Interesting facts: the United States as a stronghold of world corruption.
There are many people who are convinced that corruption in the United States, if not eliminated, then certainly put on the shoulder blades. Naturally, every time there is a conversation that corruption is not going to disappear anywhere, these people make a surprised face and nod their heads in the negative. At the same time, most of them are sure that corruption in Russia is the worst.
Why is the comparison with the US? For the reason that it is America that is usually given in discussions as a kind of reference in all walks of life. Therefore, by the way, the recipes that are usually offered, even political ones, are strangely similar to the American ones ... And it is this country that is trying to teach Russia how to fight corruption, and it introduces all kinds of "black lists" there.
Well, I bring to your attention a small overview of this topic on materials from open sources.
Who is watching
The corruption perception index is calculated annually by Transparency International. It is a nongovernmental international organization for the fight against corruption and the study of the level of corruption throughout the world. Sources of financing - government organizations, non-government funds and commercial organizations (U.S. Fed).
As Stirlitz said, the last phrase is always remembered.
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Public opinion and publicity
Americans are embarrassed by their corruption. To verify this, just look at the tiny article on corruption in the English-language Wikipedia: there is not a single one of any serious incident listed, and the article itself has even been proposed by the community for deletion. Perhaps for this reason, there is still no complete and current list of corruption scandals in the United States.
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Where is trillion, Zin?
The largest corruption scandals are associated with government debt, investment funds and the US Federal Reserve. It is there that one movement can write off astronomical sums from the account in the right direction.
For example, the Fed representative failed to report a trillion dollars (!!!). The US Congress has the right to conduct investigations. In one of the videos transmitted on the C-span channel, it was possible to observe this process. It shows how Congressman Alan Grayson asks Mrs. Coleman why the federal reserve balance has increased by a trillion dollars. He never received a clear answer, and all because the investigation was not conducted, and after all, 8 months had passed since the discovery of the loss of money.
No investigation was ever conducted. The Fed prepared and published an annual report, which was verified by independent auditors. And yet, the question was closed.
The democratic system of “the light of freedom” has quite revealingly acted with the defendants of this action. Through 2 of the year, the chief inspector-mumble was transferred to another job without noise and dust, and the congressman, a fighter against corruption and a patriot of his country asking uncomfortable questions, lost the election to the 2010 Congress of the year.
Sites. Inexpensively
Not so long ago, in October 2013, a scandal broke out related to with the site HealthCare.gov. It was made by a private company for the health care system, winning the competition for the sum of 93,7 million dollars. Michelle Obama's classmate Tony Townes-Wheatley works in this private company. In fairness it must be said that the company took part in the competition, although some sources claimed the opposite. By the way, the site after the opening was unstable and hung due to the large number of visitors. Errors were corrected, Barack Obama personally apologized for the poor performance of the site, but his image after this scandal pretty shaken.
[1]
We set the table correctly
It is surprising that the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington let it down (you cannot say otherwise) 3,9 million dollars to rearrange furniture in the office.
[1]
Feet Bush
The former president of Malaysia said that for the opportunity to see George Bush in 2002, he had to pay 1,2 million dollars. However, the money, he said, was made not by the Malaysian government, but by "someone else."
[1]
Expensive education
100 million dollarsdesigned to educate difficult teens have sunk into an unknown direction. The perpetrators, like money, have not been found. No one was held accountable or even arrested. Any 100 of millions, you will think. Here trillions disappear - and nothing ... But now, due to a shortage of money, the entire program of such training is in danger of being stopped.
[1]
"On the potato" in American
Two judges in Luzern County, Pennsylvania, were convicted of imposing excessively harsh sentences on teenagers. Judges Tsiavarella and Konakhan gave harsh sentences to children and adolescents, for which they received bribes from the owners of two private prisons. They needed free labor for your business. In total, the judges received bribes in the amount of about two million dollars, and, at their request, the state prison for minors was closed.
It is noteworthy that some of the convicts were just 10 years old.
[1]
Chicken stood up - the place sold
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was caught when tried to sell vacated by Barack Obama in the senate. In addition to the governor, arrested the head of his office, John Harris. Prosecutors also have evidence that 51-year-old Blagojevich and 46-year-old Harris threatened to deprive Tribune Co.’s media group. government support if she does not dismiss members of the editorial board of a newspaper who criticized the governor.
