Translator: Joseph Geni
Reviewer: Morton Bast
Okay, this morning I'm speaking
on the question of corruption.
And corruption is defined
as the abuse of a position of trust
for the benefit of yourself -- or, in the case of our context,
your friends, your family or your financiers.
Okay? Friends, family and financiers.
But we need to understand what we understand about corruption,
and we need to understand that
we have been miseducated about it, and we have to admit that.
We have to have the courage to admit that
to start changing how we deal with it.
The first thing is that the big myth, number one,
is that in fact it's not really a crime.
When we get together with friends and family
and we discuss crime in our country,
crime in Belmont or crime in Diego or crime in Marabella,
nobody's speaking about corruption.
That's the honest truth.
When the Commissioner of Police comes on TV to talk about crime,