When nothing resulted of the "Panama papers", I admit I basically checked out of active politics and reading the news. On occasion, I'll read some long-form journalism, but I am done with daily "news".
Actually, this very common misunderstanding of the outcome is very illustrative of the journalism problem in America.
A number of high profile people were held accountable for their tax evasion. Multiple people were prosecuted, and many politicians, including heads of state were forced to resign.
But because the Panama Papers did not contain US citizens (Panama is not a useful refuge for US tax evaders because Panama cooperates with the IRS), the reporting of such consequences was not politically useful, and thus not reported.
In fact, it was more useful to propagate the lie that there were NO consequences to the leak - something you are perpetuating here.
