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1. Report on Loopholes and End Runs Around Campaign Finance Laws from Center for Governmental Studies

   Body:  End runs around ethics and campaign finance laws are one of my favorite topics to write about. ... Governmental Studies in California has just published a report on this very topic (although focused on the campaign finance side), ... fundraising, and reimbursed travel. Although the report is 52 pages long, it's not at all daunting, because most of it consists ...

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

2. A Problematic Baltimore Legislative Immunity Decision

   ... therefore, requires the involvement of a state prosecutor, a grand jury, and the state court system. So the jurisdiction and powers of a ... at issue here. Nor can this case be distinguished from other civil and criminal cases, as it might be if it involved an independent ...

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

3. Conflicts Involving Reputation and Government Positions

   Body:  San Francisco's Conflict of Interest code has an unusual provision about voting ... not come up as an official action, the press would not report on his alleged conduct, or even on the motion. Effectively, the San ...

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

4. An Upside-Down Conflict of Interest

   ... something more. According to the second article, county grand jury recently questioned why three sets of highly-paid executives are required ...

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

5. The Next Stage in the Baltimore Legislative Immunity Case

   ... and a new indictment was made by a different grand jury. Dixon moved again to dismiss (click here to read her original ... to the grand jury that, as careful as he was to limit the content, could be considered, in a stretch, to be related to legislative ...

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

6. Disappointing Report from Ethics Task Force in Phoenix

   ... has followed Chicago in taking a task force approach to ethics reform. As in Chicago, the mayor selected the task force. The Ethics ... , consists of "prominent attorneys and judges," filed a report with the council on March 6. I have been unable to locate a copy of the ...

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

7. MILLER'S CROSSING

   ... Officer in 2007, the city was in crisis. A grand jury was investigating violations of state open-meeting laws by nearly ... but no evidence of a crime. Aside from a scathing report, there was no punishment for those involved. But just because ...

   donmc - 2015-05-15 14:34

8. 'Indictment Friday'' has become just another day

   ... officials, political insiders had been named in a series of grand jury indictments announced by Van Bokkelen, most on Friday afternoons in the ...

   donmc - 2006-01-12 11:56 - 0 comments

9. Broward County IG Report on Countywide Ethics Program

   ... (FL) inspector general filed a Review of the Existing Ethics Structure (attached; see below) of the countywide ethics program that ... approved by the county's voters in late 2010. The 21-page report focuses on a two-part reform recommendation:  (1) an ethics officer who ...

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

10. Attorney-Client Privilege and Financial Disclosure: A New NYC Bar Association Report

    ... lawyers, and have the ability to draft ethics laws. A report by the New York City Bar Association, Reforming New York State's ... might expose the client to an official investigation or to civil or criminal liability. The New York City Recommendation The NY ...

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

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