Podcasts by Category
- 557 - Former Enforcement Officials Reflect on the Last Decade of Anti-Bribery Enforcement and its Future
This week on Bribe, Swindle, or Steal, we listen in on the lively presentation at the 2024 TRACE Forum featuring former enforcement officials, Charles Duross, Partner, Morrison Foerster, David Last, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb, and Mark Mendelsohn, Partner, Paul Weiss. Speaking with TRACE President, Alexandra Wrage, Chuck, David, and Mark discuss their time as Chiefs of the FCPA Unit and their experiences navigating heightened scrutiny and shifting resources, and then they offer their perspectives on what lies ahead.
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 44min - 556 - Mark Pieth on the Global Gold Trade
In this re-posted episode, Prof. Mark Pieth discusses his book, Gold Laundering: The dirty secrets of the gold trade - and how to clean up. He outlines the many problems, including child and trafficked labor, environmental degradation, violence, and corruption. He also addresses some modest steps forward and how, in spite of the considerable challenges, more progress can be made.
This epsiode was originally posted on December 1, 2021.
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 25min - 555 - Sam Bankman-Fried: Crypto's Madoff?Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 22min
- 554 - Self-Reporting and Cooperation: The DOJ’s New Incentives and ExpectationsWed, 27 Mar 2024 - 35min
- 553 - News from the European Union, including the CSDDD
This week on Bribe, Swindle, or Steal, we listen in on the presentation of Nicola Bonucci, International Lawyer and former Director for Legal Affairs OECD, at the TRACE Forum in Annapolis. Nicola provides context for recent compliance news from the EU and discusses the adoption of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive at a gathering of compliance experts just three hours after the news broke!
Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 22min - 552 - Flags of Convenience
Tom Cardamone, President and CEO of Global Financial Integrity, joins the podcast to discuss the regulatory and enforcement challenges associated with flags of convenience. These range from trafficked labor to environmental violations and Tom highlights the inherent tension between substantial tax incentives on one hand and accountability on the other.
Originally posted September 15, 2021
Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 24min - 551 - Russian Sanctions: Impact and Due Diligence
Pavel Verkhniatsky joins the podcast from Kyiv where he is the Managing Partner of COSA Solutions with particular expertise in sophisticated due diligence and cross-border investigations. We range from the very broad and geopolitical to the very specific as Pavel discusses the impact of sanctions on Russia, as well as common due diligence 'red flags'.
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 29min - 550 - "Spin Dictators"Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 24min
- 549 - Enablers and the Dark Fleet of Oil Tankers
Zeke Faux joins the podcast to talk about the support and credibility provided to oil tankers violating sanctions by the companies that insure them. Zeke, together with Zachary Mider, wrote an excellent Bloomberg article earlier this month about one New York insurance company that insures a disproportionate number of these aged tankers accused of shipping sanctioned Iranian oil.
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 26min - 548 - Leonid Volkov, Alexei Navalny's Chief of Staff
In honor of the extraordinarily courageous and principled life of Alexei Navalny, first poisoned with Novichuk and killed today in Polar Wolf prison, we are reposting our 2021 conversation with his chief of staff, Leonid Volkov.
Leonid Volkov joins the podcast to talk about Putin's obsessive campaign against Navalny, who was first poisoned with Novichok and later imprisoned. Volkov also discusses the deep roots of corruption in Russia and how the west can support Russians determined to end the looting of their country.
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 24min - 547 - Launching Today: Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
Author, academic and former compliance professional, Alison Taylor joins the podcast to talk about her compelling new book. She describes the contradictions inherent in companies that talk about “doing well by doing good” and explains why corporate reputation management can’t be an end in itself and how trying to do less can be the best strategy. “You don’t have to join every conversation”.
Wed, 14 Feb 2024 - 26min - 546 - Buying Fakes: Valerie SalembierWed, 07 Feb 2024 - 25min
- 545 - “The Tinder Swindler”
Investigative journalist Erlend Ofte Arntsen of Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang joins the podcast to discuss his work on the Tinder Swindler story, adapted into a Netflix documentary. Erlend and his colleagues broke the story of Shimon Hayut, an Israeli con man who found women on the dating app, impressed them with private jets and bodyguards, concocted stories about being in great personal danger and then drained their bank accounts and left them with extraordinary credit card debt.
