Fri 13 Nov 2009
Ethics Questions
Posted by David under Bernard Moore at 6:04 pm
Three links of interest:
1) The scandal spreads?
The guilty plea this week by an aide to Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) – an aide who doesn’t appear in official records at times that he was working for Davis – may raise questions for the lawmaker since ethics rules prohibit maintaining slush funds and hiring unpaid staff except under strict circumstances.
Staffer Ernest B. Moore confessed to fraud charges for using multiple aliases to run up hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit card bills and student loans. On Capitol Hill, he went by the aliases Bernard Glenn-Moore and Bernard Moore. Moore came to the Hill in 2004, when he had a one-year senior policy fellowship with Davis’s office through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (such official fellowships are permitted under ethics rules). In 2006, he transfered to Davis’s office as a legislative assistant and earned a salary for a few more months. After that, no official record ties him to Davis’s office, despite public evidence that Davis knew he was claiming to represent Davis as an aide.
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The newspaper did not mention, however, that House ethics rules prohibit the use of “unofficial accounts”, or unofficial employees, to supplement the official office budgets. Exceptions are applied for interns and official fellows programs, which does not appear to apply to Moore after 2006.
Hmmm. I suspect that this is not enough to get Davis in trouble, but I would not expect to see him visiting Williams in the near future. Too bad! He seems like the very model of a modern, major Congressman.
2) A blast from the past.
Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who underwent throat surgery late last year after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, has not returned to the bench since the court reconvened this month.
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Others support Rehnquist and, despite his conservative views on affirmative action, say he should remain on the bench. “I don’t say that he’s too ill,” said Bernard Glenn Moore, a Ph.D. candidate. “He is conservative but he has managed the court in a very positive manner.”
Moore was a Rehnquist fan?! Who knew? I am going to have to take back all my bad blogging . . .
3) University Diaries comments:
A stunning situation at Williams College…
… is being very well-blogged by EphBlog, a site maintained by current and former students at Williams College.
On their political science faculty for some time has been a massive fraudster about to go to prison for a few years.
Thanks! I last linked to University Diaries three years ago.
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frank uible says:
If I knew how I’d link you all to a youtube of “The Country’s in the Very Best of Hands” by Johnny Mercer from L’il Abner, the musical.
kthomas says:
kthomas says:
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=222036
frank uible says:
Thank you for doing my work.
kthomas says:
Frank:
Good morning from the library in Heidelberg. Now that I think of it and Sergey Brin’s recent editorial, it is indeed ridiculous that one must make these kind of voyages, to read certain things.
I would link that, if there were any system for link management, which works with ephBlog, significantly more convenient that looking up the page in del.icio.us and copying & pasting … actually, copying & pasting won’t work with ephBlog, I’d have to write HMTL code, in which case we’re in the realm of what sociologists, urban planners, and industrial designers call a “significant friction of time.”
&In this case, the above publicly googlavailable documents had an interest of their own. Copying and pasting the obscure incantation on YouTube’s page under “embed” worked without too much trouble– TCM was another story, and if I had any inclination to spend more than 30 trying to discover if their obscure system allowed this, I would have embedded and linked. I have better things to do.
There are some nice mountains around here, with some trails to learn– friends expect me in Mannheim by 18:30 or so (I’m trying to reestablish my German sense of promptness), so getting lost in the trails would not be a good idea. There seems nothing on the news except the shock of Enke’s suicide and the SPD conference in Dresden. Last night turned suddenly unseasonably warm, and everyone came out, to dine one more time, on tables in the streets.
Ken Thomas '93 says:
Post-facto-script: to any future Heidelberg visitors: the mountain under the Schloss may seem one of the shorter ones from below, but it is competitive with Mt. Greylock. And the view!