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Corruption

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What everyone’s forgetting about Paul Manafort Washington Post, 18Sep2018; Diana Pilipenkpo

Michael Cohen, Lanny Davis and the Russian Mafia Rolling Stone, 28Aug2018; Seth Hettena
The Backstory to ‘Better Call Michael Cohen’ You May Have Missed WhoWhatWhy, 22Aug2018; Russ Baker
Manafort helped to destroy Ukraine Washington Post, 17Aug2018; Diana Pilipenkpo
How Corruption Actually Works in Ukraine Atlantic Council, 15Aug2018; Melinda Haring

How Russian Attacks On Democracy & The USA Relate To Cleantech Clean Technica, 27Jul2018; Zachary Shahan
Hungary's Orban denounces EU sanctions on Moscow Yahoo News, 15Jul2018; AFP
Post-Communist Mafia State CEU Press, 2016; Balint Magyar [337-page pdf]
Timeline: How Russian agents allegedly hacked the DNC and Clinton’s campaign Washington Post, 13Jul2018; Philip Bump
Here's How Ukraine's Ousted Government Got Away With $40 Billion BuzzFeed News, 12Jul2018; Tanya Kozyreva and Jason Leopold

Investigators detail Manafort money from Ukrainian corruption, Russian oligarch CNN Politics, 28Jun2018; Katelyn Polantz, Evan Perez

The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia Yale University Press, 01May2018; Mark Galeotti [236-page pdf]
Trump/Russia Melville House, 01May2018; Seth Hettena [168-page pdf]
How Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire New York Times, 05May2018; William Rashbaum

Oligarchs hide billions in shell companies Guardian, 03Apr2018; Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer
Ukraine’s economy still stuck in vicious rent-seeking trap Kyiv Post, 02Apr2018; Anders Aslund
It’s time to go after Vladimir Putin’s money in the West Washington Post, 29Mar2018; Anders Aslund

Secret Empires Harper Collins, 01Mar2018; Peter Schweizer [188-page pdf]
Russian Roulette Hachette Books, 01Mar2018; Michael Isikoff and David Corn [246-page pdf]
Ukraine Government Has Frozen Its Manafort Investigations Daily Beast, 13Mar2018; Anna Nemtsova
A new report contains bombshell details about Christopher Steele Business Insider, 05Mar2018; Michal Kranz
Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier New Yorker, 12Mar2018; Jane Mayer

Rick Gates pleads guilty to lying and conspiracy CNBC, 23Feb2018; Kevin Breuninger
Mueller’s Move on Ex-Skadden Lawyer Puts Heat on Manafort, Gates Bloomberg, 20Feb2018; David Voreacos and Stephanie Baker
Robert S. Mueller: Special Counsel of the Department of Justice USA
The German Woman at the Center of the Manafort Case Der Spiegel, 09Feb2018; Rafael Buschmann
Corruption, lobbyism and the rule of law Communist and Post-Communist Studies, xxx (2017) 1e12; Taras Kuzio

Trump Administration attempts to discredit the FBI and the Steele Dossier WillZuzak.ca, 03Feb2018; Will Zuzak
The Plot Against America The Atlantic, 29Jan2018; Franklin Foer (re Paul Manafort)
Russian Organized Crime in North America in the mid-1990's [email protected], 28Jan2018; Will Zuzak [50-page pdf]
USA20180110RussiaCorruptionReport.pdf [206-page pdf]
Fire and Fury Little, Brown, 2018; Michael Wolff [237-page pdf]
McMafia Vintage, 2008; Misha Glenny [314-page pdf]

Ukraine Needs U.S. Help to Fight Corruption Foreign Policy, 04Jan2018; Michael Carpenter

NABU: An independent National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine [email protected], 29Dec2017; Will Zuzak
The night when Ukraine almost lost its visa-free regime with the EU Euromaidan Press, 09Dec2017; Serhiy Sydorenko, [2] Ukrainian
How to Stand Up to the Kremlin Foreign Affairs, 05Dec2017; Joseph Biden and Michael Carpenter

Collusion Vintage Books, 01Nov2017; Luke Harding [225-page pdf]

Items in pdf format associated with corruption:
[W.Z. 2018.01.27 -- Since so many articles and books on corruption have recently appeared to which there is often no corresponding html file, I have decided to list them below in inverse chronological order.]

