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Ethical Government and Ethical Conduct: A Statistical Study
... we could do a similar test for people from, say, Memphis and Chicago versus ... versus where? What cities do have the most ethical ...
Robert Wechsler - 2007-08-04 08:44 - 0 comments
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The Supreme Court Is to Consider How Honest Services Fraud Jives with Ethics Laws
... what is known as "honest services fraud," which is actually part of a definition of "scheme or artifice to defraud" in the federal mail and ... not to take an honest services fraud case, which involved Chicago officials. Soon after, the Court chose to take two honest services ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Regional Solution to Regional Corruption
... Illinois is an excellent example. Although it is Chicago that is famous for ethical misconduct, many of the cities, counties, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Patrick Fitzgerald on Solutions to Corruption
... bribery he was investigating "was just the way it is in Chicago. ... My response is, 'That's the way you're allowing it to be. We ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Disclosure of Local Government Lobbyist Fees
... added, “I know of no municipality that has lobbyists report their fees.” The idea that fees are proprietary information in ... me, so I did some research. Here is what I found. Chicago requires the periodic disclosure by lobbyists of their fees, to the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Self-Serving Ethics
... in the Village of Niles, a northwest suburb of Chicago (pop. 30,000), are putting it at the center of their campaigns. But ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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On Location: COGEL Meets in the Midst of Serious Unethical Behavior
... ethics issues. Last year, the conference was held in Chicago the day Gov. Blagojevich was arrested. This year, the conference was ... officials." So far in 2009, intra-county suits have run up $2.5 million in attorney fees. But the sheriff is on the warpath, so he wants a ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Independent Redistricting (and Ethics) Works
... also referred to as utilitarian or consequentialist; and (2) a means-based approach, also referred to as rules-based or deontological. ... The academic is Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos (U. of Chicago Law School), the problem is redistricting, and the name of his ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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Council Fiefdoms and Unethical Behavior
... a good example of this in a recent blog post about a Chicago alderman whose realtor wife did very well with companies given zoning ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Ethics Reform in Niles (IL): Don't Try This at Home
... attempts at ethics reform in the village of Niles, outside Chicago. A lot has happened since then, but in terms of an ethics program, not ... early October the village's board of ethics agreed, in a 3-2 vote, to send its draft ethics code to the village board, which could make ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
