Letter to Pruitt and
federal ethics officials questions whether Pruitt is violating ethics rules and breaking federal law [Continue Reading...]
Not exact matches
Federal ethics rules do not require government
officials to sell off their investments but they must recuse themselves from matters that would affect those investments.
Under the
ethics rules for
federal employees and / or
officials, the employees or
official is required to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Richard Painter, a longtime Republican who was chief
ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's White House, intends to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota this year as a Democrat, according to a filing he made recently with
federal elections
officials.
President Trump's
official counselor, Kellyanne Conway, was «counseled» after she told TV audiences to «go buy Ivanka's stuff» — an apparent violation of
federal ethics laws.
Federal officials have opened an investigation into activities by senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway following a complaint that she violated
ethics laws when she slammed Democrat Doug Jones — who is battling Republican Roy Moore to become Alabama's next U.S. senator — on national TV.
«The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE's staff and the community of
ethics officials in the
federal executive branch,» Shaub wrote.
«The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE's staff and the community of
ethics officials in the
federal executive branch,» Mr. Shaub wrote in a letter to the president that the director posted to his Twitter account.
WASHINGTON — There is «a substantial reason to believe» that Rep. Chris Collins violated
federal law by touting the stock of an obscure Australian biotech firm based on inside information, while also possibly breaking House
ethics rules by persuading National Institutes of Health
officials to meet with a staffer from that company.
A
federal watchdog office has dismissed allegations that last year National Institutes of Health (NIH)
officials improperly interfered with another
federal office's oversight of the
ethics of a controversial NIH - funded study involving premature infants.
The three
federal research agencies of Canada — the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada — recently published a revision of their
official human research
ethics policy [1].