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    Government corruption can be defined as political power used by government leaders for private gain and to maintain their power as a government official. Most of the times these corrupt politicians say they are doing their best in order to catch criminals when, in reality, they commit just as many crimes. They are able to maintain their power because most people do not vote because they think they will not make a difference and the politicians have under the table deals so people vote for them.…

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    between firm’s growth and corruption: if bribery rate is increased by 1%, the growth rate will be decreased by 3%. Fisman and Svensson also found that taxation has a weaker effect on firm’s growth: a 1% increase in tax rate leads to a 1% decrease in firm’s growth rate. To increase the relationship between firm’s growth rate and corruption, Fisman and Svensson ran their model without the outliers: there were four firms that happened to have extremely high bribery rates. Without the…

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    The city of Chicago, Illinois has a long standing reputation of bribery and corruption throughout elected and non-elected officials in government positions and business agreements involving said officials. The government powers and even the local police forces all took place in bribery and secret agendas and agreements, especially in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Men like Peter V. Pappas lead the corruption in the cement industry while others were involved in everything from property tax fraud and…

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    Xanic von Bertrab exposed a large scale series of bribes involving Wal-Mart de Mexico and the construction of a Wal-Mart store near the ancient pyramid ruins of Teotihuacán (1). The Pulitzer Prize winning exposé detailed example after example of bribery and corruption that was ignored by the Wal-Mart headquarters (2). In 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received information from a former executive (Sergio Cicero Zapata) of Wal-Mart de Mexico. B. Background Based on the email and subsequent…

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    also receive legal advice from a reputable law firm in Malaysia regarding the legality of the Mayor’s offer, and if accepting the offer would constitute an offense under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the U.K. Bribery Act. If it does constitute bribery, then the best option for Mr. Chong would be to reject the mayor’s offer and proceed through formal channels to get the zoning approval (Inkpen,…

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    middlemen between corporations and public officials and actually facilitating bribes. Barstow describes these actors as essential the “Mexico’s endless loop of public corruption scandals.” In an NPR interview (2012), journalist Eduardo Garcia discusses bribery as the “modus operandus” in Mexico with it being used to expedite standard business processes, especially when opening new businesses. Archibold (2012) discusses similar findings, while also discussing the occurring bribes paid to health…

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    authorities who have indicted FIFA officials. A British journalist who exposed FIFA’s corruption was interviewed by CBS news on 60 minutes. Andrew Jennings started investigating FIFA 20 years ago. He followed some of the top executives and uncovered that bribery was a common form of practice within the organization. FIFA’s purpose is to regulate and promote the most popular sport in the world: international football or soccer. Instead, FIFA has been operating as an organized crime for the past…

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    WHEN IN ROME Case Study 2 Alexander Gavin, Senior Project Manager for Kuwait’s EL Sahd Construction Company, is presented with an opportunity and dilemma packaged together in the same proposal. While making a thirty million dollar bid to subcontract a new Iranian project, bid taker Ajax Ltd told him the job was El Sahd’s, if Gavin was willing to pay to play. Ajax’s manager informed Gavin that he would need to increase his company’s bid to $33 million in order to secure the job, with the…

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    Any client operating within Canada and any other international markets needs to be well-informed of the anti-corruption legislation, and of the CFPOA in particular. Offenses of this act can be punishable to jail time and fines, which is up to the discretion of the court. Along with criminal penalties, companies or corporations who are in violation of the CFPOA may be disqualified from federal government contracts in Canada, and from foreign government contracts financed by international…

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    What makes an average judge decide to turn corrupt? How many courtrooms follow corrupt practices? What can the impact be when judges lack a sense of public duty? It may be difficult to find the answers to questions that provoke so much guilt, but finding them means relief. Relief for Americans who do not trust rulings and need help to understand them, or receive another hearing. The grandest moment in recent corruption history for the United States government dates back to the 1960’s when…

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