{"id":6598,"date":"2020-06-23T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T21:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2020-11-11T00:57:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:57:13","slug":"wirecard-curse-finance-bill-black-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/wirecard-curse-finance-bill-black-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finance Curse &#8211; Part 1 &#8211; Wirecard &#038; Elite Fraud | With White-Collar Criminologist Bill Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>The Finance Curse &#8211; Part 1 &#8211; Wirecard &amp; Elite Fraud | With White-Collar Criminologist Bill Black<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In the first part of our interview series with former financial regulator, author and white collar criminologist William Bill Black, we discuss the latest scandal surrounding the German financial services company called Wirecard. In addition, we examine Bill Black&#8217;s work on the three epidemics of elite control fraud and predation and how they led to the financial crisis of 2008.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: The\u00a0Finance Curse\u00a0&#8211; Wirecard &amp; Elite Fraud | With White-Collar Criminologist Bill Black<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Finance Curse Part 1 - Wirecard &amp; Elite Fraud | With White-Collar Criminologist Bill Black\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2CCzHjOgk38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT BILL BLACK<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Rimini.best-smile-e1568719525563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5692 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Rimini.best-smile-e1568719525563-150x150.jpg\" width=\"101\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><strong>Bill Black<\/strong>\u00a0is a professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri \u2013 Kansas City (UMKC) and the Distinguished Scholar in Residence for Financial Regulation at the University of Minnesota Law School.\u00a0 He is a white-collar criminologist. He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He was a senior financial regulator instrumental in \u2018reregulating\u2019 the Savings &amp; Loan industry to counter the debacle and aiding the successful prosecution of over 1,000 elite white-collar criminals.\u00a0 He is a co-founder of Bank Whistleblowers United. He authored\u00a0<i>The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One\u00a0<\/i>with blurbs from Paul Volcker and George Akerlof.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview with white collar criminologist William Bill Black, we discuss the curse of finance and the Wirecard scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[20952],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","channel-the-source"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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