Committee to explore removing ‘friend’ exception from ethics rules

Hill Times file photo by Andrew Meade
Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson says that because it's difficult to define who qualifies as a friend, the better approach might be to remove the exception that gives public office holders some cover from conflicts of interest when a friend offers them a gift.
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