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1. Is Helping One's Industry Really Different from Helping One's Employer?

   Body:  The ethics rules of the Minnesota State Senate limit conflicts of interest to ... Star Tribune , a Minnesota senator brought to the ethics committee two bills she had sponsored that some argued involved a ... help her employer. The fact that she was employed by a local government agency doesn’t make a difference. It would be the same if she ...

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

2. A News Miscellany

   ... are central to town meetings. In addition, his town government clients often speak before the town meeting. How can their attorney ... for an alleged conflict of interest even though there is an ethics board for the school system. And the conflict itself is questionable. A ...

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

3. Nagle on Withdrawal As Cure for Campaign Contributions

   ... from those seeking benefits from the recipient official's government. The article, which focuses on Congress, is entitled " The Recusal ... (2000)). The Westminster Approach, named after a 1996 ethics law in Westminster, CO, requires an official who has received a ...

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

4. A New Punch Line in Cook County's Patronage Joke

   ... Cook County, Illinois, and although it's about whether a government lawyer has a conflict of interest, the matter falls into the area of government ethics in which Chicago and Cook County have led the way for decades: ...

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

5. The Latest on Placement Agents

   ... becomes a pension board member? Kentucky's are primarily government employees and political appointees focused on benefits rather ... requiring placement agents to register as lobbyists, attend ethics training, and not take finder's fees from money managers. Some agents ...

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6. The Responsibilities of a Lawyer Representing a Public Official

   ... end of a blog entry about Elizabeth Wolgast's book, Ethics of an Artificial Person: Lost Responsibility in Professions and ... has occurred there has been extremely harmful to the city's government and its reputation. To tell the mayor that under no circumstances ...

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

7. Personal Fundraising by Elected Officials

   ... debts. She says that the gifts were approved by the state ethics commission and by lawyers. She told the Boston Globe that the ... of love or friendship, and have no possible relationship to government business. It becomes a problem when family members and close ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

8. Shell Companies and Disclosure

   Body:  Transparency in government should not be limited only to officials. Disclosure rules should also apply to everyone seeking special benefits from government, such as contracts, permits, or grants. For one thing, without ... the best way to handle such disclosure is to place it in an ethics code, and have the rule require action by each of these areas to make ...

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

9. A Family of Elected Officials

   ... your participation, and promise to seek independent ethics counsel. Then you add that these occasions will be few. It's not as if a ... point about corruption, and is a problem when it comes to government ethics. The power is often behind the throne, in the hands of ...

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10. The Conflicts of Boards Acting in a Quasi-Judicial Manner

    ... , as well as the absolute immunity given to the Philadelphia ethics board due to its quasi-judicial activities in another recent blog post . But the only mention of an ethics law relating to quasi-judicial activities is in a comment to ...

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