[westbev93]

Mayor Gordon was a successful lawyer before taking office so I'm sure he had some money.

As for LLC disclosure, you can absolutely use them for privacy. I do it for my clients all the time. In a manager-managed LLC, you only have to disclose the owners with 20% or more of an ownership interest. And even with one owner, you can simply give them 19% of the ownership in the LLC and have the company retain the remaining 81% for the future (you need to name a manager for identification on the public records but you can have a shell LLC do that or someone else who doesn't mind be disclosed). Then the only owner is kept out of the public records. For an added layer of security, you can have an LLC owned and managed by another LLC, which is then in turn owned by somebody with less than 20% of the interest in the company. Throw some sort of trust into the mix, and it can be very tough to figure out who owns what.