The theme of the 3rd Annual Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting is on bribery and corruption and includes the world premiere of a new PBS Frontline documentary on bribery in international commerce.
A series of high-profile panels focus on reporting about bribery and feature investigative reporters and producers, as well as federal prosecutors and whistleblowers.
The Corruption Hunters panel features Tom Fuentes, former FBI; Helen Garlick, former Serious Fraud Office (UK); Mark Mendelsohn, US Department of Justice; Mark Pieth, OECD (Switzerland); and Nuhu Ribadu, prosecutor (Nigeria).
Asuncion Hostin, CNN, and Brian Ross, ABC News, moderate.
Bio
Tom Fuentes
Tom Fuentes served as Assistant Director of FBI's Office of International operations from 2004- until Nov 2008. Fuentes spent 29 years in the FBI including 11 years as a member of the senior executive service. Fuentes directed the office of international operations.
Helen Garlick
Helen Garlick is formerly of the Serious Fraud Office in the U.K. Until July 2008 Garlick was assistant director of the serious fraud office.
Sunny Hostin
A former federal prosecutor, as well as a respected legal expert and TV personality, who is often called upon for her clear analysis on various provocative issues and high-profile criminal cases in the news.
Sunny Hostin has served as a contributing legal analyst for CNN's weekday and weekend reporting as well as Headline News since September 2007. She also appears regularly on Fox News Channel. She joined CNN from the Fox News Channel, where she was seen weekly on The O'Reilly Factor's "Is It Legal?" segment, providing legal analysis and debate on top criminal cases. Hostin also appeared regularly on Court TV.
Mark Mendelsohn
Mark Mendelsohn is the Deputy Chief of the Fraud Section in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Mendelsohn is responsible for all criminal investigations and prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), as well as principal policy responsibilities relating to the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. Mendelsohn himself is quick to point out that the DOJ has yet to bring charges against any companies that have had a meaningful compliance program already in place.
Mark Pieth
Mark Pieth is a Professor of Criminal Law at Basel University, Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, and Member of Swiss Federal Gaming Commission, Chairman of the Board of the Basel Institute on Governance.
Mark Pieth has published extensively in the fields of economic and organised crime, money laundering, corruption, sentencing and criminal procedure.
Nuhu Ribadu
Nuhu Ribadu is a Nigerian government official. He is the outgoing Executive Chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the government commission tasked with countering corruption and fraud.
Well, There is a guy named George Bush and one named Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and Scooter Libby and Richard Pearle and so on and so forth , all highly corrupt and guilty of fraud against the American people as a whole....why do tell you are not going full force after these crooks? Allowing these criminals to roam free is a complete injustice to all of mankind, think of the dead from their lies and deceit! One company, Haliburton....look at this pure fraud and corruption...let's tell the whole story.I think most of you pick and choose your cases when you know it won't hurt your own positions and pay check!
American Media has been pure garbage since it was allow for a few to own all!
I think some are so afraid of losing their livelihood they report on what they are told to and how. It's certainly not worth watching any of the main stream media news....it's insanely dumb coverage.
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