Word: conflict-of-interest
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...week investigation by The Crimson has revealed a consistent pattern of conflict-of-interest, nepotism and misuse of public office by one of Somerville's most powerful political families. First of a two-part series...
...people-licensed to operate at the state's 15 tracks. One goal of the search: to check all links to Gerard, who investigators think may have owned horses racing in the state through front men. Veterinarians licensed to practice at state tracks are barred from such conflict-of-interest ownership...
...court's conservative wing, but gradually moved leftward as a member of the Warren Court. He wrote several far-reaching liberal opinions, including one prohibiting mandatory Bible reading in public schools, and another forbidding state criminal prosecutors to use evidence seized during illegal searches. To avoid conflict-of-interest charges, he retired from the court in 1967 when his son Ramsey was appointed Attorney General, but remained an active circuit-riding jurist, the first judge to sit in all eleven U.S. Courts of Appeals...
...most serious problem facing Lance, report TIME Correspondents Rudolph Rauch and Philip Taubman, is his commitment under the Administration's conflict-of-interest guidelines to divest himself of the 190,000 shares he holds in the National Bank of Georgia, of which he was president before going to OMB. He had borrowed heavily to buy 164,228 shares of that stock in June 1975. He had paid $17.74 per share, or $2.9 million, as part of a move with two partners-Pattillo, a construction company president, and John Stembler, a Georgia movie-theater chain owner-to gain majority control...
...Counsel to the President, remains Carter's senior aide (the average age of the other top assistants is 37), and he presides over the daily 8 a.m. staff meeting. But his influence on policy has not broadened beyond relatively narrow legal areas, such as deciding the conflict-of-interest problems for Carter's appointees and advising the commutation of G. Gordon Liddy's Watergate sentence. A rapidly rising member of the Carter staff is Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart E. Eizenstat, 34. Although quiet and self-effacing, he has gained the respect of his colleagues for his grasp...