But not all corrupt dictators face the same constraints.
Private property is wonderful but Haiti's elite who exist on black slave labor and whose business transactions have been corrupt must face greater scrutiny from all Americans.
One panel presents a picture of the world run by a rich and violent cheat who acts like a king and requires his slaves to be corrupt or face banishment.
Right across Latin America, parliamentary immunity has long been abused to prevent the corrupt from facing justice.
But it's clear that executives who want to be corrupt have faced few obstacles.
Under the BCB's code, an individual who pleads guilty or is later found guilty by tribunal of failing to report a corrupt approach faces sanction, which could include a global suspension of between one to five years.
When Ryan's successor, the now-disgraced, cartoonishly-corrupt Rod Blagojevich, faced the same budget gaps in 2003, he also tried to close older prisons in Pontiac, Vandalia and St. Charles.
(After the "Access Hollywood" tape emerged, in early October, Romney tweeted, "Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world").
It's insider-trading when ordinary citizens do it, but a loophole in the law makes it perfectly legal – if wholly corrupt on its face – for legislators to engage in the exact same practices.
Mr. Outhwaite's team, for example, has uncovered a prenuptial agreement in which Faiza bat Solomon made her fiancé, Tobias — nicknamed "Son of a Buffoon" — promise to "abandon foolishness and idiocy," and "not associate with corrupt men," or face a hefty penalty of 10 gold dinars.
