Lawfare Archive: Paul Massaro on the United States’ Latest Efforts to Combat Corruption

From April 5, 2022: On June 3, President Biden issued a national security whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-acti… that established the “Fight Against Corruption” as a core national security interest for the United States. The memo described the staggering costs of corruption, with it being “estimated that acts of corruption sap between 2 and 5 percent from global gross domestic product.” The memo also directed U.S. officials to develop a comprehensive presidential strategy focused on anti-corruption.
Alvaro Marañon sat down with Paul Massaro, the senior policy advisor for counter-kleptocracy at the Helsinki Commission, to speak about the United States government's latest anti-corruption efforts following the June memo. They discussed the latest developments in the efforts to combat corruption, details around the first-ever presidential strategy on anti-corruption and the kinds of messages these unified efforts send to other authoritarian regimes beyond Russia.
For more on this topic, consider watching “Countering Oligarchs, Enablers, and Lawfare,” a csce.gov/international-impact/press-and-media/… on Wednesday, April 6, at 2:30 p.m., hosted by the Helsinki Commission.
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