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The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it. Complete Story...
Campaign contributions to retired U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, paid for more than $700,000 in lawyers' bills arising from an ethics investigation into his role in the 2007 firing of former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.
Stung by an embarrassing electronic leak last month revealing ethics investigations into dozens of lawmakers, Congress moved Tuesday to prohibit federal employees from using the same type of Internet file-sharing software blamed for the disclosure.
The Florida Public Service Commission is planning a self-examination amid complaints the agency has been too cozy with the utilities it regulates, the panel's top staffer told lawmakers.
Rhode Island's Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint Tuesday that accused Attorney General Patrick Lynch of improperly accepting a $428 plane ticket to a New Orleans conference.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he supports a compromise on how to cap political contributions.
The following House members have come under scrutiny from the House ethics committee for a wide range of issues. In some cases, there was only was a preliminary review, but in others a full investigation by a subcommittee with subpoena powers. In each case, there has been no finding that the member has violated standards of conduct.
Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at work.
The Illinois Senate signed off Friday on a compromise that would establish the state's first limits on campaign donations, sending it to the governor despite Republican complaints that the bill concentrates power in the hands of a few political insiders.
Illinois lawmakers have approved the state's first limits on the size of political contributions — one of the highest-profile ethics proposals since former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (blah-GOY'-uh-viches) impeachment.
A confidential weekly report of the House ethics committee found its way to an Internet site in a case of "cyber-hacking," the committee's chairwoman said Thursday.
The House ethics committee announced Thursday it is investigating two California Democratic lawmakers, but its embarrassed leaders then had to explain that other members — named in a confidential memo that leaked out — may have committed no wrongdoing.
It seems like everybody at the Indiana Statehouse wants to talk about lobbying ethics these days.
Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair will be the featured speaker at a Virginia journalism ethics seminar.
The House ethics committee on Thursday expanded its investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel to include his belated financial disclosure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in previously unreported assets and income.
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Monday it is making major changes in its funding of educational programs for doctors, reducing the number it sponsors and switching its focus to independent ones with balanced information.
Rep. Charlie Rangel, the latest congressional titan with ethics problems, is described by a longtime House colleague as the guy who would make sure everyone put on oxygen masks during a flight emergency, but would have to be told to put on his own.
The House ethics committee said Wednesday it will put off for now an expanded investigation into whether Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or his representatives tried to buy President Barack Obama's former Senate seat.
Rep. Charles Rangel's disclosure of previously unreported assets sparked a new Republican demand Friday for the House Ways and Means chairman to relinquish his post while his conduct is investigated.
Attorney General Eric Holder has received an ethics waiver to investigate government lawyers who prosecuted former Sen. Ted Stevens, the White House disclosed Friday.
The head of the South Carolina Ethics Commission is confirming that an investigation of Gov. Mark Sanford's travel has been going on for 10 days.
Keeping car salesmen honest may not be the way to keep your job in Oregon.
Michael G. Oxley, a former congressman known for the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley anti-fraud legislation, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Ethics Resource Center.
Alaska's attorney general is recommending sweeping changes to state ethics law and the process of dealing with complaints against public officials, following multiple complaints against former Gov. Sarah Palin that she cited as a reason for leaving office.
Former Rep. Tom Feeney says the Justice Department has told him it has dropped a criminal investigation relating to a golf trip he took to Scotland with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Congress: Turning A $90,000 Bribe Into A $50,000 A Year Pension After 18 years in Congress, Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana, a Democrat, will serve 13 years for bribery and if he grins as he stamps out plates, he is still eligible for a guaranteed $50,000 pension in his first year of retirement, which will increase each year.
An out-of-sight, out-of-mind thing may be going on with your medical samples which are being submitted to the laboratory…they may be getting sold for a profit, or worse…! This is an issue at the level of the large national "send-out" laboratories, not the local hospital …
State Ethics Commission - - Press ReleaseEthics Commission's Enforcement Division Alleges that Town of Harvard School Superintendent and a Former School Committee Chairman Violated the Conflict of Interest Law
There is a Right, it is called Freedom of Religion. The Catholic Church has been in existence for over two thousand years; Christianity. Our Country allows a Tax Exempt Status for Churches.
