Both Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn were being investigated for FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT violations.....for some reason, BRIBING FOREIGN OFFICIALS seems acceptable in Massachusetts when it comes to Predatory Gambling....what more will Massachusetts residents, the Attorney General and other officials give a wink and nod?
The first license hasn't even been issued and even the Attorney General is ignoring the theft of $$$$ at Plainridge, just as she ignored the ILLEGAL RAFFLE conducted for many years. What else will we ignore?
Federal authorities have just obtained confidential documents on a program run by JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street’s biggest bank, to hire the children of China’s ruling elite in order to gain business with China’s state-owned companies. It's a serious offense, but how different is this from Wall Street’s ongoing program of hiring departing Treasury Department officials in order to grease the wheels in Washington? JPMorgan may face prosecution under the Foreign Corrupt Practices A...ct, which bars American corporations from making payoffs to foreign officials to get favorable treatment in their countries. But why isn’t there a Domestic Corrupt Practices Act barring American corporations from making payoffs to U.S. officials – campaign donations, payments into political slush funds, implicit promises of future employment – to get favorable treatment here? Why don’t we at least require full disclosure of all corporate political spending and all corporate hires of departing government officials? Because Washington is too corrupt to enact such legislation. Never before has so much corporate and Wall Street money poured into our capital. Never before have so many Washington officials taken jobs in corporations, lobbying firms, trade associations, and on the Street immediately after leaving office. Corruption is corruption and bribery is bribery in whatever country or language it’s transacted in.
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