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1. Serious Penalties — Criminal vs. Civil

   ... just happened to appear in my e-mail inbox today. The Massachusetts Ethics Commission reached a disposition agreeement (attached; see ...

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

2. The Ethics of Taxing Nonprofits' Property

   ... article mentions one egregious example: the Northampton, Massachusetts assessor argued that Smith College engages in sex discrimination ...

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

3. Ethics Settlements and Admissions of Wrongdoing

   ... require admission of wrongdoing, as they do, for example, in Massachusetts and in the City Ethics Model Code (see §213.5 ). The public ...

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

4. Report on Annual Reports I

   ... and employees, as well as for other cities. Massachusetts' state ethics commission has jurisdiction over state and local ...

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

5. Contingency Fees and Lobbying and Contracting with Attorneys General

   ... profit incentive is a very, very bad thing.” And a former Massachusetts AG is quoted as saying that this practice "seriously threatens ...

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

6. Pension Fund Boards and Conflicts of Interest

   ... can be serious losses, as, for example, has been seen in Massachusetts according to a recent article in the Boston Globe . There, ...

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

7. A Good Example of a Bad Government Organizational Culture

   ... to have been limited to high-level management. The U.S. Department of the Interior seems to be an excellent example of a terrible ... is very different from that of Interior's management. The Massachusetts police officer moved on to handling white-collar crime for the ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2007-02-16 12:18 - 0 comments

8. Revolving Door Provisions in Local Government Ethics Codes

   ... officials can find their prohibitions all in one place. Massachusetts includes former local officials in its gift ban when gifts are ...

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

9. Winter Reading: Zephyr Teachout's "The Forgotten Law of Lobbying"

   ... to contracts in Oscayan v. Arms Co. ., 103 US 261, 276 (1880):  "[W]here, instead of placing before the officers of the ... The first lobbying registration law was passed in Massachusetts in 1890. Soon other states followed. Registration started the ...

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

10. Full Text of Model Ethics Code

    ... degrees), there are five degrees of consanguinity between us. In law, because consanguinity is for the purpose of defining incest, it ... (and respondent is permitted to respond with an affidavit). Massachusetts provides three alternatives to a settlement agreement: (i) a ...

    donmc - 2015-08-18 14:41 - 0 comments

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