GSA’s ethics program approved just days after scandal-plagued conference
Source: Washington Post
Three days after a scandal-plagued 2010 Las Vegas conference for employees of the General Services Administration, the president’s Office of Government Ethics gave a clean bill of health to the GSA’s ethics program.
The approval was based on an examination of the agency’s financial disclosure procedures, and ethics training and advising processes between 2008 and 2009.
“GSA’s ethics program appears to be effectively administered and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies,” Patricia Zemple, OGE’s associate director for the program review division, wrote in a Nov. 2, 2010, letter to then GSA administrator Martha Johnson and Inspector General Brian Miller.
The letter and other documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request made by Cause of Action, a nonpartisan government oversight group.
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