Category Archives: News and Events

As if GE did nor have enough troubles: CEO ousted, flaws in its power-plant turbines, dividend cut yet again, and now the Justice Department has announced criminal probe into its accounting. The SEC is already there on accounting issues. The … Continue reading →

Question asked of The Ethicist in the New York Times on Sunday, November 4, 2018. Like shopping at Tiffany’s, if you have to ask the price, you cannot afford it. If you have asked the question, you already have the … Continue reading →

Each day the Barometer muddles through four newspapers and scans in articles that involve ethical issues in government agencies, companies, nonprofits, NGOs, schools, etc. — anywhere humans are because where there are humans there are ethical issues. For futurists, where … Continue reading →

The tale of Geoffrey Weglarz is one that should give us pause. A man, troubled financially and personally, drank poison in his car, parked on a residential street in the East Village in New York City. His remains were finally … Continue reading →

When current U.S. Senate candidate in Texas, Beto, nee Robert, O’ Rourke, was a member of the El Paso city council he represented a historic Mexican-American neighborhood. He proposed a revitalization of the tenements with restaurants, shops, and an arts … Continue reading →

The New York Timesran a story about the payouts that Google made to exiting executives, those who exited under a cloud of sexual harassment allegations. In one case, Google paid an executive $90 million upon his exit despite finding the … Continue reading →

Tesla has voluntarily turned over documents to the FBI relating to the agency’s criminal investigation into whether Tesla misled shareholders and investors about its production figures. The Bureau has also been questioning former Tesla employees. Elon Musk said in conference … Continue reading →

Ryan D. Nelson, former general counsel for a nutritional-supplements firm, was just named to the bench of the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. Judge Nelson has no prior experience as a judge. He does, however, have plenty of court … Continue reading →

Steve Penny, the former president of USA Gymnastics, who resigned in March because of the scandal involving Dr. Lawrence Nassar, who was convicted of abusing scores of young women, was arrested in his Tennessee cabin. Mr. Penny was indicted for … Continue reading →

Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital began a review of the work of Dr. Piero Anversa in 2013. In 2014, co-authors who had worked with Dr. Anversa wrote to a journal to complain that the data Dr. Anversa … Continue reading →

Meghan Markle in an interview. Recognizing that this is the Duchess’s first child, she may not realize that starting a family is a tad more than an item to check, like a trip to New Zealand. Or, if we hold … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s New York Times, the Ethicist tackled another letter from a young ‘un who was witnessing a colleague cheating and wondered what to do. This time, the two students are seniors (last time the cheating involved the entrance exams … Continue reading →

It’s a wonder to behold. A father, Brian Bowen Sr., testifying that he made the arrangements for payments totaling $100,000 in exchange for having his son, Tugs Bowen, a star basketball player, choose Louisville for college. When asked if his … Continue reading →

This is not your father’s FBI. This is not even Kevin Costner’s FBI. The FBI issued a “recall” of several agents in Asia whilst the agency investigates reports of “parties and interactions with prostitutes.” Let’s recap the past 18 months … Continue reading →