{"id":42652,"date":"2014-02-18T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbs_60_minutes_businessman_bill_browders_fight_to_expose_corruption_in_russ\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:00:16","slug":"cbs_60_minutes_businessman_bill_browders_fight_to_expose_corruption_in_russ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42652","title":{"rendered":"(CBS&#39; 60 minutes) Businessman Bill Browder&#39;s fight to expose corruption in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has been showing the world glistening scenes of the Winter Olympics. It&#8217;s a rare opportunity to brighten a national image that often skates on the thin ice of corruption. One authority estimates that 20 percent of the Russian economy is skimmed by graft and a lot of that by government officials. It may be that no one knows more about this than American-born businessman Bill Browder.<\/p>\n<p>Browder tells a story of thievery, vengeance and death worthy of a Russian novel.  He&#8217;s a thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin and he has torn a rift between Moscow and Washington. When you hear what he has to say about Russia you&#8217;ll know why Russia thinks of Bill Browder as an enemy of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Browder: The Russian regime is a criminal regime. We&#8217;re dealing with a nuclear country run by a bunch of Mafia crooks. And we have to know that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/americans-fight-to-expose-corruption-in-russia\">Read (or better watch) it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has been showing the world glistening scenes of the Winter Olympics. It&#8217;s a rare opportunity to brighten a national image that often skates on the thin ice of corruption. One authority estimates that 20 percent of the Russian economy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42652\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,589,149,168,200,144,119,114,151,479,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-russia","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}