Word: conflict-of-interest
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...former Treasury Secretary William Simon: "It is just ridiculous. We're going to end up with nothing but academics and neuters." Says Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, also once considered as a possible Treasury Secretary: "Had the people present at our Constitutional Convention been obliged to pass the conflict-of-interest test, it is doubtful that many of them could have got through the door...
...well as spartan salary scales for top federal jobs, has clearly slowed the appointment process at the sub-Cabinet level. Fred Fielding, the transition's conflict-of-interest counsel, proposes modifications, such as requiring an appointee to disclose the nature of each of his assets without having to specify the exact amount of those over $10,000. Says he: "It is conflicts, not wealth, that the public is concerned with." He also suggests that financial disclosure be made only to congressional committees, not to the public...
...Conflict-of-interest difficulties also may have affected Reagan's choice for Secretary of the Treasury, a senior post whose occupant will be an especially close adviser. After the G.O.P. ultras and moderates had fought to a draw over who should occupy the chair, Reagan picked a man acceptable to both camps: Walter Wriston, 63, chairman of Manhattan's Citibank, second largest in the U.S. Wriston is one of the energetic creators of modern, expansionist, risk-taking banking, yet his views are unimpeachably conservative...
...week investigation by The Crimson has revealed a consistent picture of conflict-of-interest, nepotism and misuse of public office by one of Somerville's most powerful political families. Second of a two-part series...
...brother raised the assessment by $900. He says he did this because the property had increased in value after his earlier assessment because it was no longer vacant. But Alderman Puglia charges that Howe raised the assessment only when he found out he was being investigated for conflict-of-interest. "After they became aware that I was snooping around, they took a pencil and tried to cover their tracks by changing the assessment," Puglia charges...