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What It Takes to Bring Down Government Leaders -- Thailand and Detroit
... stage and into a jail cell. You had a chance, on what could have been the most honest night of your life, to truly stand up, to change the ... of the spotlight. Instead of fessing up to a series of lies that paralyzed this city, cost it millions and turned it into an international ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Philadelphia's "Ethics Agenda": Making Ethics Central to a Mayoral Campaign
Body: Philadelphia's Committee of Seventy may be a little gray (it recently celebrated its 100th birthday), but in its 'reborn' ... these commitments (e.g., hiring people for their integrity, not their relationship to you), but it is hard to call the elected mayor on ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-16 12:29 - 0 comments
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Soft Landings and Other Revolving Door Matters
... between government and business. One thing I learned is that the first post-employment laws were passed in the 1850s and 1860s, and ... lawyers, a group that often argues that ethics laws should not apply to them (in fact, in Pennsylvania, someone said, revolving door laws ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Chicago Compliance and Integrity Survey
... 4, 2010 (see below) On December 15, Chicago published a Compliance and Integrity Survey that its Office of Compliance commissioned from the ... to a national average of 67%. The primary reason for not reporting was the belief that no corrective action would be taken. But ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Obama's First-Day Executive Orders on Ethics and Transparency. Mayors Take Note.
... It sends an important message to governments at all levels that even in the midst of economic crisis and war, ethics is a number one ... The Republican National Committee, which apparently does not understand waiver and recusal, immediately attacked the administration ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Don't Underestimate the Effects of Conflicts of Interest
Body: Back in January, I wrote a blog entry focusing on the lack of transparency in the credit rating business so central to the subprime mortgage mess that has brought the world economy to its knees. Transparency, it has ... rated. The rating firms are paid to give good ratings, and not to be too careful in their examination of the instruments. People and ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Broward County Ethics Reform Passes, But Budget Concerns Remain
... with authority over the county's municipalities. That barely passed, most likely because it's the only question that clearly involved expenses. There's already a new IG office, but it only has jurisdiction over the county commission. Its ... by guaranteed EC and IG budgets. Without these, you have a great program on paper and a lousy program in reality. That certainly ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Municipal Bid Rigging Nationwide and Ethics Day in Chicago
... will go to the municipalities and other organizations that issued bonds affected by the scheme. Were all the municipal officials ... would also bid out legal and financial advisory contracts, have stronger revolving door provisions, and require much more transparency in ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Non-Ethics Commission Ethics Oversight
... No complaint has been filed, but there appears to be a concern that the owner of a car towing company is using his position as a ... but he said the accusations were false and apparently did not investigate. The emergency operations center director says that the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Time Limits on Investigations
... Birmingham News , a day after an editorial in that same paper. Alabama's state ethics laws apply to local officials. ... good cause. Chicago has a one-year limit, but the time does not run as long as an investigation is suspended. So there are limits, but ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
