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Can SC school board member still have say in $23M project? What ethics commission says Bristow Marchant, The State (Columbia, S.C.) Feb. 24—A Midlands school board member will not be allowed to visit a school construction site while hes recused himself from being involved with the project. An advisory opinion issued by the state Ethics Commission on Tuesday says Lexington-Richland District 5 board member Ken Loveless is prohibited from visiting the Piney Woods Elementary Schoo...

​​​​​​​OVER 100 leaders in the public service now risk losing plum positions, among other penalties, for failing to furnish the Ethics Secretariat with filled-in assets and liabilities declaration forms.

Processes and procedures at the department of justice, including consulting with senior ethics officials on his oversight responsibilities and matters that may warrant recusal. joining me right now is paul butler, former federal prosecutor. phil rucker, bureau chief at the washington post. i am skeptical. ive watched them before. i dont think the democrats have the stuff to stop this appointment. i dont know how they yank him out of there. i think its a fait accompli. what do you think? hes ther...

>> i think he was resigning somewhat in protest. i think what he was trying to do is draw attention to this. one of the problems his tenure has shown and what donald trumps candidacy has revealed and now his presidency has revealed are how limited our laws are in being able to police the presidents behavior. donald trump, a lot of the rules and norms and precedents that apply to presidents that have governed presidents in the past are just that, theyre norms and rules. theyre not actually rules ...

Ill put up on the screen what ethics tell us are the key questions. will he totally divest the company. is trump going to run or family members? independence, a wall between trump and administration? bribery prevention. trump likes to say the ethics rules dont always apply to him. bribery federal criminal statutes do. a public release of tax returns and a public release of the written policy, not just the tweets, so we can see as a country what the structure is to avoid the kind of conflicts of ...

The keys to the multibillion dollar kingdom or if that person will also have the last name trump. >> people in this country knew and accepted and celebrated this business that donald trump had built through his entire life so now were working on making sure that all those conflicts are taken care of. >> nbcs hallie jackson is here. nbc legal correspondent ari also here. always good to see you. president-elect says he has no legal obligation to do this, but for optics, thats one of the major moti...

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