100Reporters
INN Member since 2011
Washington, District of Columbia
20001
United States of America
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NY Ethics: It Takes a Fed
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announcing new ethics legislation for public officials, June 2011. / OFFICIAL PHOTO One could be forgiven for thinking that the New York State Legislature was a criminal enterprise. It had its mafioso style assemblyman, Democrat Tony Seminerio, telling a prospective “client” that he would “bury” him unless he paid off. It had entrepreneurs...
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New State Ethics Law Tougher, but Doubts on Enforcement Persist
Under New York State’s new ethics law, state legislators will have to disclose their clients in outside businesses, or those whose interests they represent on legislation. The law also demands they name clients that receive grants or contracts from the state, or which are parties in proceedings before state agencies. Legislators who are attorneys have to disclose more about the clients their...
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Commentary: Facing Down the Mafia
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, judges whose deaths at the hand of Italy's mafia spurred passage of what is possibly the world's toughest asset seizure law. / CORIERRE DELLA SERA. Casal di Principe, a small hamlet 12 miles north of Naples, lies in a corner of Italy known, sadly, more for organized crime than for the delicious mozzarella goat cheese it exports worldwide. But Casal...
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Laughing ‘Til it Hurts
In Mexico, “we have a whole vocabulary that tries to normalize corruption,” Javier Treviño-Rangel told 100Reporters. “For instance, ‘That is how we do things here. It could be worse. Everybody does it. As long as it does not affect me,’ and so on.” Indeed, Mexican humor has also contributed to that vocabulary. Take the popular Mexican saying “Hidalgo’s year,” mistakenly traced in the popular...
