Runs the Sports Program spoke in washington about ideas for dealing with corruption. The commission of security and cooperation in europe, an hour and 10 minutes. Hello welcome to this briefing of the us helsinki commission. The commission is a unique entity of Congress Mandated to monitor compliance with International Rules and standards across europe ranging from military affairs to economic and environmental issues, to human rights. My name is paul up to 12. Im the International Economic policy advisor responsible for anticorruption and sanctions related issues which i am joined by jim walden, the attorney for russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov. For this book into the dark underworld of fraud in sports and what we can do with it. As an administrative aside i would like to mention the camera crew recording the briefing and its entirety. Our topic today is the russian doping scandal. A story of corruption and fraud on an unprecedented scale. It has been demonstrated beyon
Been covering the story. The Baltimore Police department is now involved in one of the biggest scandals in u. S. Law enforcement history for months now the court system has been trying to investigate corruption within the citys police force eight officers are on trial over Drug Trafficking racketeering robbery and planting fake evidence like drugs and. We would create false reports to cover up the robberies we were involved in. It was like aware if life were got away with a lot of things if Proven Guilty the officers and may face twenty to one hundred years in prison and six of them have already pleaded guilty and are now acting as witnesses in hopes of softening the moving verdict and their lawyers claim the officer still feel to over what theyve done mr jenkins is extremely remorseful hes been remorseful for a long time even before these charges were brought and hes relieved that today finally he was publicly able to accept responsibility for their clients sorry for what they did for
I am join today by jim walden, the attorney for russian doping whistle whistleblowerrer, for this work into the dark underworld of fraud in sports and what we can do about it. As an administrative aside, would like to mention that camera crews are permitted to record the briefing in its entirety. Our topic today is a russian doping scandal, a story of corruption and fraud on an unprecedented scale. It has now been demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the russian state was behind a systemic effort to dope their athletes and defraud the olympics. No one can say how deep this rabbit hole goals and how long these corrupt practices have gone on. But what we can say is that it is a microcomp of the conflicts playing out road the world. As clean athletes compete against cheaters, so do legitimate business men face off against oligarchs and governmented based on the rule of law do battle with authoritarian kleptocrats and must like at the loamics, without the benefit of the transparency,
Along with hall of famer holly mcpeak, i am chris marlowe. 16 elite volleyball teams started in the tournament and now we are down to two. Its the classic. Brazil and the United States. We will talk about franco and talita. They won seven times. And they made it to the finals, to beat walkenhorst and beat the rest in canada and germany. And april ross and Lauren Fendrick playing their best volleyball here in 2017. Long time friends, both veterans, new Team Together but really hitting their stride. Their asices road to the finals, they defeated the rest of the field, including Kerri Walsh Jennings and Nicole Branagh to get to the final. Brazil and the United States. Lets get it started. It will be the best two out of three sets. Two sets to 21. Third set if necessary to 15. And the first big is a good one by Lauren Fendrick. The United States in red and blue and there is walsh with the dive. No, its not going to come up. Interesting starting off on larissa, the american, going to test l
Along with hall of famer holly mcpeak, i am chris marlowe. 16 elite volleyball teams started in the tournament and now we are down to two. Its the classic. Brazil and the United States. We will talk about franco and talita. They won seven times. And they made it to the finals, to beat walkenhorst and beat the rest in canada and germany. And april ross and Lauren Fendrick playing their best volleyball here in 2017. Long time friends, both veterans, new Team Together but really hitting their stride. Their asices road to the finals, they defeated the rest of the field, including Kerri Walsh Jennings and Nicole Branagh to get to the final. Brazil and the United States. Lets get it started. It will be the best two out of three sets. Two sets to 21. Third set if necessary to 15. And the first big is a good one by Lauren Fendrick. The United States in red and blue and there is walsh with the dive. No, its not going to come up. Interesting starting off on larissa, the american, going to test l