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One of ProPublica’s outstanding investigative reporters, T. Christian Miller, wrote the story below (which ProPublica co–published with MSN Money). We reprint it under ProPublica’s generous license (“You can republish our articles for free, if you credit us, link to us, and don’t edit our material or sell it separately.”) If you have trouble accessing the […]
adulterated drugs into interstate commerce and then covering up the offenses by obstructing the Food and Drug Administration.
Gulnara Islomovna Karimova, 40, is the eldest daughter of the president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)Documents leaked to Swedish investigative journalists appear to offer fresh evidence of a link between Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera and Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan. And the documents suggest that TeliaSonera agreed to […]
2014 General Election MapElection officials in India since March have seized $36 million in cash, about 700,000 gallons of alcohol, and 220 pounds of heroin intended to buy votes for the ongoing 2014 […]
Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone (Image courtesy of the World Health Organization)We‘re not here to knock those who don‘t agree with what we say. Everything in every post is fair game for comment and criticism. But we wanted to be clearer about what we meant when we talked in our usual shorthand way about the […]
As our most recent political book of the moment, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates‘s memoir, Duty, has been dutifully dissected for its political “winners” and “losers.” One big winner that seems to have gone unnoticed, though, is the FCPA.
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You might not immediately spot the link between the deadly Tianjin explosion in China, the million–dollar La Linea scandal in Guatemala, and the investigations against the giant American company Walmart, all in 2015. The link? Corruption in customs.
Ken Silverstein’s report on this week’s Senate hearings about foreign rulers moving huge chunks of money to the U.S. is here. For Silverstein, Harper’s Washington editor and writer of the online Washington Babylon, the Senate investigation is a personal triumph. With help from Global Witness, he exposed the financial maneuverings of African kleptocrats and their […]
[…] scheme to bribe Azeri leaders involved giving them vouchers Azeri citizens could use to participate in privatizations. With $350 million from his investors, Kozeny was supposed to buy enough vouchers to gain control over Socar if it was privatized. U.S. prosecutors allege Kozeny and Bourke gave some of the vouchers to Azeri officials.
But according […]
