 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Former Bush Administration Attorney General Michael Mukasey trades in his judicial credibility for a lobbying post with the controversial US Chamber of Commerce, seeking to change anti-corruption laws to redefine "bribery" overseas, reduce transparency and indemnify CEOs from the actions of their employees.
This move comes just as Newt Gingrich's biggest billionaire donor is being investigated under these FCPA statutes for a casino development scandal in Asia but also cost Halliburton hundred of millions in "fines" to extricate Dick Cheney from liability in a Nigerian gas pipeline scandal earlier this year. In an international "race to the bottom" Mukasey is now using all his accumulated clout in DC to argue that the US can be more competitive globally by endorsing payoffs to those in power abroad, or expanding "foreign corrupt practices". |
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