The governor denied the charges and was released on bail at 4,5 for thousands of dollars and not wanting to leave the country.
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13 000 000 000 + 8 000 000 000 = 0
Aimed at restoring Iraq $13 billion were either stolen or wasted. More by 8 billion dollars The US Department of Defense can not report - it spent them somewhere, but does not know where.
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Need Internet?
The Ministry of Agriculture acknowledged that spending on the development of broadband Internet access 2,5 billion dollars were spent mostly "inefficiently": for example, on the allocation of money to areas that were already fully covered by the fast Internet.
[1]
Obama
Persons who donated 13,6 million dollars to President H.B. Obama, subsequently became ambassadors of the United States. Fact.
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Eternal train of joy
During the construction of the tunnel for the eastern branch of the metro of New York, its value increased from 3 billion to 8,4 billion dollars (2012), and in 2014 year - up to 10,8 billion. The total length of the tunnel is only a kilometer 3,2, nevertheless it is planned to complete the work since 1998, only in 2019. If, of course, the deadlines for the object are not moved again, as it was already several times earlier.
[1]
Boston Highway
The mayor of Boston ruled the city since 1993, and didn’t go to the new term just because of health problems. While in power, he reconstructed the city's highways — the so-called Big Dig project.
This project was launched in 1985 with a budget of 2,2 billion dollars and a deadline of 2000. Already finished with a budget of 14,8 billion. and only in 2008, and there is evidence that 14,8 billion dollars is only part of the cost.
From 1985 to 2008 around the project one could observe a complete set of corruption problems. Arrests of contractors, accidents due to poor-quality materials and work, charges of fraud ... Some contractors even died at the alleged random circumstances.
[1]
Billion hurricane
In the process of eliminating the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, about $2 billion. Also, auditors reported that 900 data of thousands of emergency recipients are not tested and are likely to be fakes or duplicates. And this is more than a third of the total number of assistance.
[1], [2]
Mice ate
The audit of the US State Department showed the lack of the necessary documents required for the report on spending $6 billion. Lost. Somewhere.
[1]
And a few words in conclusion.
Full Pentagon ...
The Pentagon can not account for 8,5 trillion (!!!) dollars.
The US government is trying to deal with this money right from 1999 of the year! Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush’s defense secretary, publicly stated that a quarter of Pentagon’s expenses go unclearly, and there are simply no reporting documents for 2 and more than a trillion dollars.
Now, in the 2014 year, there are no normal documents already on 8,5 trillion dollars. This is a huge amount, half the gigantic external debt of the United States. The Pentagon also spent the money somewhere and did not report for them. Well, there are no them, and that's it ...
[1], [2]
Total
Above are just a few examples of corruption, outright theft and embezzlement.
In fairness it must be said that sometimes there are officials for embezzlement and imprisoned. Despite all-round bail, from January to November 2013, 2320 employees and heads of various departments were under investigation. And how many more cases were hidden from the investigation, we have only to guess.
From the above examples, one thing is clear: Russian officials did not even dream of such a galactic scale cut.
Based on:
http://obespechimkontrakt.ru/index.php/korruptsiya-v-ssha-kakova-ona-na-samom-dele
http://ruxpert.ru/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%A8%D0%90
http://bankir.ru/novosti/s/korruptsiya-v-ssha-deistvuet-s-razmakhom-kotoryi-nashim-chinovnikam-i-ne-snilsya-10066886/
Why is the comparison with the US? For the reason that it is America that is usually given in discussions as a kind of reference in all walks of life. Therefore, by the way, the recipes that are usually offered, even political ones, are strangely similar to the American ones ... And it is this country that is trying to teach Russia how to fight corruption, and it introduces all kinds of "black lists" there.
Well, I bring to your attention a small overview of this topic on materials from open sources.
The level of corruption for 2013 year according to Transparency International (The global coalition against corruption) | www.transparency.org
Who is watching
The corruption perception index is calculated annually by Transparency International. It is a nongovernmental international organization for the fight against corruption and the study of the level of corruption throughout the world. Sources of financing - government organizations, non-government funds and commercial organizations (U.S. Fed).
As Stirlitz said, the last phrase is always remembered.
