Florida Forum celebrates 30th Season for Women’s Board
Speaker’s relevance to Ukraine War, Russian corruption on display
Conspiracy. Crime. Corruption. The Women’s Board of Wolfson Children’s Hospital kicked off the Florida Forum’s season with Bill Browder, Sept. 20, with stories that seem stranger than fiction. Mr. Browder entertained the crowd at the Jacksonville Performing Arts Center, his timely talks of corruption painted an interesting picture of Vladimir Putin, his cohorts, and the oligarchs running the county.
As the largest foreign investor in Russia in the early 2000s, he was deemed a ‘threat to national security’ by Russian officials after unearthing corruption. Alongside his trusted attorney, Sergei Magnitsky, the pair discovered financial crimes against Hermitage Capital Group, Browder’s fund, by officials and oligarchs within the Russian state. He lost his friend and attorney Magnitsky, who testified about a massive U.S. $230 million dollar fraud and was subsequently murdered while imprisoned for his role in unearthing the actors involved. Since 2005, Browder has been on Vladimir Putin’s hit list.
Browder has gone on to publish two books about the experiences he has lived. In addition to Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, in Feb. 2015, and his second book, Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath, was recently released in April 2022; Browder continues to fight for policy he’s helped to craft regarding visa bans and freezing of assets for human rights abusers around the world. Passage of the Sergei Magnitzky Accountability Act in 2012, as well as the Global Magnitzky Human Rights Accountability Act of 2016 have been pursued passionately by Browder, who’s deep fondness for his friend fuels the fire for further legislative action across the globe.
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