- Russian govt passes bill to legalize corruption https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-parliament-bill-accidental-corruption-approved/31145140.html 212 comments worldnews
- Donald Trump Took Advantage of the US’s Legalized Corruption https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/donald-trump-legalized-corruption-supreme-court/ 10 comments politics
- Trump Tried to Legalize Bribery. Maybe He Wasn’t Worried About Ukrainian Corruption. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/report-trump-tried-legalize-bribery-ukraine-impeachment-corruption.html 16 comments politics
- Alabama Republicans Want to Legalize Political Corruption. I Am Not Shitting You. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27058946/alabama-state-senate-corruption-laws/?fbclid=iwar1fenugek0n82byomhr0fov7jrdxt0hru6ahkv6dwu-m2llottjfqclj30 3 comments politics
- Corruption Legalized via Finance Bill 2017 https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/03/23/finance-bill-2017-youve-just-been-punked 6 comments india
- Trump spokesman says corruption is legal if you do it in the open https://thinkprogress.org/sean-spicer-trump-corruption-legal-if-you-do-it-in-open-bfd620123b5d#.uyjckaf04 99 comments politics
- How the 2016 Election Is Testing the Legal Standard on Corruption http://time.com/4484399/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-corruption/ 10 comments politics
- Cambodia legalizes police corruption http://boingboing.net/2015/07/29/cambodia-legalizes-police-corr.html 14 comments worldnews
- Corruption is Legal in America https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=t10qgublw48&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5tu32cca_ig%26feature%3Dshare 7 comments politics
- Corruption is Legal in America - Princeton study http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig 94 comments politics
- The Supreme Court is poised to legalize corruption http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-supreme-court-poised-to-make-a-bad-situation-worse/2013/10/08/69c40840-3056-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html?hpid=z3 16 comments politics
- It's not Congress. It's legalized corruption. Time to end it. http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2009/11/16/its-not-congress-its-legalized-corruption-time-to-end-it/ 15 comments reddit.com
- Legal pot spawned a wave of corruption, threats and secret financial deals for politicians https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-15/cannabis-corruption-threats-secret-financial-deals-politicians 26 comments economy
- Legal pot spawned a wave of corruption, threats and secret financial deals for politicians https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-15/cannabis-corruption-threats-secret-financial-deals-politicians 17 comments politics
- Swiss legal system helped Russians to launder corruption money https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2020/05/19/85444-the-prosecutor-for-escort 49 comments worldnews
- Legal analyst: Pence's decision looks and feels corrupt https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/09/pence-barr-trump-hotels-cross-exam-honig-nr-vpx.cnn 134 comments politics
- Courting Corruption: The truth about the legal morass created by the controversial Citizens United ruling, and why it matters. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/08/25/courting-corruption/ 4 comments politics
- After AAP names corrupt politicians, Nitin Gadkari sends legal notice to Arvind Kejriwal seeking withdrawal of the list and public apology http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-after-aap-names-corrupt-politicians-nitin-gadkari-sends-legal-notice-to-arvind-kejriwal-seeking-withdrawal-of-the-list-and-public-apology-1958627 26 comments india
- This Supreme Court Case Could Usher In a "System of Legalized Corruption" http://m.motherjones.com/node/236286 3 comments politics
- Ald. Edward Burke’s legal tab is $2.7M and growing as he awaits trial on federal corruption charges https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-ed-burke-legal-bills-chicago-20220108-ghamanth6fgd5adsb6ff4gnbne-story.html 23 comments politics
- Legal Experts Hammer Rudy Giuliani for Admitting to ‘Rank Corruption’ https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/legal-experts-hammer-rudy-giuliani-for-admitting-to-rank-corruption/ 9 comments politics
- The Political Corruption Legalized by the Supreme Court - A litany of naive decisions has enshrined a system in which the rot lives right out in the open. https://newrepublic.com/article/155599/political-corruption-legalized-supreme-court 27 comments politics
- Rangers’ lives would be put at risk if Trump reverses elephant trophy ban: More than a thousand rangers have been killed while protecting elephants – and a corrupted legal market, operating for a few wealthy clients, exacerbates that risk. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/22/rangers-lives-would-be-put-at-risk-if-trump-reverses-elephant-trophy-ban 5 comments worldnews
- Openly atheist Georgia house candidate calls for marijuana legalization - "(my opponent) represents the three most dangerous and politically corrupt American institutions of this century: banks, the religious right, and the Republican party.” http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/183687/openly-atheist-georgia-house-candidate-calls-for-marijuana-legalization/ 123 comments politics
