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March 10, 2017
Cyber Week in Review: March 10, 2017
Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: Surprise! The CIA spies on people! Wikileaks published a trove of Central Intelligence Agency do…
December 27, 2016
United States
The Odebrecht Settlement and the Costs of Corruption
It is hard to overstate the meaning of the settlement announced by U.S. authorities on December 21 with Odebrecht. Under this "largest-ever global foreign bribery resolution,"[1] the construction gia…
May 11, 2010
Global
New Relationship with the International Criminal Court Critical to U.S. Goal of Prosecuting War Criminals
As the Obama administration prepares for the May 31-June 11 review conference of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kampala, Uganda, a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Special Report, Fr…
October 28, 2016
Venezuela
Three Factors Driving Venezuela’s Impasse
[This post was co-authored with John Polga-Hecimovich*] The increasingly dangerous crisis in Venezuela (described in the first post of this series), has been complicated by the political economy o…
October 21, 2016
United States
Corruption, FATCA, and the Tightening Dragnet Around Brazilian Offshore Accounts
The Brazilian Federal Revenue Secretariat (SRF) has some good news to cheer: a big haul of fines and taxes from assets held offshore by Brazilians. The deadline for filing under Brazil’s equivalent o…
