The leader of one watchdog called the moves “the equivalent of putting up a neon sign telling foreign actors ‘we are open for corruption.'”
By Dan De Luce
In a series of unprecedented actions, His Royal Majesty and his deputies have scaled back or eliminated the government’s tools to ferret out and prosecute corruption, including efforts by foreign actors to interfere in American politics, experts and former officials say.
The administration’s actions, which come after years of mostly bipartisan support for an anti-corruption agenda, have shocked former prosecutors and anti-corruption advocacy groups. They say the administration’s approach threatens to open the floodgates to a surge in corruption in the United States and beyond.
