Section: Kleptocracy Initiative (USA)
Kleptocracy Weekly: April 28, 2017
KI’s popular “KleptoCast” podcast series is now on iTunes. Listen to previous episodes, and more coming soon! United States The heads of the House Oversight Committee say Michael Flynn likely broke the law when he failed to declare foreign payments from Russia and Turkey. (Daily Beast) A firm co-founded by Trump’s original campaign...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 28, 2017
KI’s popular “KleptoCast” podcast series is now on iTunes. Listen to previous episodes, and more coming soon! News A firm co-founded by Trump’s original campaign manager appears to have been pitching clients around the world by offering not only policy and political advice, but also face time with President Trump, VP Pence and senior...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 26, 2017
The Justice Department “will continue to strongly enforce the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws…[corruption] increases the cost of doing business and hurts honest companies that don’t pay these bribes.” -AG Jeff Sessions, speaking at the Ethics and Compliance Initiative Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The heads of the House Oversight...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 25, 2017
News A former government minister in Guinea went to trial in New York on U.S. charges that he laundered $8.5 million in bribes he took in exchange for helping a Chinese company secure valuable mining rights. (Reuters) French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron’s campaign says that it was targeted by Russia-linked hacker group Fancy...
Banking On Secrecy
Image: HypnoArt | CC0 1.0 KleptoCast 14: Casey Michel talks to Aaron Klein of the Brookings Institution about challenges to the United States’ outdated anti-money laundering regime. http://kleptocracyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/14.-Know-Your-Customer-Aaron-Klein.mp3By Casey Michel For those following the world of offshore...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 21, 2017
KI’s Executive Director Charles Davidson will be a panelist at a Hudson Institute event to discuss challenges and opportunities for U.S.-EU cooperation 4/25. Sign up or watch live. News Trump’s inaugural committee took $1 million from a Russian-American whose money the GOP rejected; The committee also took $1 million from Access...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 19, 2017
Today: KI will host Oleksander Danyliuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, for a discussion with Walter Russell Mead at Hudson Institute. Sign up or watch live. KI’s Executive Director Charles Davidson will be a panelist at a Hudson Institute event to discuss challenges and opportunities for U.S.-EU cooperation 4/25. Sign up or watch live....
Kleptocracy Daily: April 18, 2017
Tomorrow: KI will host Oleksander Danyliuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, for a discussion with Walter Russell Mead at Hudson Institute. Sign up or watch live. News An Oregon legislative committee has passed a sweeping piece of legislation designed to rein in abusive, anonymous companies. (Portland Business Journal) The impoverished Democratic...
Kleptocracy Daily: April 17, 2017
A new documentary on the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, Hunting the KGB Killers, will premiere today on Britain’s Channel 4. News The House Intelligence Committee sent one of its members to the Mediterranean country where Wilbur Ross, Paul Manafort, and sanction-dodging oligarchs have all had money – Cyprus. (The Daily Beast) A mysterious...
Kleptocracy Weekly: April 14, 2017
Features KI’s Natalie Duffy on why the recent spate of retroactive foreign lobbying filings undermines any transparency the legislation hopes to achieve. Casey Michel talks to Will Fitzgibbon of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the anniversary of the Panama Papers release. KI’s Belinda Li examines how...
