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New Health Care Coalition Forms, Including Hospitals That Left State Hospital Association

John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by Mississippi Today.

When public officials transition to private sector work, particularly in the same field as their public service, it can raise ethical issues. 

The knowledge and information public officials hold can be used as a “leg up,” which leads to unfairness in private companies’ and lobbying organizations’ business dealings with government entities.

 

John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by Mississippi Today.

 

 

 

Ethics
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