Paul Massaro on the United States’ Latest Efforts to Combat Corruption

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On June 3, President Biden issued a national security memorandum that established the “Fight Against Corruption” as a core national security interest for the United States. The memo described the staggering costs of corruption, with it being “estimated that acts of corruption sap between 2 and 5 percent from global gross domestic product.” The memo also directed U.S. officials to develop a comprehensive presidential strategy focused on anti-corruption.

Alvaro Marañon sat down with Paul Massaro, the senior policy advisor for counter-kleptocracy at the Helsinki Commission, to speak about the United States government's latest anti-corruption efforts following the June memo. They discussed the latest developments in the efforts to combat corruption, details around the first-ever presidential strategy on anti-corruption and the kinds of messages these unified efforts send to other authoritarian regimes beyond Russia.

For more on this topic, consider watching “Countering Oligarchs, Enablers, and Lawfare,” a hearing on Wednesday, April 6, at 2:30 p.m., hosted by the Helsinki Commission.

Disclaimer: Paul Massaro serves on the staff of the U.S. Helsinki Commission. The views expressed here are his own and do not represent an official position of the U.S. government.

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1:01.3	for dogs.
1:08.5	For the longest time, we've been stuck in this almost country-centric idea of corruption.
1:14.0	This has perpetuated a lot by kind of like transparency international's corruption perceptions
1:18.0	index.
1:19.0	This idea that corruption is something that countries have, there are corrupt countries,
1:21.9	and there are sort of clean transparent countries.
1:25.5	This is not a good way to think about corruption in the lot of it.
1:29.0	All of corruption is connected.
1:30.7	Corruption is really, one needs to think about it more in the form of corrupt networks
1:34.4	that transition through different countries.
1:37.3	Corrupt networks will include a single network.
1:40.2	Just a single network will include a CCP operative, a Russian oligarch, a German businessman,
1:45.9	a British lawyer and an American lobbyist.
1:48.7	All in one network that will all be working together essentially with different goals.
1:54.2	I'm Alvaro Maranyom, and this is the Lawford Podcast, April 5, 2022.
2:01.4	On June 3, President Biden issued a National Security Memorandum that established the fight
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