Disney conspired with the CIA to buy up cheap land in Florida for Disney World and orchestrate a unique legal situation that makes the theme park above the law, a new book claims. The company took advice from former CIA agents and lawyers to engineer statutory grounds which still allow Disney World avoid taxation and environmental regulation, it is alleged. The special legal situation underpinning the site is not only unconstitutional, it is claimed, but allows the company to avoid any inconvenient decisions democratically taken at the local level. Magic Kingdom: The CIA helped Disney World acquire a unique legal status which makes it exempt from local democratic government, a new book sensationally claims
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Disney World's special legal arrangements help it avoid tax and regulation, new book claims
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The laws which underpin the two phantom cities it sits on require office holders to own property there
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That defies provisions in the U.S. and Florida constitutions against such laws
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Finding Florida: The True History Of The Sunshine State, by T.D. Allman, is out now, published by Atlantic Monthly Press.
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