Summary: Our guest today is the man living rent-free in Vladimir Putin’s head - human rights activist and driving force behind the Magnitsky Acts, Bill Browder.<br> <br> Show Rundown -<br> <br> Interview with Bill Browder: At one time the largest foreign investor in Russia, Bill Browder was banned from the country in 2005 for refusing to play ball with Russia’s corrupt oligarchy. Not long afterward, his friend and attorney Sergei Magnitsky was killed in a Russian prison after being arrested for continuing Browder’s work of exposing corruption there. Since then, Browder has successfully lobbied a number of countries to pass “Magnitsky Acts,” which freeze the assets and revoke visas of Russia’s oligarchs. His advocacy has hit Vladimir Putin so hard that he was the one person Putin mentioned by name at the Helsinki summit. We discuss Bill’s work, the current state of Russian affairs, and his thoughts on the Trump Administration.<br> <br> POS Nuggets: The Disney and Fox merger is approved, and we discuss how it might affect sports coverage. Bryce Harper might get dealt from the Nationals. The Koch brothers have drawn Donald Trump’s ire.<br> <br> True Champion: An easy, unanimous decision.
