliveries and a woman who steps outside for smoke breaks. Inside, however, the walls of the main room are covered floor to ceiling with numbered mailboxes labeled as corporate "suites."

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