MORE ON: conflict of interest

The federal government has collected millions from the online Public Access to Court Electronic Records system, or PACER – nearly five times what it cost to run the system. + read more

AC Transit acknowledged yesterday it improperly awarded a $13 million contract to a firm with financial ties to two members of its board of directors. Securitas Security Services won the contract in July, despite receiving the lowest score in the transit agency’s bidding process. AC... + read more

A state watchdog agency has fined a former top administrator at California's real estate management agency for approving contracts worth $3 million with a company that had hired his wife's consulting firm. The state's Fair Political Practices Commission issued a $3,500 fine last... + read more

The majority of the scientific panel revising the U.S. manual for mental health diagnoses have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, according to a new analysis. Based on a review of the panelists’ financial disclosures, 69 percent of the working group had current or past... + read more

A watchdog group is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to throw out a joint committee's vote in support of a controversial oral contraceptive because four members of the committee – including a Stanford University professor of obstetrics and gynecology – had ties to the... + read more

Charities controlled by U.S. Reps. Joe Baca, D-San Bernardino, and George Miller, D-Martinez, have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporate entities with a vested interest in their policymaking and have used that money, in part, to pay salaries for friends and family members,... + read more