Weekender: Kleptocrats, Bad Apples and Crazy Corruption

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Brazen Weekender! I'm Charlie, a producer at Project Brazen, and this is the newsletter where I share what the team has been watching, reading and listening to this week. I seem to have inadvertently compiled a corruption bonanza to kick off your weekend, with picks about the oligarchs who beat British democracy, New York's rotten apples and a brilliant new podcast about American kleptocracy. But fear not, there's plenty for everyone in here — let's get into it!

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