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Corruption Update

In international news, this just in:

The deputy prime minister of Pakistan and his wife were indicted Friday on charges that they took bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car for a range of corrupt acts, including using his influence over foreign affairs to benefit the authoritarian government of Egypt.

A search of the couple’s home turned up $100,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in hidden cash at their home, said prosecutors, who announced the charges nearly six years after an earlier criminal case against him ended with a deadlocked jury.

Oh, no, sorry, that was a United States senator, not the deputy prime minister of Pakistan. It can be easy to get confused.

Dominic Pino is the economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.
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