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1. Don't Underestimate the Effects of Conflicts of Interest

   ... in the open, they can be very difficult to fix. Just look at Chicago and Memphis, for example. Sometimes it takes bigger examples to ...

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

2. A City Attorney Providing Ethics Advice in a Big City Is Indefensible

   ... - ethics commission (EC) staff Los Angeles - EC staff Chicago - EC staff Houston - city attorney Philadelphia - EC staff ...

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

3. Ethical Dilemma

   ... response to the invitation was disappointing," a committee report notes. The Fordham Committee submitted its recommendations to newly ... now looking into allegations made by hospital executives in Chicago. They claim that a banker from Bear Stearns Co. flexed his muscles to ...

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

4. Telling Local Government Officials About Honest Services Fraud

   ... definition of honest services fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1346, part of the mail and wire fraud statute ): For the purposes of this ... fraud provision). * Sorich v. U.S . is a case where Chicago employees were found to have engaged in fraudulent political-patronage ...

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

5. The Philadelphia Ethics Board's Proposed Gift Regulation

   ... uses the term "directly or indirectly." This is part of the basic gratuity provision. However, with gifts one needs to ... staff says that a lower limit, say $50, as in New York and Chicago, would require numerous exceptions, because friends who happen to be ...

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

6. Compliance and Conflicts in Tallahassee: The Organization Interest vs. The Public Interest

   ... The most telling result of the survey done as part of the audit is that 34% of Tallahassee employees indicated that they were ... of Tallahassee's decision to opt for compliance. Like the Chicago compliance program, whose survey I discussed in a recent blog post , ...

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

7. Section 1: Conflict of Interest

   ... the immediate family of a member of a board, commission or task force is employed by the City of New Haven; Where ... Comment: As has been shown so skillfully in Chicago, patronage involves both promises of jobs in return for political ...

   donmc - 2006-11-23 22:28 - 0 comments

8. It Takes a Village: Behind the Indictment of Philadelphia's Vincent Fumo

   ... it for all the work he does for the people. Places such as Chicago and Louisiana have, in the past, accepted this view of government. But ...

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

9. Ethics Commissions

   ... and alternate members must be residents of the city. 2. No member of the Ethics Commission may be, or have been within the three ... Northwest Indiana, not far from that great ethics center of Chicago. The SEC (are the initials intentional?) hopes to include 15 ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2009-06-09 06:02 - 5 comments

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