a padlet by Nina Ouellette

Problem

ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:07:19 UTC

Rich people were bribing people that were in power. Corporate and personal greed drove politicians to accept bribes. And a lot of people, especially immigrants needed jobs so they supported bosses just to get jobs to get the money they needed to survive.

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ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:07:41 UTC

People have found multiple ways throughout the time and the court of law has also gotten smarter and evidence is easier collected due to social media and the online presence of politicians. Also people have started suing and punishing the politicians who cheated the public out of money that could have been used to make better life in a city.

today's problem

ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:07:51 UTC

The use of powers by government officials or their network contacts to illegally get money and supporters for themselves. Political corruption is everywhere in the world.

reformers

ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:07:59 UTC

Elizabeth Warren is a senator of Massachusetts and she is fighting against corruption. Once, she said "I’ll work with Congress to enact anti-money laundering reforms and update basic financial integrity requirements designed to fight illicit financial transactions, including collecting standardized identifying information about the ultimate beneficial ownership of every corporate entity created across the country.". This means that she will do everything she can against corruption and she will expose all money laundering politicians. A group of reformers is the The U.S. Agency for International Development (the USAID). The U.S. Agency for International Development established a dedicated Anti-Corruption Center in 2023, USAID launched the Global Accountability Program to hold people responsible for their actions and improve their ability to "resist transnational corruption", grand corruption, and "kleptocracy" by strengthening the systems and actors needed to close loopholes and detect dirty money.

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ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:12:25 UTC

Muckraking reporters who exposed political corruption led the way for the enactment of reforms by President Theodore Roosevelt that included tax and election reform as well as limitations on corporate power, so as time went, more muckrakers came about.

solutions

ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:12:37 UTC

In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered an investigation on the New York Custom-House. Investigators found hundreds of appointed officials receiving high salaries but doing no work/ He dismissed the two Custom-House officials against the demand of the local republican leader

reformers

ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:12:51 UTC

In the Gilded Age, some famous muckrakers were Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell. Jacob Riis took pictures of immigrant kids living near trash piles under the docks in NYC. Upton Sinclair exposed the dangerous conditions in meatpacking plants with The Jungle. And Ida Tarbell exposed John D.'s monopolistic ways.

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ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:13:01 UTC

Investigations on shops and restaurants continued. Both then and now, those investigations helped the government put down businesses who were not following the rules and giving unfair payments

today's solutions

ninaouellette — 2024-04-30 18:13:11 UTC

Managing risks and making sure corruption doesn't happen. And the fourth way is about making sure everyone knows about corruption and gets involved in stopping it.

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Unit secured over $500 million in penalties and disgorgements in five corporate resolutions, charged over 10 individuals, and secured important convictions. For example, the former National Treasurer of Venezuela and her husband were sentenced to 15 years in U.S. prison for accepting and laundering over $136 million in bribes.

There are four main ways to stop corruption. First is all about having good values and doing the right thing. Secondly, it is about following rules and making sure everyone in power is being honest.