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Corruption Surrounding the Building of Barriers in Venice, Italy
... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics --- Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics: ... Contractors and Vendors Ethics Environments Family Members/Nepotism Gifts ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Rights of Apes, and Duties of Government Officials
... is why legislative immunity should not apply to government ethics matters, and these matters should be handled outside the legislature, by a government ethics program. Like rights, these duties are central to our democratic ...
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Fixing a Hole in a Post-Employment Provision
... simply emphasizes his own weakness regarding government ethics regulation. According to an article in the Pantagraph this ... right to say that if the governor "were truly serious about reform, he would order his entire administration not to take [his former chief ...
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Local Government Officials' Obligations with Respect to Federal Laws
... blog entries on various topics. I wrote about him and ethics recidivism , to show how important it is to deal with a ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics: ...
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A Restricted Source Involved in a Preferential Arrest and a Questionable Third-Party Candidacy
... to help another candidate win, the government's election or ethics commission or, if there is none or they do not act, a good government ... "a standard ploy of county politics"). 5. Many ethics laws leave out the important phrase "directly or indirectly," and they ...
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Lots of Good Faith in San Diego, and Still a Conflict of Interest Mess
... The CCDC even hired Bob Stern, California's ethics guru, to help it work things out the right way in the present and the ... office as a criminal case, rather than by the city's ethics commission (failure to disclose a conflict is a misdemeanor). She may ... been reached more quickly and far less expensively by an ethics commission. Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City ...
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A Cure for Transparency Problems: A Model Website and Blog
... goes on at night. At its heart, transparency is just another ethics issue: putting personal interests ahead of the public interest. That ... a new administration devoted to transparency and government ethics. My website and blog were nonpartisan, with no relation to any ...
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Green Bay Punts on Lobbying Law
... See a 2011 blog post on Green Bay's serious lack of ethics leadership . Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics --- Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics: ...
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The Costs of Corruption
... no one is convicted of a crime or found to have violated an ethics provision. These costs include the higher costs to government when ... the far less expensive prevention mechanisms of government ethics programs, including training, advice, and disclosure. Robert ...
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A New Report and New Book on State and Federal Ethical Misconduct
... especially self-dealing. Extortion A government ethics book is big news this week. It is Peter Schweizer's Extortion: How ... However, it does do one useful thing for local government ethics: it emphasizes that what is often portrayed as industries, business ...
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