You are on to something. Just where is Mr. Browder right now? Does Snowden figure into this puzzle? Hong Kong connection? Wowser!
https://www.cbsnews.com/media/5-citizens-who-left-the-us-to-avoid-paying-tax/3/
Browder, a grandson of the chairman of the U.S. Communist Party from 1932 to 1945, gave up his American citizenship in 1998...