Word: conflict-of-interest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WASHINGTON--The government's top ethics officer asked the Justice Department yesterday to investigate whether Michael K. Deaver, a former White House aide who operates a lobbying business, violated conflict-of-interest laws...
Next day the Wall Street Journal disclosed that in March Deaver sounded out Fred Fielding, the departing White House counsel, about a job with Deaver's firm. At the time, Fielding's office happened to be conducting an inquiry into possible conflict-of-interest violations by Deaver. Fielding was not interested in the job feeler, but he quickly withdrew from the probe...
Ironically, many of the present excesses stem from laudable reforms of the past. In 1974, California passed a measure requiring detailed disclosure of campaign contributions and spending. But the law's conflict-of-interest provisions, which forbid many practices that give the appearance of quid pro quo fund raising, apply only to local officials, not to state legislators. The disclosure rules, moreover, enable politicians to trace the source of their opponents' funding and seek parity...
...Crimson as a major source of funding for the Forum (and identified in the magazine's acknowledgements only by his administrative title, Dean for Undergraduate Education). The President and Fellows of the Forum would do well in the future to avoid the appearance of such an editorial conflict-of-interest...
...Moines Register went so far as to call for Block's resignation on conflict-of-interest grounds. Said the paper: "If he proposes bold new programs to help debt-ridden farmers," Block will be accused of "serving his own financial interests," and if he does not, "there will be the suspicion that the Secretary avoided the issue for the sake of appearances or that he is among a select group of farmers who will benefit if the Government doesn't intervene in the crisis." Block's response: "This is another example of how ridiculous election-year politics...