Word: conflict-of-interest
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...Wolfowitz and his lawyers prevailed on their terms - he received a qualified statement of support about whether he had violated conflict-of-interest rules when he intervened on behalf of Shaha Ali Riza, his girlfriend. The Board noted Wolfowitz's assurances that he had performed in good faith. The Board said it would "accept" those assurances, a remarkable outcome considering the circumstances. And so Wolfowitz, satisfied that his name and honor were still intact, tendered his resignation, effective at the end of June. He had to go; he had become a distraction...
...University. FAS officials and Shleifer declined to comment on the details of the professor’s punishment. The Crimson first reported the conclusion of a months-long investigation of Shleifer on Thursday. The ethics inquiry centered on allegations that the professor had violated Harvard conflict-of-interest rules when he made private investments in the Russian economy while advising a federally funded and Harvard-run aid program in the country. A federal judge found Shleifer liable for conspiring to defraud the U.S. government in 2004, and Harvard last year paid $26.5 million to settle the case, while Shleifer...
...ethics inquiry had centered on allegations that the economist violated Harvard conflict-of-interest rules by making private investments in the Russian economy while advising a federally funded and Harvard-run aid program in the country...
Shleifer’s case had involved questions of whether Shleifer was bound by conflict-of-interest rules while he was advising the Harvard program in Russia, according to Feldman. Shleifer had maintained that he was not subject to the conflict-of-interest rules...
After the magazine’s editors kicked FM out of its own birthday party, most headed to the Quad while digesting delicious clown cake, maybe pondering on their way whether FM’s writing about itself qualifies as conflict-of-interest. Outside the LSluts Party in Pfoho (A+ for cleverness), one freshman girl innocently inquired “Where is Belltower? Is that a dorm?” Hasty Pudding Theatricals celebrated the birthdays of Josh M. Brener ’07 and Ben K. Kawaller ’07 in style in the Gilbert Living Room, complete...