Two blog posts on the White House ethics front today. The first notes that another set of data of White House visitor information was released today. As I noted earlier, some of the data seems to mask who visitors are actually visiting. The second post involves an ethics waiver for General James Jones. (No, not […]
Month: April 2010
Texas Ethics Commission levies $100,000 fine
Just a few days ago I noted that North Carolina sought a $111,000 fine in a lobbying disclosure case. Today comes news that the Texas Ethics Commission has fined a judge $100,000 for failing to meet reporting obligations on personal financial disclosure statements. The Final Order is available here. A news report is here.
Palin hacker convicted
The Department of Justice announced via press release that the man who broke into Sarah Palin”s Yahoo email account was convicted. After a week-long trial, a jury found [David C.] Kernell guilty of one count of misdemeanor unauthorized access to obtain information from a computer and one count of obstruction of justice. The jury found […]