This episode originally aired on February 15, 2022.
Wed, 31 Jan 2024 - 15min - 544 - Addressing the Demand-Side of Bribery at Last: FEPA
Tom Firestone, a partner with Squire Patton Boggs in Washington, discusses the new US Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA). Tom’s perspective is especially interesting as he previously served as the Legal Adviser at the US Embassy in Moscow dealing with financial crime there and, in 2018, he wrote an article on what was needed to tackle the demand side of bribery.
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 20min - 543 - Transparency International's New Chair: François ValérianWed, 17 Jan 2024 - 23min
- 542 - 2023 FCPA Year in ReviewWed, 10 Jan 2024 - 43min
- 541 - Sam Bankman-Fried: Crypto's Madoff?Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 22min
- 540 - "Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con"
Jared Bibler joins the podcast to discuss his lively book about the complete meltdown of Iceland's banking sector and, as a result, its economy. It was a brazen scheme equal in size to three Enrons and, although it happened in 2008, it remains a timely cautionary tale for the banking sector and regulators today.
Podcast originally aired: April 12, 2023
Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 27min - 539 - The Panama Papers: Six Years LaterWed, 03 Jan 2024 - 19min
- 538 - China's Clandestine Police Stations
Laura Harth with Safeguard Defenders joins the podcast to talk about the more than 50 illegal Chinese police stations operating around the world, including in the United States and Canada. These violate both the sovereignty of the inadvertent ‘host’ countries and the rights of the Chinese citizens abroad who are stalked and coerced to comply with government demands to return to China or risk the persecution of their families. Laura discusses her organization’s excellent report 110 Overseas: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild. (The title is based on the emergency number for the police in China - 110.)
Podcast originally aired: February 8, 2023
Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 24min - 537 - Pegasus and Compliance in the Age of Cyber Intelligence
Chaim Gelfand, Vice President, Compliance, at NSO Group joins the podcast to talk about managing compliance for a product that has, baked into its design, complex privacy, corruption and human rights implications. Because of the controversial nature of spyware, we will hear from journalist Khadija Ismayilova next week about the allegation that spyware was installed on her cell phone and her concerns about abuse of the technology.
Podcast originally aired: March 8, 2023
Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 24min - 536 - “When McKinsey Comes to Town”
Michael Forsythe, co-author with Walt Bogdanich of “When McKinsey Comes to Town”, joins the podcast to talk about McKinsey’s work in support of autocratic regimes, its rampant conflicts of interest and the distance between its stated values and its work on the ground.
This episode originally aired on January 18, 2023.
Wed, 27 Dec 2023 - 28min - 535 - “White Collar Crime Explained”
Randall Eliason talks about extortion, conspiracy, cover-up crimes and plea bargains – topics covered in his excellent new 24 lecture course available through Great Courses. He also takes us through some examples from recent headlines.
This episode originally aired on September 29, 2020.
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 25min - 534 - Repression Across Borders
Yana Gorokhovskaia of Freedom House joins the podcast to talk about transnational repression, the increasingly common abuse and intimidation by states of their citizens living abroad. Yana discusses Jamal Khashoggi, murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and Roman Protasevich, whose plane was forced to land in Belarus where he is still being held, but also refers to the hundreds of other cases that don’t make the news. Freedom House has released an excellent report on this problem that can be found at: https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression.
This episode originally aired January 5, 2022.
Wed, 13 Dec 2023 - 21min - 533 - The Lockheed Bribery Scandal that Prompted the FCPA
Dr. Frank Badua, Associate Professor of Accounting and Business Law at Lamar University College of Business, describes the misconduct from the 1950s through the 1970s by a group of companies that led to widespread support for passage of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
This episode originally aired February 5, 2020.