[1]
Public opinion and publicity
Americans are embarrassed by their corruption. To verify this, just look at the tiny article on corruption in the English-language Wikipedia: there is not a single one of any serious incident listed, and the article itself has even been proposed by the community for deletion. Perhaps for this reason, there is still no complete and current list of corruption scandals in the United States.
[1]
Where is trillion, Zin?
The largest corruption scandals are associated with government debt, investment funds and the US Federal Reserve. It is there that one movement can write off astronomical sums from the account in the right direction.
For example, the Fed representative failed to report a trillion dollars (!!!). The US Congress has the right to conduct investigations. In one of the videos transmitted on the C-span channel, it was possible to observe this process. It shows how Congressman Alan Grayson asks Mrs. Coleman why the federal reserve balance has increased by a trillion dollars. He never received a clear answer, and all because the investigation was not conducted, and after all, 8 months had passed since the discovery of the loss of money.
Quote from video:
- How about expanding the balance of the Fed to a trillion-odd dollars, to replenish the balance of the Fed from last September? Have you conducted any inquiries about this?
- We ... now we ... and ... We are doing a review, the word investigation has a different connotation. We review at a high level, where various lending programs are considered, including TALF, and we look at them at an overall high level to identify risks.
- I understood that, but we are talking about storieslasting 8 months. Have you come to any conclusions regarding the increase in the Fed's balance sheet by a trillion-odd dollars since last September?
- No, there are no conclusions yet.
- Do you know who got this money?
- Aah ... well ... We are now doing a review ... and mmm ...
- It is clear, but you are the chief inspector, and my specific question is: “Do you know who received over a trillion dollars, which replenished the balance of the Fed from last September?” Do you know who received them?
- I dont know. We have not yet addressed this particular issue at this time.
- How about expanding the balance of the Fed to a trillion-odd dollars, to replenish the balance of the Fed from last September? Have you conducted any inquiries about this?
- We ... now we ... and ... We are doing a review, the word investigation has a different connotation. We review at a high level, where various lending programs are considered, including TALF, and we look at them at an overall high level to identify risks.
- I understood that, but we are talking about storieslasting 8 months. Have you come to any conclusions regarding the increase in the Fed's balance sheet by a trillion-odd dollars since last September?
- No, there are no conclusions yet.
- Do you know who got this money?
- Aah ... well ... We are now doing a review ... and mmm ...
- It is clear, but you are the chief inspector, and my specific question is: “Do you know who received over a trillion dollars, which replenished the balance of the Fed from last September?” Do you know who received them?
- I dont know. We have not yet addressed this particular issue at this time.
No investigation was ever conducted. The Fed prepared and published an annual report, which was verified by independent auditors. And yet, the question was closed.
The democratic system of “the light of freedom” has quite revealingly acted with the defendants of this action. Through 2 of the year, the chief inspector-mumble was transferred to another job without noise and dust, and the congressman, a fighter against corruption and a patriot of his country asking uncomfortable questions, lost the election to the 2010 Congress of the year.
Sites. Inexpensively
Not so long ago, in October 2013, a scandal broke out related to with the site HealthCare.gov. It was made by a private company for the health care system, winning the competition for the sum of 93,7 million dollars. Michelle Obama's classmate Tony Townes-Wheatley works in this private company. In fairness it must be said that the company took part in the competition, although some sources claimed the opposite. By the way, the site after the opening was unstable and hung due to the large number of visitors. Errors were corrected, Barack Obama personally apologized for the poor performance of the site, but his image after this scandal pretty shaken.
[1]
We set the table correctly
It is surprising that the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington let it down (you cannot say otherwise) 3,9 million dollars to rearrange furniture in the office.
[1]
Feet Bush
The former president of Malaysia said that for the opportunity to see George Bush in 2002, he had to pay 1,2 million dollars. However, the money, he said, was made not by the Malaysian government, but by "someone else."
[1]
Expensive education
100 million dollarsdesigned to educate difficult teens have sunk into an unknown direction. The perpetrators, like money, have not been found. No one was held accountable or even arrested. Any 100 of millions, you will think. Here trillions disappear - and nothing ... But now, due to a shortage of money, the entire program of such training is in danger of being stopped.
