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60 Minutes

1/31/2016: Anonymous, Inc., Top of the World

60 Minutes

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42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The United States is becoming known as a go-to place for crooked foreigners, like corrupt officials, to launder their ill-gotten money. When non-profit watchdog Global Witness wanted to see how easy it was to move questionable funds, they sent their investigator posing as a representative of a fictitious African government minister into the offices of American lawyers to see if they would be willing to assist. Steve Kroft reports. Sharyn Alfonsi goes to the top of the world to report on scientists trying to get to the bottom of climate change and sea level rise by studying one of the largest glaciers in Greenland.   To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The man in the grey coat, with a German accent, is an undercover investigator posing as the

1:08.8

representative of a fictitious African minister who wants to bring

1:12.6

millions in questionable funds into the U.S.

1:15.6

If it's not in his name, then he needs what is known as a straw man.

1:21.6

It's part of a hidden camera sting operation to see how willing American lawyers might be to offer advice.

1:29.3

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1:36.3

There's a clear pitch consistently presented in every one of these tapes of what amounts to an incredible number of red flags that scream corruption.

1:46.5

Dirty money.

1:47.2

Dirty money.

1:52.5

Peterman Glacier in Greenland is one of the largest glaciers in the Arctic Circle

1:57.5

and one that's experienced dramatic melting.

2:02.2

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Although it is a harsh and dangerous environment, it has drawn some of the world's leading

2:08.9

climate scientists to study its ice sheet and look at its effects on the ocean.

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