Shell companies, in a sense, have been used to evade local laws and ordinances, even by semi-public institutions. IIRC, Harvard University, for example, used LL

Shell companies, in a sense, have been used to evade local laws and ordinances, even by semi-public institutions. IIRC, Harvard University, for example, used LLCs and law firms to buy land secretly in Brighton and Cambridge, MA against the policies of local governments. It would be good to know the real institutions behind such transactions...