Anything to avoid mentioning the corruption parked on the backs of Americans like a truck.
Shouldn’t we concentrate more on corruption in Mexico?
HEY! Look over there. Corruption over there.
[did they stop looking at us yet?]
I have never laughed out loud at a headline but by Golly that one was laugh out loud funny. And sad.
“...One authority estimates that 20 percent of the Russian economy is skimmed by graft and a lot of that by government officials....”
Near as I can tell, that’s about 30% lower than that of our “gubmit”.
It only took SeeBS News 70 years to see that Russia was a dishonest corrupt place!
Gee, CBS was always talking about what a great place Russia was and how great the Russian leaders were. Now they finally admit there was some corruption 10 to 15 years ago which they did not report on back then.
CBS has also refused to report on the increasing corruption in the U.S. They are pathetic.
hey look! another hit piece directed at Russia due to their opposition to homo propaganda inflicted on children
what’s wrong with those Russians? they must be forced to allow little Johnny the wonderment of uncle franks summer camping trip with the boys
/sarc
Sorry, CBS. You have no credibility.
” Most Transparent Administration Ever” !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGNgDStJfzs
We have the most corruption we have the Democrat party and nobody can top that.
CBS? CBS News? They want to expose corruption in Russia?
I would think the Pulitzer brass ring would be a lot lower on the tree in Washington District of Corruption.
Only 20%? I guess the Russians are just jealous of the Washington racket that skims upwards of 50% of the GDP for legal plunder through taxes and cronyism. Even the mafia types would be jealous of the fed “protection” shakedown racket.
The moneylines of the interview:
Scott Pelley: How did it make sense to you to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into these companies if you knew that the management was stealing from the bottom line?
Bill Browder: We said to ourselves if we can own them cheap on a profit after stealing basis and we can stop the stealing then they’ll be even cheaper and therefore we can make a lot of money.
Scott Pelley: Stopping the stealing was a way of padding your bottom line?
Bill Browder: I had the best job in the world which was making money and doing good at the same time. There’s very few jobs that you can actually do that in.
According to Browder, it turned out there were some crooked guys in the Russian tax service—their version of the IRS. Nineteen months after Browder was deported a squad of police raided his office and the offices of his lawyer. The police left with the ownership documents for the companies. Those documents were then used to reincorporate his companies under new owners. Browder says it’s part of a scheme by an organized crime group consisting of tax service bureaucrats, police, bankers and lawyers.
They are pikers when compared to American politicians - perhaps SeeBS should try to expose local corruption...