As a postscript to the Jersey Sting,
on Wednesday, according to a
Justice Department press release, the former CFO and CEO of a
company that reconditioned and sold athletic equipment to schools and
universities were...
Placement agents are intermediaries between pension boards and
companies that invest pension boards' funds. They are paid by the
investment companies to win...
Kerry Cavanaugh, a Los Angeles Daily News columnist, got it wrong when
she started a
recent
column, "Here's another reminder that politicians are not
like you or me. If I get caught taking inappropriate gifts or violating
the company's ethics policy, I might be fired, suspended without pay or
forced to open my wallet to pay the penalty. If a politician gets caught
breaking the rules on the job, he or she can...
In a
letter
to the editor in yesterday's New York Times, two lawyers who
represent clients seeking to gut Arizona's Citizens Clean Elections
public campaign financing program end by calling Arizona's program "a
vision of unconstitutional
dystopia, not free speech."
I administer the public campaign financing program in New Haven, CT.
These programs are intended to...
Wow! Get a Load of Those Salaries!
It's official. People get more upset over big salaries to government
officials than over bribes, kickbacks, unbid contracts, and the like,
which cost taxpayers far, far more.