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John P. Pelissero, senior scholar in government at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said that lack of transparency “just raises unnecessary questions.”

“That’s the basic reason why conflicts of interest can be so corrosive, is that there may be something going on, there may not be,” said Pelissero, who also serves on a Chicago-area school board. ”But there’s the perception something’s going on.”

John Pelissero, senior scholar, quoted in the Biloxi Sun Herald.