Roger Ailes Signs Contract Extension

[TheBigA]

Your great grandfather owned a chain of newspapers in several countries?

I don't understand your problem. While the answer to your question is no, the fact that he didn't wasn't germane to his application, nor was the fact that Murdoch did.

He didn't have to buy those TV stations. They could have been bought by some other conglomerate, and just affiliated with Fox. No problem.

 

[davideduardo]

Rich people with influential friends can hire lawyers, pull atrings and find loopholes. May make it legal. Doesn't make it right.

Murdoch entered the US under the terms of what is today the eb5 visa: invest a certain amount and create a certain number of jobs and you get residency. That was in 1973.

In 1985, as a resident for 7 years more time than required by the law, Murdoch filed for citizenship and was granted that privilege in the same amount of time that anyone else meeting the requirements would require.

You generally need a lawyer for any of the visas based on investments, management positions of foreign nationals for US operations, special skills (H1-B), and such as the documentation requirements are considerable. That's normal and necessary, just as hiring an accountant to do a complicated personal income tax return is necessary these days.

As an example, the attorney I just consulted this morning did a visa for a Mexican business person who was going to open up a branch in Houston and station most of the marketing staff there. Proving financial backing and experience in the field created an application that was over 1200 pages in size. Much was documentation, but all the exhibits had to be written to reference the support documents.

So hiring a lawyer is simply par for the course. In the case of Murdoch's citizenship application, that was a simple form anyone could fill out as with 12 years of legal residency, pretty much all you have to do is pass the test and swear the oath.

Nothing illegal, nothing that any other person could not do.

 

[davideduardo]

Or that it CAN be strictly enforced. The same issue brought up in the Pandora situation could be applied to any publicly traded company. They usually don't.

I would imagine that the political sensitivity of music rights payments at the moment made the FCC exercise extreme caution.

With such a huge percentage of publicly traded shares being held in street names or through mutual funds and ETFs, it's impossible to know what the foreign ownership of any of exchange traded broadcast companies is. That is one of the reasons why there is interest in relaxing the restrictive percentages of foreign ownership currently in effect.

 

[davideduardo]

I somehow doubt Rupert had to stand in line at whatever processing station they've been using since Ellis Island closed.

Special situation work and residency visas are not permits you "stand in line" for. They are almost entirely done via submission of documents, not personal interviews.

Ellis Island was used as an immigration entrance point only until about 1924, when the US put into effect its first real immigration controls. After 1924, it became a deportation and detention center. The US, save for the dreadful Asian (Chinese) immigration restriction of the late 1800's, had no real immigration laws and resident visa requirements until the 20's... so using Ellis Island as a point of reference is an example that is at least 90 years out of date.

 

[Bob Eubanks]

And right-wingers are supposed to be better at sticking to diets. Go figure.
Maybe he will have a heart attack or stroke, god willing.
A successful company? Like tobacco companies. The mafia and the cartels. The casinos. Big pharma. Comcast. Used car dealers.
The same people so upset over poor Mexicans risking their lives for menial jobs are willing to roll out the red carpet for a vile Aussie, so he can take over TV stations and a network, supposedly a privilege reserved only for Americans. Also ironic that this Aussie panders to birthers.

Good to see the obfuscation, straw men and hyperbole survived the name change.