Introducing Master Plan: Legalizing Corruption

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re sharing an excerpt of the first episode of The Lever's new investigative series Master Plan, which was recently named a must-listen by The Guardian and Apple Podcasts.

In each episode of Master Plan, The Lever’s David Sirota and his team of journalists expose the secret scheme that legalized corruption for the wealthy. With the help of never-before-reported documents, they look back at where this plot began, how it is accelerating in the 2024 election - and how it can be stopped.

In this epic tale, you’ll learn things you never knew about icons like President Richard Nixon, Senator Mitch McConnell, Fox News founder Roger Ailes, and Supreme Court justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. You’ll learn how their master plan to legalize corruption affects you and your family - and undermines American democracy today.

Listen now to the full first episodes of Master Plan and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	This is an American issue.
0:02.0	This is a bribery.
0:04.8	Don't let it stand.
0:06.4	This corruption is an American issue.
0:08.2	We live in a corrupt nation.
0:10.1	A nation corrupt to its bones.
0:12.6	We have reached a saturation point of corruption at the federal level.
0:17.4	It is corrosive on society because nobody has any trust or believe
0:22.7	or puts any legitimacy in our institutions anymore.
0:27.0	When I say the word corrupt, what jumps into your mind?
0:30.9	Maybe you think about a file on your computer's hard drive not working or the blue screen of death. The
0:36.8	file has been corrupted. The TX has corrupted my system.
0:43.4	Maybe you think of some faraway regime
0:45.7	on the other side of the world,
0:47.3	where government officials get rich
0:49.3	while everyone else starves.
0:51.2	Somalia has held the title of being one of the world's most corrupt countries for the past
0:56.1	decade.
0:57.1	Maybe you think of something from pop culture, like the Nevada senator and the godfather
1:01.4	demanding a bribe from the Corleone family.
1:04.0	Or maybe you think of the wire's walking bribery machine, Clay Davis.
1:08.0	Shee...
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