Magyar2016HungaryMafiaState.pdf [337-pages, 5.4 MB; Viktor Orban transforms Hungary into a Mafia State] -- [html liink]
Galeotti20180501VoryRussiaSuperMafia.pdf [236-pages, 6.0 MB; history of Russian-based Organized Crime (RBOC).] -- [html link]
Hettena20180501TrumpRussia.pdf [168-pages, 3.2 MB; multitude of connections between Donald Trump and Russia over the years.] -- [html.link]
Schweizer20180301SecretEmpires.pdf [188-pages, 2.6 MB; wheeling-dealings of the John Kerry, Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell families.] -- [html link]
Isikoff20180301RussianRoulette.pdf [246-pages, 1.8 MB; backround and progress of Mueller's investigation into 2016 election campaign] -- [html link]
Nunes20180129(SteeleDossier)Memo.pdf [6-pages, 1.2 MB; Congressman Devin Nunes' "Memo"] -- [html link]
Grassley20180125(SteeleDossier)6Letters.pdf [6x4pages, 12.7 MB; Senators Grassley and Graham] -- [html link]

USA20180110RussiaCorruptionReport.pdf [206-pages, 0.65 MB; by Senate Committee on Foreign Relations] --[external link , html link]
Wolff2018FireAndFury.pdf [237-pages, 1.7 MB; "fly-on-the-wall" observations of Donald Trump's election campaign and presidency] -- [html link]

Harding20171101Collusion.pdf [225-pages, 4.4 MB; Steele Dossier = Fusion GPS, Page, election, Flynn, Manafort, Trump, Mueller] -- [html link]

Mueller/Mueller20171027ManafortIndictment.pdf [31-pages, 1.2 MB -- Indictment of Paul Manafort] -- [html link]
Go to Mueller/Mueller.html -- for listing of pdf files associated with the Robert Mueller investigations.

Simpson20171114HouseInterview.pdf [165-pages 31.8 MB -- House Interview of Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS] -- [html link , external link]
Simpson20170822SenateInterview.pdf [312-pages, 0.82 MB -- Senate Interview of Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS] -- [html link , external link]
Browder2017RedNotice.pdf [118-pages, 1.8 MB; Bill Browder's life story leading to Magnitsky Act] -- [html link]

ICJ20170419UkraineRussia.pdf [38-pages, 0.3 MB -- Ukraine v. Russian Federation re terrorism] -- [html link]
Galeotti20170418RussianOrganizedCrime.pdf [12-pages, 1.4 MB -- Russian-Based Organized Crime (RBOC)] -- [html link]

ConfidentialReport2016TrumpKremlin.pdf [35-pages, 19.1 MB --Steele Dossier published by BuzzFeed on 10Jan2017]
judah20161020KleptocracyCurse.pdf [32-pages, 0.8 MB -- "We see the kleptocrats' curse most clearly in Ukraine."] -- [html link]
Obermayer20160501PanamaPapers.pdf [283-pages, 1.6 MB -- The Panama Papers] -- [html link]

Koshiw2013AbuseOfPower.pdf [279-pages, 1.4 MB --Corruption in the Office of the President] -- [html link]
Glenny2008McMafia.pdf [314-pages, 3.6 MB; McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld] -- [html link]
Ivankov19950331WiretapAffidavit.pdf [50-pages, 4.6 MB; United States District Court | 31Mar1995 | Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov] -- [html link]

Articles on corruption archived in Miscellaneous:

The night when Ukraine almost lost its visa-free regime with the EU Euromaidan Press, 09Dec2017; Serhiy Sydorenko, [2] Ukrainian
How to Stand Up to the Kremlin Foreign Affairs, 05Dec2017; Joseph Biden and Michael Carpenter
Canada Adopts Version of Magnitsky Law, Shuns Global Outlaws World Affairs, 20Oct2017; Vladimir Kara-Murza
Schooled in Scandal: What Makes Ukraine a Hotbed of Intrigue New York Times, 07Oct2017; Andrew Higgins
Arms-Washing: Ukraine Network Moves Embargoed European Arms OCCRP, 25Sep2017; Graham Stack
This Is How the Russian Kleptocracy Operates Esquire, 27Jul2017; Charles Pierce
Jared Kushner sealed real estate deal with oligarch's firm cited in money-laundering case Guardian, 24Jul2017; Wendy Dent et al
Russian Lawyer’s‘Trump Mission' was to Dump Magnitsky Act World Affairs, 14Jul2017; Vladimir Kara-Murza
Crimintern: How the Kremlin uses Russia’s criminal networks in Europe ECFR, 18Apr2017; Mark Galeotti
The Curious World of Donald Trump’s Private Russian Connections American Interest, 09Jan2017; James Henry
A kleptocratic coalition of clans has captured the Ukrainian state Kyiv Post, 29Dec2016; Taras Kuzio
The Kleptocracy Curse: Rethinking Containment Hudson Institute, 20Oct2016; Tim Judah
My list of dirty deals Kyiv Post, 17Jun2016; Serhii Leshchenko
The Panama Papers 01May2016, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier