From Red Notice to Magnitsky Law
Credit: en.wikipedia.org Nguyen Van Than 30/01/2020 Red notice is a book by Bill Browder who successfully lobbied for the Magnitsky Act in the US, Canada and Europe. Browder was born in 1964 in the US. His grandfather, Earl Browder was a union leader in Kansas. Earl was invited to Moscow in 1926 and trained to become a Communist leader. He married a Russian woman and had 3 sons. The eldest was Felix. Earl brought his family back to the US and settled in New York in 1932. He represented the United States Communist Party and ran for presidents in 1936 and 1940. He did not win but gained 80,000 votes. This was enough to make President Roosevelt anxious. In 1941, Earl was arrested and sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for passport offences. However, he was released just after one year as the US and Soviet union were becoming allies going into World War II. After the war ended, Earl was constantly harassed thanks to Senator McCarthy’s Communist witch hunt program. His wife decided to teac