Wed, 06 Dec 2023 - 19min - 532 - Contagious Dishonesty
Federico Masera with the University of New South Wales and the Resilient Democracy Lab in Sydney joins the podcast to discuss his recent research, together with Giorgio Gulino, "Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft." Their intriguing research uncovers a trend toward substantially increased customer theft at supermarkets in the immediate aftermath of local corruption scandals involving prominent public officials.
This podcast was originally published on September 22, 2021.
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 - 26min - 531 - Maria Ressa on Holding the Line
Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa joins the podcast to talk about corruption, disinformation and how to stand up to a dictator.
We at TRACE are thankful for all of the investigative journalists that work to uncover financial crime, often at considerable personal risk.
This podcast was originally published on February 22, 2023.
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 - 27min - 530 - A Review of the Global Anti-Corruption News
For today’s podcast, we’re listening in on Pascale Dubois’ excellent and fast-paced review of the international anti-bribery landscape at the recent TRACE Forum in London. Pascale is a leading international executive advisor and independent expert who has been involved with anti-corruption efforts for two decades, including as the World Bank’s VP of the Integrity Vice Presidency.
Wed, 15 Nov 2023 - 36min - 529 - Menendez Corruption Allegations – Round Two
Jessica Tillipman, Associate Dean for Government Procurement Law at George Washington Law School, joins the podcast to give a fantastic, detailed and fast-paced overview of the latest Menendez corruption allegations, interspersed with gold bars, bundles of cash and a Mercedes convertible. In the process, Jessica takes us back to the overturning of Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s corruption conviction and what we should expect in its wake.
Wed, 08 Nov 2023 - 29min - 528 - The Death of Sergei Magnitsky: Bill Browder
As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on, we revisit Russian corruption and its weaponization of financial crime in our 2017 interview with Bill Browder. He describes the brazen fraud and violence of Putin’s Russia, the death of Sergei Magnitsky, and the passage of the Magnitsky Act. You can also listen to our most recent interview with Bill, discussing his excellent book, "Freezing Order." (That episode was originally published in 2017.)
Wed, 01 Nov 2023 - 29min - 527 - The DOJ’s Revised Evaluation of Corporate Compliance ProgramsWed, 25 Oct 2023 - 28min
- 526 - The State of Anti-Corruption Enforcement in the UKWed, 18 Oct 2023 - 32min
- 525 - Looking Back: The Siemens Scandal
Jessica Tillipman of George Washington Law School covers the highlights and key points from the Siemens bribery case of 2008. It was a startling case at the time and divided the international enforcement landscape into the world before and after Siemens. (This episode was originally published in 2020.)
Wed, 11 Oct 2023 - 20min - 524 - Trust Us - Episode 4: Inside the Jersey Offshore Investigation
Today’s podcast is the fourth and final episode in a four-part guest series produced by the Global Reporting Centre and European Investigative Collaborations. The series tells the fascinating and little-known story about a trove of leaked documents exposing the machinations of a trust company in Jersey, Britain’s notorious tax haven.
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 - 35min - 523 - Trust Us - Episode 3: Inside the Jersey Offshore Investigation
Today’s podcast is the third in a four-part guest series produced by the Global Reporting Centre and European Investigative Collaborations. The series tells the fascinating and little-known story about a trove of leaked documents exposing the machinations of a trust company in Jersey, Britain’s notorious tax haven.
Wed, 27 Sep 2023 - 23min - 522 - Trust Us - Episode 2: Inside the Jersey Offshore Investigation
Today’s podcast is the second in a four-part guest series produced by the Global Reporting Centre and European Investigative Collaborations. The series tells the fascinating and little-known story about a trove of leaked documents exposing the machinations of a trust company in Jersey, Britain’s notorious tax haven.
Wed, 20 Sep 2023 - 23min - 521 - Trust Us: Inside the Jersey Offshore Investigation
Today’s podcast is the first in a four-part guest series produced by the Global Reporting Centre and European Investigative Collaborations. The series tells the fascinating and little-known story about a trove of leaked documents exposing the machinations of a trust company in Jersey, Britain’s notorious tax haven.
