Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor could have a conflict of interest as the state Department of Law that he oversees looks into the legality of using public funds for private education through the state’s correspondence school, or homeschool, allotment program. His wife is a major proponent of the concept and…
In October, Colorado-based E3 Consulting offered a plan for how the Public Utility Commission should redesign Texas’ deregulated power market. It produced a 44-page proposal, paid for by energy giants NRG and Chicago-based Exelon. Now the PUC — saying it wants an impartial review of the proposals — has hired…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Cape Henry Associates (Cape Henry), located in Virginia Beach, has agreed to pay $425,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to inform contracting officers of the company’s organizational conflicts of interest in connection with the award and performance of task orders…
A bipartisan group of senators announced a bill this week aimed at curtailing the risk of improper influence when companies do work for both the federal government and businesses or other clients. Under the legislation, federal agencies would require prospective contractors to disclose business relationships with “public, private, domestic, and…
At the same time that Chris Carr was working to negotiate the details of a settlement with Johnson & Johnson, the attorney general received thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the firm that lobbies for the pharmaceutical company. Johnson & Johnson — as well as Cardinal, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen…
WASHINGTON (CN) — Spurring a dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from a Florida man who claims his criminal case was affected by a conflict of interest that arose from using the same attorney as his co-defendants who took plea deals.
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Bernard Curran, a former San Francisco senior city building inspector, has been charged with multiple counts of perjury and violations of local conflict of interest laws, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Friday. The arrest and charges were the product of an ongoing investigation…
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm acknowledged paying $400 in late fees for failing to properly disclose up to $240,000 in stock sales from last year. Her aides previously insisted she had complied with the law. The about-face comes two weeks after Insider reported that Granholm disclosed nine stock transactions either…
A federal judge has dismissed charges against Gang Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) accused of lying about his ties to China. It was one of the highest profile cases under the government’s 3-year-old China Initiative, which is intended to prevent China from…
In mid-December, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, brushed off calls for legislation to ban trading by members of Congress with a throwaway comment that has come back to haunt her. “We are a free-market economy,” she told reporters at the time. “They should be able…
