1 March 2025

A More Corrupt World Will Be Bad for America

Richard Nephew

Some years ago, while serving as the U.S. State Department’s first coordinator on global anticorruption, I visited a country in West Africa as part of my fieldwork. During my visit, an American businessman whose company was operating an important national enterprise told me about a government official who had solicited a bribe from him. When I asked how he got out of the situation, he said it was simple: “I told him that I wasn’t going to go to jail for him.”


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