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Making a Killing | Ep. 4: Mary Butler on the US Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative

Making a Killing | Ep. 4: Mary Butler on the US Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative

Nate Sibley

Mary Butler, Chief of the International Unit at the US Department of Justice’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, talks to Nate Sibley about seizing and returning stolen assets. Paul Massaro and Casey Michel discuss coordinating sanctions against human rights abuses and corruption in China, and the central role of lawyers in facilitating transnational corruption.

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Making a Killing explores how corruption is reshaping global politics, and fueling some of the most deadly security threats facing the world today – from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, to terrorist networks, nuclear proliferation, drug trafficking and other organized crime.

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