Corruption

The Empire State Strikes Back: New York Launches New Open Government Website

Alexander Howard | Posted 06.04.2012

Read More: Corruption, Transparency, Open Data, Data, New York State, Open Government, Ethics, New York, Eric Schneiderman, New York Open Government, Government Corruption, New York News

Last week, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman launched NYOpenGovernment.com, a new website that his office touts as a means for "voters, the media and government watchdogs to hold state government accountable."

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Bill Clinton Battles for Wisconsin Democracy, and Hillary Would Too

Brent Budowsky | Posted 06.04.2012

The most corrupted special interests of the nation are pouring money into Wisconsin to support Scott Walker, but if the people who care about the country care enough to vote, the good people can still triumph over the dirty money in Wisconsin.

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New Details Emerge As Ex-Border Patrol Brothers Fight Corruption Charges

Andrew Becker | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Corruption, Bribery, Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol, Fidel Villarreal, Raul Villarreal, Raul and Fidel Villarreal, Raul and Fidel Villarreal Smuggling, Crime News

The Villarreal brothers are just two of a handful of Customs and Border Protection employees in Southern California charged with corruption-related crimes in recent years to contest prosecution rather than accept a plea agreement.

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Is There Even A Point To Spending 2 Billion Dollars On A Presidential Election?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Corruption, 2012 Speculatron, Super Pac Money, 2012 Election, Super PACs, Joe Ricketts, Elections 2012, Buddy Roemer, Money in Politics, Jeremiah Wright, Previews of Coming Disasters, 2012, Video, Politics News

Because we need a daily reminder of the obscene amounts of money that are sloshing into our politics, like so much Union Carbide goop into all the kno...

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A Latin Solution to an African Problem

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Corruption, Alaska, Commodities, Equity, Latin America, Africa, Social Inclusion, Poverty, Direct Dividend Transfer, World News

Direct cash transfers can be more than a smart way to deliver social assistance. In fact, they may provide Africa with a neat solution to its most urgent problem: how to handle its massive commodity bonanza.

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The Rise of the Mafia State

Moisés Naím | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Corruption, Venezuela, Mafia State, Guinea-Bissau, Organized Crime, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Graft, Montenegro, Myanmar, Ahmed Wali Karzai, North Korea, World News

The assumptions that there is nothing new regarding crime and corruption and that these plagues are an inevitable part of the human experience are clouding an important change: the ascent of the mafia state, an old player that has gained renewed potency.

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Amid Bribery Scandal Walmart Encourages 'Integrity' At Employee Rally

Reuters | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Corruption, Walmart, Video, US Department of Justice, Mike Duke, Reuters, Walmart Bribery, Walmart Mexico Probe, Securities and Exchange Commission, Integrity, Business News

* Wal-Mart international executives cheer on employees * Talk of Mexico bribery scandal largely avoided * Wal-Mart share...

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Study Finds Reasons Behind State Corruption

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Corruption, Harvard?S Kennedy School of Government, State Capitals, Kennedy School of Government, State Corruption Report, State Corruption, Politics News

What makes some state capitals so much more corrupt than others? New research provides a partial answer to that long-standing question: isolated capit...

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How Financial Criminalization Crashed Economy, Goes Unpunished

Charles Ferguson | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Corruption, Financial Fraud, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, White Collar Crime, Wall Street, Finance, Wall Street Crimes, Financial Crisis, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Securities Fraud, Wall Street Corruption, Business News

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the financial sector has become criminalized, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud.

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More Corporate Executives Are Using Bribery In Hunt For Growth

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Fraud Investigation, Corruption, Anti-Bribery, Anti-Corruption, Video, Chief Financial Officers, Reuters, U.S. Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act, Bribery, Ernst & Young, Cfos, Business News

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - A growing number of senior executives around the world are willing to pay bribes to win or keep business, as the hunt for...

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Citizens United Part II: Montana Attorney General Takes A Stand

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Montana, Montana Supreme Court, Corruption, Video, Corporations, Disclosure, Steve Bullock, Citizens United, Mccain-Feingold, American-Tradition-Partnership, Campaign Finance, Montana-Corrupt-Practices-Act, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock says that he has been so personally involved in the Citizens United sequel soon to be considered ...

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Why Turnout in the Presidential Primaries Was Dismally Low

Todd Phillips | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Corruption, Democracy, Local Electors, Presidential Primaries, Voter Turnout, Elections 2012, 2012 Election, Politics News

It makes no sense to cling to a broken system that was never meant to be. We must be open to innovative solutions. After all, isn't innovation what Americans are best at? This is our opportunity to fix democracy and to make it better.

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Understanding Pay-To-Play Academics

Charles Ferguson | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Corruption, Compass Lexecon, Brattle Group, Conflict of Interest, Predator Nation, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Berkeley Research Group, Glenn Hubbard, Larry Summers, Criterion, Charles River Associates, Wall Street, Analysis Group, Financial Crisis, Academics, Pay to Play, Business News

Over the last thirty years, in parallel with deregulation and the rising power of money in American politics, significant portions of American academia have deteriorated into "pay to play" activities. No where is this more pronounced than in the realm of economics.

