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Making a Killing

Hudson Institute

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...

Episodes

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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...

00:30:55Apr 7, 2022

39 | 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...

00:36:11Mar 31, 2022

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...

00:39:00Mar 10, 2022

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...

00:25:06Mar 1, 2022

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...

00:39:40Feb 22, 2022

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...

00:44:41Feb 3, 2022

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...

00:28:14Jan 27, 2022

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...

00:48:53Jan 21, 2022

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...

00:44:14Jan 6, 2022

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...

00:36:00Dec 17, 2021

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...

00:37:07Dec 7, 2021

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...

00:41:44Nov 18, 2021

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...

00:39:56Nov 11, 2021

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...

00:30:55Nov 4, 2021

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) -...

00:37:04Oct 28, 2021

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...

00:29:56Oct 14, 2021

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...

00:47:25Oct 7, 2021

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...

00:38:47Sep 30, 2021

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...

00:45:41Sep 23, 2021

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...

00:40:47Sep 16, 2021