Welcome back to the podcast, Brib, Swindle, or Steel. I'm Alexandra Rogge, and today for our podcast,

we have the complete recording of United States Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's talk

delivered at the Trace

Forum in Washington this month.

Please join me in welcoming Mr. Rosenstein.

Thank you very much, Alexander. I like the way you put that mission of Trace,

and I'm glad to join in that mission.

It's fitting that one of my final speeches, this Deputy Attorney General, is about promoting compliance and preventing corruption.

I started my legal career as a public corruption prosecutor in 1990. I planned to spend a few years representing the United States before entering the private

sector.

That was almost 30 years ago.

When people talk about the revolving door between government and the private sector, that

door never revolved for me.

It was one way in and it will be one way out.

But there are many good reasons to work for the United States government.

The work that you do fighting corruption and creating a fair opportunity for honest American

citizens who work hard and play by the rules, that is why I came here in the first place.

Your work also resonates with me because I attended an undergraduate business school,

where I studied management, marketing, accounting, and finance. I had planned to put those skills to use in corporate America. Law enforcement took me in a different direction, but understanding business remains central to my work.

Financial expertise is important to prosecutors because you need to comprehend transactions

in order to understand when they're fraudulent.

And familiarity with the practical needs of doing business

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