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Join host Alexandra Addison-Wrage, President & Founder of TRACE, on Bribe, Swindle or Steal as she explores the world of financial crime—corruption, fraud, money laundering and sanctions—and what motivates people to break the law, how wrongdoers cover their tracks and what can be done to put a stop to the looting through interviews with experts in the field.
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Leah Ambler, Director, Corruption Prevention at the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity and former Legal Analyst at the OECD, joins the podcast—in her personal capacity—to discuss her excellent chapter on Whistleblower Protections. Leah discusses the importance of whistleblower protections to reducing corruption and the challenges inherent in these protections in the absence of comprehensive, harmonized legislation.
This episode was originally published on 12 January 2022.
Retired Canadian Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell joins the podcast to describe the review he was commissioned to undertake of Hockey Canada&rsquos organizational structure in the aftermath of a sexual assault scandal that shook confidence in the sport in 2018.
In his mid-20s,Chuck Collinsmade a fateful choice. The great-grandson of Oscar Meyer, and thus an heir to part of the meatpacker&rsquos family fortune, Chuck was skeptical of the riches (some $500,000 in 1986 dollars). He didn&rsquot want to perpetuate the imbalances he saw dynastic wealth creating in society. Rather than live off the interest, or to give a portion to charity, Chuck gave away the entire inheritance, and thus embarked on a most unusual sort of normal life.
In this episode, Chuck explains what reverberations his decision to give away his inheritance had on his family and in his career, and he lays out his case to other similarly privileged Americans: Why life is better without the insulation that great wealth provides, and how billionaires can rejoin American life.
Chuck Collins is the director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at theInstitute for Policy Studies, where he edits Inequality.org. He is also a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires, a group of high-net-worth Americans who advocate for public policies&mdashincluding higher taxes on the wealthy&mdashmeant to rein in the political power of the richest Americans. His prolific writings focus on inequality, the racial wealth divide, philanthropy, the climate crisis, and billionaire wealth dynasties. His forthcoming book,"Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power and Ruining Our Lives and Planet"will be published in 2025.
The sudden ascent of Mohammed bin Salman from an obscure royal heir to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia&mdashthe country&rsquos de facto ruler&mdashhas fascinatedJonathan Rugman, an author and longtime correspondent in the Middle East. Jonathan&rsquos latest BBC documentary,&ldquoThe Kingdom&rdquo,traces MBS&rsquos life from an unruly youth to a series of Machiavellian maneuvers to cut ahead of cousins and uncles in the line of royal succession. Jonathan&rsquos reporting illuminates a brash but secretive young autocrat whose wealth and power have few equals anywhere on the planet. After years of high-profile murder, jailings, and crackdowns, a formidable question remains: What more does MBS want?
Jonathan Rugman is a Visiting Lecturer in the journalism department at City, University of London, who has reported from some 50 countries during his 30-year journalism career. He is the author of&ldquoAtaturk&rsquos Children &ndash Turkey and the Kurds&rdquoand&ldquoThe Killing in the Consulate&rdquo , in which he investigated the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. His numerous awards include a BAFTA for his coverage of the Paris terror attacks of 2015.
For more than 20 years, Paul Schervish surveyed many of the richest people in America for a long-running study on how the wealthy view the world and themselves. In this episode, Paul explains how his research and his early years spent as a priest inform his understanding of wealth and its potential to improve the world. Applying sociological and religious scholarship to the question of how what to do with money&mdashand by extension, what to do with the rich&mdashhe invites haves and have-nots alike to consider the roles that God, human agency, and spiritual fulfillment play in our material lives.
Paul Schervish is a former Jesuit priest and a professor emeritus at Boston College, where he directed the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy. A prolific scholar and author, his books include &ldquoThe Structural Determinants of Unemployment&rdquo, &ldquoWealth in Western Thought: The Case for and Against Riches", &ldquoGospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray their Lives&rdquo, and &ldquoThe Will of God and Wealth: Discerning the Use of Riches in the Service of Ultimate Purpose&rdquo.
Sir William Browder (&ldquoBill&rdquo), a financier turned justice advocate, is our nextguest in the series. Bill has been the engine behind the Magnitsky Act, a law that for the past 12 years has empowered governments to seize the assets of foreign leaders who abuse human rights&mdasha significant countermeasure against corruption and atrocity that has exasperated Vladimir Putin and oligarchs in Russia, where Bill was once a leading foreign investor. His experience working in (and subsequently abandoning) Russia allowed him to see inside that culture and economy, and have led him to conclude Putin&rsquos military conquests as a dictator&rsquos efforts to protect his unfathomable stolen wealth&mdashand his own neck.Bill Browder is the founder ofHermitage Capital Management, a firm that became the top foreign investor in post-Soviet Russia. For nearly 20 years he has been the target of Russian prosecution efforts that have drawn round condemnation from the international community, as he continues to promote the rule of law and denounce the regime of Vladimir Putin. He&rsquos the author of&ldquoRed Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice&rdquoand&ldquoFreezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath&rdquo.
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