Deception About Ethics Commission Approval and Another Problem with Ethics Self-Regulation
This week saw the opening of the trial of former New York state senate
majority leader Joseph Bruno for honest services fraud. According to
the assistant U.S. attorney presenting the
case, as <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=860586" target="”_blank”">quoted
in the Albany <i>Times-Union</i></a>, although a
criminal trial, "this case is about conflicts of