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Former Dem Lawmaker Out On Bail Days After Starting Prison Term For Corruption

AP | JOANN LOVIGLIO | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Corruption, Bill DeWeese Prison, Video, Pennsylvania, Bill Deweese, Bill DeWeese Out on Bail, Bill Deweese Corruption, Politics News

PHILADELPHIA — Former longtime Pennsylvania House Democratic leader Bill DeWeese is out on bail days after he began serving a 2 1/2 -to-five-yea...

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Homeland Security Watchdog May Close Troubled Texas Office

Andrew Becker | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Fbi, Inspector General, Texas, Justice Department, Politics News, Washington, Politics News

The Homeland Security Department's beleaguered watchdog might close a troubled Texas office amid a federal probe into its agents' investigative practices, the Center for Investigative Reporting has learned.

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Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings Tied to FastTrain, For-Profit College Raided by FBI

David_Halperin | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Congress, For-Profit Colleges, Corruption, Rep. Alcee Hastings, Apscu, Alcee Hastings, Money and Politics, Fasttrain, Fasttrain College, Politics News

The FBI raided campuses of Florida-based FastTrain College on Wednesday. The for-profit school has multiple ties to Representative Alcee Hastings (D-FL), who has been a fervent backer of for-profit education companies.

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Obama's Quandry: Bashing Blundering Banks While Courting Wall Street Cash

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Corruption, 2012 Elections, Dodd-Frank, Marsha Blackburn, Derivatives, Economy, Financial Reform, Bank of America, Wall Street Reform, Mitt Romney, Jobs, Money in Politics, Obama, Democrats, Romney, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, 2012, Thune, Video, Wall Street, Trade, Jpmorgan, Banks, J.P. Morgan, Occupy, November Elections, Fat Cats, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's response to JPMorgan Chase's spectacular trading failure underscores a persistent tension in his presidency -- ...

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Pushing Forward G8's Anti-Corruption Agenda

Shruti Shah | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Corruption, Food Insecurity, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Impactg8, Sub-Saharan Africa, Dear G8, G8 Summit, G8, Impact News

As leaders of the G8 convene at Camp David, it is imperative they take corruption into account. Corruption underpins many of the summit's stated objectives -- such as promoting food security in Africa.

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Silver Spoon Socialists Flex Muscles In Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Bolivia, Corruption, Hugo Chavez, Socialist International, Venezuela, Dilma Rousseff, Argentina, Leon Trotsky, Brazil, Globalism, Odebrecht, World Social Forum, World Economic Forum, Luis Favre, Sean Penn, World News

The Communist Party of Brazil was given the political plum of running the ministry of sports by president Dilma as a reward for staying inside her Worker's Party coalition government during her dramatic move to the political center.

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Who's Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Corruption, Phone Hacking, Media Consolidation, Fcc, James Murdoch, Fox News Channel, Media News

The answer: the Federal Communications Commission and Congress.

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Woman Reports Credit Card Fraud, Then Is Accused By Police

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Corruption, Fraud, Video, Bank Accounts, Discover, Adekunle Adetiloye, Audrey Grisham, Bank of America, Credit Card Fraud, John McDevitt, Financial Crimes, Kutv, Utah, Business News

Imagine calling the police to report a crime, only to have them turnaround and accuse you. That's what happened to Audrey Grisham of Bountiful, Ut...

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Internal Review Shows Gross Mishandling of Military Whistleblower Reprisal Investigations

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Corruption, Pentagon, US Military, Whistleblowers, Military, Charles Grassley, Retaliation, Military Whistleblowers, Politics News

We owe military whistleblowers every possible opportunity to safely expose wrongdoing, and this report shows that the system has let them down. It's imperative that we fix it.

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Corruption, Democracy, and the Search for a Better World

Valerie Berset-Price | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Corruption, Wal Mart, International Business, Zambia, Uruguay, Ethics, Wireless, Bribery, Technology, Fcpa, Business News

Wal-Mart is making the headlines with the FCPA corruption case it faces in Mexico. But anyone who has been on the ground trying to close business in c...

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Homeland Security Office to Unload Hundreds of Corruption Probes

Andrew Becker | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Inspector General, Justice Department, Fbi, Corruption, Politics News

Officials with the inspectors general's office believe bypassing the watchdog agency by going directly to Customs and Border Protection for information could hamper their investigations. Other agents, however, view the inspector general as ill-equipped to root out corruption.

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Money Well Spent: Why Corruption Continues to Pay

Chris Morgan Jones | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Corruption, Walmart, Doj, Mexico, Bribery, Sec, Siemens, Fcpa, Business News

The victims of crimes of corruption are diffuse, invisible, and often vulnerable: every dollar paid in bribes tilts the scales further against the most unfortunate in societies where fairness frequently goes unprized.

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