Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

Kickback, exposing the global corporate bribery network, David Montero

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Kickback

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David Montero

exposing the global corporate bribery network

Kickback is a sweeping, global investigation into corporate bribery around the world and how these back-door financial transactions undermine democracy and the free market system by lining the pockets of some of the world's worst dictators and criminals. Ultimately this system affects billions of people by creating conditions that lead to poverty, violence, environmental disaster, and political instability in countries like Nigeria, Bahrain, Costa Rica, and Iraq. Kickback examines the origins of corporate bribery during the reign of the British East India Company, the methods by which it is carried out today, and its effects at both the individual and the national level throughout the globe. From the murder of a young activist in Bangladesh, to a Texas billionaire's dealings with Sadaam Hussein, to pharmaceutical firms' payoffs to gain market share in China, to corporations who outsource bribery to "superagents" in the criminal underworld, to how the entrenched culture of bribery helped destroy the Greek economy. Montero also examines the countermeasures that have been introduced to combat these practices, from the Justice Department's efforts to halt them to identifying and restituting its victims