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Bushco also known as The Kleptocracy and assorted Cling-Ons are properly addressed.
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Justice Department effort, known as the Kleptocracy Initiative, that began early this year and is aimed at seizing the U.S.-acquired proceeds of suspected corrupt world leaders.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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So it is that we arrive at tonight's offering for a detailed look at 'Kleptocracy' and the empire it built …
Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas Joe Lyles 2010
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Kenya, where Obama claims an extended family, and strong ties, now designated a "Kleptocracy",
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His regime became known as a "Kleptocracy," rule by theft.
News Dissector Blog 2009
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Today, I'm pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Justice is launching a new Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative aimed at combating large-scale foreign official corruption and recovering public funds for their intended - and proper - use: for the people of our nations.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Thugtatorship: The Highest Stage of African Dictatorship Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011
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Today, I'm pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Justice is launching a new Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative aimed at combating large-scale foreign official corruption and recovering public funds for their intended - and proper - use: for the people of our nations.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Thugtatorship: The Highest Stage of African Dictatorship Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011
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We are becoming a Kleptocracy with all power and money vested in a few predators.
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The department is also engaging with other foreign governments that have been victims of theft and high-level corruption under a new program, the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, which Attorney General Eric Holder unveiled in a July speech in Uganda.
U.S. in New Drug-Money Push Joseph Palazzolo 2010
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Ultimately the lack of internal controls leads to escalating corruption and the emergence of Kleptocracy as we saw with Duvalier and Mobutu, which in turn makes a state entirely unreliable and increasingly dysfunctional in economic and trade terms.
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