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1. AP Wire: Oklahoma Ethics Commission

   Body:  TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma Ethics Commission has voted unanimously to name a former U.S. attorney as the ...

   donmc - 2008-10-19 09:31

2. "Interest" vs. "Benefit"

   ... the cause of much misunderstanding, as well as weaknesses in ethics code drafting. Ethics codes are essentially conflict of interest ... other interest is the personal or financial interest of each government official or employee. These interests are usually, although not ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. Contingency Fees and Lobbying and Contracting with Attorneys General

   ... courts have seen contingency fee arrangements relating to government action as leading to corruption and harmful to the public's trust in ... these issues as procurement issues, not as government ethics, lobbying, or campaign finance issues. Government Ethics ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. A Gift of Books: Intellectual vs. Monetary Value

   ... this, others think the book is really useful. The ethics code says that no one can give any official "anything of value if it ... is not the monetary value of the book, which is what the ethics code assumes, but the book's ideas, its intellectual value. This makes ... City Related Ethics Codes Gifts Local Government Attorneys ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

5. DeKalb County (GA) Grand Jury Report on Procurement-Related Misconduct

   ... not only for indictments, but also for an improved ethics program. The story that the grand jury tells in its report is a classic ... puzzle that came out involved itself covered a wide range of government ethics violations:  misuse of office, nepotism, contingency fee ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

6. The Effect of Making a Legislative Immunity Defense

   ... posed by making a legislative immunity defense in the local government ethics context can be seen from reading the recommendation of the ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

7. Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind IV: Accountability

   ... recognition of the centrality of accountability not just in government, but in all our relations with people. "Human beings," he says, "are ... why it is the principal indirect goal of local government ethics. This can be more clearly seen in the results of Phil Tetlock's ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

8. A test of Various quotation options...

   ... to help protect it from an investigation by the city's ethics board . This blog post will look at why there is an investigation ... business with one's agency are prohibited by the Baltimore ethics code (§6-27), but there are, of course, exceptions, including a big ...

   donmc - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

9. Birmingham Mayor/Former Jefferson County Executive Arrested -- Gifts Central

   Body:  Type the word "ethics" into the Birmingham, AL website search box and nothing comes up. ... but he certainly hasn't done anything to reform the city's ethics laws, or at least to let anyone know about them. In fact, according to the City Ethics site, the ethics ordinance and board used to be on the city website, but ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 4 comments

10. Theories of a Legislator's Role That Lie Beneath Definitions of Corruption

    ... Deformation of Judgment. We see this theory in the common ethics code phrase, "impairment of an official's judgment." The unspoken theory ... This theory does not even recognize the validity of government ethics. That's a heavy blow:  the United States Supreme Court ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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