- The 1%: "If Wall Street is corrupt, the correct answer is to use our existing legal system to find the individuals involved and prosecute them." http://www.amerika.org/politics/the-1/ 4 comments politics
- Donald Trump Is Trying to Make Corruption Great Again - Most politicians at least pay lip service to fighting corruption. This week, Trump proved he is trying to make it legal. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/corruption-trump-warren/ 42 comments politics
- Self-declared corruption fighter Trump wants to make it easier to bribe foreign officials. Trump argues he is rooting out foreign corruption while pushing to make it legal to bribe foreign officials https://www.salon.com/2020/01/25/self-declared-corruption-fighter-trump-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-bribe-foreign-officials/ 77 comments politics
- We Just Dumped a Bag of Money on a Congressman -- Here's Why — "He's supposed to regulate the financial sector, and instead he's letting their lobbyists write our laws. It's flagrantly corrupt, and astonishingly legal." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/jim-himes-hr-992-corruption_b_4426121.html 48 comments politics
- A man has won a legal battle in an Australian court after being prosecuted for failing to vote in the 2016 federal election, saying voting would have left him feeling “morally corrupt”. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/20/man-wins-legal-battle-after-arguing-voting-in-2016-election-morally-corrupt 571 comments worldnews
- Rangers’ lives would be put at risk if Trump reverses elephant trophy ban - More than a thousand rangers have been killed in the line of duty over the last decade – and a corrupted legal market, operating for a few wealthy clients, exacerbates that risk. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/22/rangers-lives-would-be-put-at-risk-if-trump-reverses-elephant-trophy-ban 3 comments politics
- China has "crushed" anti-corruption activists, as Communist Party tightens grip. "Chinese citizens [are] increasingly aware of their legal rights, and willing to challenge the government to assert them. The Internet, especially social media, magnified public awareness of abuses." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/world/asia/chinese-activists-test-new-leader-and-are-crushed.html?ref=world 4 comments worldnews
- Legal Corruption: Critics are pointing to the insanely expensive cost of a helicopter part made by a company whose owners are major donors to Republican Representative Harold Rogers http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/us/politics/behind-armys-17000-drip-pan-harold-rogerss-earmark.html 16 comments politics
- KUWAIT: A female political activist and former parliamentary candidate has recommended the introduction of legislation to legalize the provision of enslaved female concubines for Muslim men in Kuwait in a bid, she says, to protect those men from committing adultery or corruption. http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=mzqxnda4nda2 7 comments worldnews
- Most corrupt and legally sanctioned forms of tyranny hide in plain sight as democracies with free elections. Few Americans accept that their government has become a two-party plutocracy. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2908.shtml 60 comments politics
- Steve Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics claims that countries who are legalizing Bitcoin as a tender in its nation could be doing so to partake in corruption. He implies that since BTC has been used for illicit activity, it is not a far-off conclusion to draw. https://coinquora.com/economist-claims-bitcoin-will-power-national-corruption 4 comments btc
- Alan Dershowitz in 2016: Corrupt Donald Trump will violate "international and domestic laws" - A member of Trump's legal team once claimed he was "prepared to violate existing international and domestic laws” https://www.salon.com/2020/01/29/alan-dershowitz-in-2016-corrupt-donald-trump-will-violate-international-and-domestic-laws/ 17 comments politics
- The German football federation opened legal proceedings against Franz Beckenbauer, former members, and FIFA in a bid to limit potential damages arising from the 2006 World Cup corruption affair. http://www.espnfc.us/blog/fifa/243/post/2801635/german-federation-opens-legal-case-against-franz-beckenbauer 5 comments soccer
- Spain: Princess Loses Legal Battle to Avoid Tax Fraud Trial - "Spain's Princess Cristina has lost a legal battle to avoid being tried for tax fraud and is expected to testify next month in a corruption trial also featuring her husband and 16 other defendants, a panel of judges ruled Friday." http://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory/spanish-princess-face-tax-fraud-trial-36591362 15 comments worldnews
- Sick of Money Corrupting Politics? Take the Fight Local. "The best way to counter the dangerous misconception that nothing can be done to stop corruption is to start winning ... by emulating two of the most successful advocacy campaigns of our era: marriage equality and marijuana legalization." http://billmoyers.com/2015/02/23/sick-money-corrupting-politics-take-fight-local/ 135 comments politics
- "Hiding money in the ways & amounts revealed by the 'International Consortium of Investigative Reporters' is a deep kind of social corruption. It goes beyond questions of legality to the heart of modern political economy." Revelations embarrassed govts & exposed rich businesses & individuals. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15812-the-hidden-money 49 comments worldnews