Legal Framework

United Nations Convention against Corruption — Article 5

Requires states to develop and implement comprehensive anti-corruption policies reflecting rule of law, transparency, integrity, and accountability, with civil society participation.

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DOGE Shuts Down Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: 'CFPB RIP'

DOGE operationally shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a Congressionally-created agency protecting 330 million Americans from financial fraud — by ordering staff to cease all work, …

  • On February 8, 2025, CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought ordered all staff and contractors to 'not perform any work tasks,' effectively …
  • DOGE deleted the CFPB's X (Twitter) account and gained administrative access to the agency's internal computer systems, content management …

Systematic Pardons of Political Allies and Financial Criminals — $1.3 Billion in Victim Restitution Erased

A systematic pattern of pardons benefiting political allies, donors, and financial criminals. Over half of 88 clemency grants went to white-collar offenders, erasing $1.3 billion in victim …

  • More than half of 88 individual pardons through January 2026 went to people convicted of white-collar crimes — money laundering, bank fraud, …
  • House Judiciary Democrats calculated that Trump's pardons erased $1.3 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare fraud, …