The 2020 Election: An Anti-Corruption and Compliance Perspective
Bribe, Swindle or Steal
Alexandra Addison-Wrage of TRACE International
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🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Today's podcast is an edited version of a recent George Washington University Law School webinar reviewing the Trump Administration's impact on anti-corruption efforts and forecasting the likely impact of either a second Trump or a Biden Administration in January.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the podcast, bribes, swindle, or steel. I'm Alexandra Ragi. And today we're going to listen in on a panel organized by the George Washington Law School. The 2020 elections and anti-corruption and compliance perspective. The panel was moderated by Jessica Tillettman, |
| 0:21.6 | assistant dean at the law school. Good afternoon and welcome to today's webinar, the 2020 |
| 0:26.6 | election and anti-corruption and compliance perspective. My name is Jessica Tillett, and I'm an assistant |
| 0:32.1 | dean here at GW Law School where I teach a course in anti-corruption and compliance. Now to the program, in 11 days, |
| 0:39.1 | Americans will finish voting for the next president of the United States. The outcome of this election |
| 0:44.1 | is uncertain, but one thing is clear. The future anti-corruption and compliance landscape is likely |
| 0:49.1 | to vary dramatically depending on who wins. Today, we have an incredible panel of speakers who will share the predictions |
| 0:55.6 | about what that landscape may look like and also offer some recommendations about where they |
| 1:00.3 | would like to see changes in relevant laws and policies. Noah Bookbinder is the executive director |
| 1:05.5 | of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, also known as crew. My colleague, Randall Eliasson, |
| 1:12.0 | is a professorial lecturer in law at GW Law School where he teaches the white-collar crime course. |
| 1:17.4 | And Alexandra Ragi is the president and founder of Trace International. Noah, first, thanks for |
| 1:22.4 | coming and joining us today. If you could go ahead and provide an assessment of the current |
| 1:27.0 | state of ethics law in the |
| 1:28.4 | United States, that would be fantastic. In a word or a phrase, ethics law is in shambles right now. |
| 1:34.5 | If you had asked me, say, five years ago, I would have certainly said that our campaign finance law |
| 1:42.1 | was deteriorating in the mass. |
| 1:45.0 | I think it's been clear for some time that there are huge problems and gaps in our anti-corruption law. |
| 1:51.0 | But I would have probably, if you'd asked me then, said that our ethics law was pretty good. |
| 1:56.0 | Things seemed to be kind of going okay on that front. |
| 1:59.0 | And I would have been entirely wrong. Because I think what we |
| 2:03.3 | have learned over the past few years is that a lot of the success of our ethics laws and ethics |
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