MUSE-ings
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Museums display the power of words. We created this space for our advisors, outside experts, and other guests to offer their thoughts about corruption.
The MPC Opening Speeches
Richard Painter offers a keynote address on the importance of understanding the history of corruption in order to fight corruption. Mr. Painter was the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration from 2005-2007.
Peter Eigen, Founder of Transparency International, offers personal and inspiring remarks on the occasion of his 2021 induction into The Museum of Political Corruption’s Hall of Honor.
Politics was and remains a team sport. You need people who can block and tackle. They made the wheels turn for Boss Tweed in the 1870s, for Dan O’Connell in the 1970s, and plenty in between, including plenty of good guys. In those couple of hours, Jimmy Ryan taught me more about politics, the real-life, street-level kind, than I could have learned from years of college courses or Capitol Hill seminars.
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Voices on Corruption and Ethical Governance
Hosted by the MPC on April 4, 2016
Zephyr Teachout is an associate professor of law at Fordham University. She is the author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United.
Frank Anechiarico is Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law at Hamilton College.
Blair Horner is the Executive Director of NYPIRG — the New York Public Interest Research Group.
Jimmy Vielkind is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He was the founding member of POLITICO New York’s state Capitol bureau and was named bureau chief in November, 2013,
