Good afternoon. My name is armando trull, Senior Reporter withwamufm, top ratednpr station in the country. I would like to welcome you to whats sure to be an exciting conversation about corruption in Central America, the United States, and elsewhere. I will be moderating this conversation and you will have an opportunity to ask questions once the panelists are finished. First, sarah chayes, a senior fellow here at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, author of this report, one corruption is an operating system and using honduras as a case study. To add perspective to this conversation, Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University school of law, the author of corruption in america and she is also an attorney on the emoluments lawsuit against president trump. So, corruption as an operating system. What does that mean . What yeah. What am i talking about . Exactly. Would you mind yeah. So we have a picture but fundamentally what im talking about here is not corrupti
I will be monitoring this conversation and you will have a chance to ask questions. First, a senior fellow here at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is the author of this report, when corruption is an operating system. Shes using honduras as the case study. To add to the conversation, we have the author of corruption in america. She is also an attorney in the loss of filed against president trump. So, corruption as an operating system. What does that mean . Yeah, what am i talking about . Exactly. So, would you mind we have a picture. Fundamentally what i am talking about here is not corruption as that some practices members of government indulge in, in some countries a lot of government officials might indulge in this, but you know, the way we normally think about it is sort of like i dont know, like a disease that creeps in and infects the tissues of government. Int ive been seeing honduras turned that to be a really clear example of it. Network, anding a a network
Good good afternoon, my name is armando Senior Reporter with wmu 88. 5 news, the top rated npr station in the country. On behalf of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace i would like to welcome you to what is sure to be an interesting and exciting conversation about corruption in sent tall america, the United States and elsewhere. I will be moderating this conversation and you will have an opportunity to ask questions once the panelists are finished. First, sara chase, she is a senior fellow here at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she is the author of this report when corruption is an operating system and she is using anguras as the case study. To add some perspective to this discussion we have a law professor at Fordham University school of law. She is the author of corruption in america and she is also an attorney on the amaluments lawsuit filed against president donald trump. So corruption as an operating system what does that mean . Yeah, what am i talking
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