The big picture: Corruption scandals are magnified by each other. Theranos and Goldman Sachs and Martin Shkreli and Purdue Pharma and the Fyre Festival and the Catholic Church and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and parking placard abuse and police violence and all the various Trump administration scandals aren't bad apples: They're part of a pattern, one that the American public is hyperaware of. These headlines foment mistrust in the fairness of the entire system.

Be smart: Western countries are generally perceived as less corrupt than most countries in Africa. But perceptions don't always mirror reality. "Our current corruption discourse is a form of geopolitical racial profiling," says Olopade. Any given act of corruption tends to get blamed on an individual actor in the West, while being considered symptomatic of a broader malaise in a place like Nigeria.

• Okwui Enwezor, the great Nigerian art curator, moved to America from Nigeria in the 1980s and found what he described as "a very affluent but unjust society."
• Nordic companies, especially, are more than capable of highly corrupt activity, without Norway or Sweden being considered corrupt countries.
• "Despite the big scandals hitting Siemens or Daimler or Volkswagen," deadpans Olopade, "I never encounter polite grimaces when discussing doing business in Germany."
• Meanwhile, Western nations and institutions are more than happy to play host to African kleptocrats.

The bottom line: The Mueller report has refocused America's attention on malfeasance during the 2016 election campaign. But as Robert Rotberg puts it in his book about corruption, “Greed never stops at the edge of a presidential palace." The more frequently everyday Americans are reminded that our system is rigged, the less they're going to be willing participants in that system.

• Gibney is the real deal, having previously done well-received docs on Enron and Scientology. Last night he participated in a panel discussion with Axios' Ina Fried, and you can find highlights here.

A few things that jumped out:

• A reminder that Thomas Edison, for whom Theranos' blood-testing machine was named, was Silicon Valley's original "fake it 'til you make it" entrepreneur.
• James Mattis, the former Theranos director who later served as President Trump's secretary of Defense, was asked by The New Yorker's Ken Auletta to describe Elizabeth Holmes. The first word he used was "integrity."
• More from Auletta, who also spoke to Theranos directors like Henry Kissinger and George Schultz: "They were talking about her as if she were Beethoven."
• Tim Draper makes a brief appearance, highlighted by his purple tie with gold Bitcoin logos.
• The widow of Ian Gibbons, a Theranos biochemist who killed himself before testifying at a trial that would have threatened Holmes' claim to key patents, said that she never heard from Holmes or the company, save for a request to return confidential documents (which she did).
• Carreyrou provided audio of his initial meeting with Theranos attorneys, including David Boies and Heather King. Boies comes off as a hysterical bully.
• The documentary's star may be Roger Parloff, my former Fortune colleague who wrote the first major magazine cover story on Holmes.
• After reading the first WSJ story, Parloff thought: "All of the 'trade secret' stuff suddenly made sense. It wasn't a trade secret. It was a different type of secret."
• Parloff later wrote a mea culpa titled How Theranos Misled Me. Holmes called to complain, specifically requesting that Parloff remove a line about being misled "intentionally." She then allegedly told him that she had never realized he would be writing a long profile in the first place, let alone a cover (even though he spent several days with her, and she sat for an extensive photo shoot).
• "This was real lunacy. I realized there was something wrong with her mind."

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