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A Pulitzer Center-supported investigation by Jeff Ernst for Univision explores a vast network of corruption in Honduras, where politicians use dubious nonprofits to funnel government contracts to themselves, among other schemes. In the best of circumstances, Ernst writes, one government fund was “a mechanism to influence votes from constituents. In the worst, it was a get-rich-quick scheme, a slush fund for political campaigns or a tool for buying votes in the 128-member Congress.” The independent agency responsible for investigating public corruption closes in six months, which means even many egregious cases are likely to go unprosecuted.
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