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1. Summer Reading: Beyond Culture

   ... Beyond Culture (Anchor Books, 1976), is not a government ethics book. But a lot of the wisdom in this brilliant book can be applied to ... each event separately, as they come along. Similarly, ethics reform tends to occur piecemeal rather than comprehensively. A -Chronic ...

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

2. A Circuit Judge in Chicago Gets the Government Attorney-Client Privilege Wrong

   ... This most likely applies to the board of ethics, as well. Whose Privilege Is It? The attorney-client ... It is important to put duty to cooperate provisions in ethics codes (see §213(6) of the City Ethics Model Code ). But it isn't the corporation counsel who is not ...

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

3. EC Independence and Initiative in Kentucky

   ... took an unflattering look at Kentucky's legislative ethics commission. As in New York State, a central problem appears to be the ... There is a very real possibility of reprisal. ... Now the ethics commission can sit there and do nothing in the face of legislative ...

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

4. Clean Water and Clean Hands

   ... What do clean water laws have to do with government ethics laws? According to an article in today's New York Times , there are ... One, the water in Scottsdale, AZ, where government ethics professionals just congregated for a conference, has high amounts of ...

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

5. NY's Moreland Commission Recommendations Too Criminally Oriented

   ... government practices, as well. Those involving government ethics criminalize it, and an important recommendation is both too much and too ... Disclosure Enforcement/Penalties Ethics Reform States and Municipal Ethics ...

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

6. A Criminal Failure

   Body:  I hate to harp so often on the problem of ethics matters being handled by criminal authorities, but when I read ... money to his own nonprofit? That certainly belongs before an ethics commission, and there would be no need for a two-year investigation. ...

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

7. Another Attempt to Amend the Speech or Debate Clause in R.I.

   ... member shall be questioned in any other place, except by the ethics commission as set forth  in Article III, section 8 of this ... proposed yesterday by five state representatives in House Bill 2001-H 5410. The Rhode Island ethics commission has jurisdiction over ...

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

8. Do Gifts Establish Subordination?

   ... and less expensive to prove. In an effective government ethics program, they can prevent most of the gifts that could be considered ... relevant section of my free digital book Local Government Ethics Programs. Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City ...

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

9. EC Members Aiding or Supporting Political Candidates

   ... blog post this week , the chair of the Honolulu Ethics Commission resigned on April 22. Although his letter of resignation ... mayoral candidate's campaign and did not want to violate the ethics code. However, the blog post provides a great deal of evidence that ...

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

10. Judicial Dismissal of Toronto's Mayor

    ... but the way the mayor handled it and the way Toronto's ethics laws relating to council members, including Ontario's Municipal ... needy children). Here I would like to focus on the ethics enforcement process that led to the mayor's dismissal by a judge. ... the donations. Or he would have fought the matter before an ethics commission or hearing officer, would have been found to have ...

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

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