Wed, 13 Sep 2023 - 36min - 520 - Preserving Ukraine’s Heritage and Thwarting Money Laundering through Art
Yuliia Hnat, Co-Founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art NGO and Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund, and Irina Tarsis, Founder and Managing Director at the Center for Art Law, join the podcast to talk about all that is being done to preserve Ukraine’s tangible heritage during the Russian invasion and to catalog art and antiquities to ensure that they can’t easily be traded on the international market and can eventually be restored to Ukraine.
Wed, 06 Sep 2023 - 24min - 519 - "Very Bad People"
Patrick Alley, co-founder of Global Witness and author of Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption, joins the podcast to discuss the early days of his Global Witness investigations, how their efforts gained momentum and where we should be focusing our attention next. (This episode was originally published in 2022.)
Wed, 30 Aug 2023 - 24min - 518 - Enabling the Enablers
Scott Greytak of Transparency International U.S. joins the podcast to talk about the many loopholes that permit U.S. lawyers to work for criminal actors as they exploit the U.S. financial system. He brings us up-to-date on the ABA’s recent change to its Model Rules of Professional Conduct and when we’ll see the ENABLERS Act revisited.
Wed, 23 Aug 2023 - 22min - 517 - "Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy"
Robert Worth, a journalist previously based in Baghdad with the New York Times and author of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil from Tahrir Square to ISIS, describes the deadly and intractable problem of corruption in Iraq. He discusses the role the United States and its pallets of cash played in this, but also the enforced sectarian apportionment of power—the Muhasasa—that ensures each group protects its fiefdom rather than acting in the best interest of the whole country. (This episode was originally published in 2022.)
Wed, 16 Aug 2023 - 26min - 516 - “Butler to the World”Wed, 09 Aug 2023 - 27min
- 515 - “Fool Me Once”
Kelly Richmond Pope, Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University, joins the podcast to talk about her new book: Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry. She describes the three types of fraud perpetrators and why we blame the victims of fraud for their gullibility and I ask her whether lawyers or accountants are more at fault for rampant fraud!
Wed, 02 Aug 2023 - 21min - 514 - “Big Dirty Money”
Jennifer Taub, author, legal scholar, professor and advocate, joins the podcast to talk about her latest book: Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime. Jennifer focuses, in particular, on how much more gently we treat corporate financial crime than we do very petty financial crime, in spite of the fact that the former costs taxpayers far more money. (This episode was originally published in 2021.)
Wed, 26 Jul 2023 - 23min - 513 - Carlos Ghosn’s “Collision Course”
Hans Greimel and William Sposato, journalists and authors, join the podcast to discuss their book: Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire. They cover Ghosn’s rise to hero status in Japan, his ultimate fall—arrest, detention and escape from the country—and the many compliance challenges raised by this strange story. (This episode was originally published in 2021.)
Wed, 19 Jul 2023 - 26min - 512 - Board Support for the Compliance FunctionWed, 12 Jul 2023 - 19min
- 511 - Pegasus and Compliance in the Age of Cyber Intelligence
The first episode of a two-part series, Chaim Gelfand, Vice President, Compliance, at NSO Group talks about managing compliance for a product that has, baked into its design, complex privacy, corruption and human rights implications. Because of the controversial nature of spyware, we hear from journalist Khadija Ismayilova in the second episode about the allegation that spyware was installed on her cell phone and her concerns about abuse of the technology. (This episode was originally published in March 2023.)
Wed, 05 Jul 2023 - 24min - 510 - What Spyware Means for Journalists and Civil Society
This podcast is the second episode in a two-part discussion of the compliance and human rights implications of spyware. After hearing from Chaim Gelfand at NSO Group, we asked Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist in Azerbaijan who is alleged to have been monitored for four years by spyware installed on her phone, to speak to the privacy and human rights issues. (The first half of the conversation has some IT issues, but it clears up in the second half, so please stay with us!) (This episode was originally published in March 2023.)
