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This 6 page paper examines a couple of conflict of interest cases. Various philosophical perspectives are discussed inclusive of utilitarianism and Kantian ethics.
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dollar wedding gift from LaVan Hawkins, a local restaurant owner ("Rumblings," 2004). Obviously, people are allowed to give others gifts, but the problem here is that this is an obvious
bribe to a city official, particularly since the sum of money is rather exorbitant. But then an $85, 000 check surfaced ("Rumblings," 2004). That was even more suspicious. This relaying
of facts of a case suggests a situation where there is a conflict of interest. This means that ethical boundaries are broken and can happen in a variety of settings.
A judge may have a neighbor come into his courtroom. He knows that he cannot really be impartial and should recuse himself. In a case on the DOJ web site
it seems that an individual is going to court over a conflict of interest. Mickens killed a man by the name of Hall, but as it turns out, Hall was
being represented by Mickens appointed attorney on an unrelated charge ("No. 00-9285," 2005). The attorney should have revealed the conflict of interest to the court. Other conflicts of interest do
involve scandals involving politicians and quid pro quos. Governor McGreevey of New Jersey stepped down because he hired a man for his administration that is tied to a clandestine love
affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of interest as follows: "Last year FORBES ran two expos?s about conflicts of interest in the pension consulting business.
The experts who are paid handsomely to advise public pension funds also pocket undisclosed fees from the money managers they recommend. We noted that regulators had been slow to clean
up the mess" (Adams, 2005, p.48). There are many incidents of conflicts of interest. The example of Corey Kemp outlined in the introduction is one. Another story comes from
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