Bribe, Swindle or Steal
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Bribe, Swindle or Steal
Alexandra Wrage, president of TRACE, interviews luminaries in the field of financial crime, including bribery, fraud, money-laundering, insider trading and sanctions. Each week, Alexandra and her guests will discuss who commits “white collar crime”, how it works and what is being done to stop it.
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Brass Tacks: Would You Call the Government to Make a Disclosure Today? If So, Why?
At the 2025 TRACE Annapolis Forum, Chuck Duross, Global Co-Chair of the FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption Practice at Morrison Foerster, discusses the D...
DOJ’s FCPA Docket: What’s Been Closed, What Continues and What Might That Tell Us for the Next Several Years?
At the 2025 TRACE Annapolis Forum, Billy Jacobson, Partner at Jacobson Lopez, explores the DOJ’s shifting FCPA priorities—from a focus on “grand corru...
Where’s the Cavalry: Global Anti-Corruption Efforts
At the 2025 TRACE Annapolis Forum, Nicola Bonucci, Associate Professor at Paris Cité and former General Counsel of the OECD, reflects on 25 years of t...
Oliver Bullough at the TRACE London Forum
Speaking at the 2022 TRACE London Forum, Oliver Bullough, author of Butler to the World, discusses the UK’s role as an enabler of financial crime, eff...
Corruption, Sanctions and Putin's War Regime
This is a powerful session from the 2022 TRACE London Forum featuring Leonid Volkov, former Chief of Staff to Alexei Navalny and Political Director of...
“Why They Do It”
Eugene Soltes, Author, and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, describes his fascinating research into what motivates whi...
Effective Compliance Training
Karen Benson, Senior Counsel, Legal, at Energizer Holdings, shares a broad range of tips on how to build a targeted, innovative training program that...
DEI Progress and Setbacks: What Compliance Professionals Need to Know
This week’s podcast features an excellent presentation by Misti Mukherjee, founder and managing member of Extensio Law. Misti addresses the shifting...
How Companies Get Caught
Chuck Duross, Global Co-Chair of the FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption Practice at Morrison Foerster, and former head of the DOJ’s FCPA unit, discusses...
The Unaoil Story
Nick McKenzie, award-winning Australian investigative journalist, shares the inside story of his role in exposing the Unaoil scandal.
Th...
Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
Author, academic and former compliance professional, Alison Taylor joins the podcast to talk about her compelling book, "Higher Ground". She describes...
Diana Henriques on Reputation Laundering
Diana Henriques, award-winning journalist and author, discusses the traits of fraudsters and the menace of reputation laundering.
Promoting Facts and Countering Disinformation
Melissa Goldin, a NY-based News Verification Reporter and Editor with The Associated Press analyzes and debunks fake news.
Encouraging and Protecting Whistleblowers
This week, we’re listening in on Alexandra Wrage’s keynote presentation at a Whistleblowers and Public Integrity conference hosted by the Vancouver An...
Daphne Caruana Galizia: Her Work, Her Murder and the Chance for Justice
Paul Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist at the Financial Times and Author of “A Death in Malta”, joins the podcast to talk about the work of...
Collaborative Investigative Journalism Without Borders
At the TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting award ceremony last month, former prosecutor and National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino led a conv...
Maria Ressa on Holding the Line
Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa joins the podcast to talk about corruption, disinformation and how to stand up to a dictator.
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How Corruption Undermines Elections
Dr. Magnus Ohman of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) joins the podcast to discuss how corruption undermines free and fair ele...
Shattered Families, a Refugee Crisis and the United States’ Diminished Reputation as a Beacon to Newcomers
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody describe with passion their work with the International Rescue Committee. They tell us what America as a haven means...
A Syrian-Libyan Human Smuggling Scheme
As Syria struggles to get on its feet after decades under the tyrannical father-son Assad regime, we're revisiting a story from 2024 when those desper...
