40 | Sanctioning Russia’s War Crimes in Ukraine
Former US Treasury Assistant Secretary and FATF President Marshall Billingslea joins Nate Sibley to discuss the need for American leadership...
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Making a Killing
Making a Killing explores how corruption is reshaping global politics, and fueling some of the most deadly security threats facing the world today - from the battlefields of Afghanistan and...
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20 of 41 episodes39 | Yuen Yuen Ang on Corruption within China’s "Gilded Age"
How did China sustain meteoric economic growth amid vast corruption? Yuen Yuen Ang joins Nate Sibley to explore what powers China’s crony ca...
Ep. 38 | Foreign Lobbying Loopholes with Anna Massoglia
Authoritarian regimes spend significant sums trying to influence politics within the US and other democracies. Anna Massoglia of Open Secret...
Ep. 37 | Russia and Ukraine with Thomas Firestone
What role has corruption played in shaping Russia and Ukraine’s diverging paths in recent decades? Thomas Firestone, a former DOJ lawyer pos...
Ep. 36 | Hitting Putin’s Wallets
Casey, Paul and Nate discuss whether targeting Russian oligarchs can help deter Putin’s escalating aggression against Ukraine, and whether i...
Ep. 35 | Ed Lucas on Fortifying Britain’s Democracy Against Kleptocracy
Paul Massaro talks to Edward Lucas about the outsized role of Britain in laundering the world’s ill-gotten gains, particularly from China an...
Ep. 34 | Deterring Putin with Marshall Billingslea
As the White House warns of an “imminent” attack on Ukraine, former US Treasury Assistant Secretary Marshall Billingslea joins Nate Sibley t...
Ep. 33 | Defending Ukraine and Punishing Putin with Peter Rough
Hudson senior fellow Peter Rough joins Paul Massaro and Nate Sibley to discuss US policy options for deterring further Russian aggression ag...
Ep. 32 | China’s Serial Censorship
Paul Massaro talks to Dr. Andreas Fulda about how the CCP leverages its market to silence academics and other critics. The two discuss the c...
Ep. 31 | Putin’s Killer Kleptocracy is on Ukraine's Doorstep
Paul talks to Russian opposition politician and economist Vladimir Milov about Putin’s troop build-up on the border of Ukraine and how that...
Special | Ep. 30: A New Era for US Efforts Against Kleptocracy with Josh Rudolph
The new US Strategy on Countering Corruption was released hours before the Summit for Democracy and promises to rewrite the rulebook on glob...
Ep. 29: American Kleptocracy with Casey Michel
Casey talks to Nate and Paul about his debut book, which chronicles the rise of US financial secrecy through the colorful stories of two fam...
Ep. 28: How Corruption Drives Climate Change
Casey, Nate and Paul discuss the kleptocrats at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the role of bribery in driving en...
Ep. 27: Real Estate Laundromat
Casey speaks with Lakshmi Kumar, policy director at Global Financial Integrity, about the damaging - and deadly - consequences of money laun...
Ep. 26: Rethinking Sanctions
- How U.S. Sanctions Take a Hidden Toll on Russian Oligarchs (Washington Post) - Biden Might Stop a Sanctions Revolution (Foreign Policy) -...
Ep. 25: Pandora Papers Fallout
Casey, Nate and Paul discuss the biggest stories emerging from Azerbaijan, Chile, Czech Republic, Pakistan and elsewhere, amid calls for hei...
Ep. 24: Inside the Pandora Papers with Miranda Patrucic
Miranda Patrucic, a senior Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project journalist who worked on the Pandora Papers, explains how she fo...
Ep. 23: Hunter Biden’s Anonymous Art Problem and China’s Hostage Diplomacy
Casey, Paul and Nate discuss why Hunter Biden’s plan to auction his artwork to anonymous bidders engages serious money laundering risks, wha...
Ep. 22: Kleptocracy With Chinese Characteristics
Matt Schrader and Paul Massaro discuss the nature of corruption in the Chinese Communist Party and how that corruption underpins its rule in...
Ep. 21: Germany’s Dirty Money Addiction and Canada’s Real Estate Scandal
Paul, Casey and Nate discuss Germany’s problematic relationship with authoritarian capital, how money laundering gutted Vancouver’s real est...