Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work violates Trump’s own ethics policy, according to a report.
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Putting a cap on last fall’s dustup known as “Sharpiegate,” a report released Monday found National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials committed ethical violations in a September statement that suggested Alabama was at risk from Hurricane Dorian.
Read moreUnder changes to the code of judicial ethics released by the California Supreme Court on Monday, judges will be allowed to comment publicly about colleagues’ decisions and respond to criticism of their own rulings during a re-election or recall campaign.
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The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission voted Friday to sanction Democratic Senate candidate John Hickenlooper for violating the state’s ban on elected officials accepting gifts while he was governor.
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A New Jersey judge who asked a woman in a sexual assault case if she tried closing her legs to her attacker was removed from the bench Tuesday for serious misconduct.
Read moreA psychologist in charge of a university’s counseling center violated ethics standards when she provided a student’s patient file to university attorneys who had received a litigation-hold letter from the student’s attorney asking them to preserve records related to her sexual assault claim, an appeals court in Oregon ruled.
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Nearly 2,000 former Justice Department officials called for Attorney General William Barr to resign Monday over what they said was his egregious role in the government dropping the case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Read moreThe Commission for Lawyer Discipline sued Daniel J. Rizzo in Harris County Court, claiming that as lead prosecutor in a capital murder case against Alfred Dewayne Brown, he failed to disclose exculpatory information; Brown was convicted in 2005 but in 2019 was found “actually innocent.”
Read moreA former assistant U.S. attorney sued Attorney General Will Barr et al. in federal court, claiming they fired her on false allegations that she had a sexual affair with the subject or target of a grand jury investigation.
Read moreBecause the attorney general office allegedly approved the process of voting by email, open meeting advocates say it raises questions about how the office interprets the state’s open records laws.
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Mike Hubbard, former speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, helped revise the law that was later used to convict him on ethics charges – convictions the state’s highest court partially affirmed Friday.
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Doctors take an oath to preserve life to the best of their ability. Neither skill nor desperation can manifest a ventilator, however, in the coming days when facilities across their country exhaust their supplies to treat the surging population of Americans becoming sick with Covid-19.
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The Massachusetts Senate stripped state Senator Dean Tran of his leadership position as assistant minority whip on Thursday afternoon, after an ethics probe found election law violations.
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Records showing that U.S. lawmakers with early reports on the coronavirus pandemic dumped private stock holdings before markets posted recordbreaking losses has roiled the nation, but criminal fallout is unlikely.
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After prosecutors dropped criminal charges, a New Jersey judge who was accused of helping her boyfriend avoid arrest will get to stay on the bench.
Read moreJenny Thornley, a member of the Illinois State Police Merit Board, sued the board in Sangamon County Court, claiming it illegally closed an emergency meeting after she “reported allegations of a physical sexual assault and other ethical misconduct against the executive director of the board, (nonparty) Jack Garcia.”
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To keep pace with technological advancements on the battlefield, the Pentagon has announced new ethical principles governing military use and design of artificial intelligence.
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A divided en banc Ninth Circuit on Monday lifted three injunctions against a Trump administration rule that denies federal funding to clinics that refer women for abortions.
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A long-serving Alabama judge is stepping down after being accused of violating judicial ethics rules by appointing his son to handle cases.
Read moreAn investigation into disgraced former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens found “probable cause” his campaign broke the law by not reporting that it cooperated with a political action committee during his 2016 run to the governor’s mansion.
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