Word: conflict-of-interest
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...allegedly too lax. At the time, John Castellani, head of the prestigious Business Roundtable, said the CalPERS attack on Buffett was "an absurdity." Then, when CalPERS targeted management at Safeway Inc., the grocer that took a hard line against Harrigan's union during a strike last year, conflict-of-interest charges rained down. "Harrigan overreached," says Karen Hanretty, spokesperson for the state Republican Party, which has publicly criticized him and CalPERS all year...
In calculating his odds of getting confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and his advisers had reckoned they could handle the issue of Kerik's reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure...
...decision in U.S. District Court is likely to resolve a second count of fraud against Shleifer. The count largely hinged on whether Shleifer, a star in the economics department, was bound by a conflict-of-interest provision that barred employees from making investments in countries to which they were “assigned...
Under the second charge of fraud, Shleifer could also be found liable for violating the conflict-of-interest provision in USAID’s contracts with the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
...Cambridge while serving as adviser the project, he was not “assigned to” Russia. Rolling out their own former HIID director, lawyers for Shleifer and Harvard will call Dwight H. Perkins, the Burbank professor of political economy, to testify that USAID’s conflict-of-interest provision did not apply to Shleifer and others working on the project in Cambridge...