FIFA In Hot Water After Bribery Evidence Emerges
The U.S. was confident it could have won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. They lost to Qatar. But recent evidence seems to show that FIFA officials were bribed to award Qatar with the...
View ArticleHospital CEO Convicted of Bribery
Former hospital CEO David Rosen has been convicted of a scheme to bribe three New York State lawmakers to assist Medisys, the Health Network that includes Jamaica, Flushing and Brookdale...
View ArticleKoch Industries Sold Millions of Dollars of Petrochemical Equipment to Iran
A six-month investigation by Bloomberg Markets magazine into Koch Industries, one of the world's largest privately held companies, has revealed the highly secretive conglomerate paid bribes to...
View ArticleBribery Tales
Swati Ramanathan, co-founder of the Janaagraha Center for Citizenship & Democracy in Bangalore, talks about the website her organization started, "I Paid a Bribe.com," to combat petty corruption...
View ArticleWalmart Responds to Bribery Allegations
Walmart has issued a press release in response to allegations that they bribed Mexican officials.Updated Walmart Statement in Response to Recent New York Times ArticleAbout Compliance with the U.S....
View ArticleWalmart's Mexican Bribery Scandal
Coming up, as more questions are raised in Wal-Mart's Mexican bribery case, what are the best legal, business, and publicity strategies for the retail giant?
View ArticleHome of Walmart HQ Reacts To Bribery Scandal
Apple has Cupertino. Kodak had Rochester. And Walmart, of course, has Bentonville. The retail giant’s recent bribery scandal has the company on the defensive, but what about the company town? To find...
View ArticleCorruption That’s Nobody’s Fault
The giant retailer Wal-Mart, as ubiquitous as it may seem in the United States, is an even larger presence in Mexico, where a fifth of the company’s total number of stores are located. But the New York...
View ArticleHow Corrupt is New York?
Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, and Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, discuss whether or not the recent mayoral race bribery scandal can be seen as an...
View ArticleLong Before His Arrest, Smith's History Held Clues
Two forces have swirled around Queens State Senator Malcolm Smith throughout his career: power and scandal. And they appeared long before his arrest for allegedly trying to bribe his way into this...
View ArticleWiretaps in the Capitol
This week, two bribery scandals rocked New York politics. In one, a sitting State Assemblyman cooperated with federal prosecutors as an informant. And that's got WNYC’s Anna Sale looking into how...
View ArticleHospital CEO Convicted of Bribery
Former hospital CEO David Rosen has been convicted of a scheme to bribe three New York State lawmakers to assist Medisys, the Health Network that includes Jamaica, Flushing and Brookdale...
View ArticleBronx Assemblyman's Bribery Conviction and Other Albany Scandals
On the first formal day of the legislative session Monday, Assemblyman Eric Stevenson was convicted of bribery by a federal jury after he took $20,000 from adult day care developers in exchange for...
View ArticleThe Case Against Sheldon Silver
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's Office is charging the Speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, with five counts of corruption. At issue is $6 million in outside income he received since 2002 —...
View ArticleNYC Building Racket Ends in Fifty Arrests
A two-year investigation into New York City building fraud has culminated in 50 arrests for bribery schemes.The accused include 16 city employees from the Department of Buildings (DOB) and the...
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On the Building Inspection Corruption Scandal
Mark Peters, New York Department of Investigation commissioner, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance talk about the year-long investigation of widespread corruption in the building inspection...
View ArticlePowerful Real Estate Executive Testifies of Skelos' Fury
The first week of testimony in the trial of state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son Adam Skelos concluded on Friday, with one of New York City's most powerful real estate executives telling jurors he feared...
View ArticleDA: NYPD Detective Took Cash to Warn Club Owners About Raids
A New York City police detective has been arrested after authorities say he accepted bribes from club owners to alert them about upcoming police raids. Officials say he also encouraged fellow officers...
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How widespread corruption is hurting Kenya
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now we continue our series Inside Kenya.The World Bank says Kenya is growing faster than any other sub-Saharan African country. But there is one major...
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Ask the Headhunter: Am I being bribed to take a job?
If you secretly take money from a headhunter when you accept a job, that’s unethical.Question: Last year I worked with a headhunter who attempted to place me with a firm in a city about 300 miles away....
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