Wed, 05 Jul 2023 - 18min - 509 - Imprisoned in ChinaWed, 28 Jun 2023 - 58min
- 508 - Canada’s First Bribery AcquittalWed, 21 Jun 2023 - 15min
- 507 - “The Power of One”: Frances Haugen’s Decision to Blow the Whistle on Facebook
Data scientist, whistleblower and now author, Frances Haugen, joins the podcast to discuss her book, which comes out today. Frances describes her journey through tech as an algorithmic product manager, her growing understanding of the risk of radicalization and political violence that Facebook posed and her ultimate decision to blow the whistle when it became clear that Facebook, profiting from outrage, wasn’t going to fix itself.
Tue, 13 Jun 2023 - 29min - 506 - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica joins the podcast to discuss their investigation into the gifts, travel, tuition, rent and other benefits lavished on Justice Thomas directly—or indirectly for the benefit of family members—by right-wing billionaire, Harlan Crow. Jesse discusses the initial article, the tips they received with additional information after publishing it, and the political backlash to their reporting.
Wed, 07 Jun 2023 - 27min - 505 - The Outlaw OceanWed, 31 May 2023 - 28min
- 504 - “Spin Dictators”Wed, 24 May 2023 - 24min
- 503 - Nicolas Niarchos at the TRACE ForumWed, 17 May 2023 - 23min
- 502 - Compliance Challenges Surrounding Messaging AppsWed, 10 May 2023 - 26min
- 501 - “The Art of the Bribe” under StalinWed, 03 May 2023 - 25min
- 500 - The Panama Papers: Six Years LaterWed, 26 Apr 2023 - 19min
- 499 - Paul Massaro at the TRACE ForumWed, 19 Apr 2023 - 29min
- 498 - “Iceland’s Secret: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con”
Jared Bibler joins the podcast to discuss his lively book about the complete meltdown of Iceland’s banking sector and, as a result, its economy. It was a brazen scheme equal in size to three Enrons and, although it happened in 2008, it remains a timely cautionary tale for the banking sector and regulators today.
Wed, 12 Apr 2023 - 27min - 497 - “Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons, and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West”Wed, 05 Apr 2023 - 27min
- 496 - Sam Bankman-Fried: Crypto’s Madoff?Wed, 29 Mar 2023 - 22min
- 495 - Wildlife CrimeWed, 22 Mar 2023 - 22min
- 494 - What Spyware Means for Journalists and Civil Society
Today’s podcast is the second episode in a two-part discussion of the compliance and human rights implications of spyware. After hearing from Chaim Gelfand at NSO Group last week, we asked Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist in Azerbaijan who is alleged to have been monitored for four years by spyware installed on her phone, to speak to the privacy and human rights issues. (The first half of the conversation has some IT issues, but it clears up in the second half, so please stay with us!)
Wed, 15 Mar 2023 - 18min - 493 - Pegasus and Compliance in the Age of Cyber Intelligence
Chaim Gelfand, Vice President, Compliance, at NSO Group joins the podcast to talk about managing compliance for a product that has, baked into its design, complex privacy, corruption and human rights implications. Because of the controversial nature of spyware, we will hear from journalist Khadija Ismayilova next week about the allegation that spyware was installed on her cell phone and her concerns about abuse of the technology.
Wed, 08 Mar 2023 - 24min - 492 - Surviving a Bribery Investigation and Fostering a Culture of ComplianceWed, 01 Mar 2023 - 27min
- 491 - Maria Ressa on Holding the LineWed, 22 Feb 2023 - 27min
- 490 - Doping in International Sports
Rob Koehler, WADA veteran and current Director General of Global Athlete, joins the podcast to discuss the epidemic of doping in sports, the imbalance of power between athletes and administrators and the IOC's startling decision to allow Russia to compete in the Paris Games in spite of its invasion of Ukraine.
Wed, 15 Feb 2023 - 32min - 489 - China’s Clandestine Police Stations
Laura Harth with Safeguard Defenders joins the podcast to talk about the more than 50 illegal Chinese police stations operating around the world, including in the United States and Canada. These violate both the sovereignty of the inadvertent ‘host’ countries and the rights of the Chinese citizens abroad who are stalked and coerced to comply with government demands to return to China or risk the persecution of their families. Laura discusses her organization’s excellent report 110 Overseas: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild. (The title is based on the emergency number for the police in China - 110.)
