FRONTLINE/World | Outlawing Foreign Bribery | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bribe/ Veteran FRONTLINE reporter Lowell Bergman explains how the U.S. became the first country in the world to make the bribing of foreign officials illegal. The clip is part of an ongoing FRONTLINE and FRONTLINE/World project examining the global impact of bribery and increased international efforts to police corruption, called "The Business of Bribes." The unfolding online investigation will lead up a FRONTLINE documentary, "Black Money," airing April 7 on PBS.

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• corruption
• bribery
• lowell
• bergman
• frontline
• world
• fcpa
• oecd
• investigation
• pbs

[CharAznable]

To me, this is really another telling reason why other countries think people here in the U.S. are nutz. We have the No Bribe Law on the Books and then find ways to get around it. We have anti drug laws then can't enforce them. We have anti immigration laws but keep the Touchdown laws in place (touch down meaning please come here to have a kid and some free services) All the while we are on this treadmill waiting to file a CH 7, the Gov. just pisses our Tax dollars away, I vote no confidence

[justinwlaurab]

If the government is going to be involved in business, you are going to get bribery because it's the only way business (and humanity) can make any progress under that kind of system! See communist Russia. Thank god for bribery there.

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[TheFallenWon]

So what exactly are all the lobbyists doing in Washington? Not only does the bribery of foreign officials still take place, it's business as usual when it comes to domestic affairs as well.

[coreyagraph]

nixon had a staff infection

[Taospark]

It's nice something positive came out of Watergate.