Word: conflict-of-interest
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Cambridge Rent Control Board officials said yesterday that the board has no plans for reviewing two of its members charged last month with violating Massachusetts conflict-of-interest laws...
Several gifts seemed wholly innocent acts of compassion, such as covering medical expenses or easing the financial problems of retiring aides. At least one gift came perilously close to violating New York State's conflict-of-interest laws, however, and others raised questions of propriety. Hugh Morrow, Rockefeller's chief press spokesman for 15 years, said that most of the gifts went to longtime employees. "Many of these friends have been in public service where the pay is not always commensurate with what these people could earn elsewhere," said Morrow. A Senate aide described the practice more picturesquely...
...Crimson pieces cited a possible conflict-of-interest in the University's plan to sell the homes, most of which Harvard rented--and still rents--to faculty and administration tenants. President Bok and three of his vice presidents--Charles U. Daly, Hale Champion, and Chase N. Peterson '52--all lived and live in such homes and a proposal to offer the houses for sale to their tenants suggested that University officials who might be in the background of such decisions were wearing two hats...
...remaining concerns over conflict-of-interest, Steiner said, "The problem in a sense is whether Harvard can do anything with Harvard. Administrators have to set administrators' salaries...
This is where last year's phantom of "conflict-of-interest" once again rears its head. Hill says that Daly, Peterson, and Champion will all be treated just like other tenants when he finally sits down with them to discuss the plan. This is, of course, only a verbal promise from Hill, but it is probably more than coincidental that Hill, the man who is in charge of the arrangement, works for Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration and the only one of Bok's top financial aides who does not live in a Harvard-owned house...