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“I’ve not heard of another example of this–it runs counter to the whole concept of permitting,” says John Pelissero, senior scholar at the Markkula Center For Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

“Even if someone has constructed a workaround to skirt the law, there is still the appearance of an inappropriate unethical action” that degrades public trust and breeds cynicism, Pelissero says. 

John Pelissero, senior scholar of Government Ethics, quoted for The San Francisco Standard.