"Rigged: America, Russia and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference"
We are revisiting an episode from 2020 with David Shimer. David discusses his book that reviews the century of covert election interference by Russia...
FCPA Year in Review (2024)
This podcast is based on TRACE's recent Year in Review webinar with Kate Atkinson. Kate is a Member and the Chair of Miller & Chevalier, based in thei...
Trump Hotel - Baku: Adam Davidson
We’re reposting our 2017 podcast with Adam Davidson of the New Yorker who joined the podcast to talk about his research into the baffling Trump Hotel...
"White House Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Business” (Last Time)
In light of last week’s inauguration, we're revisiting a 2020 podcast episode with Dan Alexander, author and senior editor at Forbes, discussing his b...
Understanding Trump’s Executive Order on the Civil Service (It’s Much More Serious Than It Sounds)
This inauguration week, we're revisiting a 2020 podcast on President Trump's assault on the civil service. In this episode, Harvard law professor, Mat...
Governance in Space
Our guest today, Dr. Rebecca Connolly, joins us to discuss her work on the legal governance of outer space relating to militarization, security and co...
Navigating the Greenlash: Can boards still lead on climate change?”
Karina Litvack joins the podcast to share her insights into climate governance based on her extensive board experience in the oil and gas sector and h...
Our Favorite Wine Fraudster
As is holiday tradition, we're revisiting our podcast with Peter Hellman, who describes Rudy Kurniawan’s audacious scheme to defraud wine collectors i...
The DOJ’s New Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
Patrick Gushue, the Department of Justice’s Acting Director of its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program, joins the podcast to discuss the prog...
Profiting From Human Rights Atrocities in Syrian Prisons
Omar Alshogre, refugee, public speaker, and project manager with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, shares the wrenching story of his three years as a p...
An International ATM Skimming Scheme
With the holiday travel season approaching, we’re revisiting a podcast episode featuring Paul Radu, the co-founder and co-executive director of the Or...
Extreme Wealth – Episode 8: Walt Pavlo and the Empty Temptations of Fraud
Walt Pavlo went to work at MCI at a time when telecoms were hungry for go-getters. It was the early 2000s, and Walt enjoyed the freedom and aggressive...
Hockey Canada’s Governance Review
Retired Canadian Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell joins the podcast to describe the review he was commissioned to undertake of Hockey Canada’s or...
Extreme Wealth – Episode 7: Chuck Collins and the Burdens of Dynastic Wealth
In his mid-20s, Chuck Collins made a fateful choice. The great-grandson of Oscar Meyer, and thus an heir to part of the meatpacker’s family fortune, C...
Extreme Wealth – Episode 6: Jonathan Rugman and the Stunning Power Plays of MBS
The sudden ascent of Mohammed bin Salman from an obscure royal heir to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia — the country’s de facto ruler — has fascinate...
Extreme Wealth – Episode 5: Paul Schervish and the Spiritual Duality of Riches
For more than 20 years, Paul Schervish surveyed many of the richest people in America for a long-running study on how the wealthy view the world and t...
Extreme Wealth - Episode 4: Bill Browder and the Pitiless Greed of Vladimir Putin
Sir William Browder (“Bill”), a financier turned justice advocate, is our guest for this episode of our ongoing series on extreme wealth. Bill has bee...
Extreme Wealth – Episode 3: Jennifer Risher and the Limits of Sudden Wealth
The author and philanthropist Jennifer Risher continues our series on extreme wealth by telling the story of her ear-popping rise from a middle-class...
Extreme Wealth – Episode 2: Steve Fishman Inside the Mind of Prisoner Bernie Madoff
In this episode — another in our series on extreme wealth — the journalist Steve Fishman discusses his reporting on Bernie Madoff and the collapse of...
Extreme Wealth – Episode 1: Clay Cockrell and the Champagne Problems of the 1%
This week we debut a special project within Bribe, Swindle or Steal: single-topic episodes that focus on extreme wealth. For years Alexandra Wrage has...