Section: Kleptocracy Initiative (USA)
Pipeline Politics
KleptoCast 9: Natalie Duffy talks to Ilya Zaslavskiy about how Nord Stream 2 could strengthen the Kremlin’s hand in Europe. http://kleptocracyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NORDSTREAM-FINAL.mp3 By Natalie Duffy On New Year’s Day, 2017, Gazprom pumped a record amount of gas through its Nord Stream pipeline. Gazprom CEO...
Kleptocracy Daily: January 23, 2017
News A lawsuit alleges that foreign payments to Donald Trump’s businesses violate the Constitution. (NYT) Trump will never release his tax returns, says a top advisor – despite previously promising to do so eventually (and 74 percent of Americans thinking he should). (WaPo) U.S. counterintelligence agencies investigated Gen. Mike...
Kleptocracy Weekly: January 20, 2017
New from KI Reforming Foreign Agents: Casey Michel talks to Craig Holman, Government Affairs Lobbyist for Public Citizen, about how the U.S. can reinforce its foreign lobbying laws – and why it matters now more than ever. The Other Immigration Crisis: Belinda Li talks to Seto Bagdoyan of the Government Accountability Office, about how the EB-5...
Kleptocracy Daily: January 18, 2016
The Other Immigration Crisis: KI’s Belinda Li examines how kleptocrats abuse the EB-5 visa program to gain U.S. citizenship and launder stolen cash, and talks to Seto Bagdoyan of the Government Accountability Office about closing the loopholes. News An aide to Donald Trump discussed joint investments with a Russian firm under U.S. sanctions...
Kleptocracy Daily: January 17, 2017
News Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the late Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov, has not been heard from for months – but Swiss prosecutors recently questioned her about her role in a major international bribery scandal. (WSJ) Joe Biden said that Russia uses corruption as a “tool of coercion” against Ukraine during his final visit to Kyiv as Vice...
Kleptocracy Daily: January 12, 2017
Safe Houses For Sale: KI’s Peter Podkopaev on the threats posed by dirty money in U.S. real estate. News The U.S. director of national intelligence rejected claims that the intelligence community leaked a report suggesting that the Kremlin held compromising information about Donald Trump. (CNN) More on the conviction of a Chinese...
Kleptocracy Daily: January 11, 2017
News A classified intelligence report on Russian meddling in the U.S. electionsincluded uncorroborated allegations that the Kremlin holds compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump. (WaPo) Some $30 million linked to Pavlo Lazarenko, former PM of Ukraine, issitting frozen in a Lithuanian bank. (OCCRP) The value of reported fraud...
Kleptocracy Daily: January 10, 2017
News John McCain and Lindsey Graham are introducing a bipartisan bill to increase sanctions against Russia. (Politico) New Russia sanctions include the suspected killers of Alexander Litvinenko. (Guardian) Donald Trump aides labelled Obama’s response to Russian intervention in the U.S. elections “disproportionate.” (Bloomberg) Trump’s...
Kleptocracy Daily: January 3, 2017
New Year Must-Reads Ben Judah explains how London rolls out the blood-red carpet for violent kleptocrats like the Bakiyev family. (NYT) How does the U.S. Justice Department’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative ensure that frozen funds aren’t repatriated back into the pockets of corrupt dictators? (NYT) Ana Swanson talks to James...
Kleptocracy Daily: December 22, 2016
News A cybersecurity firm hired by the Democrats found that a Russian military unit was likely behind the election hacks, using software previously deployed against Ukraine. (WaPo) Despite Donald Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp,” his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has started a lobbying firm. (Politico) France’s...
