How Democracies Enable Corrupt Regimes (And How To Fix It)

Dissidents and Dictators

In this episode, Casey Michel and Paul Massaro discuss how corrupt regimes exploit systems of democracies to launder their money, and the ongoing legislative efforts in the United States (U.S.) to address this issue. Casey Michel is an investigative journalist and author of “American Kleptocracy,” which studies how the U.S. has become a haven for stolen wealth, and Paul Massaro is a counter-corruption expert and Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Helsinki Commission. The views expressed by Paul are his own and do not represent an official position of the U.S. government.