PUBLIC CORRUPTION How High’s the Water Mama?
PUBLIC CORRUPTION How High’s the Water Mama? By David Ferguson Unless you have avoided reading and watching the statewide news for the past year, you know Arkansas [...]
Ethics
Friends with benefits…. Financial benefits
Former Speaker of the House, Jeremy Gillam, received loans from several state Representatives. The loans from 2016 went unreported until recently. Because of the do-over [...]
Can the legislature police itself?
In the wake of multiple scandals involving state legislators, Senator Jim Hendren proposed and passed revisions to the Arkansas Senate’s Code of Ethics. The revisions [...]
Dustin McDaniel and the Lobbyist Loophole
Conduit For Action has previously written about schemes of politicians to skirt ethics rules on lobbying. One device used is to write a contract for the politician to [...]
Nursing Homes and the Ongoing Investigations Into Elected Officials
Governor Asa Hutchinson received a campaign contribution from nursing home owner Michael Morton but the Governor refunded the contribution.[i] Not many campaign contributions [...]
Attorney General & Ethics Role Previously Rejected By Voters
After a series of guilty pleas and a conviction, Arkansas politicians are finally waking up to the fact that Arkansas ethics laws and investigations of corruption are [...]
The Forgotten Ethics Law (Not so forgotten)
The Forgotten Ethics Law – (Not so forgotten) By David Ferguson UPDATED 10:40 AM 7/2/2018 Ethics law not totally forgotten – see end of article. The names of [...]
Restoring Term Limits
Just last month former Senator Jon Woods was convicted of public corruption including taking kickbacks and bribes and money laundering. Over the course of the Woods trial, a [...]
FBI, Political Corruption, and the 800 lb Gorilla
Political corruption by Arkansas politicians is keeping the FBI busy – very busy! The corruption cases (so far) can be summed up as: (1) a judge admitting he took a bribe [...]
PROPOSED ETHICS REVISIONS: IMPROVEMENTS AND WEAKNESSES
PROPOSED ETHICS REVISIONS: IMPROVEMENTS AND WEAKNESSES By David Ferguson INTRODUCTION Due to mounting criticism because of continuing corruption cases involving state [...]
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