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A Reminder About Ethical Reminders
... In a government bureaucracy, how often are there reminders about the city's ethics code? A few cities require posters on the wall that ... is reminded, sometimes explicitly, but always implicitly, about such values as efficiency, workability, loyalty, and professionalism. Is ...
Robert Wechsler - 2008-03-20 09:48
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A Reminder About Ethical Reminders
... In a government bureaucracy, how often are there reminders about the city's ethics code? A few cities require posters on the wall that ... is reminded, sometimes explicitly, but always implicitly, about such values as efficiency, workability, loyalty, and professionalism. Is ...
Robert Wechsler - 2008-03-16 09:11 - 0 comments
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Zygmunt Bauman on Responsibility, Trust, Self-Deception, and More
... Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? (Harvard University Press)). The Purpose of Government Ethics Bauman talks about the fact that the value of morality is not something that can be proven. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Telling Local Government Officials About Honest Services Fraud
... place limits on the interpretation of the statute. He wrote about "the prospect of federal prosecutors’ (or federal courts’) creating ... deal directly with this statute, it is important to know about and understand. It is especially important to let local government ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Being Too Careful About Conflicts
... message to members of the community and you miseducate them about government ethics. This is what happened this week in my own town of ... herself. The first selectman seems most concerned about the husband's resignation, but he has no idea why the husband resigned ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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An Entertaining Film About the Mishandling of a Conflict Situation
... starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd) to be a revelatory movie about the mishandling of conflicts of interest situations. But it is. Not in government (it's about a university admissions employee), but the situations are easily ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Local IG Makes Charges About Campaign Treasurer Acting As Auditor
... sheriff's campaign treasurer. What is most interesting about these letters is that no local or state ethics provision is cited for the ... manager ... testified that legal settlements cost only about $195,000." Since there is a big controversy, in which the sheriff is ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Deception About Ethics Commission Approval and Another Problem with Ethics Self-Regulation
... Times-Union , although a criminal trial, "this case is about conflicts of interest. It's about failure to disclose conflicts of interest, and it's about concealment ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Educating the Public About the Limited Role of an Ethics Commission
... the money back. County commissioners are up in arms about what happened, with many calling for his resignation. But the ethics ... it clear what the EC should have done: educate the public about its limited but important role in the community: dealing with conflicts ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Caring About Process
... of Representatives says, "the American people don’t care about process" in a news conference (the context was the process ... to law school, nor have "the American people." But they care about and understand process more than she seems to think. John Harwood, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
