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Category: Conflicted Interests

After gathering, digitizing and analyzing nearly 7,000 state legislators’ financial disclosures, the Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press showed how lawmakers around the country have introduced and supported policies that directly and indirectly help their own businesses, their employers and sometimes their personal finances. 

Posted inState Politics

Michigan lawmakers go public with their finances in effort to boost state integrity

Avatar photo by Kristian Hernández July 12, 2018January 28, 2022

A band of 23 state legislators in Michigan pledged to make their personal finances public Thursday to promote a package of bills that would require all state elected officials to do the same. The action by House Democrats was designed to call attention to the fact that Michigan is the only state with a full-time […]

Posted inState Politics

Michigan lawmakers voted on bills even after admitting conflicts of interest

Avatar photo by Kristian Hernández April 25, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inState Politics

Idaho lawmakers kill bill requiring personal financial disclosures

Avatar photo by Kristian Hernández January 18, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inState Politics

These are the only two states that don’t require lawmakers to disclose finances

Avatar photo by Kristian Hernández January 8, 2018January 28, 2022
Posted inState Politics

The unexpected jobs your state lawmakers have outside the office

Avatar photo by Kristian Hernández December 26, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inAccountability in Your State, Conflicted Interests, State Politics

Conflicted Interests: Stories from the states

by The Center for Public Integrity December 8, 2017January 28, 2022
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Find your state legislators’ financial interests

by Chris Zubak-Skees December 6, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inAccountability in Your State, Conflicted Interests, State Politics

Conflicted Interests: State lawmakers often blur the line between the public’s business and their own

Avatar photo by Liz Essley Whyte and Ryan J. Foley December 6, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inState Politics

Q&A: What we learned from digging into state legislators’ disclosure forms

Avatar photo by David Jordan December 6, 2017December 11, 2018
Posted inAccountability in Your State, Conflicted Interests, State Politics

Meet 10 more lawmakers with entangled interests

by The Center for Public Integrity December 5, 2017January 28, 2022
Posted inAccountability in Your State, Conflicted Interests, State Politics

How we investigated conflicted interests in statehouses across the country

by The Center for Public Integrity December 4, 2017January 28, 2022

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