White House Meets With, Tells Off And Then Blogs About LobbyistsThere is a gem of a blog post over at the White House website.
Young children's moral understanding more sophisticated than previously thoughtWhen her Daily Mail column about Stephen Gately's death provoked an avalanche of complaints, the disgraced Jan Moir issued a press statement in which she said "it was never [her] intention" to upset people. Defensively speaking, Moir's choice of words was astute.
New Jihad Code Threatens al QaedaThe code's most direct challenge to al Qaeda is this: "Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like.
Hospitals Acting Unethically, Keep Patients in the Dark on Adverse Events When hospital patients suffer adverse effects from treatments, they seldom get explanations from medical personnel, even though the disclosure may improve patients' ratings of care, researchers said.
Organ TransplantationMany physicians have serious and well-considered concerns about the morality of vital human organ transplantation, and about the fact that the general public has not been properly informed about what really happens when such organs are retrieved.
Wall Street run amok? Blame HarvardHow did this schism come about? Just where did Wall Street go wrong? It's popular to blame misaligned incentives, lack of regulation or just plain greed. Those would be conveniently simple explanations. We could just fix incentives, regulate more and prosecute the guilty.
Readers may have noticed a story on Tuesday, November 3 about two Pennsylvania women ordered to stand outside a local courthouse holding signs advertising their theft of a Wal-Mart gift card from a nine year old girl. One hears about this sort of thing occasionally.
NEW YORK TIMES: House ethics panel at workA computer gaffe has revealed some of the secretive workings of the House ethics committee, including preliminary inquiries into complaints against 19 members and some of their staff.
Ethics Committee Staffer Leaks Secrets on File-Sharing Network | Threat Level | Wired.comA staff member of the House Ethics Committee is being blamed for accidentally leaking a sensitive document over a peer-to-peer network from her home computer.
Did Bill Ayers Visit the White House?According to the White House, yes, William Ayers has visited the Obama White House... but not THAT Bill Ayers.
The link between campaign contributions and legislation is the basis for some of the Ehics investigations in the House, but corporations and special interest groups also skirt the campaign finance laws by using our judicial system to obtain favorable rulings on a specific case, a …
"Death Panels" Return: House Bill Has Potential Physician-Assisted Suicide LoopholeThe provisions on advanced-planning directives labeled "death panels" by concerned observers have re-emerged in the final version of the US House of Representatives health-care reform bill.
An expose based on an e-mail illustrates the age-old problem of the a party's "brand", versus what the party actually does.
Congressional ethics report leaks, revealing namesInternal investigations into the conduct of over two dozen House members were exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.
Widespread Ethics Probe May Target Dozens of House Members (John Bresnahan)A leaked document shows that House ethics investigators are probing the activities of nearly three dozen lawmakers — an ethical dust storm that will empower the Republicans and could imperil efforts to get health care reform through the House next week.
California Congresswoman Maxine Waters Under House Ethics InvestigationThe House ethics committee said Thursday it's investigating whether California Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock — and whether the couple benefited as a result.
7 on defense panel scrutinizedNearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who have trained their lens on the relationships between seven panel members and an influential lobbying firm founded by a former Capit …
Congressional ethics report leaked, reveals namesInternal investigations into the conduct of over two dozen House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.
Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiryHouse ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.
Editorial - The Fog of Ethics in Albany - NYTimes.comExtortion, bribery, racketeering — those are just some of the crimes that have sent members of the New York State Legislature to jail in the last five years. The good news is that the authorities caught up with them.
Can you be good without God?"New York is quite unique in America," Rafferty told the UK's Daily Express. "Will we get individual people who will complain? Yes. Will we get people scribbling on posters? Probably. But organized groups? I don't think so."
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