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Brazil’s Supreme Court has authorized a federal investigation into Brazilian President Michel Temer’s role in the sprawling corruption scandal known as Operation Car Wash. If Temer’s presidency does not survive the investigation — and I’m betting it won’t — it will be another chapter in what may be the most dramatic anti-corruption enforcement story this world has ever seen.… Continue Reading
Track and field was once the pre-eminent Summer Olympics event. I suspect most readers can name many more track and field stars from history — Jim Thorpe, Eric Liddell, Jesse Owens, Bruce (now Caitlyn) Jenner, Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner, and so on — than they could from any other event.… Continue Reading
The Olympics are on and everywhere I go people are excited and inspired. I personally feel that just by watching, I’m part of something great.
With such mass interest and engagement, it made me think: if compliance were an Olympic sport, what categories would it compete in?… Continue Reading
The Olympic Movement, and the global anti-corruption movement, each manifest a common aspiration. Springing from the same place in the human mind, they imagine the same alternative world, and then seek to build it.… Continue Reading
Of the four pillars (here, here, and here), Brazil’s 2013 organized crime law has thus far impacted anti-corruption enforcement to a degree that few could have imagined or dreamed.… Continue Reading
We discussed in the two prior posts (here and here) the two laws that Brazil enacted in 2011 to make government more accountable, transparent, and efficient. But readers may recall the major public protests that erupted in Brazil in 2013.… Continue Reading
We’re talking about the four major laws, or “pillars,” that Brazil enacted on the eve of the 2016 Olympic Games (and 2014 FIFA World Cup) that completely changed Brazil’s anti-corruption landscape. … Continue Reading
Procurement obviously presents among the highest risks for corruption. Brazil took its rare good fortune of hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics as an opportunity to evaluate its procurement regime.… Continue Reading
The Brazil narrative of crisis and collapse has reached a fevered pitch: Zika, pollution in the bay, economic recession, and what may be the world’s largest corruption investigation. But this now-fashionable refrain misses a deeper and more compelling story.… Continue Reading
Brazil’s anti-corruption effort remains largely in tact, though at least two recent events begin to raise suspicions.
First, as reported last week, Michel Temer (the acting president) dissolved Brazil’s principal anti-corruption agency, the Comptroller General (CGU), replacing it with a new Transparency Ministry.… Continue Reading
Some say there are places where corruption is “cultural.” But that’s not exactly true. And ironically, Brazil now proves it.
Brazilian culture actually has a name — well-known and even faintly charming — for the ability to “get things done:” the Jeitinho Brasileiro.… Continue Reading
Image courtesy of the University of Richmond Law SchoolThe University of Richmond Anti-Corruption Research Team is proud to announce the release of our ebook, “Olympic Anti-Corruption Report: Brazil and the Rio 2016 Games.”… Continue Reading
