Report of the Special Outside Counsel in the Matter of Speaker James C. Wright, Jr
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Conflict of interests
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Conflict of interests
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
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Page : 279 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : United States. CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT.
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1989
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Page : 279 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : Dennis F. Thompson
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2000-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815722974
More members of Congress have been investigated and sanctioned for ethical misconduct in the past decade and a half than in the entire previous history of the institution. But individual members are probably less corrupt than they once were. Stricter ethics codes and closer scrutiny by the press and public have imposed standards no previous representatives have had to face. Dennis Thompson shows how the institution itself is posing new ethical challenges, how the complexity of the environment in which members work creates new occasions for corruption and invites more calls for accountability. Instead of the individual corruption that has long been the center of attention, Thompson focuses on institutional corruption which refers to conduct that under certain conditions is an acceptable part of the job of a representative. Members are required to solicit campaign contributions, and they are expected to help constituents with their problems with government, but some ways of doing these jobs give rise to institutional corruption. The author moves the discussion beyond bribery, extortion, and simple personal gain to delve into implicit understandings, ambiguous favors, and political advantage. Thompson examines many major ethics cases of recent years. Among them: the case of David Durenberger, accused of supplementing his income through book promotions; the case of the Keating Five, accused of using undue influence with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board on behalf of Lincoln Savings and Loan owner Charles Keating; and the case of House Speaker James Wright, accused of several offenses. Thompson shows why neither the electoral process nor the judicial process is sufficient and argues for stronger ethics committees and the creation of a new quasi-independent body to take over some of the enforcement process. He offers more than a dozen recommendations for changes in the procedures and practices of ethics in Congress. The book features a listi
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Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
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Category : Government publications
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1989-07
Category : Government publications
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Author : Kitty Calavita
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 1999-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520219473
An in-depth scrutiny into the American savings and loan financial crisis in the 1980s. The authors come to conclusions about the deliberate nature of this financial fraud and the leniency of the criminal justice system on these 'Gucci-clad white-collar criminals'.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Ethics
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Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Misconduct in office
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Conflict of interests
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