Word: conflict-of-interest
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...Wall Street Journal noted that it has a policy designed to prevent such cases: new employees are expected to sign a 3½ -page conflict-of-interest statement. Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine said the case left the paper with "a collective sense of shock, outrage and betrayal...
That concern was being discussed at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue last week. Presidential Counsel Fred Fielding is worried-because of low pay, conflict-of-interest suspicions, financial disclosure requirements and press probing of their private lives-about the increasing difficulty of luring citizens into executive positions. What troubles Fielding most is the growing assumption that a person of achievement from the private sector who agrees to take an important Administration post must have an ulterior motive-and therefore must prove his honorable intentions. Excellent people still volunteer for Government service, notes Fielding. "But I wonder how many talented...
...Massachusetts conflict-of-interest statute forbids awarding any municipal contract to a relative of a government employee. Violations are punishable by fines up to $1,000. To clear the air, Selectman Alan Wilder (who is also on the board of health and the planning, cemetery, police and conservation commissions) last week asked the legislature in Boston to exempt Cuttyhunk from the antinepotism provision. "You can't get anything fixed," complained Wilder...
...President also ordered the Justice Department to investigate whether EPA employees shredded subpoenaed documents and whether the agency's ousted assistant administrator, Rita Lavelle, violated conflict-of-interest laws. In addition, the Administration agreed to settle the case of EPA Whistle Blower Hugh Kaufman, who had charged that Lavelle and other agency officials had harassed him after he publicly criticized the EPA'S sluggish record on purging poisonous wastes. Kaufman's "unsatisfactory" rating was The struck and his pay made...
That was only the beginning. The Columbia board, anxious to reverse its chief officer's decision, reopened a possible conflict-of-interest question regarding Hirschfield's wife Berte, who was briefly employed by a market-research firm serving the studio as well as other clients. Hirschfield retaliated by inviting other corporations to buy a major interest in the studio, among them Philip Morris and Time Inc. When the search failed, he refused to retract a sulfurous memo aimed at fellow Board Member Matty Rosenhaus. The Geritol magnate's reaction: " 'You're a liar! A liar...