Yes, I will never be able to find an EXACT example. The point was that he was busted for "conflict of interest" violations.
> That's an issue of public funds not an issue of professionalism. > > Standards are rightly higher in the public sector. There was, I would > imagine, never any question of people not being allowed to have those > jackets but the regulations are such that a ruling was necessary. > > This is motivated by politics as much as ethics; people do not like paying > taxes and want to be as certain as they can be that projects that spend > money raised in this fashion are not doing it from any other motivation than > the desire to serve. > > The fact that these jackets *were* allowed would tend to weaken rather than > strengthen your argument against MVPs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Deckler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 December 2003 18:22 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Greg's Utterly Fascinating Views on Ethics > > > I've argued the theory on this too many times now. Let me provide a > specific example. At time, I wear a Novell leather jacket. I received this > jacket at the end of a project for the State of Ohio. Basically, the State > of Ohio gave Novell something like $1 million for implementing a G-NOC. I > worked on this project and at the end Novell gave out about 50 of these > leater jackets to people that worked on the project in this big huge > ceremony that was held. The director at the State of Ohio was forced to > resign over accepting his leather jacket because of conflict of interest > rules. > > So, the State of Ohio had ALREADY paid Novell ALL of the money and THEN > Novell gave out these gifts and the director at the State of Ohio was > STILL found to have violated conflict of interest rules. > > Does that make anything more clear? > > > > The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the recipient or > entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain confidential information that > is exempt from disclosure by law and if you are not the intended recipient, > you must not copy, distribute or take any act in reliance on it. If you have > received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and > delete from your system. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
