<br><a href="http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/sites/default/files/Report%20of%20the%20…; target="”_blank”">The second report of the Chicago Ethics Reform Task Force</a> came out

<br>This post looks at the final three essays in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Corruption-American-Politics-Michael-Genovese/dp/…; target="”_blank”"><i>Corruption and American Politics</i></a>, an essay collection edited by Michael
A. Genovese and Victoria A. Farrar-Meyers (Cambria, 2011). <br>
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<b>Pay to Play in the Municipal Bond Market</b><br>

A number of important issues arise from a case before the <a href="http://www.iowa.gov/ethics/&quot; target="”_blank”">Iowa Ethics and Campaign
Disclosure Board</a> (ECDB) last week. The issues include: (1) how
to treat an inadequate complaint; (2) how to treat a complainant in
a proceeding, and (3) what to do when an ethics code and rules may
be inadequate to a situation where there is a strong appearance of
impropriety.<br>
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<br>The fifth essay in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Corruption-American-Politics-Michael-Genovese/dp/…; target="”_blank”"><i>Corruption and American Politics</i></a>, an essay collection edited by Michael
A. Genovese and Victoria A. Farrar-Meyers (Cambria, 2011), is by
editor Michael Genovese, a professor at Loyola Marymount
University. An essay on presidential corruption would not appear to

In this year of endless talk about voter fraud, there is not all
that much talk about one area of fraud that has actually been proven
to exist, and to make a difference:  absentee ballot fraud. This kind of fraud even comes
with its own profession, the absentee ballot broker (boletera in
southern Florida).<br>
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Boleteras are hired by local campaigns to go into nursing homes,
assisted living facilities, and sometimes homes to help people fill
out absentee ballots. The question is, how much help do they give? A

<br>The fourth essay in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Corruption-American-Politics-Michael-Genovese/dp/…; target="”_blank”"><i>Corruption and American Politics</i></a>, an essay collection edited by Michael
A. Genovese and Victoria A. Farrar-Meyers (Cambria, 2011), is by
Wayne S. Le Cheminant. The title of the essay – "Bending
the Frame to Corrupt the Lenses" – provides a good

<b>Update:</b> Counsel for the Housing Authority informed me that it was the Authority board, through him, that originally notified HUD of problems, and that another counsel was involved in some of the relevant transactions. Therefore, I have made some changes to the original post.<br>
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<a href="http://nhregister.com/articles/2012/08/24/opinion/doc5036b9651ddb484388…; target="”_blank”">An

The third essay in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Corruption-American-Politics-Michael-Genovese/dp/…; target="”_blank”"><i>Corruption and American Politics</i></a>, a collection edited by Michael
A. Genovese and Victoria A. Farrar-Meyers (Cambria, 2011), is by John M. Parrish, a professor at Loyola Marymount University. The essay, which has the intriguing title

<br>The second essay in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Corruption-American-Politics-Michael-Genovese/dp/…; target="”_blank”"><i>Corruption and American Politics</i></a>, a collection edited by Michael
A. Genovese and Victoria A. Farrar-Meyers (Cambria, 2011), is by
Mark E. Warren, a professor at the University of British Columbia.
It asks the question, Is low trust in democratic institutions a

<b>A New Use of a Nonprofit as a Conduit</b><br>
Pay to play appears to be as creative a field as cellphone apps. <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/d.c.-investigators-had-early-shot-at-thom…; target="”_blank”">An
article in the Washington <i>Examiner</i> on Sunday</a> points to a new
way to get developer money into an official's