How a candidate for Arizona governor became ensnared in one of the biggest international corruption…
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Foreign Exchange
How a candidate for Arizona governor became ensnared in one of the biggest international corruption scandals in history … and almost nobody noticed.
The Odebrecht scandal sent shockwaves through political regimes on three continents, implicated countless politicians, put billionaires and business executives in jail and led one Latin American former president to kill himself rather than submit to arrest.
But so far, it has left Arizona Democratic gubernatorial candidate Marco Lopez unscathed.
The U.S. Department of Justice called the case against Odebrecht, a global construction giant based in Brazil, “the largest foreign bribery case in history.”
Few Americans have likely heard of Odebrecht and its sophisticated “bribery department” that lined the pockets of powerful politicians across Latin America in exchange for lucrative building project contracts.