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 - 24min - 488 - After You Pay a Bribe: Lindsey Mitchell
Listen to the riveting first-hand story of a Unaoil executive who found himself at the center of a bribery scheme.
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 - 51min - 487 - Sam Bankman-Fried: Crypto’s Madoff?Wed, 25 Jan 2023 - 22min
- 486 - “When McKinsey Comes to Town”Wed, 18 Jan 2023 - 28min
- 485 - “Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust”: Diana Henriques
Diana Henriques describes Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, discusses how difficult it is to uncover fraud by those who prey on the trust of others and addresses the simple, consistent controls that saved some investors from losses. Diana is featured in the new Netflix series MADOFF: The Monster of Wall Street.
Wed, 11 Jan 2023 - 25min - 484 - “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins the podcast to discuss her book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, which examines 100 years of authoritarian rule. She describes the characteristics of a strongman and the strange virility cult surrounding these leaders before turning to the central role of corruption in the autocrat’s playbook.
(This episode was originally published in November 2021.)
Wed, 04 Jan 2023 - 22min - 483 - FIFA Swamp with Grant Wahl
Reflecting on the year as it draws to a close, we note with great sadness the recent loss of sports journalist, author and inimitable soccer analyst, Grant Wahl. We’re replaying today our podcast with Grant from 2017. He was generous with his time, happy to share his expertise and invariably good humored. He is missed.
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 - 33min - 482 - Compliance Predictions for 2023Wed, 21 Dec 2022 - 24min
- 481 - Revisiting the DOJ’s “Monaco Memo”
Dan Kahn, former Chief of the FCPA Unit, joins the podcast to discuss the September Monaco Memo now that the compliance community has had some time to debate it. Dan discusses the good news, and some concerns, associated with cooperation credit, voluntary disclosure, recidivist companies, monitors and ongoing concerns about personal devices and ephemeral apps.
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 - 18min - 480 - “American Kleptocracy”
Casey Michel with the Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative joins the podcast for a very lively discussion about his book, American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History. Casey discusses America’s role in the problem of global kleptocracy and shares some optimism about the path ahead. (This episode was originally published in 2021.)
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 - 24min - 479 - How Corruption Undermines Elections
Dr. Magnus Öhman of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) joins the podcast to discuss how corruption undermines free and fair elections. He discusses his recent publication: “Vote for Free: A Global Guide for Citizen Monitoring of Campaign Finance,” which provides an eight-step model for civil society organizations seeking to monitor campaign finance.
Wed, 30 Nov 2022 - 16min - 478 - Anti-Corruption Compliance in UkraineWed, 23 Nov 2022 - 17min
- 477 - Encouraging and Protecting Whistleblowers
This week, we’re listening in on Alexandra Wrage’s recent keynote presentation at a Whistleblowers and Public Integrity conference hosted by the Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute (VACI). She addresses the incredible personal price that whistleblowers pay when they’re driven to expose misconduct, explores how we can begin to shift the tone of the discussion around reporting and notes how difficult it is to uncover financial crime without whistleblowers.
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 - 25min - 476 - FIFA's Red Card: Ken Bensinger
As we approach the 2022 World Cup, we’re revisiting our 2018 episode with Ken Bensinger, who discusses his fascinating book, Red Card, and the decades of misconduct by FIFA eventually uncovered by the FBI. We play “violation bingo” as Ken describes the bribery, self-dealing, conflicts of interest and money laundering that were business as usual at FIFA.
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 - 34min - 475 - The FIFA Swamp
As we approach the 2022 World Cup, we’re revisiting our 2017 episode with journalist Grant Wahl on how decades of FIFA corruption and self-dealing have undermined the world's favorite sport. (This episode was originally published in 2017.)
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 - 33min - 474 - Oliver Bullough at the TRACE London ForumWed, 26 Oct 2022 - 31min
- 473 - When Companies Negotiate with TerroristsWed, 19 Oct 2022 - 25min
- 472 - Daphne Caruana Galizia: her work, her murder and the chance for justice
Paul Caruana Galizia, a journalist with Tortoise media, joins the podcast to talk about the work of his mother, Daphne, the growing danger she perceived as her investigations reached the highest circles of power in Malta, and now the criminal proceedings against the two men who killed her. Paul also discusses the Daphne Foundation and the incredible journalistic community that worked together, again, to prove that killing a journalist won’t kill their story.
