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Emanuel ethics reforms pass City Council panel

October 3, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By John Byrne and Hal Dardick


Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to tighten up ethics rules for city employees advanced through a City Council committee Wednesday despite concerns by aldermen that the new rules could handcuff th

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Rahm Emanuel’s ethics overhaul sails through committee

July 18, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter 
 
 
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to overhaul Chicago’s anemic

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Rahm ethics push

April 2, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times

by MITCH DUDEK
Staff Reporter

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is urging the city’s sister agencies to adapt a zero tolerance policy when it comes to employees receiving gifts from outside vendors.

Emanuel sent letters to heads of the Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Public Schools, City Colleges of Chicago and the Chicago Park District asking each to enact the policy.

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Employee gift ban recommendation still has few takers

March 25, 2012
Chicago Tribune

Despite new CPS scandal, governments reluctant to establish
zero-tolerance policy

By Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune reporter

Concerned over a rash of ethics violations by city employees in 2010,
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson urged Mayor Richard M. Daley to
implement a citywide ban on gifts from businesses who contract with
the government.

The city's Board of Ethics quickly rejected the idea, saying that
while a zero-tolerance gift ban might make sense for some departments,

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CPS worker ethics probed District food vendor allegedly gave gifts worth thousands of dollars to high-ranking employee

March 12, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Joel Hood
 
The inspector general for Chicago Public Schools is investigating allegations that the district's largest food vendor

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Gym fees? Utah politicians find loophole in ethics law

January 22, 2012
The Salt Lake Tribune
Under a law passed two years ago, state officials and candidates are banned from spending campaign donations for personal use.

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Editorial: When will lawmakers realize danger of unlimited lobbyists' gifts?

November 22, 2011
St. Louis Post Dispatch

By the Editorial Board

Here's a quiz that might help shed light on the embarrassing state of ethics laws in Missouri politics.

For elected officials in Missouri, which of the following is not legal?

a. Buying a pair of $111 women's shoes with campaign funds.

b. Withdrawing hundreds of dollars in campaign funds from ATM machines in Las Vegas casinos.

c. Accepting luxury box seats from lobbyists for Rams games, Cardinals games or concerts, and then using campaign funds to reimburse the lobbyists' companies.

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For Perry, Private Jets Have Been Key to Public Job

November 3, 2011
New York Times

By MIKE McINTIRE

On a July morning in 2008, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and several aides boarded a plane for Washington to lobby on ethanol use, an issue important to corn growers and livestock owners in his state.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposing new round of ethics reforms

July 5, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Fran Spielman

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing another round of ethics reforms — this time to “reign in the influence” of City Hall lobbyists and lift the veil on their influence-peddling activities.

“I want to re-establish the ties that have been frayed between the public and those of us in public service,” Emanuel told a news conference at the city’s Board of Ethics, 740 N. Sedgwick.

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