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I write the Corruption Currents blog, which is hosted on the Wall Street Journal's website.
I'm 26 and I live in Astoria, Queens. I listen to a ton of music and read a lot about politics, public policy, the news media and the future of journalism. I also am a big fan of the Knicks, Jets and Mets. Expect a heavy dose of things to read. • Ask me anything
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Trace: More Countries Acting on Domestic Bribery - Risk & Compliance - WSJ
Fifteen counties in 2012 initiated their first-ever enforcement actions for domestic or inbound bribery, according to a report issued Monday by Trace International.
Annapolis, Md.-based Trace’s 2012 Global Enforcement Report, its third edition summarizing global anti-bribery enforcement since 1977, found countries such as Guinea, Kenya, Iraq, the Philippines and Tunisia joining the anti-bribery enforcement brigade by, for the first time, going after bribes paid in the country.
“The addition of over a dozen new countries to worldwide bribery enforcement is a very positive trend and one that the global compliance community can celebrate,” said Alexandra Wrage, founder and president of Trace, in a statement.
BSGR Asks Tony Blair to Help Free Detained Employees - Risk & Compliance - WSJ
BSG Resources Ltd., the Guernsey-based mining company, has asked for former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair’s help to free two of its employees held by Guinea.
An emailed statement from BSG said Ibrahima Sory Toure and Issaga Bangoura, respectively a vice president and director of public relations and a security official who is a member of Guinea’s military, have been held “in appalling conditions for 28 days with no evidence of wrongdoing.”
The Guinean government announced their arrests on April 22, saying at the time the arrests “followed suspicious activities” to evade a multi-jurisdictional criminal investigation into how the company won the rights to a massive iron-ore deposit in the country.
BSG said in the statement that they’re being held on “baseless allegations of so-called ‘passive corruption.’”
“David Schulz, the chief lawyer for the AP, said the subpoenas also covered the records for 21 phone lines in five AP office lines — including one for a dead phone line at office in Washington that had been shut down six years ago. The phone lines at four other offices – where 100 reporters worked — were also covered by the subpoenas, Schulz said.”
— DOJ’s secret subpoena of AP phone records broader than initially revealed - Open Channel
“Rosen was not charged with any crime, but it is unprecedented for the government, in an official court document, to accuse a reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets.”
— The Department of Justice’s Search Warrant for James Rosen’s Gmail : The New Yorker
(Source: Spotify)
“In falling to the younger, bigger and more athletic Pacers, 106-99, Saturday night to lose in six games, the Knicks were haunted by a Georgetown center (Roy Hibbert), an explosive 25-point, 10-rebound performance by a product of Stephon Marbury’s Brooklyn high school (Lincoln’s Lance Stephenson) and an alumnus of Dolan’s school of hard-to-fathom Knicks (Donnie Walsh).”
— Another Failed Year, and Knicks Fans Are Still Stuck With James Dolan - NYTimes.com
Says it all.
WSJ reports Yahoo board has approved a $1.1 billion deal — in cash — to purchase Tumblr.
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Random journalism tip: When you’re in a new city, take public transportation. It’s a good way to run into—and maybe get tips from—the locals.
