America may be the most corrupt developed country; The Irish politicians who should be more ashamed than Frank Dunlop
May 27th, 2009 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, that the US Justice Department is increasing its prosecutions of alleged acts of foreign bribery by US corporations, forcing them to take costly steps to defend against scrutiny. Meanwhile, actor Kevin Spacey, is preparing to play former Republican Party lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is in jail for corruption, in a film to be titled Casino Jack. What recently struck me when watching Spacey on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, recounting a meeting with Abramoff, that to be declared legally corrupt in America, a person must be a cocktail of arrogance, stupidity and greed, given the vast opportunities for legal corruption in a system, where bribery has been almost defined out of existence. Ireland's Jack Abramoff, Frank Dunlop, faced the music on Tuesday but Irish national politicians should be more ashamed than him, as they have done absolutely ZERO to change the Irish land rezoning system, which spawned extensive corruption.