Bianco says he met Galanis a year and a half ago and that Galanis is working for Gerova Advisors LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the NYSE-listed parent company.

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Its taxmen refused to allow as an expense all the interest paid by the German subsidiary of a Dutch company, Lankhorst-Hohorst, to its parent.

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