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 - 20min - 471 - Corruption, Sanctions and Putin’s War Regime
This week, we hear from Leonid Volkov who spoke at the recent TRACE London Forum. Leonid is Alexei Navalny’s Chief of Staff and Political Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. He discusses the role of corruption in Putin’s Russia as well as the impact of sanctions and the toll that rampant corruption is taking on Russia.
Wed, 05 Oct 2022 - 29min - 470 - Bill Browder at the TRACE London ForumWed, 28 Sep 2022 - 42min
- 469 - Creating a Culture of Compliance: Jonathan DrimmerWed, 21 Sep 2022 - 23min
- 468 - Leonid Volkov, Alexei Navalny’s Chief of Staff
Leonid Volkov joins the podcast to talk about Putin’s obsessive campaign against Navalny, who was first poisoned with Novichok and later imprisoned. Volkov also discusses the deep roots of corruption in Russia and how the west can support Russians determined to end the looting of their country.
Wed, 14 Sep 2022 - 24min - 467 - Corruption in the U.S. 7th Fleet
In light of recent news about Leonard Glenn Francis' escape from house arrest ahead of his U.S. sentencing, we're revisiting our episode with Doyle Hodges, Commander, USN, ret., and Stephen Wrage, Professor, U.S. Naval Academy. They describe how "Fat Leonard" of Glenn Defense Marine Asia organized and executed a scheme that corrupted at least 30 officers and compromised over 400 others.
Wed, 07 Sep 2022 - 42min - 466 - The Brooklyn FIFA TrialWed, 31 Aug 2022 - 24min
- 465 - The Congo’s Cobalt Rush
Freelance journalist Nicolas Niarchos joins the podcast to discuss his excellent piece in the New Yorker: The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush. He also describes his recent incarceration and that of his Congolese colleague, Jeef Kazadi, during their ongoing investigation in the DRC.
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 - 22min - 464 - “Very Bad People”
Patrick Alley, co-founder of Global Witness and author of Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption, joins the podcast to discuss the early days of his Global Witness investigations, how their efforts gained momentum and where we should be focusing our attention next.
Wed, 10 Aug 2022 - 24min - 463 - The Zondo Commission in South Africa
Paul Holden of Shadow World Investigations joins the podcast to discuss the South African Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture (“Zondo Commission”). He describes the extensive corruption and money-laundering enabled by banks and international corporations and makes a prediction about whether the Gupta brothers, recently arrested in Dubai, will be extradited to South Africa.
Wed, 27 Jul 2022 - 27min - 462 - Collaborative Investigative Journalism without Borders
At the TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting award ceremony last month, former prosecutor and National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino led a conversation with ICIJ’s Spencer Woodman, Bellingcat’s Aric Toler, and 2022 Prize winners Hans Peterson Hammer of Göteborgs-Posten and Lilia Saúl Rodriguez of the OCCRP. They discuss the evolution, impact and future of cross-border collaborative investigative journalism.
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 - 32min - 461 - Profiting From Human Rights Atrocities in Syrian Prisons
Omar Alshogre, refugee, political activist and Georgetown University student, shares the wrenching story of his three years as a political prisoner in the worst of Syria’s prisons. He discusses the role that extortion plays there, simultaneously delegitimizing the regime further and propping it up financially.
Episode resources:
Mentioned at (00:33): The Syrian Emergency Task Force Mentioned at (00:45): Omar's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 11 March 2020Wed, 13 Jul 2022 - 43min - 460 - Jim Wasserstrom on Whistleblowers and the Integrity SanctuaryWed, 06 Jul 2022 - 15min
- 459 - Khadija Ismayilova on Keeping Whistleblowers SafeWed, 29 Jun 2022 - 13min
- 458 - Moneyland, Kleptopia and On Corruption in AmericaWed, 22 Jun 2022 - 47min
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