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No One Has Ever Made a Corruption Machine Like This One

There’s graft, and then there’s Odebrecht graft.
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Illustrator: Simon Abranowicz for Bloomberg Businessweek

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By late summer 2015, the men running bribery at the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht SA were plotting another operation—not to rig a contract, which was their bread and butter, or to meddle in the politics of a sovereign nation, as they’d done on many occasions, but this time to save themselves.