[1]
"On the potato" in American
Two judges in Luzern County, Pennsylvania, were convicted of imposing excessively harsh sentences on teenagers. Judges Tsiavarella and Konakhan gave harsh sentences to children and adolescents, for which they received bribes from the owners of two private prisons. They needed free labor for your business. In total, the judges received bribes in the amount of about two million dollars, and, at their request, the state prison for minors was closed.
It is noteworthy that some of the convicts were just 10 years old.
[1]
Chicken stood up - the place sold
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was caught when tried to sell vacated by Barack Obama in the senate. In addition to the governor, arrested the head of his office, John Harris. Prosecutors also have evidence that 51-year-old Blagojevich and 46-year-old Harris threatened to deprive Tribune Co.’s media group. government support if she does not dismiss members of the editorial board of a newspaper who criticized the governor.
The governor denied the charges and was released on bail at 4,5 for thousands of dollars and not wanting to leave the country.
[1]
13 000 000 000 + 8 000 000 000 = 0
Aimed at restoring Iraq $13 billion were either stolen or wasted. More by 8 billion dollars The US Department of Defense can not report - it spent them somewhere, but does not know where.
[1]
Need Internet?
The Ministry of Agriculture acknowledged that spending on the development of broadband Internet access 2,5 billion dollars were spent mostly "inefficiently": for example, on the allocation of money to areas that were already fully covered by the fast Internet.
[1]
Obama
Persons who donated 13,6 million dollars to President H.B. Obama, subsequently became ambassadors of the United States. Fact.
[1]
Eternal train of joy
During the construction of the tunnel for the eastern branch of the metro of New York, its value increased from 3 billion to 8,4 billion dollars (2012), and in 2014 year - up to 10,8 billion. The total length of the tunnel is only a kilometer 3,2, nevertheless it is planned to complete the work since 1998, only in 2019. If, of course, the deadlines for the object are not moved again, as it was already several times earlier.
[1]
Boston Highway
The mayor of Boston ruled the city since 1993, and didn’t go to the new term just because of health problems. While in power, he reconstructed the city's highways — the so-called Big Dig project.
This project was launched in 1985 with a budget of 2,2 billion dollars and a deadline of 2000. Already finished with a budget of 14,8 billion. and only in 2008, and there is evidence that 14,8 billion dollars is only part of the cost.
From 1985 to 2008 around the project one could observe a complete set of corruption problems. Arrests of contractors, accidents due to poor-quality materials and work, charges of fraud ... Some contractors even died at the alleged random circumstances.
[1]
Billion hurricane
In the process of eliminating the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, about $2 billion. Also, auditors reported that 900 data of thousands of emergency recipients are not tested and are likely to be fakes or duplicates. And this is more than a third of the total number of assistance.
[1], [2]
Mice ate
The audit of the US State Department showed the lack of the necessary documents required for the report on spending $6 billion. Lost. Somewhere.
[1]
And a few words in conclusion.
Full Pentagon ...
The Pentagon can not account for 8,5 trillion (!!!) dollars.
The US government is trying to deal with this money right from 1999 of the year! Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush’s defense secretary, publicly stated that a quarter of Pentagon’s expenses go unclearly, and there are simply no reporting documents for 2 and more than a trillion dollars.
Now, in the 2014 year, there are no normal documents already on 8,5 trillion dollars. This is a huge amount, half the gigantic external debt of the United States. The Pentagon also spent the money somewhere and did not report for them. Well, there are no them, and that's it ...
[1], [2]
Total
Above are just a few examples of corruption, outright theft and embezzlement.
In fairness it must be said that sometimes there are officials for embezzlement and imprisoned. Despite all-round bail, from January to November 2013, 2320 employees and heads of various departments were under investigation. And how many more cases were hidden from the investigation, we have only to guess.
From the above examples, one thing is clear: Russian officials did not even dream of such a galactic scale cut.
Based on:
http://obespechimkontrakt.ru/index.php/korruptsiya-v-ssha-kakova-ona-na-samom-dele
http://ruxpert.ru/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%A8%D0%90
http://bankir.ru/novosti/s/korruptsiya-v-ssha-deistvuet-s-razmakhom-kotoryi-nashim-chinovnikam-i-ne-snilsya-10066886/
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