Doing Business in the Big Bribery Nation

by Dr Les Sachs

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International business executives and companies face ever-heightening 
risks and dangers, as they deal with the world's largest group of 
bribed judges and crooked lawyers. International companies and 
individuals are at risk in this large nation where the "rules" involve 
paying bribes via certain pathways, but where it is easier to go to 
prison than anywhere else in the world.

You might ask: What is this large corrupt nation? Where is this 
cesspool of corrupt lawyers and judges, who make such a mockery of the 
rule of law? In what nation must we be so wary when doing 
business? . . .

It is a well-known fact to its internal powers, though not to the rest 
of the world, that the United States of America has the worst bribery 
culture of any developed nation, a bribery culture that centres very 
specifically in US judges and lawyers. . .

There is great danger in the US, for companies that are associated 
with ownership in Venezuela, China, or any one of a hundred other 
countries that are potentially critical of the US and its policies. 
Even if the near neighbours of the US, Canada or Mexico, started 
rocking the US boat too severely, their companies would quickly find 
themselves punished via politically-motivated legal proceedings.

The US is very unlike other corrupt countries, where most bribes are 
paid directly to executive and administrative officials. Such things 
do take place in the US, but are comparatively rare. The crucial forms 
of bribery in the US are the bribes paid to judges and to leading 
lawyers, along with the campaign contributions and related gifts to 
politicians, which latter are often channelled via so-called non-
profit organisations.

The importance for foreign businesses, and indeed any business in the 
US, is that if you do not pay the bribe money and political campaign 
money, you may get truly and utterly destroyed . . .

It is the bribes paid to the US judges and lawyers that are the most 
central, most subtle and most hidden form of bribery in the US. Such 
bribes are huge, pervasive, and essentially untraceable, though the 
effects are direct and catastrophic if you do not pay up.

The money is nearly always channelled through American lawyers and law 
firms, under the protection of "lawyer-client confidentiality". 
America's army of about 1 million lawyers, includes a core of 
gangsters who are really the Praetorian Guard of the US empire. These 
lawyers guard the access to the inner sanctum of US control. Such 
lawyers mediate the connections between wealthy individuals and 
corporations and the power of the US government, power that is centred 
in the US federal courts and their judges-for-life.

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